Heavenly Kingdom: The Kingdom among the clouds

Chapter 170: The truth and The False

[Tekoa Town]

The very next day while patrolling the town with his newly formed town brigade with members that are fully loyal and devoted to him and is given to him by Mayor Zoabi from his extra men, Rueben then survey the whole town itself, as he witnessed some grim atmosphere in other areas of the town itself. After all just yesterday, it was announced to everyone in the town that the whole brigade force was wiped out by the target and only Rueben survived.

Due to that a massive funeral and mourning erupted into the town throughout the day, causing such grim atmosphere to persist till this day. In that moment during his patrol, Rueben saw Ziv the wife of Ester buying some bread from a store while looking downcast from the misfortune that he husband has met.

Even though she just mourned deeply and sorrowful yesterday causing her eyes to be puffy, she was still elegant and beautiful by the way she carried herself and somewhat behave even though she was currently deeply hurt inside. Upon seeing her that way, Rueben then plans to show up a facade in order to get on her good side and avoid being suspected as a person to blame for this incident.

"Miss Ziv!"

"Oh Rueben! I supposed you go by Captain Rueben now"

"You can just drop the honorifics mam"

"Oh how can I do that? Your a Captain now, the next in line to be one after my... deceased husband" said by Ziv as she suddenly frowned

"I see... looks like your still heavily affected by the death of captain Ester"

"How can I not be? He's my husband... I love him, i supported him just like a dutiful wife, he's the breadwinner of the family... now that he's gone, I don't even know what to do anymore,I don't even know how can I support my daughter Talia after the death of Ester"

"Talia... I feel sorry for her"

"So am I, after all... she took it the hardest when she learned that her father was dead, she cried throughout the night"

"I believe that she will be able to get over it, she's a strong kid... in fact I even show my respect to you mam, I can't believe that your able to act normal despite what happened"

"What else can I do? I'm the only one that remains that will take care of my daughter, I need to be strong to support her till the day she gets married off"

After Ziv said that, a eerie silence surrounded them as both of them tried to spark up a conversation in order to break this silence that they had created. Of course naturally Rueben was at a loss of words as he doesn't know how to comfort someone. He may be a schemer, but he was never the one that can support someone emotionally. However despite thinking it like that, he needed to do whatever he can in order to break off this silence.

However before he could even speak out, Ziv suddenly spoke first as she posed a question towards Rueben which caused him to tensed up for a second to find the right answer.

"By the way Rueben! Since you were the last survivor of that horrific incident, what did are my husband's last words before he died and what was he like in his last moment?"

Thinking thoroughly and carefully for an answer, he then answered.

"He was brave, he was strong, he was too charismatic even in his last moments... even in the face of death, he still smiled as if he was assured that someone would be able to continue his legacy, however he was also quite sorry... for failing us, for failing mayor Zoabi, and for leaving you guys behind. It was like he was regretful that he won't be able to see his daughter grow... he truly loved his family, it was quite sad that he left just like that"