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Above and Below the Horizon
Ages and ages ago, Zeus, the god of order, gifted the holy sacred wheel to Tyloris. This wheel had been held way up in the clouds since life had first started, and it held the power of deciding who was next in the birth order for each individual family. The wheel was located on the holiest cloud in the sky and had been protected by angel guards and skyscraper tall, gold walls. The spinning wheel was made up of the finest and most valuable crystals known to man. This precious wheel had one enemy: Ate, the goddess of mischief and delusion. Ate had wanted to take the wheel for her own to control because she was Zeus’s first born daughter which had come with a variety of disadvantages. She grew up with no female role models which had angered her. For years she had been planning on how to overtake the holy sacred wheel of birth order solely based on irritation and rage.
On a dreary, dark night, Ate had put the guards into a daze, beguiling them into thinking she was an additional guard. The golden gates had been opened, and she was allowed into the majestic, quiet, sacred area. Marching towards the wheel, she thought she had successfully captured the wheel. Little did Ate know, due to the high altitudes of the location of the holy sacred wheel, her delusion mists she used against the guards wore off in a shorter time span. With the guards making their routine check, Ate was spotted at the wheel. The angel guards quickly pressed the secret button which caused a lockdown, and alerted Zeus. Ate continued to try and cast spells on the guards trying to escape with the wheel. She successfully found a way out, slipping through the almost closed golden gates. Running down the golden steps, she found herself almost at the bottom, escaping the holiest cloud in the sky. Just as she thought she had overtaken the wheel, Zeus, standing 20 feet in front of her caused her to freeze. At this moment, Ate knew her plan was over and she had been caught. Quickly thinking, she threw the glimmering wheel down from the steps and it disappeared in the white clouds, falling into the black sea hitting the murky sea floor in which Tyloris lived.
With Ate thinking the wheel was destroyed, Zeus told Tyloris to keep this wheel a secret and to never let any person know he had possession of it. To this day, Ate feels accomplished as she believes the order of siblings is random, but Tyloris, the god of birth order and age, continues to spin his secretive, holy wheel located at the bottom of the black sea.
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