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the ashes It's like the beginning and the end of everything The gray dust
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particles hurtling through the silence were traces of what once existed that have now turned into
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nothingness V on his knees collapsed on the ground His eyes were fixed on the
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smoke-covered sky He was still holding a handful of ashes in his hands the warmth of which could be felt He couldn't
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remember when he left it Perhaps he had never quite kept it but there he was anyway
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She's all alone right in the middle of the burning house Her destroyed childhood and her burned out past
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"Father," she said in a whisper her voice lost in the hum of the wind At
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that moment no sound could fill the burning void that V had penetrated before his eyes Every second of that
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night when the flames danced was being revived Home Their home That warm bed
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that his mother wrapped around him his father's laughter his brother's toys all
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disappeared in that one night The flames had engulfed not only the roof but also
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Ved's hopes dreams and identity Even years later when he
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thought about that night the smell of burning meat that he heard burned his throat The crackling of flames rang in
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his ears It was as if he was still there at that moment Even though he wanted to run away he was too small to run away
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There was a scream coming from inside but he couldn't get it out of his throat He was swallowing The pain was getting
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deeper with every swallow Ved A voice crying out tore him from his thoughts
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When he turned around he picked out Zakir's silhouette decked out between his blurred gaze drenched in rain
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covered in dirt She was running towards him panting "What are you doing here?" he said with concern mixed with anger V
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bowed his head did not answer He just hugged the ashes in his hand a little tighter Zakir knelt down landed at his
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eye level "You know you shouldn't have come here This place this place doesn't
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exist anymore You know that," V gulped "But this place was my everything," she
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said "I I don't belong anywhere but here." Zakir stopped for a moment his
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eyes filled but he tried not to show it You belong to me You're still alive And
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as long as the past doesn't kill you everything that belongs to you is waiting for you in the future Ved shook
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his head But my past still burns me Your past may be your hell but you must not
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forget Everything that is born from the ashes is its strongest form Zakir said
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putting his hand on V's shoulder You too will rise from the ashes V Only
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you will decide what will happen V closed his eyes Those words had set
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something in motion inside him Maybe it was hope Maybe it was anger Maybe it was
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just a survival instinct But no matter what happened that moment was a breaking point Zakir slowly lifted V Together the
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two of them took one last look at that place where only petrified walls remained from the fire It thundered The
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rain was washing everything away with drops that pierced the ground The ashes were mixing into the mud The traces of
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the past were being erased with water V started walking His steps were slow but
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steady The burden he was carrying on his back was heavy But somewhere deep in his heart There was something that had
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become ember instead of burning And that ember instead of burning inside had
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begun to light his way It was going to be a long road and it's dark But V knew what he was fighting now Although V
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grabbed Zakir's hand and stood up his soul was still on his knees He was walking in a past with his eyes closed
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With every step the memories were riding even heavier on his back The ground
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under his feet was familiar but foreign In the past children's laughter used to
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echo here And now there are only moans carried by the wind Zir do you think they suffered v asked
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after an unexpected silence Zakir stopped It was obvious that he didn't
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want to answer but there was a helpless child waiting for that answer in V's eyes "I don't know," he said quietly
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"But you are alive and living can sometimes be a heavier burden than
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pain." V bent his head forward The tears that had been accumulating under her
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eyelids were resisting so that they could no longer overflow her mother Her voice was still in her
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ear Every morning he opens the window How's the weather today my v he would
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say It was as if the sky was a game board for him As if every cloud told a fairy tale His father hard-looking but
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soft-hearted He would say "Stand like a man." But then he would hold on tight
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Her little sister Meera her hands are constantly between toys Her eyes are chasing dreams deck
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V stopped for a moment He reached into his left pocket with his fingertips In
