I decided to go see the city after breakfast, modo was awake now and he accompanied me into the city.
But we were in disguise, I immediately changed my clothes and wrapped my hair before sneaking out. Modo was against it but he had no choice, I wanted to see everywhere, but not from my room window.
We went by the market and as we walked unoticed due to the heavy traffic of people compressed in the tiny area, haggling over goods, and their voices filled the air. It was just like in nigeria, when i and my mom used to go to the market, i would watch her keenly as she spoke with all the traders in different languages, she understood little of all the languages she came across, which was a wonder for me since she and my dad grew up in the orphanage.
She used it as a skill to break the price.A spectacle to watch for me, she told me it was like a sport she indulged in. the victory was getting the goods for lesser money.
And standing here and watching the people in faragal do the same, it brought me closer to my grief. it took me back to the other world.
But there was someone standing on a boulder, he looked like some sort of preacher, he had a white gown on. and he spoke at the top of his voice. i could not hear him from where I was. so I moved closer. with each step, his voice became clearer. But the problem was he was speaking now in a foreign language. This is one of the languages of faragal. I could tell but not understand him. What is he saying modo?
My prince!
You can't understand him?
What is he saying? I asked again this time in a higher pitch. My patience was thin, I felt a need to know, curiosity bubbled within me.
Sorry my prince, he is saying:
Beware! Then the black rose box will appear, and it will consume us all. We should all come together and find the wielder of the white box, the messiah who will give us life, the one who can walk through worlds.
It is important that, we search and find the black box and destroy it!.....
He kept talking but no one was listening to him, modo was still talking." let us stay.
"
Some part of me wants to talk to this man. but at the same time I was cautious about him..
"Hey you!
I hear a voice call out and I froze, you come on," her voice urged.
There stood a girl with red braids her eyes had a twinkle in it. I walked closer to her just to get a closer look at them.
I turn and I see her face hiding withing the hood. She stood two feet away. I was amused. I move closer and then I see her turn and walk away, mixing with the crowd.
"Let her be.my prince. We should return to the palace now, please."
"No ! Come modo."
I followed behind her but she was nowhere to be found. i push my way through the crowd until I was free of them. I searched for her dutifully but to no avail.
i knew she would find me now since she wanted our meeting to be on her terms.
I follow modo now but we don't go back home, we go farther into the city, we go to the outskirts of the city, and until we meet the wall.
I marvel at the lake beyond the wall, we go closer and wash our feet in it, modo tells me about it being the same one we passed on our way here before we met bactus.
Modo asks me if I would return back to the institute of magic, I reply if they accept me then.
You are a prince of faragal, they will accept what you are saying and your magic is unmatched.
I have never seen any one with magic like yours modo said.
You flatter me, I reply, everyone here has powers.
No my prince in the cave while you were unconscious something happened, you suddenly began to glow, you healed yourself before the cave could.
"How do you know that?
"The magic came from you I could tell, it is one of my base magic to detect magic and its source.
I think you have healing magic."
I think we should head back, I look around, my eyes following the shadows behind the trees.
We rushed towards the gate, and the footsteps behind became louder, I could feel the shadows closer and closer. The gates were locked , we had to go in before we got caught, I knew they were dangerous just from their aura, which stained the air like colored fog.
Closing my eyes, the big gates open and we pass through only to find ourselves in the palace.
Shocked, I pushed against the marbled ground and stood, walking back to the palace doors to examine it.
How did we get here, i ask rhetorically, but modo answers, your powers, it was like the other time in the cave, this portal came from you.
He said excitedly.
I felt the old prince harrish had never shown this type of promise before. it was obvious.
I wasnt elated as modo. i wanted to know where this magic came from and how to use it effectively, i know the only answer would be in the magic institute of the six kingdom.
You have been having a lot of fun i hear a deep thunderous voice from behind say.
Anxiously i turn and bow, not knowing what todo or say, he tells me, "a prince should never bow, keep your head up high, you are no peasant!
I raise my head but i dont look towards him.
Look here son, i turn and see his face, cold like winter, his eyes blazing like the summer, and his posture calm and serene.
How could only one person release both chaos and peace all at once.
This is my father, i and my brother prince essos look just like him.
"Where have you been son? i have something to show you.he said with a concerned look on his face.