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The Black Eagle and The Seven Sages of Erenil
A novel by Fulvio Di Blasi
THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE BLACK EAGLE SAGA
   

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CHAPTER I: Marco Meets the Mysterious Girl
 
 

After the stoplight on Via Gargallo, he could already discern in the distance, on the sidewalk on the right hand side, the tiny figure of a girl with red hair that matched the description the voice had provided, and she seemed to be waiting for someone. She didn't look threatening at all…and she was really beautiful. While watching her grow bigger as he got closer, Marco calmed down further, and he even felt a bit ashamed of his sloppy appearance. But that only lasted for an instant. Then his curiosity prevailed over every other emotion or doubt. Now it wasn't just the voice…those features, too, unknown in and of themselves, seemed strangely familiar to him. He wanted – he had to get to the bottom of this mysterious affair.

He pulled up and, without speaking a word, he looked gravely at her face for a moment. She nodded with a smile, jumped onto the seat behind him, and the fire-ball took off again like a rocket, doing a slight wheelie as it accelerated .

“You could at least have given me the time to get more comfortable,”