Project Iceberg: Prelude (Once Upon a Time)

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Once upon a time, there was a sheep. An actual sheep, born into a world of many species, but perhaps they too might be considered sheep themselves. Unlike many of his kind, this one ram had fleece that was black as night. An ill omen, some would say. Such things tell of great misfortune in the old stories.

None the less, this particular sheep did the best he could. As a young ram, he kept his nose to the books, and didn't much care for the world around him. "I'm a strong ram!" he thought to himself as the years flew by. "I can take care of things by myself!"

This lead the ram to keep mostly quiet; the idea of having many friends seemed an impossibility. As his schooling came to a close though, an unsettling feeling had developed within him. So concerned with taking care of himself, he had placed himself in a black tower. Everything was starting to seem foreign, as though others were speaking a different language. "I'm ready now!" thought the ram. But it seemed the world had already moved on, the ram all but forgotten by way of never having been noticed in the first place due to his quietness....

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