I was thinking I maybe should have put a 'two years later' sort of thing for the second part of the prologue. I originally wrote it as two parts and didn't want it to be the first two chapters or make two posts, since they do both take place before the body of the story. I could separate them right now into Prologue (1) and Prologue (2). I did know I wanted Duff's death (or undeath, you'll have to wait and see >:) ) upfront, but I also wanted to begin with the denial of the existence of the supernatural by the people who live where Duff lives, when his house was once the house of a mage.
I'm really bad at writing romance so I chose to forgo the intimacy between Duff and Florentia for now
Peaceful to hell: Kinda a representation of how Duff's life changed dramatically when he discovered Sylvan Glade and fell in love. Once a humble herbalist, now a fugitive. And also when he discovered Audax's book. A mere mortal was never to glance upon those pages. Fun fact about the book - I took inspiration for it from the
journals in the TV show
Gravity Falls :D