Prologue – The End That Became a Beginning
I remember the moment everything faded.
The noise.
The exhaustion.
The quiet wish I never dared to say aloud.
If I could live again… I would choose differently.
Light swallowed me whole.
And when I opened my eyes again, the sky was blue.
Not the dull blue of memory, but a living one—bright, endless, real. Soft curtains swayed in the wind. My body felt light. Younger.
Unfamiliar.
When I reached for the mirror, a stranger stared back at me.
White hair, touched by strands of gold.
Eyes the color of the summer sky.
And memories that did not belong to me.
I had died.
And been reborn as Aurelia von Valenrose.