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Among the oldest wanderers of the southern deserts, there was a saying that the earth remembered every footprint, even after the wind had wiped it away.The dunes moved, the rocks split under the relentless sun, and the stars moved across the sky just as they had since the world began.Yet nothing that traveled across the great emptiness was ever truly forgotten.Deep beneath towering dunes lay the remains of forgotten kings, abandoned camps, broken wagons, and wells that had once sustained whole nations before being swallowed by the desert's quiet power.The elders told this saying to every child born beneath a goat-hair tent, and most dismissed it with laughter until the day they walked alone into the wilderness and felt that silence itself was alive.In those distant times, before great cities rose along the trade roads and merchants measured wealth in gold, there stretched a vast wilderness known as Narala—a sea of sand that seemed endless to those who spent their lives crossing it.
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