Dhaunayne Dendar woke that morning in his usual manner. Brewing a pot of coffee, he enjoyed the first cup sipping it slowly pondering the existence of the Shadow People. The people that control and manipulate people and situations. These people operate in the shadows and yet are visible among the to all. The Awoke are the people that can see these situations being manipulated, altered, changed. Yet these people can do nothing to expose the people of the shadows. The Loyal are those that follow the guidance and direction of those in the Shadow. They carry out the orders of the shadow people without thought or question as to why they are doing it.
There are few that work with Dhaunayne that can see these issues and look at the long term results of the poor decisions of the shadow people. Few of the Awoken, the thinkers that question the motives of those in charge. These Awoken rarely last long in these environments, they are either forced to leave or are erased. Like many of those before him Dhaunaye would soon find himself among those, gone, lost, erased from the environment. He has questioned to much of the intentions of the people of power within the working environment. A place that is supposed to be built on trust and long term success of the people within that environment.
A school district that is supposed to be teaching the students within it to be better, more intelligent people. People that look out for each other and build each other up to help make the world a better more prosperous place. A place that would create people that look to the future and build a better, safer world. Instead these shadow people have made it a place where people live and work by fear and control. An environment that cannot possibly build this better world, one where those students will only continue the destruction of the human race. This world would be a place where no one questions and blindly follows the orders of the shadow people. Dhaun could only think that these people are not really people. They must be something else, something more. They must be able to mind control, some type of psionic power. The ability to control through fear, stealing the life force of those that they control. Possibly a vampire of sorts, maybe a group of several different types of these impossible creatures.