In The Grand Library, there are no ordinary days for the librarians. Where most visitors found fascinating books, few of them found secret untold, but then Dryad found another life.
To the horrifying day where he had to witnessed his hometown raided by soldiers of Duke Iphigenia’s army.
How everything had fallen apart so spectacularly when the city of the most northern part of Northundra hadn’t even been attacked at all. But that day, the world turned upside down.
Alexey Vasilliev had never felt so helpless. His father, Wolfram, died instantly right before his eyes. Hundreds of people couldn’t escape the massacre of the soldiers of Duke Iphigenia. That was the moment when his world ended forever.
But by pretending to be dead among the corpses, he and his mother crawled to safety from there. They managed to escape. However, the shock and trauma affected his mother greatly. She went into deep depression that led to misscarriage. And after that she was sent to the asylum, leaving Alexey barely surviving on his own.
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Alexey stood there, watching his-9-years old-self, live a miserable life. His heart clenched at the sight,
"That's... that's me?" the adult-Alexey asked, unable to believe what he saw. "Is this my past?" Alexey asked himself as his past life flashed before his eyes.
In a blink of an eye, all the scenes shifted to other memories.
* * *
It was another years..., when his uncle, Sergey, finally found him in a refugee camp. Sergey was a commander in the fleet. But right before Alexey was about to be taken away, then here came someone. A young man, a very distant relative, who also found him. It was Alvard. He came from a land far away. It was not clear how Alvard learned about Alexey's situation. But he seemed to know a lot.
The scenario shifted again.
* * *
Now 12-years old-Alexey found himself in the middle of the court. Sitting in one corner. Confused and scared.
Alvard went against Sergey, trying to win custody over Alexey.
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