✨️Three Blessings. One Curse. THE WOMAN AND THE FLAME ; 💥 Section 1. Part 1. Genre: Sci-Fi · Fantasy · Queer · Romance · Superheroes · Legacy CW: 💫 A mother seeks truth for her silent child. Fate answers in flame, prophecy, and ancient memory, something vast has returned, and the world will feel
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THE WOMAN AND THE FLAME
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The wind tore through Kensington market like a warning, sharp, urgent, full of dust and memory.
The buildings leaned over the narrow streets like old priests whispering secrets, their brick faces casting shadows that moved even when the wind stilled.
Some alleys never saw full light.
The sun, it seemed, avoided them.
She pulled her coat tighter, the infant bundled to her chest barely stirring.
The child didn’t cry.
He rarely did. He watched.
Even now, eyes too knowing, too old, tracking the lights that blinked in the fog.
A small, handwritten sign above the door read:
“Palm • Tarot • Truth”
The last word was nearly scratched out, but she saw it anyway.
The bell above the door tinkled as she stepped inside, high, brittle, like laughter from something too thin to be human.
The shop smelled like ash, jasmine, and old parchment. Candles burned low in every corner, wax spilled like blood from altars.
A woman waited behind a table. Her skin was dry and dark like cracked stone; her eyes glinted, pale and unreadable.
“You brought him,” the reader said, not looking at the baby.
The mother sat. Carefully. Her hands never left the child.
“I need to know… will he be alright?”
She whispered.
The reader didn’t answer at first.
She adjusted the candles, now more focused, hands steady, movements deliberate.
The baby slept against his mother’s chest, one fist curled around her necklace.
The room felt dense, like something had pressed in close to listen.
She took the woman's palms first, tracing the lines slowly.
Her brow furrowed.
"This isn't linear," she muttered.
"You... or him, bends time."
Unsatisfied, she reached for a leather pouch and spilled runes across the table.
Stone and bone.
They clicked and skittered.
Some fell upright. Some didn't fall at all.
The reader leaned forward, eyes narrowing.
"There's resistance,"
"The truth hides itself."
She retrieved a bowl of water. Whispered into it.
Lit incense.
Pulled a thread of her own hair and dropped it in.
A flicker. A shimmer.
Images rose and faded too fast to name.
"A gate," she murmured.
"A wound... and a key."
Silence.
She tried again. Scrying. Candle reading. Pendulum work.
Each time, only flashes.
A crown of feathers. A blade in sand.
A black sun.
Then... nothing.
She sat back, breathing harder now.
"Whatever it is... it doesn't want to be seen."
The reader reached for her cards faded, soft-edged from years of use, and shuffled them once, then again, slower.
Each card drawn was placed with reverence across the worn cloth on the table.
She said nothing as the faces emerged.
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The Star
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Her eyes lingered. “Hope… divine favor, even if unseen. Someone, or something, watches over him.
"Something old.”
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The Tower
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She flinched slightly.
“Something will fall. Something that holds him. A structure. A lie. It will collapse, and he will be changed by it.”
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The Child
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The reader tilted her head.
“New beginnings. Innocence that hides great weight. He is not a clean slate. He is a vessel already carrying echoes.”
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Death
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Not fear. Transformation.
“This is not an ending. This is him shedding what the world tries to put on him.
A rebirth.
But it will not be gentle.”
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The Lovers
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Her breath caught. The candle flickered.
“This is not romance. This is a mirror. Someone will awaken him, completely. A bond that splits him open. He will not become himself without them.”
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The World
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And finally:
“He is a cycle closed, and a new one opening. He is more than a person, he is a turning point. For others. For what came before.”
She didn’t look up.
Not yet.
Kai’s mother spoke, voice raw and low.
“But will he be alright?”
The reader finally lifted her gaze.
The lines on her face seemed deeper now. Her voice was soft, but steady.
“He’s watched. But he’ll be tested.
You can’t protect him from what’s inside him.
But you can make sure he doesn’t fear it.
Raise him in truth.
Let him question.
Let him feel.
The bond, when it comes, will open him.
And what’s inside will terrify others.
He’ll need to choose whether to be their monster… or their light.”
She folded the cards in silence.
Kai’s mother held her son tighter.
The candle beside her had gone out.
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THE GOSPEL OF ANUKET-RA
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Before the pyramids.
Before the wheel.
Before the mouth knew the word
“God”…
There were the Architects.
They did not come in ships. They were the ships, vessels of thought.
Of flame.
Of flesh so Black it shimmered blue in the presence of starlight.
They drifted through the silence between suns.
Not searching, summoned. Not by language.
But by feeling.
