Minutes before the attack.
Amed was busy with Farjoud following up the accountants' statistics on supplies when he suddenly discovered that a certain number had changed, so he said to the commander of the war tribes:
- "This is strange, Farjoud. Three of your army personnel were missing."
- "Yes, the warlock of Akradar, who tried to assassinate the holy (Dogmasten), killed one outside the palace in his bloody way, and inside it killed the second, and reduced the age of the third, so he left the ranks of warriors and is now raised by a woman in the village of (Hermit Cancer)."
"I know this, but what is really strange is that they increased by one after this. Did any of the dead come back from death, or did the child grow up suddenly?"
"No, Commander (Amed), Shachtakurf met one of his cousins from the tribes of (Badududu), that he had lost in the Washin lands, but he came back to us again."
In-depth, Amed said of the old Washinian proverb: "Soaring Kite doesn't give chicks."
'This new warrior has made Mr Fossan a number of distinguished proposals, and he has made him one of his two favourites, and he has taken my permission to use them privately on errands related to his duties in guarding Holy Dogmasten.'
Amed remembered the warriors who, according to Fossan's instructions, had tried to kill him when they released the carnivorous tortoise, but he wanted to know which of them:
- "Proposals like what?".
"Like the idea of securing the inner buildings of the castle so that three or four warriors would hide in each building to surprise the killers or report them if they appeared. I myself liked the idea, and Fossan supervised its implementation with the missing warrior".
Amed was thinking cautiously as usual, and when he felt the energy of doubt washing his heart, especially with the tendency of Badududu men to get drunk, and their minds not being present most of the time, he said to him:
- "I want to see this extra warrior."
But the trumpets of war sounded.
**
Minutes before the warning sounds.
Noveo was sleeping in his suite after a long day and the longest trip.
And he was dreaming.
Noveo's dreams are either normal. Don't refer to facts. Or recurring, and these indicate the occurrence of things or the necessity of important things to happen in his long life.
The dreams of this night were two, a new dream that does not know whether it will be repeated or not, and one of the repeated dreams.
The new dream was ominous, in which he saw himself in an unknown hall of judgment, and he saw a gigantic red flower penetrate the ceiling of that hall, and then plunged into his chest and killed him.
As for the recurring dream, he dreamed of a beautiful crowned princess, holding his hand, and advancing him, as she entered him into a large beautiful hall, but whose floor was covered with blood.
She invites him to walk with her with a wonderful smile, chained to his hands and feet, but struggling to move his feet, moving forward.
Until she gets him to a man crowned with a crown of bones, who looks at him with a threatening and frightening look, then takes hold of an enchanted sword, and (Noveo) shouts in pleading:
- "I beg you".
The crowned man stops, and instead of killing him, he removes the bone crown, then puts on a red fez of a strange shape to the waste world, drops the sword over his chains and frees him.
The dream ends.
Noveo awoke and found the Viscount in his suite, not leaving him, offering him a glass of water, and he drank many glasses as if his throat was dry as lumber, and he called the Black Gods to reach that man with the fez who would free him from the prisons of (Khawan). A man who sees him in a recurring dream, his name is (Al-Nahhas).
Suddenly, the trumpets sounded loud.
Behrouz attacks horns.
***