Prologue

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Taryn

I had always wondered how I was different. Mother always told me I was, but I never understood it. At school I had never gotten bullied, and whenever I was out in public, I got whatever I wanted. I wondered if people were scared of me, but I didn't know why, and I couldn't even get close enough to wrap my mind around it.

Sometimes I had nightmares that kept me up all night. Nightmares about being ripped out of reality and sucked into a never-ending orbit on the border of reality and imagination itself. I would then wake up-or at least I thought I was awake-and I would be laying in a field of fire. It was so real. The fire didn't affect me, but I was scared every time. I would look beyond the heat to see the universe in front of me. It was the beginning of time-the beginning of the universe, yet somehow, I was always back in time for breakfast.

It got bad to the point where I was terrified of sleep. I could never seem to actually dream. I was too deep into reality for that, but I still had something that allowed me to enter my own imagination every once in a while. I still had hope.

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