After the meeting they all went to their separate rooms. Late at night, Arthur was still anxious about what to do. His motives to become the King were clear, he was tired of all the corrupted officials who were stealing tax money but still they were sitting on the upper echelons. He once spoke up against it and made request to the King, but the officials played dirty tricks and made him seem like a liar. On the other hand, crown prince and 2nd prince were playing dirty tricks under the table but the King was blinded by them. To ease himself Arthur lit a scented candle and slowly fell asleep. He saw a weird dream.
He was walking in the woods trying to get out of it and saw a big black bird with bright red eyes wounded. It was stuck in a net bleeding. Its eyes were tearful but there was no sign of frustration in its face. Arthur took out his sword and broke the metal net. In a second the bird was in the sky stretching its wings. The bird looked at him from the corner of its eyes and flew away.
A gust of wind blew on the curtains, burning scented candle was the only light in the pitch black room. Arthur's eyes fluttered and he woke up from the dream. He didn't sleep for long but his hair was already messy. He thought hard about the dream and why he saw something like this. He removed his hair from his face and tucked behind his ears, his head was aching as if it's gonna burst. "Why does it feel like the dream means something" murmured Arthur,"Was that bird trying to tell me about the Golden book?"
It's been 15 days since Arthur started his planning, but he kept having this strange dreams of rescuing a black bird with bright red eyes. He finally could make an appointment with High Priestess. There were plenty of works she had to finish which were left undone for her sudden loss of mana. Arthur went to High Priestess' room first thing in the morning, he saw the black bird again but this time it was attacked by a wolf. He saves the bird everytime and wakes up once he saves it. He was frustrated from this one kind of dream. He quickly he paced and knocked on high priestess' door, a soft voice welcomed him.
-"Good morning your highness, I'm sorry I couldn't make time for our meeting, hope you'll understand".
-"It's alright, let's get to the point first".
-"please take a seat".
Aurora and Arthur sat facing each other, "what happened your highness?"
-"I've having this strange type of dreams lately..."
-"What do you see?"
-"I kind of see that a black bird with bright red eyes is trapped somewhere and I save it everytime. I wonder if it's some kind of clue.."
Aurora listened to each and every word of Arthur and thought for a moment.