Rey De-Heavens (English)

6.5

Rey, somewhat puzzled by the question, answered truthfully. "Yes. I have recollection of much of what happened while I was in my mother's belly....."

With a smile on his face, Heroclades was silent for a long moment:

"I found you. I found the one I was looking for," he thought as one who saw the green of nature more radiant than ever, the sky more luminous and everything around him looking better. Aloud he added another question:

"Can you feel the wind in your face?"

Rey, while seeing the symbol on the cover of the huge book hanging from his master's waist, at the same time he also listened to the third question that the latter addressed to him, as one who was inspired to say something.

"Take a deep breath. Enjoy this calm, the life and the air around you. Insignificant things you fail to notice when in truth they are so necessary and wonderful. Oh, my disciple, enjoy. Enjoy much now and whenever you can, for I assure you that a busy future lies ahead, and eagerly awaits you. You will train much. Training that will have the purpose of becoming the compass that will guide you on the path of survival. As soon as you and your siblings learn how to guide yourselves through the calamities, we will return to the house so that the other members of the herd will form a different opinion of you... That you are not a burden and, of course, that you are not a threat and will be able to go through the initiation."

Before any further comment could be made on the air, the attention of Rey and Heroclades was caught by a Paradise guardian cub crying for help.

A helpless baby liger, in cries, called out to the one who was missing. Hungry and battered, it staggered listlessly through the undergrowth. The creature screeched as loudly as the strength of its tired lungs would allow. Rey, concerned, surveyed the area until he came upon the little cub:

"Am I seeing what I'm seeing?" he asked in a low, almost trembling voice, as one who was disappointed and could not believe what was happening.

Both walkers stopped. Rey looked up to see his master. Before this fact, Heroclades made a gesture of confirmation and decided to cross his arms to observe the so empathic and unusual behavior of his disciple. For him it was a good opportunity to see how the little one without a last name related to other living beings.

Heroclades knew that no matter how hard he tried, how much he was advised or disciplined, someone of an intelligent nature could not always be in control of himself and avoid behavior suggestive of his mental condition or power. "No matter how correct a Of-Bastador might want to act, he will always be exposed because of his personality alterations, especially to those who are weaker than he is," the old man thought.

In this case, faced with an intelligent and rational disciple, who was perhaps already aware of his problem and the consequences to which his condition led, Heroclades expected to see, during the course of his training, Rey present one or several obsessions against which he would fight all the time to maintain a normal appearance. And what better opportunity to see these behavioral events than by letting his disciple have a pet. The desire to harm and cause suffering to others is like an intrusive, uncontrollable, suffering-generating thought.

On the other hand, after receiving his master's approval, Rey returned his gaze to the small feline. He did not understand how it was possible that the large and majestic white beasts, which he remembered for being true examples of familiarity, could leave their young unattended. Lowering his body almost to the height of the small feline, Rey approached and extended his hand in its direction.

"It has to be a mistake, maybe they are looking for you... Two parents must be desperate to find you. Come to me and I will help you find them, you don't deserve to suffer what I have."