World On Fire

Prologue
'' 'They say that one day he shall return, reincarnated into a kit. He shall wreck havoc upon the world, allow ash to fall from the sky and fires to burn unchecked.'''

I am the one. I know it now. The voice that has lived inside the back of my head for so long is gone now. I am free. Free to do whatever I wish. And still... my fur remembers the feeling of those flames. The way they had consumed me, changing me. The ash beneath my paws, like a black powdered snow. And the moment when I had finally had a choice. And I chose wrongly. It is my fault the world is like it is now. I accept that. Ash will always fall. Fire will always burn. Lava will always bubble in the place of bogs and rivers. Chasms will always open up beneath anyone's paws. Quicksand will always kill. I have started the end of the world.