Prelude To Infinity Part one

With the dawning of a new day came the beginning of the end. He awoke in a heap, a mass of limbs that did not feel his own. The forest clearing swooned with morningsong, the ground strewn with Autumn's gift of golden brown leaves. A glance to the sky told him he had been here all night, but why? What had happened here?Flashes of memory... The stinging shock of the previous day's horrors.The man stood, his head swimming. He staggered a few feet to one side and collapsed to his knees, head in his hands. He could not remember his name, his past, or even his present. All he could remember was Amanda, lying there against the tree yesterday, bleeding to death, the desperate cries for help he had let out as he cradled her dying form, and the sound of her assailant vanishing through the trees. He had only been gone a few minutes, gone for the ring he had hidden in the faux bird's nest he had created the previous night. It was time to ask her. Finally, after all this time, he was going to do it. He had walked back into the clearing, where she had been daydreaming, and his world had fallen apart.He had screamed for help, held her, kissed her as she slipped away, cried over her, his tears mingling with her blood as it spread over her pretty dress and onto the ground.the knife was still beside her, smeared red. in a haze of absolute despair and terrible loneliness, he had put the blade to his wrist. they had always wanted to die together. he would see to it that Amanda got her wish.What happened after that defied all rational thought. An impossible few minutes, moments he would never forget, whoever he was, whatever these events would turn him into. He had opened his eyes to a brilliant, searing light, a slender hand extended towards him from within it. He had looked up into eyes of purest white, and he knew that nothing would ever be the same again.To be continued.