Xander's Nine Kingdoms-Personal Narrative

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Prologue

It was a damp morning and the sun had not yet risen. The grounds of the Royal Palace were bathed in semi-darkness and there were small puddles all over the place, remnants of the rain storm that had passed by the previous night. A lanky man sat on the top step of the vast stairway that led to the entrance doors. Dressed in a black leather trench-coat, he was easy to miss in the dark, and beneath this coat he wore a white shirt and a loosely tied black tie. He pulled a small silver lighter from one the coat's many pockets and lit a white cigarette which was hanging from his mouth. As he pocketed the lighter, he inhaled deeply on the cigarette and let a stream of smoke escape his nostrils. This chap did not look as if he belonged anywhere …show more content…

I don't know what you have against it."
"Now look here," muttered Orion, "It is the most ridiculous, superstitious, adolescent ritual in the history of all the Nine Kingdoms. How it exists in this day and age, I'll never know. "
"Orion," said Xander, sternly, "I am asking you as a brother. "
With that, Xander went back in the direction of his room, but not before looking back to see Orion light another cigarette. Before Orion entered his room, he heard Xander say, "What would Mother say if she saw you smoking those?"
Orion quickly removed the cigarette from his mouth and looked around nervously; he then looked at the cigarette with a guilty expression on his face. He sighed sadly and tossed the cigarette on the stone floor, crushing it with his foot.

The great sun rose from its resting place behind the horizon. The light from the sun reflected off the gigantic truck hidden among some bushes. The man behind the truck emerged from the shadows and stared out over the vast plains before him, he had seen many sunrises before, but this one was strange, glorious would be how he would describe it and for a moment, a feeling of hope overwhelmed

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