{"id":3431,"date":"2023-04-01T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T04:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/?p=3431"},"modified":"2023-03-29T11:18:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T15:18:33","slug":"3431","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/?p=3431","title":{"rendered":"Save me a Story – Intro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Save me a Story<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

In the beginning…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The door opens, and I look into the eye of the mystic I was directed to. Why, you may ask? Well, it all started when I woke up this morning.<\/span><\/p>\n

I had been dreaming I was in a car. Dawn was approaching. As the sun began to rise, sunshine hit the front of the car I was in, and I was blinded, so I pulled off the road and stopped the car. I got out, and standing there was a woman. She stood about 5 foot 6 and had short blond hair and eyes that were vivid green. She stared straight at me. Her eyes were what attracted me, or should I say, mesmerized me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She said only a few words. It was an address and a request that I go there. Then she turned and walked away.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Under normal circumstances, I would mark her as a crazy lady or another one of my vivid dreams, but the look she gave me bewitched me. So when I woke up, well\u2026 here I am.<\/span><\/p>\n

The mystic asked me to sit down. I realized this mystic was the woman I had seen in my dreams.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI asked you here for a reason,\u201d she said. \u201cI am the gateway to any number of kingdoms. And you are needed in one of them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Not knowing what she was talking about, I asked, \u201cWhy me? And what kingdom?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Her answer was quick, \u201dBecause it has been foretold, and it is the kingdom of Selat.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This did not make it any clearer. \u201cWhat do you mean\u2026.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She stopped me before I could finish my question. \u201cYou are a bearer of tales, are you not?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I nodded yes.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn Selat, all the stories that have existed have been stolen. Therefore it is your task to discover where they have been taken to and to bring them back. What has happened in Selat also threatens your world. Once stories are gone, there is no history, no learning from generation to generation; there is no true existence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t know how to respond, and she sensed that. So she said only one thing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJust do it!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And she disappeared, as did everything else around me. I found myself alone in an uninhabited village in this new kingdom called Selat.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where to begin\u2026?<\/span><\/p>\n

————–<\/span><\/p>\n

Continued in … Ask a Question<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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