Prologue (1/2)

TEC MAGE PROLOGUE

Ben was a bear of aarms He had brown hair and eyes so dark brown the pupils were hard to distinguish between his iris He's face a bit plain but young looking despite being 30 years old he looked 20 It was 7:45a site of the co sure his work colleague had the correct building equiph, orphaned at 16 his rieved at work having to support hi himself deathly quiet he didn't want to rieve in peace After the first 6and teach hi, bricklaying, roofing, reading blueprints, lead work, electrics wiring, plastering you nae Ben could build his own ho a super cheap run down house he set to work on the home in his spare ti the co by the copany's partnershi+p as an unofficial fore his pay to that of a fore it in run down buildings and fixing them up

Now 30 years old he owned 2 houses and 3 flats coe a in everythe official foreman Ben could only think he would be chosen due to the facts that every project he was in charge of caue respected Ben for being a good fore their lives much easier Ben was sure he would become the official foreman, who else was there

The fated day had arrived and Ben was excited, he wouldn't get more power or any extra cash but it was more about pride Ben had worked up to this point for 7 years Entering the offices he was greeted by Matthew the CEO, Ben respected the Matthew, but the look on the man's face was a bit put out he didn't look happy

Ben decide to ask rong ”you don't look too pleased what happened”

Matthew looked at hi his ”bad news the partners have decide that a university graduate will be the new foreo form foreman pay to workforce pay”

Ben looked at Matthew hard not saying anything, thinking about what he had just said Ben was a patient ood job”

Matthew replied ”it's coh as foreman but even the CEO has to answer to the partners They said that having a non diplo a site could hurt the stock prices and that paying someone without one was a waste when you could pay for the sa his head in disagreement ”it didn't matter to the partners for many years that i didn't have a diaploma No one has co his head ”I know but they said only one person needs to get hurt or one person to complain before people ask why they didn't have a trained fore voice

Matthew stepped back, he himself was as tall as Ben but in no way as stocky or broad

Within a week Ben had been replaced, he was at a loss what to do Ben realized that he couldn't fight against higher ups without losing tiuarantee that he would be eht it over, the probleet one

Ben walk up to the new foreher ups, his name was Robert, not a bad ht