There was a tremor in the Field.
A tear in the chorus of vibration.
A cry, not of a species, But of potential.
A planet, young, spiraling, was aching to remember something it had never been taught.
And so they came.
Not to colonize.
To compose.
They arrived not with conquest, but with memory.
Their bodies: shaped by darkness, designed to conduct light.
Their eyes: ancient lenses that could see the curve of time.
Their semen: stardust encrypted with code.
They walked barefoot on molten soil, listening to the hum of tectonic plates.
They kissed stone until it sang.
They slept in the oceans to learn its tides. They bled into the earth,
And the soil drank it like scripture.
When they gathered at the rivers’ edge, They spoke not in words but in harmonic tones, each syllable shaped from breath, sound, desire, and purpose.
And their leader, Anuket-Ra.
She of the Nile’s First Pulse. She stood tallest among them.
Skin like obsidian in moonlight.
A voice that could bend trees and calm volcanoes.
Her body: both mother and map. Her womb:
The Gate of the Archive.
She whispered to the river, and the river rose.
“This world will forget,” she told them.
“The Flame will come.
The Lie will spread.”
But still, they stayed. Because they fell in love with Earth.
With the way wind sang through trees. With the rhythm of sex under stars. With the smell of wet soil and first rainfall.
They knew they would be betrayed.
They knew their bodies would be erased. They knew their names would be stolen and turned to myth.
But they came anyway.
Because Earth deserved to remember herself.
And so they buried the Archive in us.
In our bones. In our blood.
In our melanin. In our orgasms.
In our tears.
In our songs.
And when the time came, We would wake up, And speak the Flame’s true name.
They built nothing the way we do now.
No hammers.
No rulers.
No blueprints on papyrus.
They built with resonance.
With tuning forks of bone. With sacred breath held for seventeen heartbeats. With wombs that pulsed in rhythm to the planet’s song.
Every structure they raised, temple, monument, obelisk, chamber, was sung into shape.
Not carved.
Not hauled.
Summoned.
They understood what modern science has only just begun to remember:
Matter is music slowed down.
Stone is memory in density. And if you hum the right note… it moves.
Each Architect was assigned a frequency.
Each frequency, a function.
Together, they were a symphonic organism, alive across dimensions.
One sang for the soil, his voice caused seeds to sprout.
One sang for the skies, her tones aligned the stars overhead.
One sang into the bones of mountains and taught them to breathe.
But only Anuket-Ra could sing the full chord of life.
Her voice contained all frequencies at once.
To hear her speak was to forget time. To hear her moan was to remember your origins.
She was not just a builder..She was the Archive itself, wrapped in skin, scented with rain, pulsing with memory.
Their greatest creation, the one you now call the Great Pyramid, was not a tomb.
It was a frequency chamber.
Designed to amplify thought. To echo dreams. To re-tune the body to Source.
It was built without slaves.
Without chains.
Built by lovers in ritual,
Their orgasms encoded into stone.
Each thrust.
Each cry.
Each release, an offering to the field.
They knew what was coming.
They knew the DEAD Flame, a distortion, a virus of control, was watching.
They knew Earth would be lost in the flood.
Erased to the ones who came after.
Its vibration lowered.
Its children dulled.
So they made a plan.
They encoded everything,
The technology.
The blueprints.
The instructions, into the body itself.
Into melanin.
Into breath.
Into semen.
Into the Black womb of creation.
They trusted that one day, far in the future,
Their descendants, confused, aching, lost, would hear the frequency again.
Would feel the pull.
Would remember.
And the builders would rise again.
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Let the veil lift.
Let the blood and bones remember.
The Archive rises.
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THE SOIL REMEMBERS HIS NAME
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THE TILTED WORLD
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Kai never asked for favors.
But they came anyway.
A seat offered on a full bus. A coffee paid for by the person ahead of him.
“Must’ve been a mistake,” they’d say, smiling too long.
Teachers who frowned at other late students only nodded when he slipped in last.
Strangers handing him umbrellas in sudden rain.
A clerk once gave him the last pair of Air Max 95s and said,
“Don’t know why, just feels right.”
It was like the world had… a slant.
Not steep, not obvious. Just a gentle, constant tilt in his direction.
He didn’t flaunt it.
Didn’t even mention it to friends. But it was there.
Always there.
And sometimes, when the wind caught his collar just right, or when a streetlight blinked overhead as he passed, he wondered if something else walked with him.
Like a frequency that only the old, the young, or the almost-forgotten could hear.
Once, in Kensington, a woman in a hijab selling dates reached across her table, pressed two into his palm and whispered,
“Welcome back.”
He was twelve.
