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Tiny snowflakes floated in the frozen air, before gently landing on the tiled roofs or the unusually green yards of the suburban street where Alfred and Nicole had materialised.
A tone of surprise was apparent in Alfred's voice, yet another, stronger feeling, peered through the cracking of his speech. He didn't want to do this alone. He... He was afraid.
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Moving his whole body, something that proved more difficult than he would have thought, he managed to raise his head high enough to sneak a peek outside the car's window. Some police vehicles were scattered here and there around them, while dozens of other cars were parked on their side of the boulevard. Their windows were shattered. Right in front of them, policemen were talking to people, taking statements and scribbling notes on their small notepads....
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He felt a gentle breeze caressing his face, just as the petrichor reached him. Yet he managed to see nothing. Everything around them was covered in a thick layer of snow. The only thing disrupting the white colour's monarchy were some scattered clumps of dry weeds, dancing in the cold air. The lake's waters were utterly still, appearing black in the total darkness, a perfect mirror of the cloudy sky
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They were climbing the spiral staircase that would lead them back to the Hall of the Five Thrones, as fast as their feet would carry them. With every step Alfred took, the burning in his lungs seemed to worsen. He felt as if his spleen was becoming increasingly heavy. At this rate, the guardians would soon catch him.
The last time Alfred had looked, Vigor was only a few steps behind him, but that was a while ago. It wasn't that easy checking if his...
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Everything around him fell silent as he abandoned the city's main boulevard and turned into a curved street that would lead him directly to his destination. Soon, the only sound reaching his ears was the soft mechanical buzzing of his car.
He could see nothing moving around him. Even the festively decorated shop windows had now surrendered to dull darkness. Their colourful lights were off, the displayed toy trains had stopped clickety clicking, and...
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It all began with the prophecy. And while little is known about its origins, one thing is for sure: It spoke of everything that was to follow.
A thousand questions arose, all of them doomed to remain unanswered. Who was behind the Prophecy's resurfacing? Was it indeed the same message, that warning the Mayas had destroyed before their civilisation got mysteriously annihilated? And the most pressing one: Why now? Why had the Prophecy reappeared now?...
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Daybreak was still a few hours away yet everyone was already awake. None of them had been able to sleep. Not after Elroy returned, announcing he had failed to stop the girl because of some unknown ally of hers that showed up, forcing him to leave before he could finish his job. Not since the Emperor revealed to all of them what he had up to this moment confided only to some. That the girl had the Chosen One in her hands. And that, any moment now,...
8) Time of Dawn
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And yet, even though he found himself once again unable to see, he could still listen what was happening around him. The crisp noises of the surgical instruments, the doctors' breaths, the cardiac monitor beeping. Counting his heartbeats.
Suddenly a continuous beep noise reached his ears. Piercing deep into his brain. He knew what it meant. He was flatlining. His heart had stopped beating. Yet Mike still held on to his consciousness.
Two nurses rolled...
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He couldn't tell where he was, but there were more pressing matters to attend to at the moment.
The last particles of his brain had just rematerialized where he now laid, forcing him to an abrupt awakening. He was extremely dizzy while sharp pains harassed his whole body. It felt as if hundreds of burning needles were poking him. As good a hypothesis as any about what was actually happening to him. Because he still couldn't see. His eyes hadn't materialised...
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Alfred found himself surrounded by asphyxiating darkness so thick as if having acquired material existence. He could see absolutely nothing. He felt wide awake, but it was all an illusion. Moving further and further away. As if waiting for something to stop its journey. He waited. Yet nothing seemed to happen.
A voice shattered the veil of silence around him.
A sun that rose long before any of Earth's known civilisations and hidden from all of them....
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