He approached the table, and after having planted all the preparations, he began106Please respect copyright.PENANA87mJa04970
pouring some orangey looking liquid into each of those mugs.106Please respect copyright.PENANAaz8iksPCAK
“There you go.” He said as he finished pouring, “This will do you good.”106Please respect copyright.PENANAM1jqYGhJ8D
“Thank you.”106Please respect copyright.PENANAr0rt3Xhlta
“You must drink all of it.” He told me as he grabbed hold of one of those mugs.106Please respect copyright.PENANAtUmWzAa4hy
“Ouch!” I complained, “Too hot.”106Please respect copyright.PENANAVIdEAtdPGE
“That is how it is served, and how it should be taken.” He went on to sit quite106Please respect copyright.PENANAPjBI98meic
comfortably on an old dusty chair across that table. He drank his share in one swift106Please respect copyright.PENANAqC49sHHuwi
gulp, and then he burped as he lit some sort of stick which he then placed in his106Please respect copyright.PENANAru4vhXLLAU
mouth. He seemed to be sucking on it and every time he did, the timid fire at the end106Please respect copyright.PENANA0bZ2rLUavA
of it grew for a moment, before fading again. Curiosity was pouring from his eyes and106Please respect copyright.PENANAbYBQAjiQz9
lips now, just as that liquid had poured from that metal pot.106Please respect copyright.PENANAKzJh4QWabp
“That was the beginning.” I cut off any further insistence...106Please respect copyright.PENANAKBtHtWft37
“The rest is all in here, huh?” He tried to sound uncaring, but I could see right106Please respect copyright.PENANA04Df2fFvxg
through him.106Please respect copyright.PENANAKw1VYEYyyr
“You are meant to read it.” I decided to indulge in the insisting game as well, and as106Please respect copyright.PENANA0IRX7TjtR9
I stood up, I fondly gazed at that notebook.106Please respect copyright.PENANAgnQUWD8nnX
“Right.” He grabbed hold of it and placed it upon his lap, “According to you, that ol’106Please respect copyright.PENANA3MbURkN5WM
fool wanted me to...” And then he opened it...106Please respect copyright.PENANAx33rUuHUdn
I slowly began making my way to the next room, for there was something that106Please respect copyright.PENANAoUDOqThPNx
easily caught my eye the moment I set foot into his place. “In there you will learn how106Please respect copyright.PENANARlL1lrps4s
I made it to where you found me... waiting for you.”106Please respect copyright.PENANAddQZ4RkDTs
This large box of clean glass filled to the brim with bubbling water, and in it, there106Please respect copyright.PENANAfqG9npz60O
were these weird samples of life swimming back and forth. Restlessly.106Please respect copyright.PENANAbkzKfY591l
They reminded me of all those that I had met; in the way in which they could see106Please respect copyright.PENANAVIdUH6Ytpn
the world in its entirety, but always constricted by the invisible walls, we all have106Please respect copyright.PENANApxIV2a2JVH
around ourselves. They also reminded me... of myself.106Please respect copyright.PENANABb7Bew2dE6
“You know, at my age, this may take a while.” He flipped the first page with his left106Please respect copyright.PENANArzh9oLQY9i
hand while his right went for a bigger pair of glasses. “Quite a while in fact.”106Please respect copyright.PENANAPlkRo4xs7e
“You must go through all of it,” I remarked, “and understand.”106Please respect copyright.PENANAH7SsLl3Wto
“Wish I had something better than tea to palliate the process though.”106Please respect copyright.PENANA4fjmmO2dqP
He murmured.106Please respect copyright.PENANAX8WmP3T6Fm
“I will be in the next room,” I spoke softly.106Please respect copyright.PENANAk0KEX2H68x
“Oh, you like aquariums, do you?”106Please respect copyright.PENANA1Lu3WiMeKI
“Aquariums...” I murmured...106Please respect copyright.PENANACIJFZL9KEb
“We can talk all about it later; but for now, I think you should grab some rest.”106Please respect copyright.PENANAfrfTfME2Gp
He did not even look at me, his eyes were already too busy scurrying through those106Please respect copyright.PENANACtqjbJRe0n
first pages.106Please respect copyright.PENANA4Jclc67Rfm
“There is quite a comfortable couch in there as well. Why don’t you give it a try?106Please respect copyright.PENANANO1Q9nXpMa
Don’t worry, I will call for you when I am done with this.”106Please respect copyright.PENANAtayiqWSCSO
“I just might.”
And with that, I left him to it..
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-end of prologue
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