She wouldn’t meet his eyes after that.
His mother never let the world decide who he was.
Her kitchen smelled of thyme, pimento, and something older, like roasted bone and sea salt.
She cooked with her hands, always barefoot.
Music on the radio, but she sang over it. In English sometimes, but often in something older. Patois laced with lullaby Yoruba.
Chanting while she stirred the pot.
She taught him that power lived in silence.
Before every meal, she’d whisper a blessing.
Over the rice.
The water.
Even the salt.
And Kai would copy her.
“Say thank you before the food. Say thank you before you ask.”
“Why?” he once asked.
“Because the soil hears us, baby. And the soil remembers who feeds it.”
On his eighth birthday, she woke him at dawn. Led him outside barefoot. The dew still clung to the grass.
She knelt and placed a bowl of salt water at his feet.
“Say your full name. Into the water.”
“Why?”
“So the Earth don’t forget.”
He obeyed.
Kai Kofi Pathsiekar.
The ripples whispered back.
He didn’t understand.
Not then.
And then, when he was fifteen, she was gone.
It happened like winter in April.
Fast. Wrong.
Sudden.
At first it was stomach aches. Then weight loss.
Then fatigue.
Then a biopsy. And then a word that turned the world sideways:
cancer.
Two months.
That’s all she got.
She asked to die at home. He sat beside her bed every night. Sometimes she’d murmur nonsense.
Sometimes just one word.
"Return."
She called him her miracle until the very end. But she never told him why.
After her last breath, the house fell into a silence so deep it felt intentional.
The kind that made clocks louder. Floors creak where no one stood. Air press into your lungs like memory.
He didn’t cry at first.
He just walked to the backyard.
Stood barefoot in the grass like she taught him.
And whispered his name.
Pathsiekar.
The wind didn’t answer. But the soil shivered.
His uncle arrived a week after the funeral. Didn’t knock. Just came in, took off his boots, and started making tea like he’d always lived there.
No one told him what to do. No one had to.
He wasn’t soft. He wasn’t warm.
But he was there.
His name was Elijah. Built like a tree that had survived a few storms.
Former city worker, the kind who didn’t talk about his past.
He wore pressed slacks, creased sweaters, and smelled like black soap and engine oil.
When Kai asked if he’d be staying long, Elijah just said:
“Long enough for you to stop needing me.”
He didn’t hug Kai. He didn’t offer advice. But he showed up to every parent meeting.
Walked Kai through how to file paperwork after the will was read.
Sat in the bank with him, quiet, present, eyes sharp.
When Kai got nervous, Elijah would nod once and say:
“You’re allowed to be here.”
He taught Kai the codes.
The looks.
The nods.
“You walk into these rooms like they belong to you. Because they do.
Your name is clean.
Keep it that way.
Don’t speak more than you have to. Don’t correct people when they get it wrong.
Let them think you’re quieter than you are.
They’ll talk themselves into comfort, and that’s when you move.”
Kai didn’t get it at first.
But he watched Elijah win rooms with stillness. Watched men talk around him, never realizing he was two steps ahead.
Watched him file claims, negotiate leases, charm gatekeepers without ever raising his voice.
Elijah never said the word strategy.
But that’s what it was.
A sacred form of survival.
And when he caught Kai reading books about court systems and real estate, he only smiled once.
“Good. They don’t expect us to understand the rules. So learn them until they belong to you.”
That was their rhythm.
Until the morning Kai found him slumped in the recliner.
Remote still in his lap.
TV still on.
One shoe off.
Gone.
Aneurysm, they said.
Fast.
Kai didn’t call anyone right away. He just sat down across from the chair.
Stared at the window.
Watched the dust float in the light....and cried. And the quiet came back. Not grief. Not even shock.
Just… silence.
But this silence felt different than the one after his mother died.
This silence felt like a door opening. And that night, the dream would return.
The same river. The same golden-eyed figure.
Only this time, the man stepped closer.
Touched Kai’s chest.
“You are not lost. You are returning.”
Kai woke up gasping.
The air smelled like cedar and smoke.
There was dirt under his fingernails. And the faint outline of something drawn in charcoal across his ribs, already fading.
A spiral.
A mark.
The first dream he remembered fully came a week after Elijah passed.
No voice.
Just water.
A black river winding through fog.
Thick as oil. Quiet as breath.
Kai stood barefoot at its edge. Couldn’t tell where the sky ended and the current began.
Then, A whisper.
Not a word.
A feeling inside a word. It sounded like his name, but older.
More… elemental.
He tried to speak. But when he opened his mouth, stars poured out.
He woke drenched in sweat. Sheets twisted around his legs like roots.
