Pantheon: Chapter 1: Gaia (old!) by neophytegod, literature
Literature
Pantheon: Chapter 1: Gaia (old!)
Pantheon
Chapter One: Gaia
'Keep alive,' the orphan came with instructions. At five years old Richard was left on the porch as someone doorbell ditched a Las Vegas City fire station. Everyone who knew him since then, at some point, felt a desire to disobey the explicit command.
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In ignorant defiance to the commotion all around him the young teenager stared out the high museum windows. Rainless, the tempest flickered in through the window and bounced off the marble floors, casting twisted split second shadows on the other delinquents as they were searched for contraband. From behind his black cheek-length hair Richard looked past the pris