But then that answer moved somewhat into my mind yet holding back that answer was another answer.

It read, “You will know on your twenty-first birthday.”

Like a door to knowledge, yet this one was closed, sealed and locked from me. Patiently awaiting the moment in the future that would unlock it. Strange I thought. What I truly am, hidden from me.

We had entered man-made tunnels a ways back. We were in an underground ancient city now. The passages kept going, branching into side rooms of varying sizes and dimensions. Worn stone from many hands and feet. We had entered a number of the side rooms to look closer, after a few of them, all similar appearing as one room dwellings like a stone bedrooms, we decided to just exp...

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