[Note: This is the beginning of a novel I abandoned many years ago.  I worked on it, off and on, for over fifteen years and it never got any better.  I have notebooks full of backstory, history and characterizations, along with maps, sketches and unfinished scenes.  Why dredge it up now?  Well, I guess I felt sorry for it, sitting there alone for so many years.  A story is meant to be heard, even a bad story.  This one is full of clichés, melodrama, and too much exposition, to name just a few of its problems. However, it may amuse the reader in some small way, so here it is.  I'll post it in little chunks and use the tag "Seeing Stone." Fly, little story, and be free!]

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