The Sight

Prologue

Small children are the world's most innocent gift. So small and 'cute'; not corrupted by this generation's society. All the electronic devices, hardly anyone actually looks at the mess this hopeless world has become.... but small children notice. They notice the beauty of nature. The butterfly that landed on the flower. The first bloom in spring. The rolling down grassy hills. Do you remember that? Now what if I was to ask you the imagery of innocence. That answer? A small girl dressed in a white dress. The little girl walking in a meadow smiling at the beauty of nature.
Do you remember being little?
Now do you remember all those stories your mother or father would tell you? The ones where if you didn't behave... the witches would come get you. The myths they told you to eat your vegetables or something silly like that. Or how about the things you saw, the nightmares you had. About the pretty fairies, pixies, nymphs, mermaids, witches, warlocks and goblins. The tales of people that drink blood and human/wolf hybrids, we all know the famous ones.
But there is a race that not everyone knows about. A race of human/angel hybrids. They are called Shadowhunters. These are warriors of mass strength and speed; they can do amazing things in battle. You could say they look almost heavenly.

Imaginary friends. This topic is talked about far and wide. They seem so real to your son or daughter. But you never see them. That means they are not there. They are not real. Right? They are just a figure of your child's imagination. Nevertheless, as soon as these 'imaginary friends' turn darker, colder. It's a ghost. Then its on the internet, so research the dark history of your house.
It's funny how parent's minds work, what they do for their children. Telling them the information they should know, hoping their kids grow out of the stages of childhood. Showing them the paths of right and wrong...
But what happens when the parent are wrong? When they are constantly telling the child off for something that is completely acceptable in society's eyes. What happens then? When they constantly remind them that the scary monsters are not real, that nothing is real, they are all just stories.

That is wrong. All the stories are true. The creatures of the shadows, the things you dressed up as for Halloween. They are all real. Now let me tell you the truth. As it always does, we shall start at the beginning. The beginning of a life.

Bringing a new life to the world is amazing. The small child, so fragile, so ... amazing. Now this small human bundled in blankets, he or she contains 'the sight' everyone is born with it. This basically means everything you see is real. Everything.
To non-mortals, we are known as mundanes. Every single Mundane is born with 'the sight', it is only as the mundane grows that most, unfortunately, grow out of their ability. They loose it. They can no longer see all these incredible creatures. Only a few grow up with 'the sight', these mundanes come from a family that have had the ability for as long as they can trace back, and further. These mundanes are often interactive with the shadow world. Some get well known. Back in the 19th Century, these mundanes, with the sight, were often used to work for the shadowhunters, they were used as cooks, maids, butlers and horsemen. Most of the time their family had done this for a long time as well. The mundanes were born into the job.

So all those imaginary friends, don't seem so imaginary any more do they. Just be thankful you have lost the sight, and if you still have the sight and you are reading this. Run.