" Attention! My name is warden Lucas, I officially welcome you to Topaz mountain. Boys!" Immediately, six muscular men walked closer to them, and emptied jars of mud water on their heads. They gasped in fright. Seeing the expression on their faces, they laughed.
" I know you were not expecting that, but that's our welcome tradition. Here are our rules. If you want to survive a day in this mountain, then you must follow the rules. lying, stealing, murder, disobedience, laziness, lateness, are all punishable by death. If you disregard any of the guards here, you won't live a second more. Know that your lives are worthless. No one cares if you're dead or alive. I will advise you to stick to the rules until you're set free. One more thing, don't even think you can escape from here. Many had tried, but they didn't live to tell the story. No one has ever escaped from here for the past hundred years. Don't think you stand a chance!" Warden Lucas scowled.
There was dead silence in the hall. Warden Lucas, moves his gaze from Rajah to Mashgad. " You over there! what is your name?" He asked in a husky voice.
" My name is Shamgar." He replied.
" Shamgar? Why did your parents named you that?" Lucas questioned.
" They didn't want me." He replied in a cold voice.
Before Mashgad left for Topaz, Tema told him she wasn't his birth mother. She was afraid that she might not see him again, so she decided to tell him the truth.
" I'm not your birth mother, Mashgad." Tema spoke with tears in her eyes. " I don't know who your real parents are. Master Gera brought you home when he returned from Sheba. He asked me to raise you. Forgive me, my son, I was only waiting for the right time to tell you. I
think there might not be a better time than this." While she spoke, her gaze were fixed on Mashgad. She tried to read the expression on his face, but he had no expression on.
You don't have to apologize to me mother, you did nothing wrong. I don't care whoever my birth parents are. You're the mother I know, and that is all that matters. I believe my birth parents didn't want me, that's why they gave me away in the first place." His eyes were plain cold while he spoke, it terrified Tema. She had never seen her son like this before. He was scary at the moment.
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" Do you know the meaning of your name?" Lucas asked.
" Son of a devil!" Mashgad replied.
" I see. You're called Shamgar because you're a bastard just like the devil." Lucas laughed. The other guards who stood by him, joined him as he laughed.
Mashgad and the others boys with him, looked at them as if they had grown a pair of horns on their heads.
" Shamgar!" Lucas called. Shamgar raised his head to look at him. " You're in charge over them." Lucas spoked, pointing at the rest boys by sharmgar's side. " They're your responsibility from now on. Suga! Take the boys to their room. Dinner is in five minutes, don't be late." Lucas said before leaving the hall.
" This way." Suga said indifferently. The ten of them followed Suga as he lead the way.