Before the night falls

Epigraph

"Doubt the wonders."

Chapter 1

Today was the most beautiful night for everyone who’s currently watching the colorful scenery.

Pale shades of blue and pigments of sunset were being painted on the night sky as its source gradually heading to the east.

It was a special night, for a miracle happened right in front of their eyes. A celestial body, of ice and dust, finally found its way back to the atmosphere of this world after its million years of lonely astray in the universe, a comet of unknown origin, so experts say.

It is a miracle indeed.

Synnaveille Town, the luckiest of the lucky, has the most amazing view of it. The comet shone brighter than the full moon, illuminating the cultivating town.

Yet, in there, the beauty of the scene has lost its meaning, as young, teen, and old were watching it with their awe filled-eyes and faint sad smiles.

The night was then shocked by an inevitable noise, so frightening and familiar, that whenever it echoes in the town, they pray for the life that it has taken, for another blood, was spilled on the so-called innocent land.

By the dark alley, men on their blue identical distinctive set of clothes were sprinting towards where the sound elapses, in search for its rigid source.

“Humans were designed to err and Law was created as a reason not to.” Those petty words came out of her mouth as her emotionless gaze was locked upon the crimson floor.

The fluorescent light lit the gruesome sight, making that thick crimson red liquid glitter in beauty.

The night wind blew in from the open terrace in front of her and her wavy auburn hair stretching down to her elbows danced with the midnight wind as it passed by.

“To err is human indeed and judgment is also not for them to bestow.” Behind her was a man of white robes, comparing to her light clothes; black semi-shorts, black sleeveless shirt, and a thin vest.

By himself, he sheared away his fear to clamor these words for he was there when the massacre began.

She looked to her back, only to find him standing far in front of her without a hint of common fear. Her numb ruby orbs collide with his azure gaze.

There she judged him as a man who deserves to live.

She was familiar to him, not as a friend but as a fiend herself.

Twenty wicked lives were eliminated using her very own hands but to her, it was only a mere number. She began hunting hostile humans that had lost their sole humanity even if it means she will lose hers too. There’s no way she would just back out, for she’s now a wanted criminal.

“Well said,” After the long delay, she finally replied with the same numb face.

Written all over her, everyone can read that she is cold as the long winter night and deadly as the hurricane. No one even wondered why she even decided to numb her heart away from any warmth; after all, to the people, she’s nothing but a murderer.

Hard stomping footsteps ruptured from outside the room, making her jolt at the door; it is time for her to leave.

“Judge me, father, for God himself can’t stop me.” She, with her cold tone, ended their short conversation. She strolled towards the terrace, jumped over a lifeless body, and finally, she reached the fence. She looked down to see herself far above the empty ground; she’s on the third story of a building to be exact.

With not another doubt, she held onto the fence and jumped out with no hesitation.

She looked up to the heavens as the ball of blue and orange light reflected to her crimson eyes, piercing through her barren and young soul. Now that she was able to see it up close this time than the last time she discovered it, she felt bliss.

She named her (comet) Astrid, not that she found strange connection with it but the fact that its existence was rather odd or even impossible.

Breaking every bit of firm Laws of physics.

She was still on the air, as the comet illuminated her in splendid elegance. No one was able to witness it but surely another miracle was about to happen.

Her face created a stunned expression as she watches herself slowly being engulfed by a faint emerald light staring from her feet. Time slowed down as her memories overlap.

She was born with a dream once, to stop and catch people like who she is now but fate led her to another way. Her parents, both astronomers died in front of her eyes, and they [killers] let her live only to watch them shine upon the heavens while she lived her life with nothing but resentment.

She then continued her life; heading to the path her parents wanted her to take, Astronomy, but that wasn’t the only case.

 \As she learns about the stars, she is silently learning the art of taking life believing that one day; she will be free from her torments.

Now that she questioned God, what life does He had in store for her?