EGBERI

Chapter Six - The Scandal

At first he covered his face with clothes and acted as an amuser for his siblings hoping to be unnoticed but with time it became obvious so he lied saying it was also a way he was sometimes when he drifted to the spirit plane, they called it a funny story but at his plea, kept it a secret and even managed to help him hide it from their parents. The problem arose when he found he was compelled to respond to Yiba's conversations without seeing his face for he stood at his feet and his height was no greater than the space between the floor and underneath his feet.

Razan tried his best to avoid the company of being sighted by the pack members when he was in Yiba's threshold but soon he was soon spotted. He told them thesame funny story he told his siblings hoping they saw him as his they did. As it turns there is always the team within a team.

They didn't keep it a secret, talks of his grey eyes spread like wildfire within their clan and they called him a freak and instead of the normal conversations, they used mediocre conversations, calling him names as jests for their amusement.

He was seen as less and it frustrated him so much as they would derive pleasure in always tracking him down to get glimpses of his eyes turning grey. And this even increase the period it took him to heal. He would try to get a partner but it proved to be near impossible as everyone saw him as a freak.

So he sought for another means to revive himself. The idea laying with a another man with hopes of using a blind appointment in the dark of night in secrecy, he could cover his eyes with a cloth around his eyes to avoid the grey being spotted. This was however a dangerous act, it was forbidden as one could lose their life if caught.

On his first attempt, he didn't observe as he was being followed by a group of people from his pack. They caught him in the act and afterwards they confronted him in despise. He begged for them to keep it a secret and promised to give a good explanation for his actions.

They agreed and made him promise to never repeat the act and he agreed. Soon he explained to them his funny story and they laughed but in an aid to help him they made him lay with a girl that was nearly insane as she acted crazy in their clan to have more talks to jest about.

He got so frustrated that he left the pack and returned to being idle at home. But it was never a thing for a person to leave the pack and stay alive for the fear of their secrets being exposed. So the pack leaders tried to talk him into changing his decision but he refused so he sent a few to kill him.

They were unable to complete the task because they argued among their selves concluding that they're part of reasons why he quit the pack. So they returned with a solution to expose their sworn secrecy and let his death be of the law.

Meanwhile he had been visiting Trivan since he got home at a mastery of his 7th skill. The news got exposed, he was found guilty and sentenced to live for 3 more months. Tarja was devastated, she cried for days. Every other person despise and cursed with hate and disgust.

It drove him insane, he could no longer think straight. Bounded by chains, confined to a room he felt his pocket and found a quantity of the kings flower and at night he entered the spirit plane to consult Trivan.

A difficult choice but he suggested the use of the kings flower to enhance for hypnotizing tunes on the kings guards and escape from the cellar. He had seen how it was done during operations with the pack but never tried it. And he was known as a spiritual to be otherwise would raise questions.

He used the flower and with sounds from the prison bars, all who heard the sound were under his spell, he made the prison guard deliver the keys to him and freed the other prisoners, hypnotizing everyone on his path he left with the prisoners still under his hypnosis into the a thick forest. When he was certain of their safety, he crossed Yiba's threshold and passed out for days.

They woke up the next morning and carried his body to a better hideout, taking care of themselves and waiting for him to wake up with his eyes turned grey. In Yiba's threshold he asked in a conversation why the act of laying with another man was a crime so grievous.

He was made to understand that Sei-Teme had brainwashed people to focus more on pointing out faults on anyone they could on any issue they could gain grounds with so as to pose a perfect personality to impress their rulers but in real, it was just means to distract people from their purpose of existence.

There were so many things with unnecessary conditioning that limited the progress of their civilization. It was more important to have a good reputation and high status than doing anything with logical reasoning. Disgrace and mockery and even murder awaited anyone who swayed from societal standards as an undying loyalty to their leaders to seek favor and approval.

Many men even sold their children as payment for debts at younger ages so as to not be seen as a poor. Some would even betray family and friends for ranks. There was so much dirt under their hypocrisy as they failed to understand that the things are just things and they shouldn't define a personality.

He was completely revived after a week and was introduced to the prisoners making an alliance and creating a pack. He told them about his royalty and mission to restore balance to their world and they swore to fight beside him joining his quest to save his people.