Dear readers,

This novel had been… something. I’d leave the interpretation to you, each chapter, but I’d point this out – you can’t judge something based on one thing. There’s always a history.

People.

Relationships.

This is not to justify any of the wrongdoings any of the characters had done; in fact, I’d like to address it first here. Cain and Abel’s past, especially their childhood, is fiction, but is largely influenced by research and real occurrences of child soldiers, trafficking, and exploitation.

Their growth and struggles later in life were inspired by my own thoughts, feelings, and experiences as I went through different phases of my life.

This book is in no way a psychological or clinical reading, nor should it be used to generalize how people think and feel. It is not an autobiography either… more of an exploration of myself, which I later decided to put here.

All that is to say, this book can be read from different perspectives.

You can treat it as a comedic slice of life, an action, or a drama; I’d be happy to know that it’d at least put a smile on your day.

You can read it as is, as two brothers navigating a zombie apocalypse.

You can read it as symbolism.

Anyway, feel free to.

And last…. Emotions. Emotions are something else, one that can’t be confined into a book, nor can they sometimes be fully understood.

Thank you for picking this novel,

Lyrcathi

Ok wait that’s kinda depressing and deep, here are some character sketches of the brothers :p