Symptoms
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Everyone knows, knows of or is someone who has a sickness, and illness, a disadvantage- whatever you may call it ; be it small or large in the public eye. Though science explains it, or tries to anyway, will we ever really know what the causes are?
Well, you have the power to know by reading. I have the power to share this power through my storytelling.
To put it simply, ailments physical and mental can be the symptoms of the usage of magic or the signs of magic emerging. Things just got immensely more complicated, didn't it? It did. But don't fret, things are also getting much more interesting. I'll explain everything. Though it may be a bit bias, considering I WAS one of the few who got to witness -and experience- this occurrence firsthand.
I am Eilaze Underwood Ikeda. When you have a first and last name as strange as Eilaze and Ikeda, I guess the only appropriate middle name you can have next is something related to a tree. My name is not the only unusual thing about me. Would you like to know my story?
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