cycle of fate
Love is like a collector .... collecting everyone, selling loneliness to some, loneliness of some (anonymous)
Ninu awoke with an unbearable headache after a night of wonder and admiration mixed with reality and dream.
"Offff my head hurts like a crack."
"I need to get ready right now, I have a lot of work in the forest today."
she murmured, rubbing her temples.
The pressure he exerted on his head had alleviated the pain, he should have left without much delay, he had to find the mushroom he was looking for and return to the palace before it was dark.
Today it was very strange, he turned to the window, he shuddered when he noticed that the window he closed tightly was slightly open, whereas every night he would head towards the window, check involuntarily, close the curtains, the subconscious of the young girl who felt that she had been observed since childhood, could never find the reason for this fear ...
The meal lasted until the late hours, when the young girl came into her room, the enthusiastic crowd did not dissipate, and the sounds of cries and laughter mixed together until the morning with the effect of alcohol.
Soldiers also got their share from the banquet held in honor of the Prince's arrival, the dose of entertainment increased with the shows of alcohol and dancers, and the performances that changed course with the intervention of Adenus had barely ended ....
*****
Through the huge window of the dining hall after the messenger that signaled the Prince's arrival, Ninu had seen Samues.
His place was a place facing the window, overlooking the garden.
The young man came down from his horse in a solemn manner peculiar to the chosen, but could not see his face properly, but the young girl could see from her seat that she looked like him as a copy of the king.
The young man turned his head to the window, as if feeling curious eyes watching him from afar, and they came to eye for a moment, despite all the distance between them, the young girl shivered for a moment with the effect of those steel-looking eyes. What kind of energy was this young girl who found her way through her eyes and numbed her body with all her self. ..
There was the loneliness and resentment he felt in his young daughter in that look.
The young man would have grown up in his home with his family had he not left years ago because of unfortunate events, and when he thought that he had been left alone like him, he faced his own helplessness and loneliness again.
"Ninu, do not occupy yourself with these meaningless thoughts, get out of that world and recover"
he suggested himself, to silence his thoughts.
****
The moment the young girl looked up, she met those steel-like eyes again, the young man was looking at Ninu, standing as if nailed, what was there in that gaze, regardless of anyone?
Such a deep and penetrating look that piercing, enchanted two pairs of eyes that captivated the minister. The young man made a slight reference and sat in front of the young girl.
Samues had been introduced to the guests as Ninu strode in the sea of thoughts, the young man had freed from the enigmatic emotions in the palace as soon as he saw the girl, blindfolded, by the effect of that enchanted gaze he himself was inadvertently hypnotized.
Although Samu had a very beautiful childhood, he was abandoned by his father, who lost his mother at birth, as a punishment. He had always guided Samues with his wisdom born like light into the dungeon of the masterful young prince.
He used to say, "You will forget the feelings on matters concerning country affairs, son."
"When you are a king, question the father's decisions, you are both inexperienced and inexperienced in angry and offended by him."
He used to say "Rafi Master." Samues father learned all the skills from his master, from sword to riding to horse riding.
He was only resentful of his childhood alone.
"Some wounds bleed as they heal, son, trying to heal your wound, time is not medicine for everything, love is medicine for everything ..." he said.
The big man who accumulates so much information and memories in every line on his wrinkled face.
The years had taught Samues a lot, lovelessness, loneliness, and being strong with it.
******
Samues was looking for a familiar face as he locked into the young woman's eyes.
Like an old lover ..
Like a mother ..
Like love..
That gaze was like a safe harbor that the ship, which resisted to sway from hurricanes and not sink, would not want to leave even for a century.
Although Leon thought of his brother's inability to take his gaze from Ninu as admiration, he was startled as if he had been punched in the stomach with a sprain in him.
He was not in love with Ninu, but they had always been together since childhood, he never thought to give him to someone else or to let him go.
He shook his head negatively
"Ahhh this drink ..!"
He had confused the young man again
The young woman sitting next to her was lightly touched with her elbow.
"What's going on?"
"Ninu siriua, do you like it very much, brother?"
"Offf Leon"
"Don't be silly again," the young girl snapped.
