There are many forms of magic in this world, High Lord. Some come in large packages, some in small. Some work with fire and strength of body and heard ... and some work with revelation.
Let me tell you something you haven__ learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn__ matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events__hey all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn__ have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don__ even notice at first, and then one day it__ there. You wake up and you just don__ have the fire anymore._ He smiled...
The Elf Queen of Shannara
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Let me tell you something you haven__ learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn__ matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events__hey all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn__ have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don__ even notice at first, and then one day it__ there. You wake up and you just don__ have the fire anymore._ He smiled...
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