The Timekeeper

Prologue

200 years ago...

"Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, the greatest invention of mankind. Behold, the Essence of Youth, which, when ingested, can make humans immortal and insusceptible to disease!"

The radio channel host blathered on and on about the mythical qualities of Youth, which would soon be pronounced free to the public.

"I can't believe it!" Mum trilled. "I can finally be young and beautiful again!"

I tried to supress an epic eye roll.

Ever since learning of Youth, mum had gone right back to blind dating sprees out of town, and for the sake of the child in her womb who she kept on insisting be called Esmerelda, I sure hoped that stupid Daniel person was her last hookup.

In my opinion, Youth was just a whole load of hogwash that would die down soon enough.

The whole idea was just invented by a nosy, self-righteous warlock that called himself the Timekeeper. I mean, dude, it's not the 1800s. What are you, 3?

This whole scandal was just someone wanting a chance to play at being god.

After all, that's all we were good at doing these days.

Note from author: For those of you who have beared with me and read to this point, I give my wholehearted thanks. This is my first novel and progress will be a bit slow, but I hope you'll stay out till the end :)