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What Really Happened To Ayn Rand's Story?
There was a bench made from the trees of cinderwood that stood out from the others or so that’s what one boy believed. In the boy's eyes, the bench was all alone, besides the leaves that had come and go as they fulfilled their duties for the seasons. It astonished him; how the fallen leaves had disappeared and withered into the ground, only to realize that those leaves bore a similar resemblance to the ones gathered upon the trees above. The child was only of the age of seven years and knew little of what was to come; That would be three years later being the year of 2713, when all feared that a third world war would happen and it did, becoming the shortest war to ever exist. It all ended after multiple nukes had turned the world of bloom and order into mere ruins and anarchy. No longer were there rivers that roamed for miles; No longer was there the earth that we used to know, but there was at least one thing that remained from that previous world. Us. Now returning to the boy from the beginning… …show more content…
Many who he grew up with nicknamed him Blitz and for a reason unknown; but some say that it was the way he resisted when the Hammer Coalition took him in. The very leader of this faction was well known for his tyrannic reign and his name was Albus. Under him was his champions, ones whom he entrusted to carry out his plans and titled The Exalted. Some that were among them were Rig and Blitz, who was raised to become one since he was a child. He was fed lies by the Coalition, which glorified the faction’s eminence. Albus also manipulated him into thinking that everything that he was doing was all aimed into bringing order back into the world. Although Blitz followed his superior’s exemplary principles, he grew to discover knowledge that caused a change of heart within

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