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The Fox and the Tortoise
Long ago, in a small town lived a young little boy. He grew up with his mother, his father and his sister, but his favorite person in the whole world was his Uncle. Whenever his uncle would come to visit, he'd tell him stories of the travels he'd taken, the people he had met and sometimes he'd even bring him a souvenir. The boys favorite he'd ever received from his uncle in the whole world, was a dabble of gold heated and molded into a ring that he could slides between his wrists with ease. Etched on the inside "Levitate and Love".
One day though, the little boy and his family received terrible news that his uncle had passed away. The entire family was stricken with grief, but the little boy felt empty. He didn't want to play, he didn't want to walk around the town with his sister playing with the other kids, he barely even wanted to eat.
The day of the funeral the family lowered him into the ground, the rain gently padded against their clothes hiding tear stained cheeks from other viewers. The little boy sat at the grave with the longest, holding his beloved golden ring with his hands until something blipped into existence from the corner of his eye.
He looked and saw a ghostly blue orb, floating in front of him. Shocked he backed away, but as he started the orb blipped out, and then respawns, further away from him. Curious, the little boy mustered up his courage to stand up from the grave. He gave one more look to the gravestone, then started to follow the mysterious orb toward the tree line that met the town at it's edge.
He hesitated when the orb started deeper into the woods, but curiosity found the better of him and he pressed onward, past a quietly babbling stream, deeper into the forest. The orb brought him to a huge tree in the center of the forest, with an upward climb to the mountains above it. Inside the trunk of the tree though is where the finally orb floated, mystic in its place.
The little boy knelt down to the hole of the tree, peering inside. He saw it was nothing more than a fox den, but he noticed something strange inside: A giant tortoise shell, completely empty of the creature and instead filled with different trinkets. Photographs, Jewelry, Toys and even some things he didn't recognize. He looked at his golden ring he clutched in his hands, and decided to place it with the tortoise shell. When he set down his ring, it started to give off a faint, pulsating glow. He backed away quickly and watched with wide-brown eyes as a ethereal wisp slowly made it's way through the hole from within the trunk, and took on the form of a giant tortoise with wise eyes and wide...