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Once he exited the house, he heard a large bang, and a flash of royal purple light flood out of the windows. However, once that split second was over, all was back to normal. The neighbors who had come running to check on the house turned around and looked slightly confused as to why they had run there in the first place.
Desmond and Justin finally reached their house after what seemed like an eternity, and they immediately ran to their mother.
“Mom! We met a man who snapped his fingers and made his kitchen move in house 1492”, exclaimed Justin.
“Honey, would you mind describing this man for me?”
Desmond described the man to his mother.
“Oh my god…” whispered his mom. “It can’t be…”
“What can’t be? What’s wrong, mom?”
“That man you just described, what color were his eyes?”
Desmond thought for a moment, and then replied. “They were grey. Why?”
“When your grandfather was a young man, they came in one day and arrested a man for kidnappings. At his trial, he had testified that he was a wizard, and that everyone should have been bowing to him”.
“So?”
“He was eventually diagnosed insane, and placed into an asylum. Apparently, he had been performing experiments on pairs of brothers that he found. He claimed that he had been working on a way to bring his two sons back to life after they died in the War. That had occurred over thirty years ago”.
“And?”
“The man they arrested, he had grey eyes. And his two boys that were killed in the War, their names were Desmond and Justin”.