The youth’s conversion took less than an instant. At once, and to the core of his being, David knew that this was what he wanted, this was who he wished to be. Here, the youth thought, stands a man whose feet are planted in the real world, not the sphere of dreams or delusion. Here is a man who fears death, as all do, and perhaps due to his vast experience of war reckons even more keenly the mysteries of fate and chance and destiny, yet who faces these down every day and bears the scars to prove it. This man seeks not some sphere beyond the mortal or the mundane but instead dwells in this
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