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his pocket was a small burnt wooden figure that he had been carrying for years A small figure of a horse that
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Meera gave him on his birthday It was handmade Its wood was soft but now it was blackened like coal He held her
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tight "I promised him I was always going to protect her," he said horarssely
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Zakir fixed his eyes on the ashen toy in Ved's hand Sometimes we can't protect but it is in
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our hands to keep it alive Mirror lives in you now in your eyes in your steps V
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looked up The sky was still gray but in the distance a light was decently filtering through the clouds Maybe it
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really wasn't all over Maybe there was still a spark left in everything that had been burned to ashes It was
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inevitable to relive that night again That night it was a pitch black night
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without stars V was 12 years old then His father had gone to a meeting outside the
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village Her mother had lit the stove Meera had fallen asleep under the duvet
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Everything was as it should be He was safe It was hot Was happy until that
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smell came It's not burnt wood It was something different Metallic sharp It's
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like death His mother's panicked getting up running towards the stove followed by that The screams that echoed deep into
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the village at the dead of night were insufficient to describe the pain that penetrated Ved's heart While the blood
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on his hands was drying up his eyes were still locked on a Sears's lifeless body on the ground That foreign power
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coursing through his veins was creating a vortex that alternated between anger and regret Deck The ground had cracked that
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night not under V's feet but inside his soul He had become a man who was afraid of himself now He was strong enough to
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burn if he stretched out his hand but too broken to hold anything V decided to bury Assir's body
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before sunrise As he took her on his back and walked deep into the forest the
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moonlight filtering through the leaves he could not hide V-D's tears While digging the grave of his childhood
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friend each blow of the pickaxe opened a new crack in his heart He took one last
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look at a sear whom he quietly buried in the ground and said "Forgive me,"
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said Then he disappeared out of sight in the dark forest All that's left is the
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decrees hanging among the trees He did not return to the village For months he lived like a shadow in the forest He did
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not speak nor did he approach a human being Nature had become his home now but
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it was a house that did not give peace In his sleep he was talking to the Asier's ghost While awake he was
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fighting the monster inside himself As each morning dawned instead of the hope brought by a new day he felt
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that the burden left over from the night had become a little heavier Ved's eyes
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were no longer hiding from people but from himself One day deep in the forest
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he discovered a structure he had never seen before A temple built with stones half ruined abandoned for many years
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There were inscriptions on it in an ancient language As he read the inscriptions he got goosebumps He who
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burns with fire is reborn with ashes but every birth calls for an ancient death
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That sentence was like a chilling explanation to what he had been through V thought that this structure was a
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gateway for cursed souls like himself Perhaps this temple was a dark turning point that would chart the direction of
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his fate Inside the temple he found a mysterious book on a stone altar Its
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pages were almost invisible from the dust But the moment he touched it the book opened as if it had been waiting
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for him for years The symbols in it although they seemed meaningless at first echoed strangely in V's mind
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Each page told where the power he carried inside him came from how it could be used and how it could be
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reigned in But at the end of the book there was this sentence Whoever wants to control power
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he must first risk destroying himself V stayed inside that temple for days He
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engraved in his mind what he learned from the book He educated himself He tried to tame his soul But more than
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anything he tried to learn to suppress the anger inside him However every time
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he closed his eyes he heard a seir's screams When he opened his hands he still saw blood He smelled the burning
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village at night This curse was growing with him shaping every moment of him One
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night when he was outside the temple he heard a whisper that broke the silence of the forest A shadow was watching him
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in the darkness When the steps that followed became clear a man in a gray cloak appeared opposite The man's face
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was half masked In a cold tone of voice he said "I've been looking for you." V
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said "We have heard of your power and you're not alone anymore." V was startled by these words
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"Who was this man how did he know his power or was this just the beginning?"
