<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"><style></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I got all 4 parts! Looking good so far! More comments later when I have the time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Chris<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The Lurking Fox<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> mkguild-bounces@lists.integral.org [mailto:mkguild-bounces@lists.integral.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jack Moore<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, November 30, 2014 10:39 AM<br><b>To:</b> mkguild@lists.integral.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [Mkguild] Birth I<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>AN: I was told to resubmit this last night because it didn't go through the first time. Because I do not have italics here, thoughts appear inside single mark quotations.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Birth<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>To My Friend in the North<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>My mind is bent to tell of bodies changed into new forms. May Eli bless this venture.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>All of my thoughts will appear in italics, as by the request of your last letter. And <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>yes I will give my reflections on the events from how I see them now. I was planning on <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>doing so anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Some set up is required. There's not much to say about what brought me to that <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>valley, beyond my Father was meeting with someone. When your father is a perpetual <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>opportunist and probably short sighted, you regularly end up dragged across the land. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Sometimes going off on one of these excursions is not short sighted, but imbecilic. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>But I digress; let's focus on the day in question.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>707-March 2nd<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>In Isenport if you go down to the docks you will smell the tide as it rolls in and <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>see the ships as they unload their wears and sailors. If you go up the road, you will find <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>yourself among the stews and the gambling houses. From there you may find the <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>markets, the bear gardens, the inns and the town houses.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Far above it all are the manors. The grandest of them is the manor of Lord Leontes of Isenport, House of Dorothea, representative of Emperor Prætextatus Aegidius, loyal to the Sathmore Empire—as long as people are watching. It's a wonderful city, where the Imperial Navy and merchants coalesce and where there is a brothel for every man.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Stories of this place you also will not be hearing. Instead I ask you turn your mind to the Midlands, near the Great Barrier Range and a small train of people traveling towards Metamor Keep.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>I was wet that morning. Shaking too, though from the thought of what was <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>coming. The area of Midlands we marched through was hazy with mist hanging in the air.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"Stop shaking." My father said to me.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"I can't help it." I said. "I'm on a horse, I hate being on horses. I want to be <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>walking."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"Walking is slow. Think of the impression you give. You must look dignified."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"I don't care if I look dignified." <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"Is it just the horse that bothers you?" I shook my head.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"It's many things." The horse in question was a magnificent white stallion named <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Holofernes, a creature who I had grown to despise. Oh he was a wonderful animal; I just <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>loathe riding on horses and always have. "I have plenty of dignity…"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"You must command respect to be a modern man." My father said. "What we <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>are doing is securing my legacy, you will be that legacy."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"Yes sir."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>My father was Lord Leontes of Isenport, servant of the Sathmore Empire. We <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>didn't actually have to say we are servants of the Empire, my father believed it to be a <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>good idea. When you aren't loyal, constantly tell people you are.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>If there was only one thing in life my father could have, it was to be a modern <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>man. Okay no, if he could have one thing it would be the title of Emperor, but second to <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>that it was to be a modern man.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>A modern man placed more emphasis on personal goals instead of loyalty to your <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Emperor. A modern man had secret meetings with people from other countries. Modern <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>men dragged their sons across the continent without telling them who they were meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>As a future tip, if you're going to meet with people in secret, you should send a <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>representative. My father, though, said he had to go himself; why was beyond me. We <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>weren't even going in secret, we still had a small retainer of people with us and my <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>wardrobe betrayed me as the son of nobility.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"I need to project an air of power." My father said. "Whelps from the Sathmore <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Empire will not be able to negotiate. I want them to see me as strong."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"I guess it's good to be out of Isenport." I mumbled. No it wasn't good, it was <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>wonderful. Or it would have been, had my father not been there as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"James what do you think of the changing landscape?" My grip on Holofernes' <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>reigns tightened.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"What do you mean?"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"I mean…James tell me what you think of where we are going, what do you know <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>of it?" <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"It's cursed." I said.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"I believe it's more than that."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"I don't want to be near a cursed valley! It's called cursed for a reason!" I <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>swallowed. "You know everything, what's it like? Metamor Keep and the cursed <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>place?" My father ignored my disrespect and thought about it.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>With every great event in your life, there are two things you remember. The first <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>is what you hear before the event. Moments like this are so insignificant until you look at <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>them in hindsight. Then you realize, this was the first time I heard about Metamor Keep<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"It's a land of freaks and monsters" My father said.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"You've been there?"