Chapter 175

"But there is this one surreal aspect about the world and its humans:

They each chase goals to be the rarest, to rise as the single one of a kind or to amass the title of a superlative in some field. However, they oft do, in the game of chasing such fleeting games, forget the uniqueness that they have achieved already:

That they, and only they, can each leave behind the art of fingerprints that they bear; and none other can."

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The Estate of Ambassadors,

Capital City of Viricove,

Kingdom of Hyll-Decanta

Darkling Night,

Second Moun-night of the Second month,

Fiftieth Year of the Reign of Adon Vericus IV

"And why do you not wish for him to use it? Are you worried that the talisman has better need in its existence?" Sir Israel Oreius asked.