"How do I obtain this crown?"Alves threw the dead worm away. It was pretty big. He was deep in thoughts. He had a lot to be worry about, yet at the same time he had just little to worry about. To think that he could hold unto one thing and let the rest go was a feeling that tend to be surreal but then remote. "They are unbelievably strong and tall. Obviously they won't go down without a fight."He took a sharp breath. He allowed the thoughts to pace his mind for quite a while. He was trying to draw an inference. "I think I'm not getting it right. It seems that's why it feels like an impossible task for me."He was pushing the thoughts around his mind. He was spinning and wishing that at least a helpful thought would get him out of the mess. But he couldn't be quite sure yet. "It seems like getting worried about all of them is what causes the worry."Alves nodded. He was beginning to get what he wanted. What seemed to be remote suddenly appeared to be in his reach. "I should only
"Tame?""How?""How am I supposed to do that..."Alves had a lot going on in his head and the words kept falling out of his lips of their own accords. But then he realised that he had more than that to worry about. Suddenly, he struggled with all the strength in him. He felt a great force pulling him by the collar, in a slide off the paw of the huge lion. He went sliding away. About a metre away from where the lion had originally pinned him down to. He puffed first before he made out the words,"What was that?"He couldn't be sure what to think. One thing which was certain was the fact that he didn't pull himself. It must be his Ri pulling off the pressure of the paw of the lion. He raised his head looking at the lion. The creature, even distant from him, looked quite huge. "Tame it? Did that motherfucker say Tame it?"Alves wanted it all to be a lie but he couldn't draw the inference. "A tool? My tool? What does it mean by that? What tool is it talking about?"The more Alves tho
"Oh shit, he is looking at me..."Alves didn't know what to do. He couldn't even think of something. He was seated on the branch of the tree, both of his legs were outstretched on the branch. It was a lucky posture for him, but he didn't know for how long. There was a giant beneath him, whose height got to that branch of the tree. The neck of the giant had been pushed towards his position, and the eye of the gaint was creeping him out. Alves didn't need anyone to tell him that he had been discovered by the giant. But then something quite interesting happened. While he had given up and was thinking of how to buy himself a new life or a way out of this unanticipated havoc, he realised that the giant was sniffing. Alves decided to say still for a while. For a fact, he couldn't really tell what was happening, but he could feel deep within himself that things were beginning to work in his own favour. It was a strong feeling which he couldn't throw away. He felt the tip of the nose of
"Hey don't go. Where are you going? You are supposed to stay."Alves called on top of his voice as he watched the lion walk away. He wished he could do something. Anything at all. But there was nothing coming. He couldn't reach a definite reaction. "She shouldn't walk away. This isn't part of the plan is it?"He kept staring at the lion. The lion kept walking till it was out of sight, walking into another cut in the shrubs. "Didn't I tame her? Did I tame her yet?"Alves wasn't really sure of what to say. He was clueless on what to do next. "If I didn't tame her, she would had killed me or hurt me, or something."Alves took few steps forward. It was as though he was trying so hard to reach at something which naturally seemed to be remote to him. "But then why did she walk away? Was I supposed to say something to her, to make her stay? Perhaps she understands a different language?"Alves didn't want to waste his time any further. He did have quite a lot to do. He couldn't even tell
"Where the hell did you come from? I thought you left? How did you get here before me?"Alves knew that he was being illogical with the loads of questions he was asking, yet he just wanted to make meaning of it. He had struggled with his brain to quit thinking about the possibility of the lion being the one who almost hit him off the branch of the tree the other time. And now what?He had travelled in the other direction, in the speed of the wind. Yet, the lion was standing behind him? Even if the lion could run faster than him, which was more of a mirage because of the weight, yet it would had come out from where the giants were, and not from behind him. There was something else to be worried about and he knew that, but for a while he allowed himself to be distracted. But then the growl of the giants knocked him back to reality. When he raised his head, he realised a change in the giants' composure and approach. The giants who were once tough and threatening, now cower, growling
"I could tell that you had a great experience."There was a voice from behind him. He was familiar with that voice. He didn't really need to turn to be able to tell who that was. But then he was reluctant to face the person. Instead, he allowed his scurrying eyes to travel through the great space between the two mountain ranges. He stared at the mouth of the cave where many giants were, still on their knees. Though it was a hard decision for him, yet he knew that it would make absolutely no sense staying back in this strange space. He couldn't possibly start a new life with giants and a lion. When he was done looking, he turned to face the man who had spoken. The heat which was warming up his hair started to cool off. It could only mean one thing; the crown on his head had stopped glowing. "What brings you here?"He said to Akulia who had his usual stare. It was hard to tell what Alves had going on in his mind. His facial reaction seemed to had been trained to hide his feelings. H
"I'm sorry, His Eminence. But you can't return to Grimming Hills yet."Akulia argued. Alves turned to look at him. They were at the front of the lagoon, the lagoon they'd cross if they were headed to the Palace. They were back in the Kingdom."We will be done with this in no matter of time."Alves wore a strange reaction. "Will you stop talking already and lead the way. Would you get on the way when she already made a mistake or for how long would you keep repeating the same thing?"Alves was starting to get worked up and he didn't hide it. But the strange hoarseness in the tone of his reaction still lingered. Without a doubt, his encounter with the giants had definitely left a print on his person. Akulia bowed then walked to the spaceship-jet. It was as though the jet was always there for them to see. As though it would never leave there. And there was usually no one watching over it. To think that if this was back in Grimming Hills, even if a troop of soldiers are lying in hide,
Alves gasped for breath as he walked into the Ja Hall. Not only couldn't he believe his eyes but it felt like nothing was real there. It felt like an unreal zone. As though every thing was a figment of imagination. He had only taken few steps into the hall, yet he felt like he was already in the middle of the golden Hall. Coming through the central Palace, Alves had noticed that the whole space was built in glasses. Tower of glasses. But this particular hall called the Ja Hall looked to be very different. It was overlaid with gold, in every of the corner. And the gold looked to be very pure and fresh from fire. As though the hall had just been tried with fiery flames before he stepped into it. While he was there wondering, he began to hear some activities coming from up ahead of the super big and large hall. He raised his head. There were myriad of men dressed in super expensive robes, getting up on their feet. Majority of the men had white beards and hair. Those whose beard were