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Cotton's Prologue:

King Tutua stood on the grand balcony of his palace, his gaze fixed on the western horizon where the sun sank into the belly of the sea, casting the sky in hues of blood-red and gold. The distant shores of Europe lay beyond that expanse, a land filled with people he neither feared nor respected. In his mind, they were a lesser breed—pale-skinned barbarians who wore their ignorance like armor and their so-called civilization like a mask that could be easily torn away. He had studied them from afar, watched them grow fat on their false notions of grandeur. But they were weak. And soon, he would tear down their fragile societies like a hunter gutting his prey.

"Europeans," Tutua whispered, the word dripping with disdain. "A race of mongrels who scramble in the dirt, believing their meager existence to be worth something. They imagine themselves as kings, philosophers, and warriors. But in truth, they are nothing more than dogs—fighting over scraps, blind to the leash around their necks."

He turned away from the horizon, moving back into his chamber, where maps and scrolls detailed every corner of the European continent. They were mere sketches in his grander vision, a place destined to fall beneath his heel. His advisors and generals, gathered around a massive oak table, stiffened as he entered, awaiting the next decree from their king. The air in the room was thick with reverence and fear.

"Do you know what I find most amusing about these Europeans?" Tutua asked, his tone conversational yet laced with venom. He didn’t wait for a response. "They believe themselves to be free. They speak of enlightenment, of progress, of liberty. But I see through their delusions. What they call progress is nothing more than stagnation. Their culture is a joke, their people are fragile, and their kings—pawns, ready to be sacrificed."

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