Chapter 2
All at first he saw nothingness, then light. Billy took a deep breath and looked around. He was in a house on the floor covered in blood and bruises. Broken plates lay scattered around the kitchen and him. He got up and started to walk with a small limp.
Run! He heard in his mind. He started limping to the door and a big man came around the corner
"William, what are you doing! Get back here boy!" The man yelled with a slurr in his voice.
Billy turned around and held up his hands in fright and a blue burst of magic left his hands and hit the man square in the chest.
He didn't look back. He slowly limped away and walked out the door.
A figure appeared all dressed in black to come take the soul of William's father. The figure turned to look out the window and saw a boy slowly hobble away. The figure turned back to the body and left with the man's soul.
Billy never saw any of this. He just knew he had to go somewhere.
He kept walking. After a while it got easier to walk. He came upon the underside of an overpass and sat down and just breathed. He doesn't know who is is. He doesn't know what happened to him but he can kind of guess. His father must have tried to kill him. Does he have a mother? He doesn't want to go back and find out. Not after what he just did. What did he do? Billy brought his hands up to look at them. They look like ordinary hands. He doesn't want to think about it now.
All he knows right now is he's tired and still covered in blood.