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Cedric Ocean Eder Short Story

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Cedric Ocean Eder had been living in Glace Bay, Port area at the southern part of The New Morram City for as long as he could remember in his 18th-year-old life. He was the only son of Alan Eder, a tough fisherman whose life bound with the tide of the sea life. Numerous times caught by a thunderous storm when he was sailing on the sea and dangling between life and death, his father kept his vivid dream that one day his son, Cedric Ocean, would follow his way of struggling life against the sea. Cedric’s childhood was a series of stories of plunging out into the sea, repeatedly drowning before being pulled out of the sea using fishnet by other fishermen, wandering around the stinky fish market, and cornered at dark and empty alley by a bunch of burly fishermen kids. No boys wanted to befriend him, and he soon found out that his father’s worried about the way his body developed. His posture’s lean and slender. His skin was chalky pale as …show more content…

I know you’ve been mingling well with the Maister, Concoran, and Fabray. And for the Guildare, nobody has heard about them, they walk away from public life. Those families run everything important: the government, the political party, the biggest businesses, and the media. They even fund their private guards who they heavily armed.”

“I know about that too,” Cedric stifled a smile. What’s Trey thinking? Of course, he didn’t miss that the Fabray had the largest media corporation, the Concoran had their claw in telecommunication industries, the Maister controlled financial industries. “But to be close with the group who have control over the energy power system, financial industries, and guarded by their private armed squad have never quite hurt.” “Until you saw someone’s getting hurt and you could do nothing about it,” said Trey at that

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