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Night had fallen. Karon sat at the desk in his bedroom. A blank sheet of paper lay before him, a brand-new box of paints resting on top.
He had hesitated again and again, and yet he ultimately could not bring himself to use the paints. Instead, he picked up a sharpened pencil he had borrowed from Lent and he started idly sketching on the paper.
Karon first drew a pair of eyes, and then moved out from there to create the other facial features. Finally, he pulled the lines down to form the neck and shoulders.
Very soon, a person appeared on the page, though it was someone not even Karon himself could recognize. Even the figure’s gender was indistinct. Male or female, he could not tell.
After finishing, he did not bother to look at the picture; He simply flipped the paper over, face down.
If another psychologist had happened to be standing there at that moment, they might have been able to analyze Karon’s mental state from his drawing. Karon himself, however, had no interest in dissecting his own psyche.
“Karon, do you want me to fetch you a glass of water?” Lent asked from his bed, where he was lying down, playing with his cards.
“Sure.”
Lent climbed out of bed and left the room. A moment later, he returned with a glass of ice water, which he set on Karon’s desk. “Are you in a bad mood?”
“No.” Karon shook his head. “Maybe I just feel a bit stuffy.”
“Then I’ll give you this card.” Lent placed a card in front of Karon. It was finely printed, and showed a depiction of the full moon, as well as the words:
[Moonlight Purification. Dispels all negative attribute magic effects.]
Lent had a whole stack of similar cards. They had become one of the most popular collectibles for boys his age in recent years, and Lent spent...
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