
He approached the table, and after having planted all the preparations, he began321Please respect copyright.PENANALmtkf4e5VT
pouring some orangey looking liquid into each of those mugs.321Please respect copyright.PENANA12DflBftA2
“There you go.” He said as he finished pouring, “This will do you good.”321Please respect copyright.PENANAUiNlLQjKpA
“Thank you.”321Please respect copyright.PENANAO1mBo3KVb1
“You must drink all of it.” He told me as he grabbed hold of one of those mugs.321Please respect copyright.PENANAAGOE31VAo7
“Ouch!” I complained, “Too hot.”321Please respect copyright.PENANAQFXpbFer1S
“That is how it is served, and how it should be taken.” He went on to sit quite321Please respect copyright.PENANACoIrdrwkd3
comfortably on an old dusty chair across that table. He drank his share in one swift321Please respect copyright.PENANATBzozCJ9pe
gulp, and then he burped as he lit some sort of stick which he then placed in his321Please respect copyright.PENANAKxDJVbhjqG
mouth. He seemed to be sucking on it and every time he did, the timid fire at the end321Please respect copyright.PENANAI9AlpniwPc
of it grew for a moment, before fading again. Curiosity was pouring from his eyes and321Please respect copyright.PENANALLkwlOmic0
lips now, just as that liquid had poured from that metal pot.321Please respect copyright.PENANAIVvXvqT8Xl
“That was the beginning.” I cut off any further insistence...321Please respect copyright.PENANAl1V2E7s67x
“The rest is all in here, huh?” He tried to sound uncaring, but I could see right321Please respect copyright.PENANAWQJSr8NSbu
through him.321Please respect copyright.PENANAZS4SjK2NtO
“You are meant to read it.” I decided to indulge in the insisting game as well, and as321Please respect copyright.PENANAuvXxSAPLRz
I stood up, I fondly gazed at that notebook.321Please respect copyright.PENANA1shAI6YNZR
“Right.” He grabbed hold of it and placed it upon his lap, “According to you, that ol’321Please respect copyright.PENANAnLA8cXAfUR
fool wanted me to...” And then he opened it...321Please respect copyright.PENANAF1FJaYOZYh
I slowly began making my way to the next room, for there was something that321Please respect copyright.PENANAh5bhjikaRw
easily caught my eye the moment I set foot into his place. “In there you will learn how321Please respect copyright.PENANALF2QuZWk6q
I made it to where you found me... waiting for you.”321Please respect copyright.PENANA8mrvX7xZ2H
This large box of clean glass filled to the brim with bubbling water, and in it, there321Please respect copyright.PENANA6lKExCxH8Q
were these weird samples of life swimming back and forth. Restlessly.321Please respect copyright.PENANAlYex4rK1Qt
They reminded me of all those that I had met; in the way in which they could see321Please respect copyright.PENANAGhaLpmlRfh
the world in its entirety, but always constricted by the invisible walls, we all have321Please respect copyright.PENANAt39Sk0tZ8g
around ourselves. They also reminded me... of myself.321Please respect copyright.PENANAX1k6Z9ZnQD
“You know, at my age, this may take a while.” He flipped the first page with his left321Please respect copyright.PENANA8CagbiK7Ku
hand while his right went for a bigger pair of glasses. “Quite a while in fact.”321Please respect copyright.PENANAlvCIWr1EGy
“You must go through all of it,” I remarked, “and understand.”321Please respect copyright.PENANAVdHZwV8KFC
“Wish I had something better than tea to palliate the process though.”321Please respect copyright.PENANA0hd19bdFZS
He murmured.321Please respect copyright.PENANAUBWnVpKG6a
“I will be in the next room,” I spoke softly.321Please respect copyright.PENANAZlReW7oRng
“Oh, you like aquariums, do you?”321Please respect copyright.PENANA7dOgM2XMi6
“Aquariums...” I murmured...321Please respect copyright.PENANA6bByN60Dpr
“We can talk all about it later; but for now, I think you should grab some rest.”321Please respect copyright.PENANAx2j7xLPmJW
He did not even look at me, his eyes were already too busy scurrying through those321Please respect copyright.PENANA6y6s4ak6e1
first pages.321Please respect copyright.PENANAldHpSmxdFw
“There is quite a comfortable couch in there as well. Why don’t you give it a try?321Please respect copyright.PENANAY8PtgqB9k0
Don’t worry, I will call for you when I am done with this.”321Please respect copyright.PENANAcaTTNwwD7c
“I just might.”
And with that, I left him to it..
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-end of prologue
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