He swore he smelled ash in the air.
The next night, it happened again. Only this time, he was in the river.
Floating.
Eyes open, but the sky was beneath him.The stars blinked slow, like breath held too long.
Like lungs that never forgot how to drown.
A man stood on the bank.
Not a dream-man.
Not an angel.
Just a presence.
Gold eyes. Brown skin.
No age. No weight.
No fear.
He didn’t speak with lips. He entered Kai’s body like a memory returning.
“Your bones remember.”
Kai gasped.
The water swallowed it. The man stepped forward, pressed a palm to Kai’s chest.
“You were always coming back.”
And then he was gone.
Kai jolted awake, coughing.
There was mud on his floor. A single wet leaf on his pillow.
The window was closed.
He sat there for hours, fingers trembling.
Not from fear.
From something deeper.
A familiarity he couldn’t explain.
Like a name he hadn’t said in years… but had always known.
And from that night forward, things began to… change.
Not loudly.
Not all at once.
But steadily.
Like the world was adjusting itself around him.
Lights flickered when he was angry. Rain stopped when he stood too long beneath it.
He passed a patch of wilted tulips by the school fence touched one out of instinct, and the next day they bloomed out of season.
He didn’t tell anyone.
But his dreams kept deepening.
Some nights it was fire.
Whole cities burning under silver skies. People chanting in a language his body understood but his mouth couldn’t form.
Other nights it was flight.
Not wings, but will.
Like he didn’t need to rise. The world just shifted beneath him.
And always, always, the golden eyes.
Watching.
Waiting.
Smiling like they already knew what he would become.
He didn’t know it yet.
But the moment his mother named him, the Archive turned its gaze.
The soil and sea had already whispered him back into being.
And now, the ache in his chest wasn’t grief.
It was recognition.
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"THE BLOOD REMEMBERS. THE GROUND DOES NOT FORGET."
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He never used his full name in school.
Just Kai.
Short. Sharp. Easy to swallow.
The other part, Pathsiekar, stayed folded deep in forms, emergency contacts, legal docs sealed away.
It didn’t feel like a name. It felt like a summoning.
Teachers stumbled over it.
Computers flagged it as a typo. Autofill turned it into nonsense.
Even his guidance counselor once asked if it was “tribal.”
Kai just shrugged.
“It’s just a name,” he said.
But it wasn’t. And something in the world knew it wasn’t.
Because every time he heard it aloud, really heard it, a shiver ran through him like a drumbeat made of wind and bone.
He googled it once.
Nothing.
No records.
No root language.
Not Hebrew. Not Swahili. Not Latin.
Not coded into any modern tongue.
It wasn’t just rare.
It was impossible.
But one night, a dream unfolded, longer than the others.
Slower.
Like a veil being pulled from the face of the Earth.
And this time, he saw them.
The ones who came before.
Not as ghosts. Not even as memories.
But as embodied echoes, alive in the marrow.
A man standing waist-deep in riverlight, skin marked with ash and iron, whispered something into fire.
A healer tracing circles on a boy’s chest with crushed blue petals and prayer.
A woman sharpening a blade beneath moonlight, her braid wrapped in red cloth, holding a newborn that bore Kai’s eyes.
A mask, half clay, half gold, buried in a temple floor.
And behind it, his own face, weeping.
He didn’t understand the images.
Didn’t try to.
Because deep in his spine, he knew.
These weren’t stories.
They were his story, lived before,
silenced, buried, returned. And all of them, across oceans, empires, languages, had passed down one thing:
A name.
Pathsiekar.
Not a title. Not a prophecy.
A thread.
A seed planted in time and blood and silence.
Watered by death. Woken by ache.
His mother had whispered it only once, on her final day.
“They’ll forget the path. But they won’t forget you.”
“Why me?” he asked.
She kissed his hand.
Didn’t answer.
He thought it was grief talking. But now, years later, lying awake with the scent of river mud in his lungs, he knew;
He hadn’t been named.
He’d been recalled.
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THE DOCTRINE OF FLAME
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Before the names.
Before the curses. Before the Archive woke him… there was only this truth.
There is no such thing as good or evil flame.
Only what you choose to burn.
Fire is the first truth. It reveals. It devours.
It awakens.
It tests.
And it remembers.
For thousands of years, twelve families have guarded this secret.
Not to control it, but to keep it alive.
Not all flame is sacred.
But all sacredness carries flame.
From temples and satellites, desert rituals and glass towers;
They have watched the world forget. But the Archive remembers.
It waits.
For the ones marked by echo. For the child who doesn’t die.
For the bond that cannot be broken.
For the one who returns.
His name will change the balance.
