Embers and Ashes
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There is evil inside all of us. Just as there is good inside all of us. Whether we were born evil or good we all have the qualities to balance our choices of light and dark. I have made decisions that were and are a mixture of good and evil. Even the choices that were made for me were filled with both.
Love. War. It's the same in the end. Let me tell you my story of how love tore me to pieces. How I constantly picked myself up, building myself from the ashes of my own consequences of love through time itself.
I don't remember how many times I have been coming back. The numbers don't matter anymore. Just the memories that I have created through my experiences. Not friends or how many people I have or have not meet, because we all leave in the end and whether we meet up again is unknown or up to fate. I stopped believing in that long ago, but sometimes certain situations are unexplainable. Leaving one to only think that it is fate.
Prelude
War, is the beginning of the end and an end to the beginning. Kingdoms once untied now devoured by flames and turned to ash. The very flames that search, seeking only what it desires. When finally, the flames find what it has searched for all its life. The one entity it desires and hungers for, to keep the flame going. However, in a war many pawns and pieces are to be considered.
When the flames of war reached Ecclaissia's father's kingdom, her life is set on another path once more.
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