**Welcome to Alteria, the hidden world of the elementals.**
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by Alyssa Kieffer
Click [[here|Start]] to go back.<U>**CHAPTER ONE**</U>
<div class="leftcolumn"> "Mommy! Mommy!"
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<div class="rightcolumn"> "Yes, dear?"
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<div class="leftcolumn">"What’s a human?"
</div><div class="rightcolumn">
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...
"Where did you hear that term?"
</div><div class="leftcolumn">"Asher, at school, told me that his grandpa once met a human, and that they are like us, but with no powers and they don’t live here. Are they aliens? Where are they?"
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[[Next|Intro 2]]<div class="rightcolumn"> "Honey, it is late. It’s almost time for bed. We don’t have time for this."
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<div class="leftcolumn">"But Asher said that his grandpa had found a portal to another world, the world the humans are on! But we don’t ever talk about humans in school. Are they real? Did you meet a human?"
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<div class="rightcolumn">
...
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"I'll be right back"
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[[Next|Intro 3]]
The boy's mother returns with an old, worn book in hand, her eyes sparkling but hidden behind bifocals.
<div class="leftcolumn">"What’s that, Mommy?"
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<div class="rightcolumn">
"This is a book your grandfather wrote about your grandmother. If you’re going to learn about humans, you best learn it from a reliable source. Your grandmother is actually very famous, but in secret. You can’t tell anyone you know about this, okay? Not even Asher."
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<div class="leftcolumn"> "I promise!!!!"
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[[Next|Intro 4]]
(font: "Courier New")["A long time ago, a place called Origin was the only world with inhabitants. These are the humans you heard about from Asher. One day, a meteor fell out of the sky and crashed landed in to Origin. This meteor came from somewhere in space that had a potentially-poisonous atmosphere, and whatever came on that meteor affected the atmosphere on Origin. Anyone with Type A blood all of a sudden developed some sort of element-harnessing power and an extended life span."]
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[[Next|Intro 5]]<div class=leftcolumn>"Powers like me?!"</div>
The boy's eyes flashed red.
<div class=rightcolumn>"Yes, dear."</div>
(font:"Courier New") ["Now, some of these people, Elementals they were branded, couldn’t contain their powers. They ended up hurting a lot of people, on accident, at least at first. They would accidentally start fires, cause floods, earthquakes, or even tornados. This made the humans very angry, and they felt very threatened by the Elementals. The humans tried to get as far away from the Elementals as possible, separating the schools, separating neighborhoods in cities, abandoning babies if they had type A blood. They were so afraid. The Elementals didn’t like being pushed from their homes and segregated, so they retaliated, trying to take back their homes and cities. Then the war broke out. Lives were lost on both sides."]
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[[Next|Intro 6]](font:"Courier New") ["The Prime Minister of Origin and the Elder of The Elementals formed a truce that the Elementals would form their own civilization on Alteria, an alternate dimension of Origin, accessible by one rift discovered in the mountains of Origin. This would prevent death on both sides. The war was then labeled the “Banishment War” to the humans, as it was the mark of banishing the Elementals from Origin.
The humans promised to send any born elementals through the rift. For many years, they did. The Elementals noticed one large difference though, between Origin and Alteria. It was that their lifespan was almost cut in half, now only living to about 50 instead of 100."]
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[[Next|Intro 7]]
<div class="leftcolumn">"People used to live to be 100 years old?? Asher’s grandpa was lucky to live to 75! That was longer than anybody we knew, right, Mommy?"</div>
<div class="rightcolumn">"You’re right, honey. That is a really long time. My dad only lived until 47."</div>
(font:"Courier New")["But anyway, the Elementals started to try to sneak back into Origin to breathe the air and increase their lifespan, forming a drug market for “Origin Bliss”, small doses of Origin air that can be breathed in for extra years of life. When the Elementals were discovered, the humans sought to kill them all. This forced the rift to be closed on both sides, and hidden. The Prime Minister vowed to kill any Elemental that stepped on Origin again, including any born Elementals on Origin, and said that Elementals were monsters and devil-born and needed to be exterminated."]
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[[Next|Intro 8]]
(font:"Courier New") ["So, now we come to Asher’s grandpa and your grandmother’s lives. They were a part of a team that fought against a guy named <B>Braxton</B>. Braxton was a really strong leader in our military who really wanted to stop Origin from killing Elemental babies and let the Elementals back on Origin for extended life. But since the humans blocked and hid the Rift, he had to form an army to find the Rift and kill the humans. Most of the Elementals did not want to join the army and wanted to just live in peace, so Braxton had his scientist, <B>Regina</B>, develop a brainwashing serum that he could infected people with. With this serum, they would forget who they were and permanently become Elemental Beserkers, meaning they had no control over their Elemental powers. They were perfect for killing humans.
