696 Precocious Child 4yr

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As a twelve year old boy, Shulitu was much thinner than his peers, and his head, therefore, appeared quite big, which was embedded with a pair of precocious eyes. In many cases, a young boy with such thoughtful and inquisitive eyes like him would not be favored by adults.
If judged by the standards of the Norland, he was a useless child, and had he not been of royal blood, his family would have abandoned him in the wilderness and he would be a small pile of bones by now.
He had actually been a normal baby when he was born, and on his first full moon he had giggled in the Khan's arms, earning him lots of praise including one that said he was 'precocious.' As one of the countless flattering words that followed whomever orbited the Khan, this one comment was quite the apt appraisal.
Shulitu spoke and walked earlier than the other children but at the age of three, a serious illness struck him and changed his fate.
An unknown disease was spreading across the prairie at the time and many