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| The Future Path |
1. She Said, She Said
- The Black Keys
"Study the Past if you would define the Future."
- Confucius
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I. The Dark Island
"Joshua- you do not belong here."
Leizu pursed her lips in the soft ambient light. Joshua stiffened.
"A man is free to go where he chooses. Why do I not belong here?"
"Because no one is free but the Yellow Emperor. Everyone must bend to his will."
"Or what?" asked Joshua.
Leizu sighed.
"You are talking nonsense, the Emperor is all powerful. What can you do?"
"I can do a lot. I know how history works- & I can shape the path of the future."
Leizu rolled her eyes. She then looked right at Joshua.
"Do you know who I am?"
Joshua's eyes roamed the dark outline of Leizu's hourglass figure. She held her black key between delicate fingers.
"No I don't. But I know how history works. And that counts for a lot."
Leizu smiled.
"You know nothing about history until you've lived it. Trust me. I know."
"Count, how you meet Aristarchus?" asked Astira.
The Count turned away from the orange paint of the setting sun framed in baroque.
"We first met on the island of Samos." said the Count.
"I was a different person then. Suffice it to say, I washed up on the shore in an acutely vulnerable state."
Astira furrowed her brow.
"But Count, why Aristarchus never mention you?"
The Count paused, setting down his glass of Sunday wine.
"Because I am a Möbius strip- I live two different lives, I show the world two different faces. You see the Count, but Aristarchus sees my other side."
Astira looked puzzled at the Count, not really satisfied with the answer.
Bosco appeared from nowhere.
"Count, the Princess has arrived."
Painted stars waved in baroque.
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