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The sun's resplendence painted the sky and heralded the sunset.And the sun adept to its schedule prepared to meet the sea."More mystic than celestial is what I've always called the sun.Even though man has in a religiously scientific way proven that sun can never meet the sea,my eyes still doubt it for every shore seem to show me the same sight." Adam's grandfather began with his age-old tales and philosophies.Adam would have evinced his disinterest towards them like he had always done but that day those words started to make sense to him.Adam soon got blinded with the memories of his dog,Riley.He reminisced the day his father brought the five-day old puppy home,how little Riley would cuddle up in Adam's bed and its voluminous fur could barely let him open his eyes.Adam didn't raise Riley,they grew up together. Riley's childhood was Adam's childhood and Adam matured with Riley's age.And then as was destined,Riley's death killed the zeal to love in Adam and left him hopeless like a grotesque corpse.It was a bond that a small child like him could neither estimate nor describe to anyone but only feel the flames that fed on it.Adam's parents thought that his scars would heal with time but no one could understand the unfathomable pain in which Adam was sinking with each day that passed.Sitting by the seaside, lost in his thoughts,Adam felt the emboldened letters of his dog's name on its locket.Adam had sworn to keep it safe with himself.It was perhaps Riley's only possession."Adam!"His mother called out to him."Let's go son.Its going to be dark soon.We'll come again tomorrow." Adam nodded vaguely.He wanted to stay, watch the sun meet the sea and lay there in the light of stars as if Riley existed in one of them.It would give him the solace that he couldn't find elsewhere.As he dragged his feet,the sand started accumulating in the tip of his shoes and soon made it difficult for him to walk.At a point Adam felt his shoe strike something hard in the sand and the locket fell from his hands.He bent down to pick it when he found a small box lying beneath the locket."Someone might have accidentally dropped it here.Maybe I should return it to the person in charge here."As soon as he picked up the box it jumped away from him on its own.He moved stealthily towards it and picked it,with locket in the other hand.The box certainly had some magic.He opened it.Amidst the grandeur of the box adorned by some unique gems and jewels rested a feather.It wasn't an ordinary one though.The moment Adam took it out of the box he could hardly see it.On the rear of the box Adam noticed the scribbling clearly:"The truth isn't seen but felt."