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He approached the table, and after having planted all the preparations, he began270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJZ8EuicqYp
pouring some orangey looking liquid into each of those mugs.270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQvFf7DS7FS
“There you go.” He said as he finished pouring, “This will do you good.”270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡChNq2NQb53
“Thank you.”270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHUCA4etPq5
“You must drink all of it.” He told me as he grabbed hold of one of those mugs.270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvn3gR2F8Fd
“Ouch!” I complained, “Too hot.”270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUb4SuMOAr5
“That is how it is served, and how it should be taken.” He went on to sit quite270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1bvAyILq2H
comfortably on an old dusty chair across that table. He drank his share in one swift270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfCXEMciQDj
gulp, and then he burped as he lit some sort of stick which he then placed in his270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡypsEGJ3YR7
mouth. He seemed to be sucking on it and every time he did, the timid fire at the end270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrNUQyqN59K
of it grew for a moment, before fading again. Curiosity was pouring from his eyes and270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfE7M8NrU4D
lips now, just as that liquid had poured from that metal pot.270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBHfbd8auw
“That was the beginning.” I cut off any further insistence...270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8kPjFrb42s
“The rest is all in here, huh?” He tried to sound uncaring, but I could see right270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ47vZ74h3rc
through him.270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVKU6lrg9qt
“You are meant to read it.” I decided to indulge in the insisting game as well, and as270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrFXjulq4ry
I stood up, I fondly gazed at that notebook.270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ41s6qlscXQ
“Right.” He grabbed hold of it and placed it upon his lap, “According to you, that ol’270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8tkm0NIgpT
fool wanted me to...” And then he opened it...270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXOSbMJAqeR
I slowly began making my way to the next room, for there was something that270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpLlZfOvZkg
easily caught my eye the moment I set foot into his place. “In there you will learn how270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnPOaHCWv2c
I made it to where you found me... waiting for you.”270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrVNCHtUeif
This large box of clean glass filled to the brim with bubbling water, and in it, there270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf1ZLW8thtT
were these weird samples of life swimming back and forth. Restlessly.270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQcGonoPA4L
They reminded me of all those that I had met; in the way in which they could see270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2gVfr03ENf
the world in its entirety, but always constricted by the invisible walls, we all have270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡizsD5uqoVd
around ourselves. They also reminded me... of myself.270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ezcL5UEO4
“You know, at my age, this may take a while.” He flipped the first page with his left270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ02AXJSwBs6
hand while his right went for a bigger pair of glasses. “Quite a while in fact.”270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlYUbrD7Ozu
“You must go through all of it,” I remarked, “and understand.”270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoN8kh5sUGj
“Wish I had something better than tea to palliate the process though.”270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡELxGSRGTQ5
He murmured.270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡndleY8yQZf
“I will be in the next room,” I spoke softly.270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhGZ8DF282G
“Oh, you like aquariums, do you?”270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6YqtyHGGe1
“Aquariums...” I murmured...270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZnT8e64L8w
“We can talk all about it later; but for now, I think you should grab some rest.”270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU6fHFRyHy4
He did not even look at me, his eyes were already too busy scurrying through those270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGxuVC8md95
first pages.270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoYwWy7unf6
“There is quite a comfortable couch in there as well. Why don’t you give it a try?270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwwZnY8TLZj
Don’t worry, I will call for you when I am done with this.”270Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ11Qgjm91Tu
“I just might.”
And with that, I left him to it..
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-end of prologue
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