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"You don't need to be there to know they're all monsters." He said. "Everyone <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>knows it's true. They're not human anymore."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"Why don't they remove the curse?"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"Obviously not smart enough to do it. But they're still of note. In fact, I believe <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>there may be something for us to learn from the savages and freaks."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"If we step foot in there will we be cursed too?" I asked.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"Don't you care about what we can learn?"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"I care about not being cursed!" I said. My father rolled his eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"You again disappoint me James. You should concern yourself with learning <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>how to be a modern man." I resisted the urge to wince.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>'I don't want to be a modern man.' I didn't vocalize those thoughts. I rode in <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>silence, enjoying being free of Isenport and holding desperately to the horse.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Evening fell and we camped in a clearing in the shadow of the Great Barrier <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Range. Then again, as large as those mountains are many things are in their shadow. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Living in a coastal city, I rarely saw the mountains so anytime I got the chance I <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>appreciated it. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>However I was having trouble appreciating them right now. It's hard to do so <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>when someone is pointing a blade at your face.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"And now you're dead." Nemo said. The silver blade of Qual gleamed against its <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>ebony handle.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"I wasn't ready." My dirty blond hair was streaked with dirt and my eyes stung <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>with sweat.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"Which is why I killed you. You wanted to try fighting with a glaive in close <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>quarters, I agreed. I never said I'd wait for you to be ready." Nemo looked almost bored. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>His green eyes were half shut, like fighting an opponent wasn't worth his attention.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"What's the point of learning if you just kill me?" I asked.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"You might learn not to die." Nemo helped me back up to my feet. My glaive <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>lay in my puddle. "You shouldn't use your weapon like this."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"You told me it could be done."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"It can be for someone with experience. I have that, you don't. You will die." I <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>pointed mine at him. Nemo sighed and we began again.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>While my physical form was…generous in proportion, Nemo had a military build. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>He was tall, solidly muscular with short black hair and gray temples. Unlike others he <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>was always clean shaven.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>When Nemo moved he seemed to glide. I thrust only to pierce the air. He would <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>appear and send my glaive flying. I cursed and we began again.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>I've never been good with swords. Or axes. Or arrows. Or really any weapon, <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>they tend to fly out of my hands. Naturally father was upset by this; a good Lord knows <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>how to wield a sword. Even if you never lead anyone into combat, it's important that you <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>look competent.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>And a modern man cares very much how he looks with a weapon.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>The only way I was going to wield a sword was if the sword was grafted onto my <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>arm. Axes were even worse and my last attempt to fire an arrow ended with it in my <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>foot. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Best not to dwell on how.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>The only weapons I was not dreadful with were spears and polearms; hence why I was instructed by Nemo, my man and glaive fighter. His weapon of choice was a glaive called Qual, a beautiful thing. The shaft as solid ebony black and the blade a gleaming silver. Beyond that, there was something about this weapon, something that drew your attention and held it. Nemo claimed it was a runic weapon; I had yet to get a good look.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>The only time I did was when it was pointed at my face.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"You need to stop attacking the hands and start attacking the legs." Nemo said. "You also need to remember if your enemy comes at you with a shield, get away."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"Why? What's the worst thing that could happen?"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"You'd be killed. That's bad." Nemo said. I rolled my eyes. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>My man started his career as a mercenary but my father took him into his full <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>employ pretty quickly. Nemo demanded though that if he worked for us, he be allowed <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>to speak his mind without fear. My father agreed.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>That was a bad idea.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>The next match ended the same way, my weapon knocked away and my rear in <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>the mud. I mumbled all the profanities I could think of as Nemo helped me to my feet.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"That's enough for today." Nemo said.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"I would have beaten you."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"No. These matches are monuments to your ineptitude." 'Ass.' We started back to <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>the main campsite. Around knights and soldiers I felt nervous, a problem I had with <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>being in Isenport. Not a problem around my man, though. "Why are you nervous?"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"I'm not nervous. Making deals with people is an important skill for Lords or <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>other nobles."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"If you say so." Nemo said. "I've been in Metamor Keep. When I visited the <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>people were more uniform." He smiled. "It's quite nice.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"I've heard the people are monsters."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"Absolute drivel. Those people are not monsters, no matter their appearance." <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>That was all he said. Nemo was a man of few words and always big words.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"Whatever." I mumbled. "Have you been there since they were cursed?" Nemo <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>smiled.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"No. Wished too. Just never…been occupied." <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"Your entire life?"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"As you grow older you find plenty of things to keep you occupied." Nemo said. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"Come on, let's acquire sustenance."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417361186090_9290"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>