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He approached the table, and after having planted all the preparations, he began108Please respect copyright.PENANAX4z5LsxKcO
pouring some orangey looking liquid into each of those mugs.108Please respect copyright.PENANAz6set6K2mE
“There you go.” He said as he finished pouring, “This will do you good.”108Please respect copyright.PENANAj0ghu8GoYt
“Thank you.”108Please respect copyright.PENANA4r2vnm5z7c
“You must drink all of it.” He told me as he grabbed hold of one of those mugs.108Please respect copyright.PENANAnk1AyyOrDX
“Ouch!” I complained, “Too hot.”108Please respect copyright.PENANABVeir7r5PQ
“That is how it is served, and how it should be taken.” He went on to sit quite108Please respect copyright.PENANAl3WAIzPpCo
comfortably on an old dusty chair across that table. He drank his share in one swift108Please respect copyright.PENANAj2lAOgPHaK
gulp, and then he burped as he lit some sort of stick which he then placed in his108Please respect copyright.PENANAAmgArHrTIS
mouth. He seemed to be sucking on it and every time he did, the timid fire at the end108Please respect copyright.PENANAUq4TOf1d4M
of it grew for a moment, before fading again. Curiosity was pouring from his eyes and108Please respect copyright.PENANAumT4pEBHPx
lips now, just as that liquid had poured from that metal pot.108Please respect copyright.PENANAchPLm4S2BT
“That was the beginning.” I cut off any further insistence...108Please respect copyright.PENANAyJyWgaD97h
“The rest is all in here, huh?” He tried to sound uncaring, but I could see right108Please respect copyright.PENANAHyqSXWx6lV
through him.108Please respect copyright.PENANAf5Nu3We4YT
“You are meant to read it.” I decided to indulge in the insisting game as well, and as108Please respect copyright.PENANA4olVHTCJQn
I stood up, I fondly gazed at that notebook.108Please respect copyright.PENANAvvaRpVEkiW
“Right.” He grabbed hold of it and placed it upon his lap, “According to you, that ol’108Please respect copyright.PENANAxG3lQ0MEmb
fool wanted me to...” And then he opened it...108Please respect copyright.PENANAIn5LWfJUC0
I slowly began making my way to the next room, for there was something that108Please respect copyright.PENANAGQGBIw2tbz
easily caught my eye the moment I set foot into his place. “In there you will learn how108Please respect copyright.PENANAE6fjywJrNa
I made it to where you found me... waiting for you.”108Please respect copyright.PENANABTtl1QZE1o
This large box of clean glass filled to the brim with bubbling water, and in it, there108Please respect copyright.PENANAGfiQP8ziPm
were these weird samples of life swimming back and forth. Restlessly.108Please respect copyright.PENANAETTtkt7I3c
They reminded me of all those that I had met; in the way in which they could see108Please respect copyright.PENANAfjnxqdJLdH
the world in its entirety, but always constricted by the invisible walls, we all have108Please respect copyright.PENANAJVhEOCBWmq
around ourselves. They also reminded me... of myself.108Please respect copyright.PENANAdxuDEqniUO
“You know, at my age, this may take a while.” He flipped the first page with his left108Please respect copyright.PENANAEQsHYJsxha
hand while his right went for a bigger pair of glasses. “Quite a while in fact.”108Please respect copyright.PENANAoK9pT62H0I
“You must go through all of it,” I remarked, “and understand.”108Please respect copyright.PENANAEtPo4KXvJW
“Wish I had something better than tea to palliate the process though.”108Please respect copyright.PENANAygn3qXMLpO
He murmured.108Please respect copyright.PENANA9Y1s7utbpq
“I will be in the next room,” I spoke softly.108Please respect copyright.PENANAJpN4gZzDkS
“Oh, you like aquariums, do you?”108Please respect copyright.PENANAAAXznuVKzM
“Aquariums...” I murmured...108Please respect copyright.PENANASz9DJLwvgi
“We can talk all about it later; but for now, I think you should grab some rest.”108Please respect copyright.PENANAT2ir1ZTY7e
He did not even look at me, his eyes were already too busy scurrying through those108Please respect copyright.PENANABYbvKezeWY
first pages.108Please respect copyright.PENANA6clQh4pCAp
“There is quite a comfortable couch in there as well. Why don’t you give it a try?108Please respect copyright.PENANAKNXnrNCRYf
Don’t worry, I will call for you when I am done with this.”108Please respect copyright.PENANAROeLGxj7PE
“I just might.”
And with that, I left him to it..
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-end of prologue
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