Even
My name is Even my full name is Even Theo Phillips , I lived in Backdrop Village south of where I was headed. My home town was very peaceful and I enjoyed growing up there and planed to live out my life relaxing and reading,but just last year a book I got in the mail changed everything for me.
I had just turned 22 I lived up on a hill about a mile or so from the village,this way I wouldn't be bothered while reading and if anyone needed me it was just a quick ride into town by horse. No more then two days had pass sense my birthday and I was reading one of the novels I had gotten from my mother when there had been a knock at my door. It was about lunch time so there shouldn't have been to many travelers on the road at this time. As I went to the door I asked who was there but got no replay so I went back to my study. No sooner had I sat down did the knock come again,this time however when I went to the door I pulled it open and peered around. Once again I herd no one or saw anything,I was about to go back inside when the tip of my foot taped a small brown package laying on my door step. I picked it up,it had no return address and I never got mail,all the people I knew lived in the village and would just walk to the house rather then send me something. I looked around for the mail carriage,but it too was missing. The package was tie up with some old rope and the only thing written on it was forever,being a man of mystery it would be a crime to just throw it away without looking at it more closely first. I closed and locked the door be hide me and when back to my study.
Who ever sent me this didn't seem to trust mailing stuff sense they took all the time to bring it to me. I pulled out my small jade knife and easy cut the small rope off and unwrapped the package. To my great surprise inside was a book,it was clearly very old,but in fairly good condition, the binding was cracked and the cover a bit bent on the edges,but that was it. My what a treat I thought it was, I collected books from so many different places and times,I loved noting more then finding out the truth about the mastery's of the world. I opened the book and sunk into my chair. It was completely in some unknown language that even I had never seen before. Strange letters covered each page , and the only clues to the meaning where crude pictures and markings on the page. I tosses the book to the side and scavenge my bookshelf for any clues in what it meant. Even at the age of 22 I had become fluent in five different languages. This book however became quite a challenge none of my books came even slightly close to decoding its meaning. I worked day in and day out trying to find out the meaning,the illustrations kept me interested and I found myself just looking at the pictures. They where clearly pictures of some sort of ruins in the mountains,angels of some sort flying in the air,one picture that i remember most of all was the one on the very last to pages. It took up both pages and was of a angelic girl and boy together holding each other,there where flowers of all kinds growing around them and the edge of the flowers had some kind of gold lining in the book. It was such a peaceful picture,it had been five days sense I had gotten the book and I hadn't gotten any closer to solving its meaning,if i had to go on by the pictures it would appear to be noting more then just a child's story book. The writing was so complex though it just couldn't be. After five days of almost completely sleepless nights I sat the book down and when to bed. Thats when the book truly took on a life of its own.
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