Greenwood

Prologue: The Truth

I've decided to tell my story because you need to know, or at least, that's what I told myself at first. The truth is that it's the truth. And truth always comes to light. And honestly, I don't want someone else to share my story first. Although, few people know it to begin with.

You'll have to forgive me, my memories are scrambled at time, and my mind fuzzy. Self- defence carried out by human brains against traumatic memories is to push them aside. So remembering is kinda hard.

The funny thing is, I've always wanted to be a writer. Always dreamt of writing a book with characters so real people will fall in love with them. I wanted to write about magic and new worlds. I never imagined that the story I would end up telling would be my own and that it would be filled with horrors I could never imagine.

People speak of pain and effort that comes before great things, but their descriptions don't do them justice. 

For what I have, I paid in sweat, blood and tears. At times, I even think that I paid with my very mind. That is how strange my life became.

But, never with my soul. 

This is important, this you must remember. Your soul may be yours to give, but don't do it. Because, in the end, your soul is all you have. It is what you are. 

Why you must remember this? Because, one day, you might find yourself dealing with the devil. Do not fear, he has no real power over you, not unless you give it to him. Be polite, always be polite, shake your head, say no. If he sees you are certain, he will give up. Just like that, no consequence for you. 

After all, the devil is hardly the worst thing out there.