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Chapter 6
PART 2
The inception.
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back to or from which to look ahead.
~Graham Greene
CHAPTER SIX
Let's go back to where it all started. To the time when sunshine and laughter was the order of the day, to the time when they knew any better. To the beginning.
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The wooden window clanged against it's frame as the wind howled and raged outside.
"Hurry up Beeta, we're going to be late!" Aelfric shouted, grunting his frustration.
"But Itzel isn't feeling too well, I have to stay and look after her until ma gets back." Beeta was Aelfric's five years old younger sister. Aelfric and Beeta lived with their mother Aurelia in a little village called Winton which was north of Wivern's Rest citadel.
"Well in that case, I have no other option but to leave you and go. The festival has long started and I wager they are w
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