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PROLOGUE

Fros of the First Recorder (“The Book of Twelves”)

Presented at the Third Global Conference on the North American Quarantine Period

Center for the Study of Human Cultures and Conflicts

University of New South Wales, Indo-Australian Republic

April 16–21, 1003 AV

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CHAPTER FIVE

1 Thus did it come to pass that Amy and her fellows returned to Kerrville, in the place of Texas

2 And there they were to learn that three a them had been lost And these were Theo and Mausami, his wife; and Sara, as called Sara the Healer, wife of Hollis

3 For in the place of Roswell, where they had taken shelter, a great ar every kind And only two of their co, husband of Sara, and Caleb, son of Theo and Mausami

4 And a great sadness was upon them all, for the friends that they had lost

5 And in the place of Kerrville, A the Sisters, omen of GOD And likewise did Caleb do the same, to be cared for by Amy

6 And in that same period, Alicia, as Alicia of Blades, and Peter, the Man of Days, took up arms with the Expeditionary, ere soldiers of Texas, to search for the Twelve For they had learned that to kill one of the Twelve was to kill his Many also, sending their souls unto the LORD

7 And many battles were joined; and many lives were lost But neither could they slay the Twelve, nor find the places wherein they dwelled For such was not the will of GOD at that time

8 And in this manner did the years pass, five in sum

9 And at the end of that tin was a drea as a ast said:

10 “My reat ship in which he dwells For a change is upon the land Soon I will come for you, to show you the way”