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One fine day, as the sun rose, tranquil but implacable, five remarkably different lives began working their way toward one another. They had been such separate lives, it would have seemed impossible that they would ever lock together, but a Hero, a Magician, a farm boy, a noble girl, and a Prince were working their way to a meeting on the edge of a city of tents. That particular city, clapping and flapping in the wind, as if it were applauding itself, had become familiar to the Hero, the Magician, the Prince, and the noble girl, but it was quite alien to the farm boy, though when he finally won his way through to Tent City he found some aspect -- some part -- of himself already there, mysteriously waiting for him. That boy was about to be completed in a way he had never anticipated. A story has to begin somewhere. This story begins here.