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As he tried to get out of the darkness he realized at that moment that he was being pulled into a larger shadow And
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the only thought that passed through him was this Every salvation was pregnant with another captivity The presence of
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the masked man was like an echo piercing the stifling silence of the forest With his words the wind changed direction It
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was as if the frost of the night had suddenly stopped V was frozen Who was
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this man why was he looking for him how had he found out about his power the
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masked man his name is Saurin approached with slow steps and fixed his eyes on
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Ved's eyes saying "There are those like you Don't think you're alone We are the
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children of the forgotten," he said As V tried to grasp the meaning behind these words a strange feeling came over him
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Both hope and deep doubt Saurin took V even deeper into the forest into a valley where people did
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not set foot Here was a decrepit camp set up among giant trees that almost
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completely covered the sky There were dozens of people around quietly meditating practicing marshall
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techniques or playing with magic V was seeing people like himself for the first time In the eyes of each of them there
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was a different past but a common pain Saurin said that many of those here are
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people who have been excluded from society have been left without a family or have unintentionally taken someone's
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life Just like V This place was not a refuge for them but a
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beginning As the days passed V began to become a part of this group Every day he
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was training on mind control energy orientation inner balance At night he
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was trying to hear his inner voice by walking alone in the forest But no matter how hard he worked the fire
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inside him wouldn't go out One night he saw Assir in a dream He was walking with
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his back turned V then ran shouted begged for forgiveness But Assir only
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turned his head and said these words "You cannot forgive me without forgiving
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yourself." This dream shook Ved deeply At the center of his inner battle was a
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still unforgiven child himself Saurin was watching Veds changed closely
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One night he took her to a private area This area was the entrance to a tunnel
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extending underground surrounded by an ancient circle Only those who are ready
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to face their darkest side enter here Saurin said "You cannot understand the
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light without facing your darkness." V agreed to go into that tunnel without blinking an eye The moment he stepped
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inside he felt an energy that pierced through his body There were whispers coming from the walls echoes of the past
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ghosts of regrets echo of betrayal and pain Deep in the tunnel he stood on the
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shore of a lake When he looked at the water he saw a sear in his reflection Not himself Then her father her mother
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her childhood the burning village V got down on her knees I didn't want these
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things he exclaimed but a voice rising from the lake answered him Not wanting
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to erase the responsibility of having done it does not Face yourself Either
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rule your darkness or become its prisoner V closed his eyes put his hands
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on his chest and remembered and accepted all his past pains fears one by one When
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the tears mingled with the lake the water became clear There was his own reflection on the surface now but this
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time it was different There was decision not fear in her eyes When he came to the
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surface Saurin was waiting for him V approaches him and says "Now I know who
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I am." "But I still don't know what I'm going to be," she said Saurin smiled for
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the first time with a sincere smile "Here we go now," he said That night the
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eyes of everyone gathered around the large fire burning in the middle of the camp were on V Saurin spoke out loudly
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Another brother has joined us tonight Deck But he's not just a brother He is
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the seed of the new order that will rise from the ashes of the old world V He
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looked up and looked at the stars There were still pains in it But now it also had a direction a purpose And at that
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moment she realized this was not only a journey but also a transformation
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To be born from the ashes was not just to survive It was to be reformed But no
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rebirth would take place without pain Therefore V no longer accepted pain as
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an enemy but as a companion V was no longer just someone wandering through the wreckage of his past Now he had a
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power that he had learned to control Day by day his inner peace was deepening He
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was starting to feel better not only about himself but also about the nature around him He could read the breath of
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the trees the memory of the earth the memories carried by the wind Under the guidance of Saurin he is learning to
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project his spiritual power into the material world When he raised his hands in the air the energy particles around
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him were dancing with him But one night a news came that changed everything Of
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the forward scouts of the camp described that a town far from the valley was attacked The attackers used magic and a
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child among the people said that he saw a demon with flaming eyes Deor Saurin
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froze on this detail This was what he had been waiting for dreading for years
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V he said this is your test You need to go out there and find out what we're up
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against V closed his eyes listened to his instincts The feeling that was
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writhing inside him like a stomach ache was warning him this was not just a task
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This was his destiny When he arrived in the town everything was in ruins The
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whispers that echoed among the decayed houses mingling with the tobacco of the burning wood aggravated the darkness of
