1 Prologue

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Nelson Marleen's well-chiseled face was on the cover of three live streaming magazines. Never one to rest on his achievements, Nelson had set his sights on mastering an addictive Augmented Reality (AR) game called Thoology.

He barely missed walking into a tree as his fingers pecked away at the console . Whatever it took to capturing elusive creatures, bag ammo and energy points. He'd been at it for as long as six straight hours.

The city's warm weather drew people out of their homes. People were out in droves traipsing the streets looking for creatures.

After spending over three hours streaming it was time to recharge, both physically and technically. Just when Nelson was about to his end live stream, a rare creature appeared inside a bush.

He gasped. Within seconds, he crept inside the bush and snagged the creature.

Movement near the bush caught his attention. On the other side of the bush, a homeless man was looking around.

The homeless man's bones were showing under thin skin. The man's face was scrunched up as if he couldn't make up his mind. He looked like he decided on something and pulled out a stick, tapped the ground and a plate of sandwiches appeared out of nowhere.

Nelson rubbed his eyes . Was he mad or did he just not see the plate of sandwiches?

It was like magic.

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He asked his live stream if they saw what he saw, and to his astonishment, they saw the same thing.

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Unfortunately for Nelson, the homeless man heard him on his third sandwich. How was it possible that the plate refilled itself? The man looked horrified that he was seen. He tapped the plate with his stick again and the plate stopped refilling itself.

The man got up and ran to the bushes. Nelson startled that the man was running at him got up quickly and fell, the man reached Nelson and grabbed him by the legs and pulled Nelson to an even more deserted area. Nelson didn't even think to scream. When they were in the shadow of a big oak tree the man spoke to Nelson.

"What were you doing hiding in the bushes, eh?" There was fury in the man's face.

"I was catching-" Nelson began.

"So, you thought to catch the notorious River Jaydon by yourself," River whispered furiously.

"No, sir, I-, " Nelson tried to say.

"Oh, you want to be polite now that you are caught. I don't think so," the River continued to whisper to Nelson.

Wailing sirens could be heard in the distance.

"If you let me go, I won't tell the police where you were," Nelson replied, hoping to settle this peacefully.

"The what?" River looked confused.

"Police, cops." Nelson looked confused as well. What was River running from, if not the police?

"Now you're making up words," River looked annoyed, and angry.

Nelson thought of an idea so crazy, River might just let him go because he will think he went mad.

"I won't tell the wizards about you," Nelson knew how stupid he sounded.

River went from red to white in under a second.

"Y-y-your not a tempty," River said uncertainty.

Nelson looked confused.

"What is a tempty?" Nelson asked.

River flinched.

"And you said police are coming," River asked.

"I just said that so we could end this peacefully." Nelson said.

River didn't look like he believed him. The sirens were getting louder.

"So you're trying to catch a pure one? Well, your luck has run out." River was getting angry again.

River pulled out his stick and pointed it at Nelson. A flash of light appeared from the tip and Nelson crumpled to the ground. River ran to get the plate of sandwiches, which he had left on the ground, then continued running. The police came a few minutes later and found Nelson unconscious on the ground. When he came to, he didn't remember that night, but his live stream did.

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