Silver Cord Parables Curs and Fear

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This is a tale of a strange happening in a simple village somewhere on a small, lush
island in the great Sea to the west. As many generations have come and gone since the
incidents, most would say it was all indeed but a moral tale or a myth of sorts- nice to
think about, but foolish when brought to the practical level of daily island life. It was like
one of those stories that causes children's eyes to twinkle with soaring imaginations or
that causes the aged to cling to with shreds of something to get them through their last
feeble years. But really, as it always happened, the children grew up leaving their
childish dreams behind and the aged breathed their last, taking their vague hope with
them to the grave.

So, whether tale, myth or child-like fantasy or feeble hope, the writer can't really say.
But the story as told to this writer goes pretty much as follows, much as it has always,
being handed down from mouth to ear to mouth through these many years. Kept intact is
the story of a powerful evil beast who ran "rough shod" over the island and its villagers,
and of a mysterious young man who appeared to challenge it, so they say, conquering as
no one since has ever conquered.

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