PROLOGUE
the greedy spirit of death

     DEATH was no friend of the Salvatore family. The force remained lingering in the background, eager to grasp yet another innocent life—to pull them into the brutal darkness of dying.

The Salvatore brothers had too much taken from them by death. At first, it was their mother. Seeing as they were young; they could not aid their mother in escaping the ever demanding grasp of death. And so, they learned when they were young the impact of death's greed. They grew enraged that death could take someone from them in a mere second, removing their spirit from Earth.

Death was not kind.

No, death was ravenous. Death was never fulfilled with a life, always willing to obtain more. Death hung over them— surrounding and suffocating them in everything they did. They always knew there was the possibility that death would snatch someone up— never to be seen again. Only to have the faint memories of their times together in the back of their heads, taunting them with the ghost of their loved ones.

In an attempt to protect themselves, they kept their circles small. They hoped that death would finically relieve them of their suffering, they had lost enough. But death didn't answer their prayers, death never did. Death was insatiable and a life was a life. It was a soul that would keep death satisfied until he grew hungry for more.

Death needed to alleviate the growing longing of life; whether it be human or supernatural. No matter if that person was innocent or guilty. A life was a life and death had no problem taking it.

Damon and Stefan knew the reality of death's thirst all too well. They hadn't forgotten the day they learned how unfair death truly was. The day it stripped their sister from them was the same day they no longer relied on their emotions to drive their actions. They no longer minded for the lives of the innocent. Becoming one with death themselves, Damon and Stefan Salvatore were never truly the same following the day death greedily seized Ivy Salvatore from them.

Death made them who they were and he relished in every kill they made.

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