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by Cle6on
They called me insane. They found MONSTER was fitting. It was the wrong word. I was their salvation. I am their GOD! I gave them a thousand years. A kingdom, orderly and fed, where no child in the High City or Mid Town ever went without. I let the Lower Barrows keep their rebellion.... because even that, I designed. A little chaos, carefully bounded, so the rest could believe they were free. Last time they chose a sky full of fire. They called it salvation. I call it the price of admission. This boy though...... I don't know yet what he is. Neither does he. But I have felt something in the pattern that was not there before. A relic in the wrong hands. A question asked too many times. A boy who thinks he's the one who's supposed to find out what I'm hiding. He is not wrong to wonder. He is only wrong about how much time he has to find out.
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