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the night A child's cry rose out of the silence V ran in the direction from which the sound came A little girl child
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was trapped under the rubble V stretched out his hands but before he could save the girl a silhouette appeared through
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the shadow He was tall dressed like armor His face was completely covered with a black mask His eyes were
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literally a blaze V couldn't move for a moment The being in front of him was not just a magician but something completely
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different like a flesh and blood version of a spiritual curse "Were you expecting
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me V?" said the being His voice was thick and creepy at the same time V
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immediately rescued the girl hid her behind a tree and returned to the presence "Who are you?" he shouted The
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masked man lifted his mask slightly and V's eyes froze The face he saw was an
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older darker more hateful version of his own face "I I am you," the man said "I was born
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through you I am the sum of your anger that you deny your desire for revenge
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that you suppress the screams that you silence." V was knocked down where he was He could
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not avert his eyes nor could he deny this cursed reality The man took a step
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closer No matter how much light you walk into your shadow will always be behind you But the more you reject me the
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bigger I will get V clenched his fists You may be a part of me but I'm not you
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he said Then that familiar warmth that enveloped his entire body rose The waves
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of energy radiating from his hands shone as if tearing through the darkness The masked man stepped back for a moment but
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his eyes were still mocking The battle between them was not only physical but also spiritual Decki with every move V
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was confronting the emotions he had suppressed inside himself Fighting the fears of his childhood with every blow
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Finally the being in front of him staggered for a moment V raised his hands and created a sphere of energy at
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the level of his heart saying "This is not the end of you but it will be the
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beginning of me." And he threw the energy forward With the sound of the explosion the dark man was thrown back
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and disappeared into the fog of the forest in an instant V got down on his knees His breath was taken away His
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heart was shattered He had just fought with the dark reflection of himself The
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girlchild came to him slowly hugged him with tears Ved understood at that moment
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he could use the force not only to destroy but also to protect Perhaps his confrontation with
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his past was not over but he was no longer his prisoner When he returned from town Saurin greeted him in silence
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"I know you're facing your shadow," he said And this is just the beginning
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because the real darkness comes from the outside after the inside There is another truth waiting for you now Not
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only your past will test you in this world but also your future V closed his
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eyes and took a deep breath There was now a path that he was walking not only for himself but also for others And that
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path was moving at the intersection of darkness and light V didn't speak for days Its silence was as sharp as the
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wind of the mountains as deep as the darkness of the nights The only thing that echoed in his mind after the
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encounter in the town were the words of that masked man I am you This sentence was engraved
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in his mind like an oath No one could look into him but every night when V closed his eyes he met those eyes
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writhing in his own darkness Saurin respected this silence of V because some
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wars were fought alone But this loneliness would not last long One
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morning there was a commotion at the entrance to the valley Saurin and other elders with ancient scrolls in their
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hands called V Do you recognize these icons they said
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when V looked at the paper his heart clenched The icons were on the necklace
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that her mother carried around her neck as a child Circular symbols two opposite snakes entwined in the middle That
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necklace was the only trace left of her mother's past And now traces of this symbol had reappeared in an abandoned
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temple in the remote mountains of the north V set off at once He didn't want to be alone anymore He took Elna the
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young healer from the camp with him Elna with her quiet and deep gaze was the
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only person V found peace with They did not speak during the long journey but
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more than words their silence was enough to understand each other Days later they arrived at the foot of the mountain
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where the temple was located This place was like a remnant of another world The
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stones of the temple were carved with the teeth of time and the stairs leading inward descended into an endless
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darkness When V came in the atmosphere changed The air was heavy The stone
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walls still whispered as if The writing on the walls had the same rhythm as the lullabies that her mother used to hum
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when she was a child This couldn't be a coincidence As the light crystal in Elna's hand illuminated the paintings on
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the walls V held his breath In one picture a woman could be seen carrying a
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baby on her lap The woman's eyes were just like V's He understood at that
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moment this place belonged to his mother's past And maybe his mother was
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part of this cult In the deepest room of the temple there was a large altar An
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ancient epitap stood on the altar Elna's eyes grew big as she studied the
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inscription V I have your name here he said When V looked at the inscription he
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read the following sentence written in the ancient language Vedin the son of fire will be born to ashes Although he
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carries the inheritance of darkness his destiny will be to make the light flourish V backed off This inscription
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was engraved centuries before his birth How was this possible elna put her hands on V's
