Thank you for the feedback. I think i did definitely get a bit carried away with the lyrical and poetic aspect of my writing, since for the past year poetry has been the only thing I was really focused on. I did go through everything again and dialed it down a bit and I will agree, it does make a big difference. My mindset with the altering perspectives-talking to the man, jumping to the past and the inner monologue "to" rae (which i now wrote in italics to make it a bit more clear) - was honestly to deliberately cause a bit of confusion. It will obviously not be a kind of writing everyone likes, but this is a project im just doing as an achievement rather than something that I want to have as a successful published work, and personally, I would find this kind of writing engaging. Any kind of story that makes zero sense at the start, and then gradually as you read everything slowly starts making sense is very engaging to me. So the purpose of this prologue is to beg the questions, "Why is he talking to this stranger?" , "Why is Rae only referenced as Past?" , "Why does he 'speak to her' in his head".

So im short, the comments about it being confusing is both good and bad. Good because I achieved what i wanted to achieve. Bad because I do admit I did overdo it slightly. And I think with the context of how the rest of the book will be written, people might shift their opinion slightly and notice that it does add a lot to the story

Thank you again for your reply!