So your grandmother, <B>Sofia</B>, and Asher’s grandpa, <B>Xander</B> (who they called <B>Z</B>), along with a girl named <B>Terra</B>, and a boy named <B>Adrian</B> worked for <B>the Elder</B>, who I’m sure you learned about in school. They formed a small resistance against Braxton’s Army, to try and stop them from finding the Rift and leave the humans alone."]
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[[Next|Intro 9]]
(font:"Courier New") ["Your grandmother led the group, and it was her job to track down the search teams sent out by Braxton and stop them before they find the Rift. Your grandfather wrote all about her journey. Do you want to hear about it? We will talk about how Asher’s Grandpa Z met a human, and so did your Grandma Sofia."]
YES (click-append: "YES ")[ <B>Great. Let’s start with the fight at Drakko against Search Team 14.</B>
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[[Next|Ch2:1]]]
or
NO (click-append: "NO ") [ <B>Come back when you're ready.
Ready?</B>]
(click-append: "Ready?") [ <B>Great. Let’s start with the fight at Drakko against Search Team 14.</B>
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[[Next|Ch2:1]]]
<U>**CHAPTER TWO**</U>
The air smells dry and dust blows roughly against your skin. Mountains line the skyline ahead of you, but their tall peaks are no use against the sun's relentless rays from the East. The heat of the sun does not bother you as much as the whining coming out of your partner. You have both been travelling for two days, looking for signs of a search party sent by Braxton. The clear skies have been a nice addition to the traveling, but you can see a storm coming in the distance.
<div class="sofia"> You : "Z, can you not let it rain right now, please? We are almost to Drakko!"</div>
All you hear is your partner, Z, grumble to himself, and the same grumble came from the clouds. The clouds were above a mountain town that appeared to have smoke coming from the rooftops.
You say:
[[<div class="sofia">"Look, there's smoke!"</div>|Ch2:2]]
OR
[[<div class="sofia">"Why are you so grumpy all the time?"</div>|Ch2:1.1]]<div class="xander">
<div class="rightcolumn"> Z: "There is smoke coming from Drakko! I'm guessing the search party started ahead of us."</div></div>
<div class="leftcolumn">
[[<div class="sofia">"We should get in there right now"|Ch2:3]]</div></div>
OR
<div class="leftcolumn">[[<div class="sofia">"Should we tell the Elder? Do you think we need help?"|Ch2:2.1]] </div></div>
<div class="xander">
<div class="rightcolumn"> Z: "I'm grumpy all the time because I am stuck looking for mindless morons that are going to try to murder me. And sometimes I just really want to sit at home with my pants off.</div></div>
You look at Z and can't help but laugh. Then you say:
<div class="leftcolumn">
[[<div class="sofia">"Well, just keep the storm off us. Could do with some air around here though."|Ch2:2]]</div></div>
OR
<div class="leftcolumn">[[<div class="sofia">"They're not mindless! They are brainwashed!"|Ch2:1.2]] </div></div>
<div class="xander">
<div class="rightcolumn"> Z: "They are as good as mindless. There's nothing left in them. And you know there is no coming back. What makes them an individual is gone forever."</div></div>
<div class="leftcolumn">
<div class="sofia"> "I just feel bad for the families, ya know? The ones that lose their loved ones to Braxton's power. They're either made into a puppet or killed by one."</div></div>
<div class="xander">
<div class="rightcolumn"> Z: "There is too much love in your heart for the current state of our world, my dear. If we don't take out Braxton's Army, it's over. Paradise and our only chance is gone."</div></div>
<div class="leftcolumn">
<div class="sofia"> "I only hope for you to be wrong."</div></div>
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[[Next|Ch2:2]]<div class="xander">
<div class="rightcolumn"> Z: "If you want to. But I think we can handle it. We have to save those villagers!"</div></div>
<div class="leftcolumn">
[[<div class="sofia">"Forget it, let's go! We can handle it!"|Ch2:3]]</div></div>
OR
<div class="leftcolumn">[[<div class="sofia">"I'm going to talk to the Elder. Adrian could be here quickly."|Ch2:2.2]] </div></div>
Sofia sits cross-legged on the dirt road and closes her eyes. Z waits impatiently, looking around you to make sure nobody attacks you. You make your request for connection in your mind.
