Song: I Know Places by Taylor Swift

yes I know 🐍🐍🐍 BUT if you know the lyrics to the song you'll see how well it fits with this prologue.

The first two lines of the prologue in italics are lyrics from the song.

*came back to edit this and realized I've been writing prologues wrong this entire time. so this isn't a prologue. it's just a scene that happens later on in the book for you guys to see whether this book is worth reading ;)

 Enjoy xx

t.m

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They are the hunters we are the foxes, and we run.

Just grab my hand and don't ever drop it, my love.

Considering the numerous times I have spent my childhood playing out in the woods with Atticus, and Nymeria bounding along by my side, I thought to myself that I should be knowing these woods by heart. But once the sun sets and the moon emerges from hiding, nothing looks the same.

My alert eyes squinted in the ominous darkness, lungs burning and screaming for oxygen as I sprinted through the woods. In the distance, the hounds howled wildly, shouts and jeers of The Saviors resonating through the deadly silent trees. They were getting closer. I looked over my shoulder, keeping my legs moving as I did so. The only way I was able distinguish the men was by their torches, the cadmium yellow tone of the flames appeared like bright orange splotches in the distance.

A strangled cry left my lips when I spun my head back forwards too quickly, a sharp tree branch cutting my cheek. I felt warm crimson liquid trickle down the skin of my cheek as I forced myself to run, jumping over branches that blocked my way. With another glance over my shoulder, I quickly moved behind a tree, pressing my back against it to catch a breath.

"Fuck," I cursed to myself, scrunching my eyes shut as I tried to calm myself down.

Never in my life have I ever felt so alone. Alone and scared. All my life has been spent with me being surrounded by friends and family, friends and family who've protected me and wouldn't let any harm come to me. Now as I stood in the middle of the pitch-black forest with The Saviors and their bloodhounds sniffing me out. I knew myself I was fully capable of taking down every single man who were chasing me, but my fear and panic of being alone was taking over me so quickly I was losing hope.

My heart slammed against my ribcage as I breathed out heavily, my breaths coming out short and ragged. My hand reached up to clasp the golden pentagram necklace that laid on my chest, my thumb running over the five-pointed star as I prayed to all the gods above for help. All the confidence and bravery that was usually there inside of me left my body when I heard the barking of the hounds, now nearer than ever.

"Come out come out wherever you are, Sage," Colton called out, his voice causing me to tremble cowardly.

A single tear rolled down my cheek, my entire body pressing tightly against the thick trunk of the tree behind me. My fingers of my left hand rose slightly, my eyes trained on a certain area in the distance, filled with dark trees. I managed to cause some loud rustling noises further away from me, hoping that would attract the hunters and the dogs. Luckily it did, causing them to turn away in the direction of the noise I had created.

I waited for a couple of seconds, watching the orange flames of the torches move away, dark figures following along. My feet began moving again, slowly at first, before gradually speeding up. I wasn't sure where I was trying to get to, but as long as it was away from them. Muttered curses left my lips as I tried to find my way back to some sort of path or road, but I was unlucky.

I seemed to have underestimated the utter blackness of nighttime in the woods. The trees were deep ebony against the bluish raven sky, the bare branches piercing into the darkness above. The moon was in the form of a crescent, providing a minimal amount of silvery light for me to navigate my way through the woods. I wanted to at least light my palms up with fire, or my fingertips, using my power of Pyrokinesis, but I was too afraid the light would be a dead giveaway of my location for the hunters.

Suddenly I was ripped out of my thoughts when I heard the rustle of leaves behind me. I stopped shortly, spinning around, only finding nothing. My eyes darted around, my hands held out ready to burn anything that was about to attack me. But there was nothing. I sucked in a breath, calming myself down before I turned around and began to jog. My jog soon turned into a sprint when I heard more rustling noises along with breaking of branches.

All of a sudden, a pair of hands grabbed me, causing my jaw to drop to let out a scream. But a hand was soon clamped down onto my mouth, avoiding me from creating any noise as I was suddenly tugged to the side and pressed against a tree. My eyes widened when they met the familiar pair of forest green eyes, the ones I fell in love with. The ones that also belonged to the man who lied to me.

"Harry," I whispered, tears immediately pricking my vision as I began to struggle against him immensely.

"Sage, stop," he hissed, grabbing my wrists and pinning me to the bark.

"Let me go," I protested, before staring at him straight in the eye and causing a tiny rock to lift up from near us without Harry noticing.

  I caused the rock to fly over to us, smacking Harry straight in the head, making him curse out loud in surprise and let me go to touch his head. I immediately bolted, turning to the side. But I was caught completely off-guard when I came face to face with the sight of a growling hound. It was Harry's dog, Zeus. The same dog who had always yapped happily whenever I fed him a treat. Looks like the dog has changed too.

"Zeus, down boy," Harry commanded from behind me, as I watched the dog stop bearing his teeth and sat down. "Sage," Harry called out from behind me.

I turned, my eyes filling up with tears as I stared at the beautiful man whom had captured my heart way too easily, only to strike it down when I found out what his secrets were. To my surprise he held his arms out, almost as if he was encouraging me to walk into them for a hug. As much as I wanted to, I held my ground; afraid he was going to give me up to The Saviors.

"Sage, I would never hurt you. I promise," he whispered, dropping his arms with a sigh but taking a few steps. "Trust me."

"How can I trust you? After everything you lied about," I cried softly, looking away as the tears fell. I barely ever cried.

"The only thing I didn't lie about was how much I love you. Baby, please," he begged quietly, watching me with pleading jade eyes.

I inhaled deeply, gazing deep into his eyes before I took a few steps towards him. My body crashed against his as I practically jumped into his arms. As much as I detested the fact that he was a witch hunter and was out to kill me all this time, I was madly in love with him and now with him I just didn't feel alone again. My arms tightened around his shoulders, chest pressing against his hardly as he held me to him.

"I'm gonna protect you, okay my love?" he pulled back, cupping my full cheeks as he stared at me earnestly.

"Promise?" I whispered, my eyes fluttering shut when he ducked forwards to press a sweet kiss to my forehead.

His eyes momentarily flickered to the cut on my cheek, thumb hovering over it as he contemplated to wiping the blood away. Instantly, healing the cut myself, his eyes widening slightly when he watched it disappear.

"Promise, Zeus and I both are here for you," he told me, making me smile before it disappeared when I heard the hounds and shouts of The Saviors once again.

"Shit," Harry cursed, alert eyes darting to the fulvous flames that were nearing us.

"What do we do Harry?" I panicked, causing him to grab my face once again.

"Listen to me Sage, you've gotta be strong and brave, can you do that for me, baby?" he questioned, and I nodded in response, inhaling deeply. "When we face them, we fight okay? They have no idea how powerful you are, so you show them, got it?" he checked once again, making me nod sharply in response. He grasped my hand, lacing our fingers tightly and squeezing it reassuringly.

"But for now, we run."

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➰ that probably wasn't a v exciting prologue but eh if you liked it comment a 😛

➰ I'm not sure when exactly to start this book by posting the first chapter, but I will let you know when I do.

➰hope you enjoyed this prologue and is as excited as I am for the book to start! In the mean time, make sure you check out my other works K&R and R&H 😉

Until we meet again...

t.m.