
He approached the table, and after having planted all the preparations, he began345Please respect copyright.PENANAbqNZXQbreC
pouring some orangey looking liquid into each of those mugs.345Please respect copyright.PENANAtD43Mf2ZV0
“There you go.” He said as he finished pouring, “This will do you good.”345Please respect copyright.PENANAFJZkYxKHde
“Thank you.”345Please respect copyright.PENANA2rmkHcQZhj
“You must drink all of it.” He told me as he grabbed hold of one of those mugs.345Please respect copyright.PENANATLgWxzElI5
“Ouch!” I complained, “Too hot.”345Please respect copyright.PENANAXA5il800j1
“That is how it is served, and how it should be taken.” He went on to sit quite345Please respect copyright.PENANAt0lxese6fF
comfortably on an old dusty chair across that table. He drank his share in one swift345Please respect copyright.PENANA86r90KxLXX
gulp, and then he burped as he lit some sort of stick which he then placed in his345Please respect copyright.PENANARpQXHcrZBz
mouth. He seemed to be sucking on it and every time he did, the timid fire at the end345Please respect copyright.PENANAnriEEIJdqy
of it grew for a moment, before fading again. Curiosity was pouring from his eyes and345Please respect copyright.PENANAK2ITM7MM3G
lips now, just as that liquid had poured from that metal pot.345Please respect copyright.PENANAAqcDyEWj8X
“That was the beginning.” I cut off any further insistence...345Please respect copyright.PENANAMduq25JhX5
“The rest is all in here, huh?” He tried to sound uncaring, but I could see right345Please respect copyright.PENANAeqWlHNl6kF
through him.345Please respect copyright.PENANAOp8U6Q5X1n
“You are meant to read it.” I decided to indulge in the insisting game as well, and as345Please respect copyright.PENANARoz7MrKuag
I stood up, I fondly gazed at that notebook.345Please respect copyright.PENANAszvuFlJKOD
“Right.” He grabbed hold of it and placed it upon his lap, “According to you, that ol’345Please respect copyright.PENANAqhtYFlIm9d
fool wanted me to...” And then he opened it...345Please respect copyright.PENANAwcgVw0wXWt
I slowly began making my way to the next room, for there was something that345Please respect copyright.PENANAKyZgixwOf8
easily caught my eye the moment I set foot into his place. “In there you will learn how345Please respect copyright.PENANADCyMH2gL8D
I made it to where you found me... waiting for you.”345Please respect copyright.PENANAqnnl6siMxH
This large box of clean glass filled to the brim with bubbling water, and in it, there345Please respect copyright.PENANASQjHUorEJu
were these weird samples of life swimming back and forth. Restlessly.345Please respect copyright.PENANABQh3U2AG54
They reminded me of all those that I had met; in the way in which they could see345Please respect copyright.PENANArubnqihtFy
the world in its entirety, but always constricted by the invisible walls, we all have345Please respect copyright.PENANAwNcAdDG9vq
around ourselves. They also reminded me... of myself.345Please respect copyright.PENANAfa46H37IjY
“You know, at my age, this may take a while.” He flipped the first page with his left345Please respect copyright.PENANAXlqj2Lw6ze
hand while his right went for a bigger pair of glasses. “Quite a while in fact.”345Please respect copyright.PENANA3deG2Pp4Gs
“You must go through all of it,” I remarked, “and understand.”345Please respect copyright.PENANAnCNj9D0AYT
“Wish I had something better than tea to palliate the process though.”345Please respect copyright.PENANAFNITHMtzPZ
He murmured.345Please respect copyright.PENANAgB0duUpVtG
“I will be in the next room,” I spoke softly.345Please respect copyright.PENANAAxLf7dedqi
“Oh, you like aquariums, do you?”345Please respect copyright.PENANAD59jCAQrwk
“Aquariums...” I murmured...345Please respect copyright.PENANAGetl7qyQEi
“We can talk all about it later; but for now, I think you should grab some rest.”345Please respect copyright.PENANAvvG2VUbxw6
He did not even look at me, his eyes were already too busy scurrying through those345Please respect copyright.PENANAQTE9wpCkoc
first pages.345Please respect copyright.PENANAF1y2lE38jw
“There is quite a comfortable couch in there as well. Why don’t you give it a try?345Please respect copyright.PENANAJfVVMaQ4FV
Don’t worry, I will call for you when I am done with this.”345Please respect copyright.PENANA3PbL1bm4t9
“I just might.”
And with that, I left him to it..
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-end of prologue
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