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Emotion 365: The Land of Victory, the City Achieved

Flags fly throughout the cities of Victory. Victorians teleport where they choose with whatever they like arriving from hither and yon with fancy clothes and meals. While they live lives of ease, Victorians like a challenge. They participate in games and athletic contests. They love architecture and design. They build up their cities and plan celebrations. Visitors arrive gratefully and feel victorious among the welcoming denizens of the fair cities. Only wizards are granted residence and a few orphans selected by the Victorious Wizards, adopted, and trained with wizardry.

 The city Achieved surrounds the castle wherein live the greatest wizards in all of Victory. These wizards travel to other lands and find abandoned youth in whom they sense potential. If the youngsters are willing, the wizards teleport these young to the Castle Achieve and raise them with kindness and compassion. The children learn spells, games, and athletic skill. They develop their natural talents. When they are adolescents the wizards send them to other lands to help others. 

“When you feel have have achieved the goal we discussed, just say the word “Victory!” and you will find yourself at the castle gate,” says the Wizard Moyguile. “You always have a place here, see how your name is etched into the stone at the gate. A book begins the story of your life in the castle library and when you return your portrait will hang in the castle gallery.”

A portrait of Miss Emeline Traveler hangs in the Castle Achieve and her given name, Emeline Moyguile, is carved into the stone of the castle gate.

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