
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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