author's note: Hello ! I'm (finally) back with the re-write of the story. I've explained why I stopped the other one, so I won't do it again. Let's just say I needed a fresh start to be inspired again, I had to re-write my OC a little bit, and refine the plot, so yeah. Anyway. Many things will be similar, some dialogues will be similar, but not all of it, many things have changed. Yeah. Well, I guess you'll find by yourselves, ehehe. I hope you guys like it. To new readers, I want to tell you english isn't my first language, so there will surely be grammar/spelling mistakes, maybe even words that don't exist, so if you find any, PLEASE point it out to me. For the update frequency, I can't promise anything. I will try to keep it regular. Here's a small prologue, the first chapter will come tomorrow if I get enough feedback. I'm done talking. PLEASE review! It keeps me going and motivates me to update. Thank you xx

PROLOGUE
You are the sea; you are it's beauty, and it's tendency to destroy.

She felt the water on her face like it was fire. It made her shiver so brutally her bones seemed to break a little more every time. Her lips, colored a light blue by the cold, were tightly shut, even though she felt the thousand words, the thousand prayers at the edge of her throat. Her dress was plastered to her body, it's black tissue contrasting brutally with the paleness of her skin. She knew her cheeks to be hollow, her wide eyes to be bloodshot, her scrawny fingers to be holding on to someone who wasn't there. I'm a corpse. Her mind was blurry, her energy had been sucked out of her, every single thing that made her the girl she once was had been broken down, one by one. She shut her eyes, desperately chasing away the memories. The blood, the ink, the rock, the skin, the furs, all the things that had been crushing her being since - how long ? - everything came back and she felt her whole body tense. Her eyes fluttered open and were immediately drawn by the furious, terrifying sea underneath her feet. One step. One step and she would slip on the wet rock and find her peace. I don't want to die. Because even if they were gone; the people she loved, her dignity, her ambition, her dreams, her defenses; even if they were all gone, Raelyn didn't want to become a broken body on the shores. She did not want someone to find her drenched, dirty corpse on the beach. She had to close her eyes again when the remains of a wave crashed upon her face. How did it come to this ? She remembered a time in a great castle, when it was still summer and there was still hope, when she was able to love and to be loved back, she remembered this time. It made her broken lips smile. Yes, I remember. The Girl with One Eye remembered, and knew that despite everything they could do, she always would. They could break her down again, they could smash every bone in her body, they could wipe out her entire soul, she wouldn't forget. She couldn't.