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Submitted to Contest #208
I was always fascinated by the Codeless. They walked in strange, incomprehensible patterns, as if they could control their movements. They came as chivalrous knights, knowledgeable wizards and shifty rogues. But you could always tell right away if they were Codeless. Though there was a green bar above all Codeless which we did not have, it was more the actions of the Codeless that gave them away. Their behaviours were often unpredictable, nothing like the lives we lived. In our small, quaint village, everyone led quiet, stable lives. We each...
We had lived a quiet life, until it happened. My grandma and I lived on a small island, which was almost in the middle of nowhere. By the age of 11, I knew how to operate the lighthouse that my grandma said “was the most important thing in our lives”. I also knew how to tie several knots into a perfect fish net and how to gut those fish in under a minute, which I thought was pretty impressive. Yes, life wasn’t fast or exciting here, but it was safe. We rarely had any worries, except for one. The lighthouse. Our island was in the middle...
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