1 We were a child then, ten years old.
2 Two years have passed since we found this place.
3 Hundreds upon hundreds of years ago men knew secrets which we have lost.
4 We knew this well, in the years of our childhood, but our curse broke our will.
5 Thus have we lived each day of four years, until two springs ago when our crime happened.
6 We are sitting at a table and we are writing this upon paper made thousands of years ago.
7 We shall be sentenced to ten years in the Palace of Corrective Detention if it be discovered.
8 And in these two years we have learned more than we had learned in the ten years of the Home of the Students.
9 And we were frightened that we had lived for twenty-one years and had never known what joy is possible to men.
10 And it was a sight which has stayed with us through the years, and it haunts us, and follows us, and it gives us no rest.
11 When we were five years old, we were sent to the Home of the Students, where there are ten wards, for our ten years of learning.
12 There is green mould in the grooves of the letters and yellow streaks on the marble, which come from more years than men could count.
13 But we must never speak of the times before the Great Rebirth, else we are sentenced to three years in the Palace of Corrective Detention.
14 It is whispered that once or twice in a hundred years, one among the men of the City escape alone and run to the Uncharted Forest, without call or reason.
15 We remember the Home of the Infants where we lived till we were five years old, together with all the children of the City who had been born in the same year.
16 It took fifty years to secure the approval of all the Councils for the Candle, and to decide upon the number needed, and to re-fit the Plans so as to make candles instead of torches.
17 All the great modern inventions come from the Home of the Scholars, such as the newest one, which was found only a hundred years ago, of how to make candles from wax and string; also, how to make glass, which is put in our windows to protect us from the rain.
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