I'd never tell or talk about my first love, for he would have been conscripted to the endless war by the schemes that enveloped me.

  When the pieces on the chessboard are in default most don't know the failure the king feels, the biggest default of them all. People have to consistently cheer and celebrate him.

  I couldn't let Landon live like that and by doing so, i saw my reach extend beyond summits.

  i let him have his passions, his fun and games and i had only betrayed myself with a single wave of hello.

  My powerhouses, the intellectuals - those with a silver's edge or have been hardies were about to find the only man I'd ever loved.

  The only thing that saved me was Jocelyn waving back but that wasn't enough, even my daftest Powerhouse Kou noticed... i think.

  thinking and calculating were two different concept that separated the civilians from the powerhouses, the former thought it was a homonym but it was really a polyseme.

  this was acceptable, even this young child here was still on synonyms in thoughts yet created an ascension on the banquet table.

  In chess, when my men ask why does the king only make one move... and the queen, had so much versatility.

  I've always answered in guile by stating the stars and that each individual will carry us beyond the cosmos, just as our departed soldiers carried us to the next day.

  They calculated it to don't kill but capture, that we needed everyone, all for Landon's sake - the answer was another chess game, shogi.

  Camp life required morale and conviction and it was scary, a skirmish of forging of intuition and mettle. paradise was a word i heard from another culture six years ago.

  I built a citadel for this man in two years, if the least i could do was hold his hand in the banquet table then that's what I'll do.

  if people want to see why the king only makes one moves, i dare them to witness, when the king makes his first move not from fear and how it changes the balance.

  I'll call this chess strategy: is love alive?

  "Wolven sisters', may one of you take the last seat," I said.

  the two ladies who came before Kou looked at each other and one of them sat down and the other took an empty seat in the adjacent table back-to-back.

  I looked up like everyone else as the chandeliers bleeded into each other, striking refractions but stopped moving when we looked at it.

  The powerhouses and i had only seen this in vicious war now it lacked all the physiques.

  "What a privilege," Lady Kou said.

  the crowd sterned into our Most valuable player, she's precariously brazen tonight but may the first piece placed after the king and queen be my bishop of war.

  "Tonight, everyone in this room will receive scrolls which you can consider as points to be used towards decrees which are graduations deeming initiation to our cause,

  normally it is 16 points per minutes which is under three thousands points but because of new development it is 128 per minutes and you're not even seated, " Lady kou bellowed, "Which means you will reach over 65 thousand which is enough for a decree scroll, that means you will not allowed back to the citadel".

  Lady Kou stated the standard knowledge, this should have been an a ceremonious event for anyone who has attended multiple ceremonies.

  The entire crowd will have had met the standard so to initiate them now was only choice yet the naivety was high, Lady Kou had said earlier that we are facing a calamity.

  I don't even know what the calamity she saw was but a red amethyst crystal in the chandelier was weeping and that may be a concentrated part of Kou.

  The wind billowed our tent and hot food was being brought in, there was only time for an announcement and Kou looked at me, since i was the main orator.

  Bice:

  Congratulations everyone for reaching this part, you will now formerly know about our world and why I've kept you hidden in Brashtilia.

  Our world is organized under chessboard co-ordinates each place is the size of Brashtilia which is 400 kilometers

  Ladies and gentleman that includes our farmlands, plainlands and wildlands.

  We are currently in B2 and have survived by importing and packaging food, we have safety by your labour.

  Each co-ordinate has a castle, these castle are not built, they simply grow overnight.

  I was alerted that the objective of our castle has been achieved - permanently.

  That castle was Brashtilia reserve bank.

  NOW, NOW! this is not a calamity that was spoken of, we've created a good neutral influence and we are a desired people.

  you are free to travel wherever you please, choose your alliances and still choose factions.

  there are plenty of events in the world and in general the trials themselves are welcoming but accidents within are not uncommon.

  The castle will leave and so will our protection so some people will have to stay to maintain order.

  this was the purpose of your patrols, sentry and mandatory training.

  wherever you go in the world, you will have to find time to reconvene to join negotiations, all the better if you know the people.

  the purpose for this is talents, promotions and exchange codes which is... if you don't want the stars that talent gives you.

  That is all for the pre-requisite, please everyone enjoy your meal and discuss interpersonally, the world can wait.

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  Chandeliers vectors and thoughts; Bice voice soughed into their thoughts and culminations, she had practically told this two words: Business expansion.

  They hadn't noticed her aura as the wind billowed against the tent that the crowd thought it perforated. Bice's aura was called Bonfire Plume.

  it attached on everyone and allowed her to created geological positioning system on a huge scale, by keeping everyone busy, she had created the biggest army in the world and now she had made them nomadic.

  I needed to control this, i leaned towards my business partner for the night, Landon to adjust him to say something,

  "Landon," I said.

  "Joselyn," He replied.

  he was levelheaded, i never doubted that he respected me, but he had faltered many times - it didn't seem like i need to encourage him as he let go my hand and Bice and stood up - the ascended table didn't have a suction.

