Shatter

(Seal of Samael #1)

Though my roots may be humble, I had little idea of what my future held.

Twenty years ago I was nothing more than a six-year-old with a vivid imagination in a home that taught me that I saw too much and prayed to little. I saw the things they never could; ghosts in the attic and fairies in the trees, gnomes that lurked in the neighbors garden and demons that hid in the shadows. The years passed and accident after accident turned me from a spunky, imaginative girl to a reserved, studious young woman who worked every day to prove that maybe once upon a time I might not have been imagining it.

Skip forward to present day: I'm a head archaeologist at the worlds most renowned company for exploration and discovery, the Ingrid Archaeological Institute, or the IAI for short. I wanted to leave my mark on the world, I wanted my discoveries to go down in history and my name in the books. Had I known that destiny had already planned something far greater than that for me, I don't know if I would have lived my life trying to discover the world when I'd end up trying to save it instead.

I never imagined my past would eventually catch up to me, all those monsters and myths turning out to be closer than they appeared; all because of a few books and a family bloodline that destined me for greatness. Trying to survive an eight hour shift seems easy now that I'm trying to survive the apocalypse.