<div class="leftcolumn">
<div class="sofia"><I>Elder. Can you hear me?<?I></div></div>
<div class="rightcolumn">
<div class="elder"><I>Elder: Sofia? What's wrong?</I></div></div>
<div class="leftcolumn">
<div class="sofia"><I>We have arrived at Drakko. A fire has broken out but it is unclear if it is Search 14. Is Adrian around to assist us?</I></div></div>
<div class="rightcolumn">
<div class="elder"><I>Elder: Drakko? Still searching the mountain towns, aren't they. Well Adrian is not here and my intel says that you should be able to handle this team! How are you not sure if the team is there or not?</I></div></div>
<div class="leftcolumn">
<div class="sofia"><I> I...I don't know. I just wanted to make sure we could handle this.</I></div></div>
<div class="rightcolumn">
<div class="elder"><I>Elder: YOU ARE WASTING TIME! GET IN THERE AND STOP THE TEAM AND SAVE THOSE TOWNSFOLK!</I></div></div>
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[[Next|Ch2:3]](if: (history:) contains "Ch2:2.2")[You find that all of the villagers have died, and Search Team 14 is getting ready to move on. You feel a deep sadness grow inside of you, as you know they were just innocent lives.]
(else:)
[You find that all of the villagers have taken refuge in the church as Search Team 14 destroys Drakko. You are grateful for their lives, but saddened by the loss of their homes.]
<div class="xander">
<div class="rightcolumn"> Z: "Let's get to the team fast before they get away!"</div></div>
Z runs off ahead of you, trying to find the team's whereabouts down the empty, torn up streets. Buildings are on fire, as that is the team's way of threatening villagers to divulge information about the locaton of the Rift.
You follow behind, listening for sounds of the team. You think you hear voices down a road that Z has already passed.
<div class="leftcolumn">
[[<div class="sofia">"Z! Come back this way!"|Ch2:4]]</div></div>
OR
<div class="leftcolumn">
[[<div class="sofia">Go down the road yourself to investigate.|Ch2:3.1]]</div></div>
You take off down the road. Voices are echoing off the walls as you get closer to the source. You vagueley hear your name being called in the distance, but you ignore it as you sneak up to the corner at the end of the street. You feel your hands get hot as a small fireball is formed between your dry palms as a precaution.
You peek around the corner and see the search team gathered around a make-shift fire pit. What you thought were voices were just different toned grunts and moans coming from each member, as they can no longer form words. Each member's eyes are a different color, and their facial skin is charred and dirty. Their bodies are covered by black cloaks with a giant eye on them, the eye color matching the bearer's.
(mouseover-replace: "leader") [His eyes are (text-colour: "#0000ff")[blue]]
(mouseout-replace: "His eyes are blue") [(text-colour: "#0000ff") [leader]]
You stay low around the corner, only peeking out to see how many there are and where they are located. There is one that seems to be the (text-colour: "#0000ff") [leader] in the middle.
<div class="leftcolumn">
[[<div class="sofia">Wait for Z to find you.|Ch2:4]]</div></div>
OR
<div class="leftcolumn">
[[<div class="sofia">Go in without him|Ch2:3.2]]</div></div>
Z finally meets up with you, and sees the search team.
<div class="rightcolumn">
<div class="xander">"Damn, Beserkers. See, they can't even talk any more. Whatever Regina and Braxton created is just going to destroy everything in the end."</div></div>
<div class="leftcolumn">
<div class="sofia">"Yeah, they just don't care how Alteria fares, since Braxton thinks he's getting back to Origin."</div></div>
<div class="rightcolumn">
<div class="xander">"Well don't you think he could find a way to locate the Rift without killing all these people and setting random towns on fire?"</div></div>
<div class="leftcolumn">
<div class="sofia">"He's your brother. You know the answer to that question."</div></div>
<div class="rightcolumn">
<div class="xander">"HE IS NOT MY BROTHER. WE DO NOT SHARE BLOOD!"</div></div>
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[[Next|Ch2:5]]
You run in at the group, who is startled by your arrival. You throw the fireball at the biggest member.
The member's eye color is (colour: "#0000ff")[blue], indicating his strength is water.
Water is the fire elemental's weakness, so the fireball extinguished immediately on impact of the member's body. The member laughs as he charges at you, sending a heavy stream of water at your head. You move out of the way, drops of water sizzling on your skin as the stream passes by. The skin where the drops landed is now a dark black and the pain is excruciating.
Another member catches your arm from behind and holds you in your place. The water member sends a large wave of water in your direction, and it hits you. You feel your skin melting away as you crumble to the ground, trying to scream for Z to help you.
Game Over.
