They should find someone to hold me back because I might as well leave a dent somewhere with my fist.
My intelligent brain was busy . . . wait before I get called a liar let me rephrase it all.
The intelligent brain of the body I now possessed was put to test as I was busy thinking throughout the lunch to take of note anything the king's brother was saying.
As soon as I got home, I ran around the large house until I found my cat. "We need to talk."
She looked at me for a few seconds without saying a word and led the way to my room. she closed the door behind her and sat down.
I narrated all that was said to me and she told me she completely believed what the king's brother said because she had considered that a possibility.
That response only made me feel like the soft bed I sat on was on fire. I shifted uncomfortably. "What should I do?"
"Accept his help and if that does not work out, we could consider befriending the king and try to get on his good side. The diamond thread was found by the kind and developed into most of the things it is used to make by the king himself.
"One of the greatest crimes in this world is to steal the king's diamond thread for personal profit. You might survive it if he finds the fault in the money made from the diamond thread.
"He will execute us without a second thought if you were found to have stolen the diamond thread and from these files, you have shown me, the king will find out that it all started from the disappearance of the thread.
"Your brother must have taken them and sold them since that is easier than stealing the money. It is almost impossible to steal money from the mine but very easy to steal what is being mined.
"If we don't accept the help from the king's brother, I don't think we will be able to escape all these."
That lecture was enough to bend my straight back and my chin touched my chest as I thought of my execution. An execution or giving the king's brother what he wanted?
"I will think about it. He wants something I cannot offer him."
"He gave you the shield, sometimes, you need to appreciate anything required."
I shook my head unwilling to let her words get absorbed by my heart. I have officially declared myself a straight man and I will have to think a lot about what I was getting myself into.
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"What is the method?" I asked the king's brother the following day.
"I know about an illegal mine the king is unaware of. We will go to that mine to steal all they have mined and bring them to your store."
That was wise but an illegal mine will have a lot of guards and how are we going to do that. I knew I had a crazy shield that protects me but I knew nothing of its power of it or how far it could go to ensure my safety.
"You don't need to come with us. We will bring it all to you."
"We?"
"My men and I will bring it to you as you wish," he told me and I was forced to swallow. Why was he looking at me like a hot pizza for consumption?
I shook my head and met his gaze firmly. "I will go with you. This information is enough and I will have to thank you for it later. Let me not add to all that I will owe you."
He laughed and shook his head in disagreement. "If that is what you are scared of, you must not do that. I will not ask you to pay me."
Those were all stories as I made sure he agreed to let me go with him. I was bringing my cat along and we will get the diamond threads together. That will reduce my debts.
We began planning. It was a mission that had to be carried out soon enough as the king would arrive at any time.
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On the night it was all going to take place, I was so nervous I kept drinking water and my hands could not stop shaking. I prayed for good luck before hopping into the back of the truck we were going to travel in.
We planned to begin and end it all in five hours. We were armed. The king's brother was sitting beside me holding a submachine gun.
We could get ambushed as we traveled through the woods. This was the first time I was going through the woods.
The trees cast shadows to prevent those unearthly nighttime satellites that provided as much light as a full moon only slightly darker as they were not white-looking like the moon.
We had all lights turned off and the truck was as silent as an electric car as it drove into the night blending to hide us from the enemies we might encounter.
"It will be easy, I promise," the king's brother whispered so close to my ear I could feel his warm breath.
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I rolled and groaned when my whole body arched with every movement like a rusty machine. I rubbed my eyes as my earlier vision was blurry.
I was not in my room from the dark color of the ceiling and the darker shade of wall paint, including the bedsheet. Whoever designed this room, had to be filled with so much darkness.
The bed felt so comfortable for my aching waist that I did not want to stand up from it but the question is what the hell am I doing here?
I tried to remember what could have happened to me to make me feel so weak and drained. I had gone to drink in a pub with the prince (the king's brother) to celebrate the success of our mission.
We had filled the store with the spoil of the war that was filled with a lot of gunshots. I was still wondering how I might have survived all that.
I asked for a day to rest when we first arrived and the next day I returned to the mine, the king paid a surprise and he took a walk around the store.
The prince who I have become more comfortable with most likely because of the mission told the king that the lack of sale was from the fact that they continued storing the diamond threads.