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He approached the table, and after having planted all the preparations, he began357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡreCkD1icVq
pouring some orangey looking liquid into each of those mugs.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH0nbWCvoGy
“There you go.” He said as he finished pouring, “This will do you good.”357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz807kTNavS
“Thank you.”357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrfXmL85HyM
“You must drink all of it.” He told me as he grabbed hold of one of those mugs.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgwFwV01DHX
“Ouch!” I complained, “Too hot.”357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCytv6fzmIm
“That is how it is served, and how it should be taken.” He went on to sit quite357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTeJ5x1Twg7
comfortably on an old dusty chair across that table. He drank his share in one swift357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLTN6xw8lCv
gulp, and then he burped as he lit some sort of stick which he then placed in his357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzGa9qX2R9m
mouth. He seemed to be sucking on it and every time he did, the timid fire at the end357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHsBGr3Vf0t
of it grew for a moment, before fading again. Curiosity was pouring from his eyes and357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwZO9mB7LPS
lips now, just as that liquid had poured from that metal pot.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQb1GWYXBhC
“That was the beginning.” I cut off any further insistence...357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡly3JbdQzw9
“The rest is all in here, huh?” He tried to sound uncaring, but I could see right357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3PibEmyeyT
through him.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAQ0LV5TjsA
“You are meant to read it.” I decided to indulge in the insisting game as well, and as357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU6pXf9I1RH
I stood up, I fondly gazed at that notebook.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmxstNBfYvR
“Right.” He grabbed hold of it and placed it upon his lap, “According to you, that ol’357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlVRh8fCMNX
fool wanted me to...” And then he opened it...357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmIs1HZXdzw
I slowly began making my way to the next room, for there was something that357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbeYya7THV8
easily caught my eye the moment I set foot into his place. “In there you will learn how357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNDpBhFPRDu
I made it to where you found me... waiting for you.”357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIzHHbv1Bpd
This large box of clean glass filled to the brim with bubbling water, and in it, there357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkOcxGhc8CO
were these weird samples of life swimming back and forth. Restlessly.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSUIKdgYjdY
They reminded me of all those that I had met; in the way in which they could see357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3wH94bcx9J
the world in its entirety, but always constricted by the invisible walls, we all have357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJf4PXG641E
around ourselves. They also reminded me... of myself.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDH2m4QGQyQ
“You know, at my age, this may take a while.” He flipped the first page with his left357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF9diU7lT9y
hand while his right went for a bigger pair of glasses. “Quite a while in fact.”357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRRVPmeHcPM
“You must go through all of it,” I remarked, “and understand.”357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9M7AlDH2nD
“Wish I had something better than tea to palliate the process though.”357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ahcfyXSxu
He murmured.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCuJTdN2hd8
“I will be in the next room,” I spoke softly.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPePl3kpQSb
“Oh, you like aquariums, do you?”357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡikY06iHzIY
“Aquariums...” I murmured...357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSj6FSCChDw
“We can talk all about it later; but for now, I think you should grab some rest.”357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9qHfNuz0PG
He did not even look at me, his eyes were already too busy scurrying through those357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMEeL8cdRgs
first pages.357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSAxt9SJkJa
“There is quite a comfortable couch in there as well. Why don’t you give it a try?357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgN6tzLwBir
Don’t worry, I will call for you when I am done with this.”357Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCl3l3jDO4A
“I just might.”
And with that, I left him to it..
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-end of prologue
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