  Landon:

  Ladies and gentleman, a toast to bice.

  Landon placed a crisp wafer into Bice's wine and lifted it in the air.

  this is how much we've all taken from her veins, our decorum, manners, culture and way of life.

  we've spiced our life with the opportunity she has given us and we are no longer fledglings!

  Our entire path is her astute and she had asked nothing, but for us to build for ourselves.

  no one has polymers, vehicles and enough food to last generations.

  I say we give the world a bit of reckoning!

  Yes, YES! And we will cheer again.

  I mandate we construct roads to these castles and take them all at the same time!

  Now i'm not the smartest but we have project managers, foremans, heck we've had meeting and announcement!

  we converge at one point after our learnings and take castles, why even call it that - are they not banks for us!?

  You've received your proclamation and your mandate - in that order,

  may brashtilia be with you.

  "May brashtilia be with you," i recited like everyone else.

  Landon sat down and Bice didn't even flinch as she continued holding his hand.

  what was this, it was clearly not an aura but even the chandeliers had stop calculating and the zeal in everyone's eyes gleamed dangerously.

  they had even placed their hands behind their back and stood squarely... waiting for me?

  we were all going to speak so my purpose should at least supress the zeal, that is strictly intellectual and i needed to handle the cross-contamination.

  I stood up with my hands lightly clasped by my navel. there had been two green attribute who had spoken - it was time to show them what an intellectual could do.

  Joselyn:

  fracture, wounds and bed ridden - let us all remember seasons we were helpless.

  you had last words, you had spoken last words yet out of the blue, you had survived.

  that is the meaning of vocation and in our leisure we've made vacations.

  the others had not had our privileges and honor, they had died or found dangerous resolves.

  i promise you, your safety is not in jeopardy, have empathy and help where you can; that is a talent.

  learn about them just as much as you wish to hold your secret.

  may your proclamations give you joy and your mandate take you further than your dreams.

  My chest palpitated as i wiped the sweat of my brow with a fan.

  I was glad i ended it fast before it had all got to me.

  Bice hadn't even glanced at me, her eyes locked on Landon.

  I finally understood Bice's aura after all these years: Bonfire plumes'

  nostalgia was unique conversation, especially of dreams,

  especially when we failed so many.

  yet Bice knew this would happen, bonfires of people far and wide...

  Kou:

  Joselyn had been my advisor for years and kept me from certain death.

  i turned sixteen this year and reached the rank of Kou

  If you wish to war; dig two graves, if you wish to ignore her advice... start dig thousands.

  camp will start tomorrow, you will now train to be survivalist and have spartan diets.

  turning plowshares to swords, we will be here until roses wilt.

  we will go according to mandate, i have a lot to learn about what this old man had said.

  I've lived in war camps all my life, please take care of me.

  Kou bowed and sat down.

  the enquiry had always been the same even before this.

  someone like this took a deep-state castle?

  it was a perfect show of obedience, loyalty and order.

  most people do not realize that argument dwindle the other party.

  Kou had put herself as a mirror role model, all complaint would go to her.

  she would be the punching bag that chisel their fists so they can ponder.

  everything was going so perfectly in pattern but there only two people left

  the wolven sister and Gerda...

  Wolven sister:

  Hi I'm mandy magellan and my sister miranda here.

  I'm very honored to be here, my sister and i will speed things up

  we have plenty of war experience...

  yeah, nothing else.

  Mandy's stupidity dawned something to me.

  "Sorry, Bice - how will we feed people or continue production if most of us leave?" i asked.

  "Joselyn, the land itself allowed us to grow things faster and better, we lost that when we lost the bank." She replied without looking.

  "That means we need a high level leadership tier to teach us how," I retorted.

  Bice gulped, she wasn't originally a leadership attribute but an intellectual.

  "I know someone," Gerda said.

  "Gerda darling, now is not the time," i replied.

  "She has an aura, just like brum," Gerda replied.

  she referred aura something she's not suppose to know.

  The chandelier crystal exploded above not leaving a splinter cell.

  only intellectuals can see in the dark... and gerda.

  The event coordinators quickly took candles and lit them placing them on the tables.

  they had to heed word from their mandate to sit but all their saw was gerda standing on her chair.

  Gerda:

  I'm Gerda strashur gellhorn, uhmm 6 and three quarter years old.

  I know where we can train - underground

  i know this because because i'm the new bank owner.

  if we go down the bank, there purple crystal and we can train there with the monsters.

  so we'll be in the city.

  the money is for fighting anyways, so... like, lets live like a city for the last time.

  right guys?

  Joselyn could not narrate as she thought this enough information for the blown to smithereen crystals to come back again.

  Bice had only thought checkmate in her strategy called: is love alive?

  Landon felt as if everything he had just built single-handedly had been crumbled into pieces.

  everyone held a candle in the dark for posterity for they would be the odds that held this fragile light which was Gerda, daughter of the mandate.