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I need a story where a boy goes in a hero and walks out a savior.
Can he be a criminal as well?
If he must, but in the end She should love him.
So there’s a girl?
There always is.
Ok. So this boy; where does he live?
Sand.
Sand? He lives in sand?
Yes, but that isn’t where the story starts.
Where does the story start then?
When he meets the girl. It’s in the city, far away from home, and the boy is on his way back from a trip.
Where did he go?
To visit the world. To find his father.
His father was missing?
Is. His father is missing. The boy didn’t find him.
Ok, so the boy visited the world, and now he’s returning to the sand.
The desert actually, but he isn’t there yet. He’s far away in a city without any sand. The paths are lined with trees, and the buildings are the envy of gods.
Can gods really envy what’s made by man?
No, because they aren’t real. It is just a saying, in that city. “the gods envy us, for we have built the kingdom they could not.”
Isn’t that a little arrogant?
In most cities it would be, but to these people it is the truth. And if you could see their homes, you would envy them as well, even as your knees buckled to the ground. The boy wept when he first saw them.
I guess he would, having lived amongst sand.
He was born there actually.
Where, in the city?
No, in the sand. He lived his entire life there before he decided to visit the world.
I would visit the world too, if I had been born in sand.
As would I, and as did the boy, but I am straying from the story. It starts when he meets the girl, not when he is born.
You’re right. So how does he meet the girl.
She works at the temple.
The temple? So the girl believes in god?
No, no. The temple is where people go to travel. They say the gods gave their people the gift of flight, so all travelers must first go the temple to gain their wings.
Hold on, they have wings?
No, it’s another saying. The founders of the temple built a ship for the air. According to the story, it was divinely inspired, the mechanism which powers the ship I mean.
So it’s like an airplane, only inspired by god?
No. The god part is only a story. And the ship is only like an airplane in that it flies.