Oh, and don’t judge the other chapter lengths by this chapter length, being as this isn’t a chapter and only a prologue. While the chapters won’t be as long as the chapters in Reality (which I will finish), they will certainly be longer than this prologue and a good length.

The forest was empty, devoid of anything living save a small ant on the trunk of a large tree. Even that was gone in the next moment, disappearing into the night in a flash.

A dark figure entered the forest, dressed in a robe of dark green.

“Seth!” the figure hissed into the eerily silent forest.

Another figure, this one dressed in brown, appeared in front of the first.

“Yes?”

“I’m leaving tonight,” the greenclad man informed the other matter-of-factly.

Seth adjusted his robe.

The figure in green stepped closer to him, raising his eyebrows. “Seth? Haven’t you anything to say?”

Seth looked up from dusting of his robe, which he had moved on to after his robe was well-adjusted.

“No, I believe you are doing the right thing.”

Green Robe stepped backward, the disbelief and hurt showing clearly on his face before he closed himself off once more and clutched his robe tighter to fight the cold no one but himself could feel. “I see. Thank you, Seth, for everything.”

The older man nodded swiftly.

The man in the green robe began to walk out of the forest.

“Valin?” The addressed man turned to face Seth. “I hope you survive.”

Valin smiled faintly with no real warmth and bowed low.

“Oh, don’t,” Seth said, putting up a hand. “It is I, sir, who should be bowing to you.”

Valin gave a smile that was more an upturning of the lips than a smile. “And yet you don’t.”

Seth nodded deeply. “And yet I don’t. Hm.”

“Hm,” Valin agreed, raising an eyebrow.

He turned again and walked out of the forest, Seth chucking quietly behind him before disappearing, every animal but the ant appearing once more after he had gone.