Your First Line

[Zylaa]

Post your first lines here!

“To know a thing, you must see it three ways.”

[Jayeee]

"The air that evening was so heavy with mist that he hadn't even needed to conjure any himself to keep hidden."

[Kristykimmy]

Ashlin jumped from the battlement, an action ever wordless and full of contempt.

[Shinko]

It was the new moon.

>> I swear the rest of the opening paragraph is more engaging then that.

[Layla "Nimbus" Karimi]

It was a cold day in early October when the Society got the tipoff.

And for the heck of it, because that up there is from the prologue that I might not even end up using and because the following line has been stuck in my head for the past few weeks, here's the first line of chapter one:

Breanna Dobson was flying.

[Breakingchains]

Remedy did not feel the cold. She was inhuman tonight, a matte gray shadow sprinting across the snow and ice, immune to the murderous forces of winter.

[Sabre]

“What?” I asked. “Who’s here?”

To be fair, that's only the first of the 50k. It's partway into the second chapter. ^^;

The fire didn’t hurt.

That's the first line of the story as a whole.

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“A-Hah!” Said the skyward figure as he spotted what he was seeking.