First meeting with the master

It was dark outside, Karan after leaving the tavern started walking along the street to find a place to have a proper night's sleep.

His thinking was quite simple ' let's rest tonight and start finding new job the next day '.

Suddenly a hand tapped karan on his shoulder and as Karan turned around and took a look, he saw an old man with white hairs tied in a pony tail, a clean shaved face with sharp features, wearing old robes.

The old man was looking closely at the twelve years old boy in front of him wearing dirty clothes with a few holes in them, innocent looking face with deep brown eyes and head full of straight black hairs.

Karan seeing the person who tapped him was an old man and was just looking at him without saying anything asked respectfully " excuse me, Sir do you want anything from me?"

The old man smiled warmly and asked " kid would you like to come with me to have a nice dinner?"

Karan hearing this offer from the kind looking old man in front of him was a little perplexed thinking ' why would a stranger offer me food out of nowhere '.

But a possibility soon came to his mind that the kind looking old man was not so kind and most probably someone from those slave traders who kidnap small kids and sold them as slaves. Karan having lived on his own for two years in this cruel society definitely was not a naive kid like others of his age.

Just a Karan was going to reject his offer, as if the old man had read his mind said " don't worry kid, I am not one of those slave traders. I was there when youlost your job. I am really impressed by your righteous and cheerful personality."

Karan was shocked by the words this old man said as he was just thinking about this in his mind but took it as mere coincidence and still replied respectfully" thank you sir for your kindness, but I already ate and my stomach is full." After saying this Karan was about to turn around and leave.

Old seeing Karan was about to leave suddenly said " kid, you want to take revenge on those foreigners who made your life miserable and are still oppressing the citizens of your country. Don't you?"

Karan hearing the old man saying all this stopped right in his tracks as this was the years old wish of his to take revenge and bring salvation to this country or even help a little in the cause but he never shared this with anyone else. But this old man in front of him seemed to be able to read minds.

The old man seeing the stupified look on karan's face gave a light chuckle and started moving while saying " come with me if you want to become able to have your revenge."

It was just those words without any evidence or explanation but karan looked to have gained a little trust in this simple looking old man just from there little exchange and started following him slowly.