Prince Shae & Olivia

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“In the beginning, if such a time could be said to exist, we were naught but the dreams of men and women. Though we existed long before them, we were not truly alive until we knew them. They wanted what we had, and we wanted what they had. We stole their kin, and they murdered ours. Great wars, times I never wish to remember, let alone speak of, raged and carried on. Whether it was all in our dreams, or reality, that is the question I yet ask. What came to us, to them, came from there. Something wicked, to be certain. Was it us, or them?

“I do not think, to this day, anyone knows, girl.”
-Matthew Siadak, Arkadia

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