Phone rings twice.
Information Center, this is Rachel speaking. May I help you?
Hello?
May I help you, sir?
Yes. I am searching for something.
And what would that be?
The end.
The end? ... What kind of end, sir?
The end of all this.
... Is it the title of a book? A movie?
No.
What kind of end do you mean?
When is it over? ...
Sir?
Silence.
Sir? Hello?
Have you found the end? When have we reached it?
I am sorry, I really can't help you.
When you are searching, you are on the way solving the problem.
Good bye, sir! ... Dialing tone.
There will be an end to this time of intense trouble, miss.
Dialing tone.
Give and take. We should not despair, not surrender. Miss? Hello?
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Published on e-Stories.org on 03/08/2009.
Payla – Die Goldinsel I
von Pierre Heinen
Auf Payla, der lukrativsten Provinz des Königreiches Lotanko, neigt sich der Sommer des Jahres 962 dem Ende entgegen. Die schier unerschöpflichen Goldvorräte der Insel lassen Machthungrige Pläne schmieden und ihre gierigen Klauen ausfahren. Wer den Winter überstehen will, muss um sein Leben kämpfen, wer über die Goldinsel herrschen will, muss in den Krieg ziehen.
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