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Submitted to Contest #251
It had to be mine, for I had to know the truth. I had journeyed for months before I received even a humble hint of the tome’s existence. The sun scorched me as if it held a grudge against me, the wind whipped my face like a scourge, and all streams of water fled from me. I should have understood and listened to these signs, these obvious rebukes of nature, yet in my quest to find the truth, I could not keep my legs from marching onward with a foolish determination.I had first travelled through the desert in search of the oasis, for it was th...
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