Ninu was caught red-handed, embarrassed, turned away from the eyes she had locked in, to turn to the best escape dinner and to tear the meat on the plate.
******
He took his thoughts away, waving his hand involuntarily to the left and right, as if trying to push away feelings that were difficult to accept.
"Come on, Ninu, take your hand quickly!" He warned himself.
She quickly put on her riding clothes and hurried down the palace's stairs to the barn, there was no one in the early hour.
Except for a few servants who were preparing for breakfast, not everyone could get rid of the restlessness of the night, the young girl took a deep breath, sensing that she was hungry when she heard smells like the miss from the kitchen, she turned to the side where the smells came, at the age of sixteen she was throwing wood into the fire with a cute look covered with freckles. As he looked, a longing filled him.
When the girl saw the young princess whom she had admired since the first day she came to the palace, she suddenly quit her job with excitement and ended with Ninu.
"My princess, what are you doing here" ..?
"I would bring whatever you want to your room"
"No Emanuel, I'm going out, can you prepare something? Showing me the picnic basket he is holding, I will be glad if you put it in this basket." He handed the basket to the maid girl.
The maid immediately took the basket from her princess.
"Of course, my princess, is there anyone else with you?"
"Let me prepare your meal according to him"
"No, Emanuel" she smiled.
"I'll just come late tonight, if you want put a little too much"
"Yes, my beautiful princess," he said, lovingly citing and turning to Ninu, as if remembering something.
"Shall I inform Oskar?
"Let him prepare your horse, in the meantime, you will eat milk and cookies."
Ninu approached this lovely creature.
"You're a very sweet girl," he said, tugging slightly on the little girl's nose.
"OK"
"It smells like both milk,
Otherwise, these buns are the owners of this fragrance, and he turned to the buns ...
"From now on, the warm buns I will run to the kitchen every morning look like booty."
The hot milk cup in her hand is contented with her servant girl state
"Your milk," she handed Ninu.
Sniffing the smoke of hot milk like ninu
“Ohh… Emanuel” he sipped his milk with cookies.
"Thanks to you I had a great breakfast," she winked slyly.
He had just stood at the door for minutes, watching the two girls. When the new guest of the palace realized that he could not stay away from the cute creature he was watching, he moved from where he was standing in the direction of the two girls.
He ended up next to the girls saying "I want it too, from that delicious breakfast".
Ninu was drowning in the voice she heard, spraying the milk she sipped and coughed.
The voice he heard behind him made his heart tremble and excited the young girl.
"What was going on, what was this mood that he had never experienced before?"
"Can I accompany me too? I was really hungry and disobedient to these beautiful ladies." he approached the table.
"Come on, you don't think about eating these donuts alone, do you?"
“Where I come from, ladies take great care of their weight,” he winked at the little girl.
However, he had never seen anyone other than old Rafi where he came from, which he told a lie.
The young man was dealing with the young girl with an urge to annoy this angel-looking creature next to him.
Emanuel gave his milk to the new guest of the palace, looking admiringly and astonished.
"Here is your milk my prince"
"Ohhhh like like"
“Thank you, little witch,” she said, hovering over the cup of milk she was holding and sniffing the milk.
Ninu, angry at the self-righteousness of this new guest of the palace,
"Emanuel is his name"
When he said, his voice suddenly faintly whimpered in excitement and surprise.
After checking his breathing and swallowing, he straightened.
Saying "I finished, bon appetit to you", he started to move away from his place as soon as possible.
As Samues felt the rush at the girl, his wickedness fueled his desire to deal with the young girl.
"Where are you going...?"
He said, "However, I thought you would accompany me while having breakfast."
The new guest of the palace, while the young girl smiled under her mustache, at the fierce and timid state of the young girl.
When he said, "I have work, I don't want to be late, I will go to the forest ..." he took his eyes away from the young man.
"To the forest ..?"
He raised an eyebrow and turned to the young girl. With that questioning gaze that Ninu didn't like.
Without waiting for an answer to his question, "What are you doing alone in that huge forest?", He sat up as if he was planning something.
"No way, wait for me, we'll go together ..."
