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He approached the table, and after having planted all the preparations, he began112Please respect copyright.PENANAsTfl4Mcfsj
pouring some orangey looking liquid into each of those mugs.112Please respect copyright.PENANAHRq1B6CmTI
“There you go.” He said as he finished pouring, “This will do you good.”112Please respect copyright.PENANACnfhdWgdYt
“Thank you.”112Please respect copyright.PENANA8YzYzFuXu7
“You must drink all of it.” He told me as he grabbed hold of one of those mugs.112Please respect copyright.PENANAggizmwe8IX
“Ouch!” I complained, “Too hot.”112Please respect copyright.PENANAfOQYMlcukE
“That is how it is served, and how it should be taken.” He went on to sit quite112Please respect copyright.PENANA2vAvRNDzui
comfortably on an old dusty chair across that table. He drank his share in one swift112Please respect copyright.PENANA05Gu71FQsO
gulp, and then he burped as he lit some sort of stick which he then placed in his112Please respect copyright.PENANAPBm0g6lrlz
mouth. He seemed to be sucking on it and every time he did, the timid fire at the end112Please respect copyright.PENANA102XCaeF8U
of it grew for a moment, before fading again. Curiosity was pouring from his eyes and112Please respect copyright.PENANA36AIginEnL
lips now, just as that liquid had poured from that metal pot.112Please respect copyright.PENANAMkty6wp7kh
“That was the beginning.” I cut off any further insistence...112Please respect copyright.PENANApxF3xzOzZF
“The rest is all in here, huh?” He tried to sound uncaring, but I could see right112Please respect copyright.PENANAyKGVGEZpi3
through him.112Please respect copyright.PENANAR6vpfiWfpJ
“You are meant to read it.” I decided to indulge in the insisting game as well, and as112Please respect copyright.PENANAriGF8rpuKY
I stood up, I fondly gazed at that notebook.112Please respect copyright.PENANAKyMqxwfkt9
“Right.” He grabbed hold of it and placed it upon his lap, “According to you, that ol’112Please respect copyright.PENANA8lifQPvNC3
fool wanted me to...” And then he opened it...112Please respect copyright.PENANAmiaFoGLbgK
I slowly began making my way to the next room, for there was something that112Please respect copyright.PENANAG9BKdnRW0G
easily caught my eye the moment I set foot into his place. “In there you will learn how112Please respect copyright.PENANAXCaGUbMsGH
I made it to where you found me... waiting for you.”112Please respect copyright.PENANApVOZHX9qZE
This large box of clean glass filled to the brim with bubbling water, and in it, there112Please respect copyright.PENANAiKrQHMSrNJ
were these weird samples of life swimming back and forth. Restlessly.112Please respect copyright.PENANAotPiLHY5dd
They reminded me of all those that I had met; in the way in which they could see112Please respect copyright.PENANAm1qhOLtiWK
the world in its entirety, but always constricted by the invisible walls, we all have112Please respect copyright.PENANAk137V9fdsr
around ourselves. They also reminded me... of myself.112Please respect copyright.PENANADuNPYvRD7A
“You know, at my age, this may take a while.” He flipped the first page with his left112Please respect copyright.PENANA2q5zyAqO5d
hand while his right went for a bigger pair of glasses. “Quite a while in fact.”112Please respect copyright.PENANAUoKvDhngy4
“You must go through all of it,” I remarked, “and understand.”112Please respect copyright.PENANAPQeBdfI8k8
“Wish I had something better than tea to palliate the process though.”112Please respect copyright.PENANAijBLRFzgQq
He murmured.112Please respect copyright.PENANAAw2CZpAm8P
“I will be in the next room,” I spoke softly.112Please respect copyright.PENANAjLRIdcafrI
“Oh, you like aquariums, do you?”112Please respect copyright.PENANANvK9Pdswsh
“Aquariums...” I murmured...112Please respect copyright.PENANAWIkqgaoMC5
“We can talk all about it later; but for now, I think you should grab some rest.”112Please respect copyright.PENANAJVfoE7efZF
He did not even look at me, his eyes were already too busy scurrying through those112Please respect copyright.PENANAWhWfiYcYqo
first pages.112Please respect copyright.PENANAIUSPdOYx7r
“There is quite a comfortable couch in there as well. Why don’t you give it a try?112Please respect copyright.PENANAMevoI5aMiV
Don’t worry, I will call for you when I am done with this.”112Please respect copyright.PENANADRnELfDE6y
“I just might.”
And with that, I left him to it..
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-end of prologue
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