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– They say… yes, hmm… – grumbled Fortis. After Tong’s first “revelation,” he realized that the fellow, to put it mildly, loved to boast and make things up – the first time, he claimed to have traveled the whole world at the age of seventeen – most likely by slowing down passing carriages and swimming across the sea on a turtle. Now it turned out that he was aware of the personal lives of random models from an Aeolian magazine and terrorist plots. Fortis remembered his grandfather – he also told glorious tales, but he was almost seventy, and this one was quite good at inventing stories even at a young age.