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 Song Said To Have Been Sung by Sam

Although he wasn't called the Wee Wizard for nothing, he Will was often uneasy when others spoke of magic. He was especially sensitive when his sister did for her truth struck too close to home.  Darling Darlene possessed an uncanny knack for calling magic into question.  In fact her crtical eye was more than a match for the magic that Will's wizardry brought forth.

That is not to say that Will did not possess the gift.  He most certainly did.  Many were envious of his powers.  Will, however, was somewhat nonchalant about his talent.  His gift was like breathing, unconsidered and unnoticed, until air vanished.

The siblings skipped through the station smack dab in the middle of their minscule village, a village so tiny that it had been virtually secure for eons because no robber baron worth his salt could be botherer tampering with such trifling treasures.

You may realize that an eon is an incredibly long time.  It is such an elongated period that no village elder, it has been said, has ever made the effort to count the years in an eon. It was take an age to do so.  Even though there didn't seem to be any point in a village existing before anyone existed to acknowledge its existence, village elders persisted in their belief that their village was older than time itself as if that was supposed to mean something.  Be that as it may, some village elders went so far as to say that their village was as old as Sam.  Others felt that nothing could possibly be as old as Sam.

It is not for us to say, whether the song was actually sung or was merely said to have been sung because no one would admit that they couldn't hear it.  It is safe to say that in this village, things were not always as they appeared to be.