“Let me tell you the truth, if you were to choose between a bill and a coin, you would always choose the bill, isn’t that correct? Because most things mean better, if we do not feel how heavy they actually are.” CHAPTER XXV: Shimmers of the Portal; The Dawn of a New Journey THE MARKET WAS unbelievably wide and enormous. From the entrance, to its walls, to the roofs of it that had seemed to block my view above— it was majestic. It was immaculate. It did not look like the usual stinky market I used to be working in before. It looked like a Greek temple, with a lot of sharp edges and details. It had columns even! I tell you, it certainly did not look like a market. It looked more like a place where you bring offerings and worship gods and goddesses for hours, wishing for good fortune. Read more
XXVI: Glitters of the Portal
“For magic is what I was made of. And I was the one who fostered the existence of it.” CHAPTER XXVI: Glitters of the Portal; The Guards Are In Pursuit of Us WE HAD NO much time left to ponder. “I could hear the yelling of soldiers from here,” I informed them. “I think they already know where we are.” “Of course they do,” answered the prince. “They have probably asked the people on the way. Or tracked us simply by this body’s details.” I stared at the lively background from the window. The sun was lighting up the scene so well. People
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XXVII: A Tree House at the East
“I do not settle for the wrong or the rightful. I do what favors you beg me to do. But know that there are limitations to powers, and that the practice of it is not as easy as you thought, nor is it bound to be a subject of impertinence.” CHAPTER XXVII: A Tree House at the East; Something Is Cooking I GOT UP the ground, startled. I tried to feel my body, my belongings, my intellect. It was all there, with me. I looked around and paid an overlooking sight of the surroundings. I was in the midst of a forest again! I spotted Houlio Merto and the prince a few feet away from me. They were laying down on the ground too, their bags scattered beside them. I got up and kne
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XXVIII: The Witch of the East; A Different Energy
“There was no written prophecy, for people were too knowledgeable to believe that. But there sure was fate that altered all the wonders of all minds’ logic.” CHAPTER XXVIII: The Witch of the East; A Different Energy THAT GLOOMY AFTERNOON was one hell of a journey we had been on. We just came here a few minutes ago and now there was trouble. Immediately! How unfortunate could we be? “Do we check what is up there?” I asked, feeling a bit skeptical with my steps. “Are you scared now, squirt?” Houlio Merto replied. “How could I not be?” I hissed in a
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