Excerpt Four

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In the days time forgot, betwixt the Hands of God, Light founded the capitol city of our world. It was given the name The Breastplate of the West, The Enraptured Meadows, The Defense of Righteousness. He reigned over the Capitol as King and had a great pillar constructed which reached for the sky in a semicircle. He called this pillar The Foundation, and informed us it represented the bonds of humanity.

I always suspected he kept its true function obscured from us.

When Honor spurned his face from us through the slithering anthems of Darkness, Freedom was the first to confront his turning away. That was the original sin.

When Light discovered Honor's betrayal and Freedom's attack on his brother, he was incensed and cursed the two to war for a thousand years in the Capitol they so loved.

On that first day, I felt the call to Darkness.

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