His flame will not be pure.
It will be wild.
Tested.
Torn.
He will carry the pain of what was stolen…
And the power to set it right.
There are no clean flames.
Only living ones.
And the living flame… chooses.
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REMEMBER
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It started small.
A broken branch on the schoolyard maple, he passed it without thinking, tapped the splintered bark with his fingers, and walked on.
The next day, it was healed.
Not taped. Not nailed.
Healed.
New growth where the break had been.
Green. Glossy. Whole.
Kai stared at it for a long time.
Didn’t touch it again. Just tucked his hands in his hoodie and walked faster.
A week later, he held a crying child at his cousin’s daycare.
Little boy wouldn’t stop screaming, fists tight, whole body buzzing like static.
Kai picked him up on instinct, just to help, and the kid went silent.
Not scared. Not tired.
Just… calm.
Rested his head on Kai’s shoulder like it was home. Fell asleep in under a minute.
Later, his cousin called and said the boy spoke his first words that night.
Kai didn’t reply. Didn’t know what to say. Because it was happening more often now.
An old man passing him in the grocery store stopped mid-step, reached out, touched his shoulder;
“I remember this feeling,” the man said, eyes wide with tears.
“Back when my mother was alive.
Before the war.”
Then he just… walked away.
A barista once burst into tears after handing Kai his drink.
Said she felt like she’d just “seen a memory she didn’t know she’d lost.”
Sometimes animals followed him.
Squirrels too close. Birds perching in silence.
A hawk, he swore, circling him all the way to school, for three blocks straight.
The air shifted when he entered a room.
People looked up.
Not in fear. Not in attraction.
In… recognition.
Like they knew something before he did. Like they were waiting for him to catch up.
But Kai didn’t feel powerful.
He felt weird.
Isolated.
Heavy.
He wasn’t trying to be a prophet. He just wanted to pass his math class.
So he didn’t talk about it.
Not to teachers. Not to friends.
Not even to himself.
Because naming it would mean admitting it was real. And if it was real, he had no idea what to do with it.
He wasn’t chosen. He wasn’t special.
That’s what he told himself. Even as the ground beneath him softened.
Even as strangers wept. Even as the wind paused when he spoke.
Because it was easier to believe in coincidence than it was to believe the Earth was remembering him.
It was nothing.
Just a walk home. Just Kai’s sneakers brushing along the cracked sidewalk behind the school, hoodie pulled tight, dusk settling in like breath held too long.
The kind of evening where the sun bleeds through branches like memory, and even the wind forgets what it was chasing.
He didn’t have music playing.
Didn’t want it.
The silence tonight felt… full. Like the world was listening.
His backpack sagged against one shoulder.
His phone buzzed
He ignored it.
And when he reached the edge of the empty field near the ravine where old snowmelt still clung to patches of earth like forgotten paper, he stopped.
Not because he planned to. Because something stopped him.
His breath caught.
It wasn’t fear.
It wasn’t awe.
It was recognition.
The ground beneath him… shifted.
Not like an earthquake. Not like danger.
More like… a sigh.
A breath released through stone.
He crouched, slow, confused by his own movement.
His fingers grazed the dirt beside a clump of winter grass.
It was soft, warmer than it should’ve been. He pressed his palm flat.
And the earth answered.
Not in words.
Not in visions.
In feeling.
A slow pulse.
A welcome.
A memory.
And in that moment, he felt it, not in the air or the sky, but deep in the spine of the land:
It knew him.
Not his face.
Not his voice.
His frequency. His return.
The bones beneath the city had not forgotten.
Somewhere, deep below the layers of subway lines and foundations and time;
Something hummed.
Like a signal waking from centuries of silence. Like a name echoing in root and mineral.
Pathsiekar.
He whispered it without meaning to.
His breath came out like smoke.
The streetlights flickered once.
A dog barked three blocks away. A single bird shot from a tree and vanished into dusk.
And still, he stayed crouched.
Hand on the soil.
Listening.
He didn’t cry.
Didn’t pray. Didn’t move.
Just stayed with the knowing. And when he stood again, slowly, knees stiff and hands dirty;
The wind picked up.
But not cold.
Not random.
It moved around him.
With him.
As if clearing the way.
He looked up. A hawk circled once overhead, low, close, silent.
He didn’t smile.
Didn’t speak.
He just kept walking. And behind him, the patch of ground where he’d crouched;
Softened.
Darkened.
Cracked.
And from it, something ancient and green pushed upward.
Alive.
The soil had stirred.
And it would not sleep again.
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The End 🛑
Three Blessings And A Curse.
THE WOMAN AND THE FLAME
Section 1. Part 1
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