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He approached the table, and after having planted all the preparations, he began300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK2UKnTud4F
pouring some orangey looking liquid into each of those mugs.300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVWOYqw3X1p
“There you go.” He said as he finished pouring, “This will do you good.”300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6iy7mFT0Jb
“Thank you.”300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfuGZ0vfnyy
“You must drink all of it.” He told me as he grabbed hold of one of those mugs.300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF9n0AoKhbI
“Ouch!” I complained, “Too hot.”300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYXAMjnlSJX
“That is how it is served, and how it should be taken.” He went on to sit quite300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxSTRmu4F03
comfortably on an old dusty chair across that table. He drank his share in one swift300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmckSf8nXqf
gulp, and then he burped as he lit some sort of stick which he then placed in his300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZgz4g78cXa
mouth. He seemed to be sucking on it and every time he did, the timid fire at the end300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh5eRYJmwnq
of it grew for a moment, before fading again. Curiosity was pouring from his eyes and300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf7N5dlils1
lips now, just as that liquid had poured from that metal pot.300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvuyWOJ9vAp
“That was the beginning.” I cut off any further insistence...300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM6HQJAWxgG
“The rest is all in here, huh?” He tried to sound uncaring, but I could see right300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFQEgzgZGFT
through him.300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUEBtv1fWXY
“You are meant to read it.” I decided to indulge in the insisting game as well, and as300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJOzRUTdzxO
I stood up, I fondly gazed at that notebook.300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3AFMEoEUmD
“Right.” He grabbed hold of it and placed it upon his lap, “According to you, that ol’300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ80SAr1vNR1
fool wanted me to...” And then he opened it...300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVYUMByph4F
I slowly began making my way to the next room, for there was something that300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhlKBAa76bj
easily caught my eye the moment I set foot into his place. “In there you will learn how300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxEVqan1zuN
I made it to where you found me... waiting for you.”300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNlJ0DnbFJQ
This large box of clean glass filled to the brim with bubbling water, and in it, there300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMWyexQDtE4
were these weird samples of life swimming back and forth. Restlessly.300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwtaZti2EFI
They reminded me of all those that I had met; in the way in which they could see300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1KlX16uHsX
the world in its entirety, but always constricted by the invisible walls, we all have300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ev5m9Oifw
around ourselves. They also reminded me... of myself.300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzuKGpSvIW8
“You know, at my age, this may take a while.” He flipped the first page with his left300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxDtVickjAL
hand while his right went for a bigger pair of glasses. “Quite a while in fact.”300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEZvYOdrKvX
“You must go through all of it,” I remarked, “and understand.”300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbDPVRH1z3N
“Wish I had something better than tea to palliate the process though.”300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVwSBKRkpWx
He murmured.300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLslGRLBNFJ
“I will be in the next room,” I spoke softly.300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbypszvXllK
“Oh, you like aquariums, do you?”300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7RE83FjKJY
“Aquariums...” I murmured...300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz2a50hzh6m
“We can talk all about it later; but for now, I think you should grab some rest.”300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnuXlSP1fax
He did not even look at me, his eyes were already too busy scurrying through those300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡltL4BDaWcd
first pages.300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDEd8cAn6z1
“There is quite a comfortable couch in there as well. Why don’t you give it a try?300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzZSibrRLBF
Don’t worry, I will call for you when I am done with this.”300Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmctu0TZbGK
“I just might.”
And with that, I left him to it..
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-end of prologue
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