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p style="max-height: 999999px; text-align: center;"strongspan style="max-height: 999999px; text-decoration-line: underline;"The Ballad of Mona Lisa/span/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px; text-align: center;"strongPrologue/strong/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px;"In 1792, a small house was discovered on the west coast of Britain, and the leaders of the the great nation rejoiced. Here, at last, was one place, one jail, one imprisonment that was truly solitary./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"The seedy little shack sat a mile from the edge of the nearest town, an equally dodgy type of village that housed only the shadiest and most unimportant of characters. All of these factors just further perfected the beauty of the dark, crumbling mansion./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"For a mansion it had once been - a gorgeous, looming hotel over a century ago that only the most prominent and wealthy of personalities visited. It was the front porch of all amazing rumors and gossip.../p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Until it slowly disappeared and the world went on without it, not even bothering to speculate on its absence./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"But then it had been found again - for a much different purpose./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"They founded it quickly but reluctantly. After all, it was a great discovery but one that would only be great if hidden. They would receive no credit, but their patriotism surpassed their pride./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Or so they believed./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"The first true resident of Mercenary Asylum had completely differing beliefs regarding the purpose of it./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"What was it? Nothing more than a way to keep the "insane" out of the public eye. Out of the way./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"He came to Mercenary with no fears - after all, what was his life but a tumultuous ride around the deepest, darkest places in the world?/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"However, for once in his life, he found a bit of light. Here was a town that he wasn't emthat /emout of place in. Here was a person dark emand /emlight enough to be, well, almost a friend./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"He had no purpose in life but to survive - and make some mark on the world before finally leaving it forever./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"The last, though, didn't exactly happen the way it was planned.../p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"For that matter, for Thomas Marvolo Riddle, neither did the first./p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; text-align: center;"strongspan style="max-height: 999999px; text-decoration-line: underline;"The Ballad of Mona Lisa/span/strong/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px;"In 1792, a small house was discovered on the west coast of Britain, and the leaders of the the great nation rejoiced. Here, at last, was one place, one jail, one imprisonment that was truly solitary./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"The seedy little shack sat a mile from the edge of the nearest town, an equally dodgy type of village that housed only the shadiest and most unimportant of characters. All of these factors just further perfected the beauty of the dark, crumbling mansion./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"For a mansion it had once been - a gorgeous, looming hotel over a century ago that only the most prominent and wealthy of personalities visited. It was the front porch of all amazing rumors and gossip.../p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Until it slowly disappeared and the world went on without it, not even bothering to speculate on its absence./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"But then it had been found again - for a much different purpose./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"They founded it quickly but reluctantly. After all, it was a great discovery but one that would only be great if hidden. They would receive no credit, but their patriotism surpassed their pride./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Or so they believed./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"The first true resident of Mercenary Asylum had completely differing beliefs regarding the purpose of it./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"What was it? Nothing more than a way to keep the "insane" out of the public eye. Out of the way./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"He came to Mercenary with no fears - after all, what was his life but a tumultuous ride around the deepest, darkest places in the world?/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"However, for once in his life, he found a bit of light. Here was a town that he wasn't emthat /emout of place in. Here was a person dark emand /emlight enough to be, well, almost a friend./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"He had no purpose in life but to survive - and make some mark on the world before finally leaving it forever./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"The last, though, didn't exactly happen the way it was planned.../p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"For that matter, for Thomas Marvolo Riddle, neither did the first./p
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