PROLOGUE

Synopsis:

It happened before I was born: for three days, the Darkness swallowed every fleck of light, and the world has never been the same since.

Gone are the days of conversing with the gods, for they have fallen silent.
Gone are the days of growing old, for brevity has claimed us.
Gone are the days of siblings, for they are extinct--all but my brother and me.

Now hope is waning. We struggle to find love and have a child. Or else we die.

My name is Aeria Morgan. I'm already sixteen. I don't have much time.