THE MASTER ABE GERRYSTOCK

"And of the Great Wars, not much shall we say for most of what we know is heresay passed down by the lips of ancestors to us. For in their day, the only pen they needed was a ready and reliable tongue, the only pictures they saw were those drawn in the depths of their imagination. They had none of this paper and pen. They were unconcerned about today's worry of posterity"

[A compendium of Il-Eleyhan Historical texts]

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Coraa spent the rest of her morning finishing up the rest of her reading assignments. She was so engrossed in the material that she had hardly noticed when the lunch hour arrived at half past midday. She would have had to go without sustenance for the rest of the day if she hadn't caught shadowy movements in her peripheral vision. She had been taking down notes on what she was deriving from the book labeled "The Compendium of Il-Eleyhan historical texts".