Prologue & Chapter 1 Excerpt Prologue: A Final Letter To My Only Son, This is the fourth and final letter I have written in the shadow of my impending death. The first was taken by the wind. The second, by flame. Both are long gone, now only echoes within the story that I’m about to tell. The third lies hidden, an offering in plain sight, waiting for you to recognize where it rests. Its existence is not what matters. The reason for keeping it is. I kept it only because it w