The Farmer

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I sat on my bed, sleepless, my thoughts racing from just a few hours ago. The planks telling stories of my life. 'How can that be real?' I thought to myself, it seemed crazy but I trust it. I looked at the soft glow from the yellow stone and gold necklace going against the moonlight. I put it on, it snapped together and I looked at where it was clipped, but it looked like it was forged onto my neck. In a panic, I tried to get it off, but it was stuck. 'Okay maybe grandma Chein is right' I said to myself as I went over to look at the rusted metal sink filled with water, My honey colored eyes shined with exhilaration and power. I felt the blessed stone puls threw my body. I knew what I had to do, I ran outside and had Sun cloud's little feet pitter patter behind me. I sat next to the river edge and stared at myself for a long time, a long, long time. Soon the sun rose, I turned my face towards it I felt a tingling in my body, my 10-year-old self not knowing what's going on I run into the house again, my skin fair and lighter than usual I look in the sink again, I look like that One card, Those eyes, The sun queen.

I ran to Chein, I showed her what happened and she took me outside into a Zen garden "Mae, it is now time to ready yourself to become the greatest this nation has ever seen, and rise above your status as "The farmer".

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