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Submitted to Contest #18
For Paragon, life as a professional thief was more than repayment for his debts. He truly enjoyed the thrill of the art itself. He loved that alluring call of danger attached to every heist, the bubbling sense of uneasiness in his stomach as he wondered if this was the time he would finally be caught; meticulously spending long hours laboring over his plans, sometimes over months, all on a thief's hope that his careful planning would lead him to the treasure he desired.No matter how high the risk was with every job, nothing could ever compar...
Submitted to Contest #16
He had everything. Which is to say he truly had nothing. No empathy. No gratitude. No self awareness or perspective, save his own echo chamber of desire. That's the problem with unearned wisdom, it makes you ignore the real world consequences from one's myopic, self-righteous actions. For him however, his eyes were finally opened to the truth of his life time of easy living and apathy, coupled with bad decisions; in the end he knew his mistakes had cost him and others, quite a toll, leading him to his end... Or shall we e...
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