writing
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and emerged as dusk was falling, the fire having spread all the way to the cave's mouth
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i fled back to the cave entrance in a panic
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in his stead, a pyre erupted from the ground
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the story closed, and i found that the hermit had disappeared
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and some things can never be truly forgotten
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but echoes of those unsteady years remained
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decades passed and the upheaval became a distant memory
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and a tentative peace was found
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over time, the city was rebuilt
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and destroyed all traces of the prophecy
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competing factions brokered an alliance
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