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"Wow So you’re still the champion, but in the official version you’re the Alfar champion?"

"Yes The Alfar are powerful and they think ahead Or at least they try to This trick bit them in the butt, in the end After all, it eventually came out that I was really affiliated with the rebels, and here I was the champion Made the Alfar look bad None of that’s in the official version, obviously, but it used to be a big deal"

"So they lie, like they did with your story, in every single book?" I asked

"Basically, yes," Blondie said

I looked over at the cart, and then walked to where Sarah had packed the other books She’d left the up one of the ancient bound ones I said, "So, ill this one end?"

Blondie peered over at me "That’s the one that ends with ht in that version"

"What about this tinificantly older than the previous batch

"That one will tell you the Alfar queen at the tiroup of ether quite a few relics of other Elemental children to win the day," Blondie said

"So all these books will tell me that the Alfar did it, alone?" I asked

"Yes," Sarah said

I picked up the first volu the very last chapters Sure enough, the story was about a brave Alfar queen who led her people in battle and saved the day Any ht, with the Alfar do the action

So I picked up the next volume, and it was the sae An exact copy, to be precise

It wasn’t until I picked up the fourth of the five volu the same line I’d already read three other ti forthe fire," when the type set shifted It was only the slightest change in spacing, but I’d ans pulled by my fellow classmates Still, I nearly didn’t see these, as they were in a volu presses that kept everything nice and unifore to a sudden patch of language that was also very new

For this line read, "… and the Queene did spake her ire the creatures united called forth the power in their relics calling forthe fire"

I blinked, unsure what I was seeing, then felt le as I looked a few lines down to see another bit of odd spacing, and the once familiar phrase, "… the fire it did blaze like the sun, and it sed to, "the fire it did blaze like the sun and the relics, united, created a force so powerful and it smote the wily minions"

"Craftythe bits with the odd spacing, and there it was, all in front of me--the real story of what happened that day, not the fake, Alfar version of history

"It’s so Alfar," I said, holding up the book and speaking loud enough that the others could hear "It’s just like what they did with the creature"

The others were looking expectantly at me and I walked towards them within plain sight in such a way that they could find it again, if they needed it They know they need to ht need that very truth, soht there were everyone can see it, just like they did with the creature"

"What’d you find, Jane?" Anyan asked, ied rab the first book of the batch that I’d looked at "Look at this paragraph," I said, pointing out the one line about the Queene I’d latched onto in the beginning "Now look at it here," I said, pointing at the slightly different one in the fourth version "Keep reading, but only read what’s kind of weirdly spaced co else You’ll see"

While the others read, out of curiosity I went to the re books of that series They were like the first three I’d read Only that fourth version had been different