Chapter 18

'Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. When the Sun and the Storm refused to yield. Each celebrating power that they wield. Their stubbornness and strength are revealed. And they combine to grow the crops in every field'

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Lillian heard a knock on her door that same evening. She was in the kitchen cooking she and her granddaughter dinner as usual when the knock came.

"I am coming!" She shouted not too loud to whoever was knocking on the door.

Quenching the fire under the p*t with her magic, since she had finished, she went to open the door.

Once it was opened, she was very surprised to see two palace