{Why'd you have to be so clueless?.

20061219

12/19/2006 11:19:00 PM

Today, i shall start keeping a log for my novel... [Existence]
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Chapter 1 -- Foolishness

"That's a sunset? Gosh, it's beautiful... but somehow... it makes me feel sad..."

And there he was, an eleven-year-old thinking aloud to himself as he saw at the top of the gorge, for the first time in his life, a sunset that was so magnificiently painted into the horizon with streaks of orange, yellow and purple.

He didn't have a name. All he knew with the intelligence of an eleven-year-old was that he was called "that heretic child" in the village that was set in between a deep gorge... This village had long shut its doors from the world of trade and commerce, somewhat like a tribal society which refused to accept the customs and cultures of the outside world. It has a rather small population, however, the settlement appears to be rather nucleated...

The residents were mainly of a race that is not known to this world. Most of them had a rather pale skin colour whereas there were also exceptions where some had tanned exteriors due to the long working hours under that blazing hot sun. Another feature that made the residents so special was that they had violet lenses for their pupils (eyes). Strange, aren't they?

"There he is... that heretic child's been walking along this street everyday," one of the stall keepers whispered to his customer, "many of us despise him. Somehow, he seems to emanate an aura which dispels the good karma around the stalls set up here... So..."

The customer shook her head, not in disbelief, but it had long became a habit, for that same stall keeper had been telling her the same thing everyday at the same time of the day. All that customer wanted was to grab her goods (which would only arrive at that specific timing of the day) from that stall and leave as she had also believed that the child was abnormal...

"If only i knew what was wrong with me... If only i were able to leave this village to seek out those whom i would really like to be with. If only i were of a suitable age such that my mom would allow me to go on a journey to seek out... umm.. what was that word... was it happiness? Now hold on... what IS happiness in the first place?"

-- End of Chapter 1 (Part I) --

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Guess it was a little boring there... oh well, your choice if you'd want to read on for the next episode.