[[Start Over|Start]]
[[Begin Chapter Over|Ch2:1]]Z points to the member in the center of the group:
<div class="xander">
<div class="rightcolumn"> Z: "Look at his eyes. They are blue. A water elemental. Looks like you'll be no good. How about you take the guy on his right? With the green eyes."</div></div>
<div class="sofia">
<div class="leftcolumn"> "Why do you get to have all the fun?"</div></div>
<div class="xander">
<div class="rightcolumn"> Z: "You are only the most famous fire elemental in Alteria. Don't you think he knows that?"</div></div>
<div class="sofia">
<div class="leftcolumn"> ...
"Fine, I guess so. Bring that rain cloud over here to stop the fires in the village. Then let's take these beserkers out."</div></div>
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[[Next|Ch2:6]]
Z raises his arms up towards the sky. specifically focusing on the dark cloud that was dropping rain on the mountains surrounding Drakko. Slowly, the cloud passed in front of the sun, temporarily covering the village with a dark shadow. Rain starts to pour on the village, the fires slowly burning out.
The search team is looking at the sky with confusion, grunting with displeasure at their destruction coming to an end. The team begins to gather their belongings to hide from the rain, when Z leaps towards the fire beserker and sets precise, sharp wind gusts at the beserker's body.
The wind cuts the beserker's arms, and he calls out in pain. The other beserkers see what is happening and start barreling towards them.
You throw a fireball at the green eyed-beseker who is closest to Z, and when it lands, the beserker screams as his arm shrivels and breaks off his body, like a branch in a fire falling off a log. You throw another one before he can run away, and the fire burns a hole through his torso and through the rest of his body. He falls in pieces to the ground before his remains burn and disintegrate to ash.
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[[Next|Ch2:7]]
Your location is now known and you must move.
Do you:
<div class="leftcolumn">[[<div class="sofia">Move closer to Z?</div>|Ch2:8]]</div></div>
OR
<div class="leftcolumn">[[<div class="sofia">Double back, out of sight, and come around a different street, hoping to surprise the remaining beserkers?</div>|Ch2:7.1]]</div></div>
You double back and head down the next street that leads to the same area. No beserkers are following you. There are 3 left: the water beserker, another earth beserker, and an unidentified one that you didn't catch the eye color of.
As you approach the group again, you see that Z is obviously injured. The earth beserker is on his right side, with vines constricting Z's arms movements like snakes. Z is struggling to get free, the air around him trying to sever the vines. The unidentified member is standing in front of him, not grunting like the others. As you slink forward, you notice there is no eye on his cloak and that you can't see his eyes.
Then the unidentified member looks up from Z and sees you, the shadow from the hood hiding the face.
The earth and water beserker see you as well and come at you.
Your eyes start burning as your hands get hot. Your fingers turn red as you raise them ahead you.
(text-style: "shudder")[Your body starts to shake as you glance at the ruined village around you, and you feel your anger rise.]
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[[Next|Ch2:8]]
You send streams of fire from your finger tips towards the 3 remaining members. This pulls the earth beserker off of Z and it starts towards you, shrieking from the fire hitting its back. You then start swirling a ball of fire in your hands, and once it is the size of the beserker's head, you hurl it towards the oncoming member. It hits him in the face, causing the beserker to stop in his path and burn from the head down, the flames engulfing body.
Once he is a pile of ash on the ground, you look up and find Z standing over the water beserker, the beserker's head detached from his body.
<div class="xander">
<div class="rightcolumn"> Z: "Well done, I'd say."</div></div>
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[[Next|Ch2:9]]
You nod and look around, wondering where the final member went.
They seem to have vanished.
<div class="sofia">
<div class="leftcolumn">"Did you see where the last guy went?"</div></div>
Z appears confused.
<div class="xander">
<div class="rightcolumn"> Z: "There were only 3 of them."</div></div>
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[[Next Chapter|Ch3:1]]<U>**CHAPTER THREE**</U>
You leave Drakko, the town still smoking from the flames being doused on by rain. You hear distant screaming behind you as people from neighboring areas approach the crumbling town. You hang your head low, wondering what you could have done to prevent this at all. As you and Z head back to the Resistance base, you:
<div class="leftcolumn">
[[<div class="sofia">"We need to figure out how to get ahead of those search teams. All the mountain towns are going to be destroyed as he looks for the Rift."|Ch3:1.1]]</div></div>
OR
<div class="leftcolumn">[[<div class="sofia">Walk the rest of the way back in silence.|Ch3:2]] </div></div>
Z looks annoyed by your statement.
<div class="xander">
<div class="rightcolumn"> Z: "You know the Elder does his best with giving us information about where to go. Don't you think he feels the same way?"
