
He approached the table, and after having planted all the preparations, he began366Please respect copyright.PENANATiWqEqf20N
pouring some orangey looking liquid into each of those mugs.366Please respect copyright.PENANAR50AkIMQnL
“There you go.” He said as he finished pouring, “This will do you good.”366Please respect copyright.PENANAfpskiSFQQA
“Thank you.”366Please respect copyright.PENANANh5CuzgzEG
“You must drink all of it.” He told me as he grabbed hold of one of those mugs.366Please respect copyright.PENANAbxvN60m17G
“Ouch!” I complained, “Too hot.”366Please respect copyright.PENANAE7WILeMEmR
“That is how it is served, and how it should be taken.” He went on to sit quite366Please respect copyright.PENANAhxmVy0fyxR
comfortably on an old dusty chair across that table. He drank his share in one swift366Please respect copyright.PENANASXKG2JQwtd
gulp, and then he burped as he lit some sort of stick which he then placed in his366Please respect copyright.PENANAYJuin22vDE
mouth. He seemed to be sucking on it and every time he did, the timid fire at the end366Please respect copyright.PENANAAGghPFWVCp
of it grew for a moment, before fading again. Curiosity was pouring from his eyes and366Please respect copyright.PENANA8BEmJTNQ5j
lips now, just as that liquid had poured from that metal pot.366Please respect copyright.PENANAevFQUeFnd1
“That was the beginning.” I cut off any further insistence...366Please respect copyright.PENANACf8zvDt96z
“The rest is all in here, huh?” He tried to sound uncaring, but I could see right366Please respect copyright.PENANAUFqo1Exvn8
through him.366Please respect copyright.PENANAbviHoOiC7w
“You are meant to read it.” I decided to indulge in the insisting game as well, and as366Please respect copyright.PENANAHVPqlUwF0T
I stood up, I fondly gazed at that notebook.366Please respect copyright.PENANAwU4D5162Zn
“Right.” He grabbed hold of it and placed it upon his lap, “According to you, that ol’366Please respect copyright.PENANA9UGZXt0dnn
fool wanted me to...” And then he opened it...366Please respect copyright.PENANApWTE8PKDGB
I slowly began making my way to the next room, for there was something that366Please respect copyright.PENANAvCcS2ymwJk
easily caught my eye the moment I set foot into his place. “In there you will learn how366Please respect copyright.PENANADEX2oSNPcE
I made it to where you found me... waiting for you.”366Please respect copyright.PENANAT4PFiSnnC2
This large box of clean glass filled to the brim with bubbling water, and in it, there366Please respect copyright.PENANAWdJyxpqaFS
were these weird samples of life swimming back and forth. Restlessly.366Please respect copyright.PENANAKx0mxpKHFV
They reminded me of all those that I had met; in the way in which they could see366Please respect copyright.PENANAaZXztWDFa9
the world in its entirety, but always constricted by the invisible walls, we all have366Please respect copyright.PENANAi9eb4EDYcH
around ourselves. They also reminded me... of myself.366Please respect copyright.PENANApb9LaSydQU
“You know, at my age, this may take a while.” He flipped the first page with his left366Please respect copyright.PENANArIDpSehglP
hand while his right went for a bigger pair of glasses. “Quite a while in fact.”366Please respect copyright.PENANAsI7Suy02cV
“You must go through all of it,” I remarked, “and understand.”366Please respect copyright.PENANAkKDKQCOcrd
“Wish I had something better than tea to palliate the process though.”366Please respect copyright.PENANAeVBgGgeXUn
He murmured.366Please respect copyright.PENANArEW46l1UbP
“I will be in the next room,” I spoke softly.366Please respect copyright.PENANAvDsPmvYkWe
“Oh, you like aquariums, do you?”366Please respect copyright.PENANAAVAdjm5NfH
“Aquariums...” I murmured...366Please respect copyright.PENANA3Dm29DGo0u
“We can talk all about it later; but for now, I think you should grab some rest.”366Please respect copyright.PENANAlTPnCBBNqj
He did not even look at me, his eyes were already too busy scurrying through those366Please respect copyright.PENANAl3I5PTe3ie
first pages.366Please respect copyright.PENANAceuFrE44M9
“There is quite a comfortable couch in there as well. Why don’t you give it a try?366Please respect copyright.PENANA9GJxyahBxz
Don’t worry, I will call for you when I am done with this.”366Please respect copyright.PENANAJM4kpRoYON
“I just might.”
And with that, I left him to it..
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-end of prologue
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