PROLOGUE
Down low in the mountains, a young family had just finished hiking along a mountain trail to their favorite picnic location.
A chunky little kid, around the age of 6, was stuffing his face full of sweets that his mom had packed for him.
"Are those sweets tasty?," a beautiful brunette haired woman said as she reached forward to grab the kid's cheek.
"Yes, mom," the little boy said with a mouth full of candy.
"You have such cute chubby cheeks...My little Fatty," the woman said in a loving voice.
"Leave the kid's checks along.....you'll give him a complex," a gruff sounding voice could be heard from next to the woman.
"Son, you need to speak up if something is bothering you," the tall sturdy man stated, "Gosh..Sweetheart...Look at how red his cheeks are now."
The little boy looked up at his parents with dazzling eyes. To him, these two people were the most important part of his life. He loved them more than anything. Enjoying the moment, he flung himself back onto the blanket looking up into the sky....staring up high in the mountains.
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Up high in the mountains, a boulder the size of a small car sat as it had for centuries on the side of a cliff.
As had occurred trillions of times before.....A gust of wind blew against the boulder....a grain of sand shifted at the base of the boulder...and a drop of melting snow fell from an overhang onto the boulder...
...but unlike the trillions of times before.....this time the boulder began to slightly move from its resting place.
The move started over very slow and minute....fractions of fractions of an inch at a time. With each little movement, the momentum of the boulder began to build.....and the movement increased exponentially.
The boulder crept its way to the edge of its resting place and continued to move.
After a slight pause at the edge, the boulder plummeted in a free fall from the ledge it had sat on for countless years.....it fell fast and silently.....to come to rest down low in the mountains.
