Elixer of the forest

Shiva went to his hut. He was also thinking about his experience in the cave. He could feel someone else presence in the cave but he couldn't pinpoint it. The experience had opened a new world for him. His mentality about the world was changing after living outside the palace for only about 1 month. He thought like he was a different existence when he was in sun Dynasty but now he could clearly see "world was filled with mysteries, it took efforts or the fate to see through them."

Next morning Sun shined, Illuminating the small hut, fresh air was constantly filling the hut, shiva got up from the bed as it was his last day in this tribe. He opened the door of the hut and saw that whole village was alive, some were cleaning, some were mending the fields, some were preparing the food, some kids were paying, it was a totally different experience when he lived in the palace. Every part of village was brimming with life. After his visit in the cave, his sensitivity towards the life force had increased. Even though he knew the theory after the discussion with his father that the world was filled with life but it was intellectual knowledge he didn't really feel it but believed it to be true. It was like "You know, but do you really Know?". But now that his comprehention of the life had improved he knew that his previous knowledge was just on the surface level. There was still to much to learn.

He was lost in these thoughts when he heard someone called his name.

He was jerked back to the reality.

Suki was standing in front of him.

" You should come to the courtyard in front front of the cave " Suki told.

Shiva was confused as he thought about last visit " did something happened again."

" Nothing much really, we had decided to give a farewell gift to the you "Suki laughed. He had become much casual after spending 2-3 days with him as shiva was very easy to approach even though he had extraordinary strength. No arrogance could be found in his nature. Now he considered it, he felt like because of the immense power shiva had displayed they became oblivious to the simple fact that shiva was just a kid. His nature was not yet tainted and he had already gone through a tragedy at such young age.

It was true indeed that "Every powerful people had to go through the hardship to achieve the power. Their life experience were different but one thing was common that their life was not easy indeed. That's why they thought differently, instead of seeing what other saw, they saw the things with different perspective, they didn't waste their time with distracting thoughts as they didn't have the fate with ease of life so they spent most of their time doing what was needed. It didn't mean that they didn't enjoy life but their meaning of joy was different."

Shiva went to the cave's courtyard accompanied by Suki. A he reached, he saw they had decorated the whole place with the flowers. There was an altar in the middle , it was not present when he came here last time.

"Maybe it is also related to forest spirit, so that they could summon altar here" shiva thought.

As he went to altar every villager gathered around, and respect could be seen in their eyes as shiva had been recognized by forest spirit. Head elder came to greet the shiva as he greeted the shiva in ceremonial manner, maybe it was a tradition of their tribe. Shiva reached the top , big white was also there. In middle of the alter was a round ancient rock, it was covered by green vines on the sides and it was flat on above and looked like round table.

Head elder went in front of the rock and murmured something and a bright green light came out from the rock that covered the whole area. All tribal people chanted something as though worshipping.

When the green light was gone there was a bowl present in middle of the rock. It was filled with green liquid giving a thick aura of life , the elixer of the forest.