You read that title correct.
I don't know how much longer I can keep on going as an SIA operative. No matter how long we fight, despite the number of people we have saved, it feels like this fight of mine has been going on for too long.
I am starting to get weary of the struggle. The Count, he's been at this war for centuries, and he still continues to go at it. I've been at this fight for only 7 years.
I began the journey wanting to debunk a myth. I wound up completely caught up in my own myth. Fighting battles I never should have taken part in, defending people I never would have met otherwise, losing people I never was meant to. I have lost and regained my memory so many times. I have explored the darkest places that very few have ever returned from. I have faced creatures that by all rights shouldn't even exist.
We have the Threat. We have the FBI. We have The Bleeding Tree. Natural and supernatural entities that have caused so much pain and suffering to so many people, for too damn long.
I know that my chances of surviving, let alone winning, are slim to none, but at this point, I'm not sure that I care anymore.
I have set a date for myself. Its kind of an anniversary date, marking something important in this journey of mine.
October 31. Halloween. In 2011, that was the day I entered the Path for my experiment in testing the theory of constants.
And now, that day, will mark the day of what will most likely be my final stand.
On that day, I will go back to The Path one last time. Whether I remain there, return to the world of the Bleeding Tree, or something else, I take the fight to them. I am leading the charge against them one last time, and I am going it alone. Maybe something good will come from this, maybe not.
But Lucien Drage will have his final battle.
