The mark: There was this girl
There was this girl I meet everyday on the train to university.
She is not really pretty. She is not ugly either. I guess she is... How do you say that again...Yeah average.
But her eyes! I don't know why. They seem dark, clouded with mystery.
There is something unearthly to them, something magical.
One day she stopped me as I was going out:
-- I can sense the mark on you. You should run away and hide. They will come for you, they will hunt you.
-- Wh-what?
I didn't registered what she said. I was at loss. I didn't expect her voice to be so mesmerizing.
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-- Are you guys going out or what?
-- Yes we... Err.. I mean I am.
She just disappeared.
I continue my day as if nothing happened. To be honest, my peculiar interest for her faded. I still had a vivid image of her eyes and her voice, but I didn't want to meddle anymore with such a strange girl. Little did I know ...
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... That I would change my mind very quickly.
I was back in my room. Alone as usual. But not lonely as usual. I didn't feel like doing anything more than any other thing so I decide to do some home works on the Platform.
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The platform was nothing fancy. It was just a nation wide portal for students to hang out. We had games, social network, contest, classes and exercises. Everything you need in your school or university life in one place. You could get extra grades by completing the bonus tests, which I did a lot. I don't considered myself a genius but I love to solve puzzles and riddles so naturally I got a lot of bonuses.
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I decided to explore the unsolved problems. There were a rumor that you would open a hidden level if you clear the first levels. There were three puzzles he didn't finish yet. Two of them have been solved before but one remain intact.
The greater the challenge, the greater the reward.
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It was already very late in the night when I emerged from my room to take a break. He was stuck on the immaculate riddle. The first two were complementary so jumping back and forth from one to the other helped a lot. The last one was cryptic.
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Story originally started as a "continue this story" post. Next post coming very soon.
inspiration: @mikkolyytinen (next post will explain ;-))
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