</div></div>
<div class="leftcolumn">
<div class="sofia">"Yeah, but don't you think it would make more sense if we talked to the towns about alerting us of his army?"</div></div>
<div class="xander">
<div class="rightcolumn"> Z: "Where do you think the Elder gets hs information? As far as I know, he is not psychic and can't see the future. We don't have enough power in numbers to protect these towns. We just need to keep doing what we're doing, and trust the Elder!"
</div></div>
<div class="leftcolumn">
[[<div class="sofia">"You're right. Sorry, I just get so frustrated that our people, innocent people, keep dying because of this."|Ch3:2]]</div></div>
OR
<div class="leftcolumn">[[<div class="sofia">"Sometimes, I'm not so sure about trusting the Elder."|Ch3:1.2]] </div></div>
Z stops in his tracks and spins around to face you, his eyes a dark blue-grey, the color deepening quickly as you examine his face. His normally light-hearted demeanor was gone and is replaced with an intensity that scares you a little. His jaw line is taught, his brow furrowed, and his fists are clenched.
<div class="xander">
<div class="rightcolumn"> Z: "How DARE you question the intentions of the Elder! He is the one that made you who you are today! He is the one who told you the truth about your parents and saved you from killing yourself! He taught you to turn your rage into something productive, like taking down Braxton!"</div></div>
<div class="leftcolumn">
<div class="sofia">"All I'm saying-"</div></div>
<div class="rightcolumn"> Z: "Let me finish!"</div></div>
A gust of wind slashes at your face, Z is getting angry now.
<div class="rightcolumn"> Z: "You have no reason to question anything he puts before you! We owe him everything! If you don't trust him, you have no business being a part of the Resistance!"</div></div>
Z quickly turns around and walks ahead of you without letting you respond. You walk the rest of the way in an unsettled silence.
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[[Next|Ch3:2]]
You reach the Resistance base. The tension is heavy between you and Z, and you don't exchange any pleasantries as you part ways at the house. The house is old with Victorian-esque elegance. It was modeled after the Elder's original home on Origin. It is a dark brown with a dark trim, with a large gate protecting the entrance. The building is tall and ominous with dark windows. A beautiful garden is in the front, full of exotic and bright flowers, and there are many trees scattered throughout the yard.
You walk over to the garden to look at the flowers, and you bend over to smell a rose. As you touch the petals to pull the rose closer to your face, the petals begins to smolder and disintegrate into ash. You gasp as the flower dies in your palm.
<div class="elder">
<div class="rightcolumn"> Elder: "Terra worked hard on this garden, you know."</div></div>
You jump up in surprise as you see the Elder suddenly standing behind you.
<div class="leftcolumn">
[[<div class="sofia">"I must still be heated from that fight."|Ch3:2.1]]</div></div>
OR
<div class="leftcolumn">[[<div class="sofia">"Hey, I need to discuss something with you."|Ch3:3]] </div></div>
<div class="elder">
<div class="rightcolumn"> Elder: "Luckily, Terra is good at what she does."</div></div>
Where the dead rose broke off at the stem, a new bud has already started to grow.
<div class="elder">
<div class="rightcolumn"> Elder: "How were today's beserkers?"</div></div>
<div class="leftcolumn">
[[<div class="sofia">"Same as always. Dumb but deadly."|Ch3:2.2]]</div></div>
OR
<div class="leftcolumn">[[<div class="sofia">"We need to talk our strategy."|Ch3:3]] </div></div><div class="elder">
<div class="rightcolumn"> Elder: "It is a shame that the mind control is not reversible. Soon, all of our race is going to be under his control and we will have nothing left to save."</div></div>
You shake your head with a pained expression on your face.
<div class="leftcolumn">
<div class="sofia">"I'm grateful he just killed my family instead of them turning into those monsters."</div></div>
<div class="elder">
<div class="rightcolumn"> Elder: "Some are not so lucky."</div></div>
You both look solemnly at the ground. You find that your jaw is clenched and that your skin is hot to the touch.
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[[Next|Ch3:3]]
<div class="elder">
<div class="rightcolumn"> Elder: ""Z told me that some things are troubling you."</div></div>
<div class="leftcolumn">
<div class="sofia">"I'm hardly convinced that those are the words he chose."</div></div>
<div class="elder">
<div class="rightcolumn"> Elder: "Is there anything you wish to ask of me? You know I care for you, Sofia, and I will answer any questions you have."</div></div>
<div class="leftcolumn">
[[<div class="sofia">"We need to find a way to get ahead of the search teams. Too many people are dying."|Ch3:4]]</div></div>
OR
<div class="leftcolumn">[[<div class="sofia">"Why are we doing this?"|Ch3:4]] </div></div>End of Demo. I hope you enjoyed.