Ninu was both surprised and deeply angry that this man, whom she met last night, asked questions and talked in fait accompli with the instinct of curiosity and ownership.
“I'm not going to the forest for the first time, my prince,” he said in an angry tone, highlighting the words and trying to explain something to his interlocutor.
"I'm sure you're not going first, but I think you caught me first," he grinned.
"How could he not understand at all. What did he think he was?"
"If he was thinking about subordinating everybody as soon as he came to the palace, he could not even be the last person Ninu."
The young man answered, absorbing the anger in him with a deep breath
"We used to go with Hehep heppp Leon, he won't come today, he's still asleep, I need to collect a mushroom by the river at these times, I'm working on a medicine."
"Is it medicine?" said the young man, more curiously.
"Why are you leaving while the palace's healers are standing?"
Bored with this frivolous insistence, Ninu turned to the door in order not to prolong the speech.
"See you, my prince"
"Well, more precisely, my curious and annoying prince," he came out of the kitchen with a whim.
The young man chased his prey like a hunter on target
"Wait ...!"
"I said wait .....!"
"I'm coming too ..!"
The door had slammed on the young man's face, and if he hadn't stopped with a sudden reflex, his face would have been straight.
"Sir, there is food in this basket, maybe you want to buy it."
When the little girl, who had just been listening to the conversation between the two, grinned at Samues, whom her princess had deserved, the young man was still on the doorstep, confused.
"Oh, I can't do it"
Samues absently took the basket, stroking briskly towards the stable.
The little maid stared with admiring eyes, and at this hour he was not accustomed to seeing the palace dignitaries in the kitchen, and he had never seen two goats quarreling, although they liked each other like that.
He smiled while looking behind them
"I'm sure a lot will change from now on," he returned to work deliriously.
The young man was smiling at the words he had just heard from the young girl, waving the basket in his hand, and was deeply happy with the joy of piercing this girl.
"Heyyyy ...!"
"You race with me in madness, I said wait"
He followed the young girl, saying, "I will show you curious and annoying. What does it mean to rebel?"
He quickly took the halter from the groom holding his horse, the horse was rested, fed, vigorous and in good shape.
"Health in your hand is very good," he said to the boy holding his horse.
The horse started to wiggle when he heard the voice of its owner.
"A very beautiful horse, sir."
"Yes it is. It's a special horse."
"By the way, I'm" Damu "sir I'll take care of your horse"
"Nice to meet you Damu"
"See you."
As the young man jumped on his horse, he ran after the young girl.
Ninu had already reached the further path from the palace garden.
"Very rebellious and very beautiful," the young man thought.
"Heyyy ....!
“Wait for me, will you deafen?” He approached the young girl.
"I said don't come to you, after me"
"Why are you coming?"
"It is not good for you, beautiful girl, I brought your food and offered friendship to protect you from bad guys, but you are pushing them with the back of your hand, and on the other hand, it does not suit a very shameful young princess."
The young man smiled slyly.
"Am I wrong.?"
Ninu understood that this man could not be dealt with
"Annoying"
"Sir.? "
"You called my Ban?"
He rolled his eyes as he said, "No trouble, I'm being told to myself."
"Don't worry, my dear prince, I can deal with bad guys, fight as good as a soldier, use good guns and ride a good horse."
"When it comes to food, I know enough not to go hungry in the forest."
"So in short you are in vainw worried for me"
His eyes were widened with anger and excitement, and were shining like a star.
Just like Sirius in the heart of the constellation Orion ....
"Deep and bright eyes."
said the young man.
Either that sack was pulling in waves and capturing the young man himself
He wanted to reach out and touch those hair.
Immediately he awoke from his dream, his horse was grumpy, he never did such things, he looked involuntarily to find out why a viper that had risen at least a meter behind Ninu was hissing and targeting the young girl.
"Don't move, Ninu!"
before he could say, his enemy had hit the young girl's arm.
"Ahhh"
As soon as he grabbed his arm in pain, he saw the snake fall to the ground, split in two.
"We need to pour that poison immediately." He hurriedly reached on the bridle of his horse.
He threw the handkerchief in his pocket at the young girl, saying, "Tie your arm with this."
