My Element: Prologue
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now." Library? What library? Oh wait... William's vision cleared enough now that he could take in his surroundings. He was in the local public library, name of which escaped him at the moment, sitting at a table littered with books while a middle aged woman stood nearby with a grin. "No I should be the one to apologise, I should have been long gone by now," said William rubbing the sleep from his eyes. The woman kept smiling and said," It is okay. Don't worry about your books. I'll clean them up, you go home and get yourself a real sleep." William simply nodded and proceeded to go grab his backpack sitting next to his chair, stuffing in his papers from the table and walked out the door of the library into the cool, Pacific Ocean are that swept through Seattle in the evenings. As William walked home his mind turned to the dream he had. He had been studying about famous military commanders and having an active imagination he knew it was bound to happen that he would dream himself into some role in the battle. That did not explain why he had seen himself though in that strange clothing, nor why he had those crystals. At the thought of those crystals his hand instinctively went to his neck and the necklace that hung around it.As far back as he could remember he had worn that necklace around his neck. It's was a simple thing really, made out of some shiny metal that after all these years had shown no sign of rust. He had never taken it off, not that he wanted to really. It would kind of be difficult to considering the fact that it had no clasp on it. Still as William thought about it the more he tightened his grip on the centerpiece of the necklace. A thin piece of metal that had etched on it a picture of a dragon in mid flight on it. He felt that that was the closest thing to his family he had left.The air grew colder and William drew his coat closer to his body. "Bloody hell. I'm overthinking this!" He said outloud to no one. Still as he walked up the steps of his apartment building everything about his future suddenly felt much more uncertain. And as William walked up the stairwell to his floor he failed to notice the pair of eyes watching him._______Authors note: Finished the prologue finally! Didn't realize that it would be that hard to put my ideas on paper, uh... I mean in digital writing. I will try to go and finish the first chapter soon. Please comment and use constructive criticism.