
He approached the table, and after having planted all the preparations, he began262Please respect copyright.PENANAqlfpBkOSy1
pouring some orangey looking liquid into each of those mugs.262Please respect copyright.PENANAaf2sgGSv8R
“There you go.” He said as he finished pouring, “This will do you good.”262Please respect copyright.PENANAz0O9POqUOM
“Thank you.”262Please respect copyright.PENANA5CwrJaPstT
“You must drink all of it.” He told me as he grabbed hold of one of those mugs.262Please respect copyright.PENANA3VMO7jE8ee
“Ouch!” I complained, “Too hot.”262Please respect copyright.PENANAlaY16HzFz5
“That is how it is served, and how it should be taken.” He went on to sit quite262Please respect copyright.PENANAPBoW0Nyj7F
comfortably on an old dusty chair across that table. He drank his share in one swift262Please respect copyright.PENANAVPk5essNc8
gulp, and then he burped as he lit some sort of stick which he then placed in his262Please respect copyright.PENANAY16Zk20sOF
mouth. He seemed to be sucking on it and every time he did, the timid fire at the end262Please respect copyright.PENANAbeujfvcl7a
of it grew for a moment, before fading again. Curiosity was pouring from his eyes and262Please respect copyright.PENANAj7PKZbsjlE
lips now, just as that liquid had poured from that metal pot.262Please respect copyright.PENANAYmQehMLMRK
“That was the beginning.” I cut off any further insistence...262Please respect copyright.PENANAycUzzGjzcJ
“The rest is all in here, huh?” He tried to sound uncaring, but I could see right262Please respect copyright.PENANAjzdprzjgrr
through him.262Please respect copyright.PENANA2VtUL3rGYk
“You are meant to read it.” I decided to indulge in the insisting game as well, and as262Please respect copyright.PENANASwnnqcrcpl
I stood up, I fondly gazed at that notebook.262Please respect copyright.PENANAt32xZoCbV3
“Right.” He grabbed hold of it and placed it upon his lap, “According to you, that ol’262Please respect copyright.PENANAkQrJpwoAYr
fool wanted me to...” And then he opened it...262Please respect copyright.PENANAiZ3gGhRq5G
I slowly began making my way to the next room, for there was something that262Please respect copyright.PENANAV9p1xfARAW
easily caught my eye the moment I set foot into his place. “In there you will learn how262Please respect copyright.PENANAcmodF1cAde
I made it to where you found me... waiting for you.”262Please respect copyright.PENANACSqZMoxfmN
This large box of clean glass filled to the brim with bubbling water, and in it, there262Please respect copyright.PENANAFER0D8xjpS
were these weird samples of life swimming back and forth. Restlessly.262Please respect copyright.PENANAPKEDgFcabG
They reminded me of all those that I had met; in the way in which they could see262Please respect copyright.PENANAEnU8SzKTmC
the world in its entirety, but always constricted by the invisible walls, we all have262Please respect copyright.PENANAZKe76huxXx
around ourselves. They also reminded me... of myself.262Please respect copyright.PENANAqygFebPns3
“You know, at my age, this may take a while.” He flipped the first page with his left262Please respect copyright.PENANALgbTIkqhHv
hand while his right went for a bigger pair of glasses. “Quite a while in fact.”262Please respect copyright.PENANA8a7uXPAgkU
“You must go through all of it,” I remarked, “and understand.”262Please respect copyright.PENANAtvdzoOTIn6
“Wish I had something better than tea to palliate the process though.”262Please respect copyright.PENANANk3RY5mr0T
He murmured.262Please respect copyright.PENANACUU5wXakWA
“I will be in the next room,” I spoke softly.262Please respect copyright.PENANA4vhzu2G02T
“Oh, you like aquariums, do you?”262Please respect copyright.PENANAKQIMvmG3PL
“Aquariums...” I murmured...262Please respect copyright.PENANAQcsCO3aq0y
“We can talk all about it later; but for now, I think you should grab some rest.”262Please respect copyright.PENANAIpEAlEwY8u
He did not even look at me, his eyes were already too busy scurrying through those262Please respect copyright.PENANA5KDt0KhKBC
first pages.262Please respect copyright.PENANAkGe33C0juS
“There is quite a comfortable couch in there as well. Why don’t you give it a try?262Please respect copyright.PENANAjAc77XJX5I
Don’t worry, I will call for you when I am done with this.”262Please respect copyright.PENANAr9vYUVfmlZ
“I just might.”
And with that, I left him to it..
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-end of prologue
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