The young man tied the horses and immediately scratched the bite with his pocket knife and drained the poison.
At that time they had come to the river.
He opened the bushes, found the grass he wanted, immediately crushed it with a stone and closed it on the wound.
"This both takes away your pain and prevents the poison from dispersing." he said, hugging the young girl's arm tenderly.
The young girl did not understand what was happening, everything developed suddenly.
The effect of the poison spreading on his body and the dizziness of the event had become heavy, and the images in front of his eyes began to be erased.
His eyes closed slowly and suddenly he collapsed into the young man's arms.
"Ninu"
"Ninu"
"Come yourself, for the sake of the great Anu, open your eyes." she called out pleadingly to the young girl.
“The young girl went on a deep journey, closing her eyes, as if traveling from one world to another world, spinning rapidly in the circle of time and traveling to another realm.
A unique plain appeared before him, an eternal river passed in front of him, and three people were shouting in the river.
"INA"
"INA"
"No wait where are you going?"
"Ahhh no, let go of me", while the young girl was still under the influence of the dream she had seen with the effect of the poison, the young man was calling out to the young girl in a mad state.
"Open your eyes baby I found you too late, Ninu, I can't lose it right away, I can't let it, please open your eyes"
Words and images intertwined, which one is the dream?
Which one is real..? stirring young woman
"Who was this man holding his head tightly, kissing his hair on his face like crazy?"
"Ninu"
"Ninu"
"Thank God you opened your eyes, honey, hold me, I'll take you in my arms, we need to go home"
Ninu, as if hypnotically, kept pace with what the young man had said, tying Ninu's horse to his own horse and seating the young girl forward, immediately behind her, she clung to the young girl's waist with one hand, pulling the naive body slightly towards him, and leaning the head of the young girl on one shoulder.
"How beautiful it smelled, this hair"
He drew the fragrance of vanilla emanating from the young girl's hair into her lungs.
He spurs his horse to go to the palace.
As time passed, the effect of the poison increased, the young girl was losing herself from time to time.
"The damn road is endless" murmured the young man
"We must get to the palace now," he was cursing out of the rage of anger.
"My fucking luck ..!"
"It should not have been like this..!"
"Ninu siriua you have to hold on!" He tried to get the young girl to speak.
The young girl was delirious, half unconscious.
"No...."
"No, let go of me ..."
"Dumuzi .....!"
"My love you can't go no"
"You can't leave me like this ....!"
"No ..."
With a roar in the young man's ears, the blood splattered his brain what he said "Ninu siriua"
He called out to the man he loved, "My love."
The burden of anger and disappointment fell into the young man's heart.
He saw a hut behind cedar trees, and glanced around looking for a bridge to reach here.
He noticed the old bridge ahead, immediately rode his horse there, at least he could have some rest here and prepare something from the plants, once again he conveyed his gratitude to the wise Rafi.
"Thank you, Rafi, if you can hear me, I wouldn't think these complicated healing methods would someday work for me," he smiled.
She crossed the bridge, and when she turned towards the hut, the young girl was delirious again.
"No, no."
"You can't leave me and go"
"Dumuziiiii ...."
"No rrrrr ...."
"You can't die ......"
"What man he loved was dead?"
with envy and confusion he entered from the hut.
It looked perfectly tidy inside. The young man slowly put the girl out of her lap on the bed standing on the left.
After quickly scouring around, he reached for the jug on the table, tore the dress on the bed without thinking, soaking it with water, placing it on the young girl's forehead and neck.
He was muttering "I have a lot of fever, I have to bring it down immediately" and he was following the commands he gave himself.
When he made the first move to save the young girl from her rider's dress, she shriveled and pulled her hands as if an ember touched her.
As soon as the young girl touched her skin, her whole body was suddenly burned, the young man clumsily took off the dress, unable to prevent the shaking of her hands, unable to take her eyes off her body, while afraid to touch it, covered her with a thin veil, something had to be done, and the time was getting narrower.
Just then, his eyes caught the walls of the hut.
"This-this-what's the picture on this wall?"
A man and woman are next to them, with a river and a snake targeting its prey right behind.