HISSTORY
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HISSTORY
Stories all must start somewhere, so this one starts right here or maybe just before or right after. Where it will end not even the author knows sometimes. Some authors follow a well-designed plan with everything laid out in exquisite logical order, others just follow a path or a road, and no matter how much it zigzags or winds, goes uphill or down, it always must take you somewhere or back to where you came from. So if you follow it, you will end up wherever it takes us both, to a somewhere, because this author is not the kind who can ever lay out everything in advance like crooked cobblestones on a seemingly perfectly straight road. One should add, though, that tales could often come to a crossroads with a significant choice of three paths to take. At those crossroads a raven usually caws and speaks. He might tell you, in whatever language you speak, that one road may lead to great riches, another to happiness and love, and the third possibly to death. But, of course, heroes sometimes never know the true meaning of the raven’s riddle. Riches can lead to ruin, happiness and love can end up in boredom, and the path of death can lead to a great quest, a spiritual awakening, and untold rewards. Or, then again, it might be none or a combination of the above…. I’m not sure what the raven would caw here if he would speak in his hoarse gravely raven voice, since there is no raven to riddle us with the meanings of the choices about to be made.
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