Chapter 0

[font=Rockwell][align=center][u][size=large]Chapter 0[/size][/u]

[u]Humble Beginnings[/u][/align]

I must have been around the age of nine when my parents told me the story of how they met; my father was a traveling chef from Magnolia who found success everywhere he visited, my mother was born in Sheng and used to tend to flowers. They met while the both of them were visiting Osrona. It was love at first sight, or so they say. She had thoughts of moving to Esshar in order to venture away from the rest of her family and he cast away a near-perfect life he lived in order to settle for plain perfect. Or at least that's how he tells it.

Neither of them were magi, you know? That's why they've always called me their [i]little treasure[/i], a name I... can't really like.

My parents were the ones who taught me that there was good in every individual. That the world was beautiful. That even in the darkest of places a flower could bloom. That even the cruelest warmongering tyrant could enjoy a homemade meal. They were the reason that I've taken it upon myself to find everything I could about the world. Anything.

My name is Seifer Gardios. I was born and raised in Osrona, yet I can't help but wonder one thing...

What does the future have in store for me?[/font]