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Prologue

Note may contains spoilers from previous stories in the Mystical Realms franchise

It is said that “those who ignore history are destined to repeat it”, it is also said that “The more things change, the more they stay the same”

In essence, people forget

Fads, crazes and scandals fade into history and are but a distant memory if that.

For a while the world was shocked to learn that there was another world, in a parallel universe whose inhabitants had formed some pact with the United States of America. One of these inhabitants was even paraded on television and declared an American spy!

But many were sceptical and in time the footage of the creature paraded by the Venezuelan government in Caracas came to be regarded as an elaborate and well done hoax, just like the alleged film of an autopsy of an alien that supposedly crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. It was thought the hoax was designed to humiliate western TV stations and those local ones who did not toe the party line.

But in time this too was relegated to history and forgotten.

There were the claims of some so-called psychics that the times we were living in were not part of what originally happened, and that something terrible had happened instead.

They were ignored and easily forgotten.

People got on with life in all it’s humdrum glory.

But not everyone forgets.

Sometimes records of events long ago can lie hidden from view in some deep recess of a filing cabinet or obsolete computer system, forgotten and waiting for someone to one day stumble upon them and bring them back into the light.

Sometimes these records may still be kept secret by watchers who guard them closely even when their existence has passed from memory of those who once placed them in safe keeping.

However to quote from the ancient Roman poet Juvenal

”Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”

Who watches the watchers? Especially when those who keep watch, themselves have been forgotten.

But what if these long forgotten guardians of long forgotten secrets are remembered by someone also long forgotten?

A long forgotten someone who can use and manipulate the implements of the state….

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