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shoulder Your existence is not a coincidence Someone chose you or someone
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prepared you But now we are not only after the past but also the destiny he
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said At that moment the temple trembled The ground was shaking Black smoke was
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starting to come out from the walls V reflexively took her behind to protect Elna The fumes merged and a silhouette
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was formed This time it was not the masked man This was an older existence
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His eyes were blind but he could see spirits Vin he said your presence upsets
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the balance of the two worlds You have to make a choice Either you give up your powers and become ordinary or your fate
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will swallow you up V squinted his eyes I'm not going to make a choice I will
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make my own way he said The energy released from his hands shattered the ancient seals that protected the
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altar The light inside the temple flared up in an instant The silhouette
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disappeared but V knew now This was just the beginning Confronting his past had
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brought him to the brink of a real war His presence in this world was the key
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not only to a healing but to a great balance And while one end of this balance was light the other end was
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still surrounded by darkness Elna took Ved's hand "No matter
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what happens you will not walk this path alone," he said V shook his head "But
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this path can lead us both inside and to the gate of hell." Elna closed her eyes
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and whispered "Sometimes it is necessary to pass through the gate of hell in
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order to see the light of heaven It was night but this was no ordinary night It
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was as if the sky had forgotten to breathe The stars were hidden from fear
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A gray haze was hovering over the valley and the wind was humming as if mourning the old times." V knew that after
25:15
returning from the temple nothing would be the same anymore The inscription on the inscription said that the past was
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just the beginning The real war was starting now And this battle was to be
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fought not only with the creatures outside but also with the darkness echoing within itself Saurin was
25:32
preparing the camp The scouts had seen a dark army spreading out from the mountains in the north The ashes falling
25:40
from the sky were a harbinger of the approaching storm Before V disappeared into the depths of Elna's eyes he turned
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to her and quietly said "You've seen me in every way If I don't survive today my
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story won't be the only one left to you What remains to you will be a new light that will be born from me," he said
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Elna's eyes filled "Your light is already burning inside me," he
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whispered Everyone fell silent that night Only heartbeats sounds of digging
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trenches and prayers could be heard When V broke the sealed stone in his hand the energy he had been hiding inside since
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childhood was released The light rising from his body made the land around him tremble He was no longer just a fighter
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He was the bearer of the ancient fire It had turned out that V was a protector
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descended from his mother But this power was given at a price Every time it was
26:38
used it lost a little more of the humanity inside With the dawn came
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darkness The sky opened up like a red curtain and the army of darkness came
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out with the masked man The soldiers without faces were made up of dead souls They had all been human beings in their
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time but they had succumbed to the darkness V looked at the masked man at
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the head of them This time he saw that she was not wearing her mask either And he was startled once more because the
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one standing in front of him was his own image Do you recognize me now said the
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man I am what you are afraid to be It's me the anger you feel for your mother
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who left you I am the curse that rose from you when you buried your father in that forest I am the part of you that
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you cry every night but fall silent in the morning I am your shadow Ved V made
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fists of his trembling hands No you may be just a reflection of me but I didn't
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choose you The man laughed But I chose you Because when you were born we were
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written together on that ancient altar Your light gave birth to my darkness The
27:48
great war has begun The earth cracked The sky caught fire While V controlled his power he also brought the wounds
27:55
from his past to the surface with each blow Every time he knocked down a soulless soldier he was also suppressing
28:02
a fear inside himself But the masked man he was
28:07
different To fight him was to destroy oneself When V finally came face to face
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with her time stopped "I can't destroy you," he said "Because if I destroy you
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I will also be lost." The masked man approached Then accept me because the
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light shines only when it recognizes the darkness And at that moment V closed his
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eyes Elna's voice echoed in his mind Sometimes you can't see heaven without
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going through hell V opened his arms He focused all his strength on the love the
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pain the regret that was going through him Instead of fighting he accepted He
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became one with the darkness but he did not surrender to it The light coming out of his body in flames split the sky and
28:53
enveloped the masked man and an explosion A dazzling silent
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explosion The masked man smiled "Finally we are complete together," he
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said and turned to ashes "The war is over but it was not a victory This was a
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rebirth." V knelt down in the middle of the camp When Elna ran to him tears were
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coming out of V's eyes "There is silence in me now," he said For the first time
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there is peace in me The day dawned and on that day two sons shone in the sky
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One was real and the other was a memory that rose from inside the v Saurin
29:35
gathered the people and said loudly "Today the son of fire was born from the ashes Today fate has recognized its own
29:45
printer." V's story didn't end there that day but on that day an era closed
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And in the ashes a new hope sprouted [Music]