At the Mountain of Knowledge
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Back when the country didn’t have a name, and the land underneath it was a slumbering demon, an elderly man, Ly, retired from his role as chief of the village, and readied himself for the last trip before he returned to the Earth. However, before he could put the land of the living behind, Ly lamented the fact that his only son and soon-to-be-chief, Long, was rather unrefined, a gem so deep in the rough people regarded him as The Giant Rock. All Ly wished was for his village to thrive under Long, and for the villagers to give his son the same respect they’d given him. For that to happen, perhaps a trip to the Mountain of Knowledge was in order, Ly thought, for although the trip was long and treacherous, it was a tradition for his father and his father’s father and father’s father’s father to take their sons to the Mountain. The only reasons Ly hadn’t taken Long there until now was the series of unfortunate events the village’d faced. Thus, the trip was planned, and walking for seven days straight, Ly and Long reached the bottom of the Mountain of Knowledge as the sun was beginning to set.
