Prologue: The Prophecy

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Aleerea

Under the light of the moon, the hieroglyphics looked different. Something about their sequence was ominous.
What did it mean for so many of the words to be isolated from one another? Separated by punctuation?

My eyes scanned the words of the prophecy that read "with the death of one star comes the birth of another."
Could the star be referring to Zidia's late king who had recently passed? If so, who could this new star be?

Before I could inspect the rest of the tablet of hieroglyphics on the wall, a loud explosion sounded off nearby, shattering the ground and sending crevices that streaked through the temple's walls causing its pillars to collapse.
The whole temple began to crumble, and under it, I lost my balance and fell, the temple's stones caving in on me as the last thing I saw was the silver luminous light of the full moon.

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