Songs Of Psalmist (What Is My Purpose)

CHAPTER 30 (Young Villager & Deceiver)

Once there was a Young Villager who is collecting pebbles and smooth stones along the caldera of an incongruous volcano beside another volcano, with his father.

One particular odd stone he discovered made him jump up for joy, dancing around it like in campfires. It was a rare find indeed! Almost none of his kind have seen one. A roundly work of creation, red as blood that when watched closely, its color seems like flowing like gore in a vessel.

The Young Villager then took a peace of fiber from his bag, and threaded the round stone quickly to make it as his pendant, thinking of it as a trophy. Have you experienced holding a medal as an award from a school's achievement or from a contest? The incomparable joy of eating the fruit of your labor. Proud of what he has accomplished, that's what he felt.

The joy was so much fulfilling since it was also the Young Villager's first time here. Remember the time when your father or father-like figure carried you to somewhere new, with just the two of you? You see, his father took him this far away from their village to let him check out the tribe located in between the volcanoes, as a father and son bonding. But instead, the Young Villager was more interested at the volcanoes' simple warm delights, for his collection of course. So, they were not able to go to the tribe as planned.

Out at a distance, he saw a small crater of the volcano. You see, there are few small craters around the volcano's slope beside the large crater from its peak. He took a peak at that hole and saw the molten magma below. Though it was a bit far, the heat of its exhaust can still be felt. Though the heat came from molten magma, it was still bearable to the skin.

With so much joy, the Young Villager shouted, "I'M SO AWESOME!"

"I'm so awesome!" his echo echoed back.

"NO, I'M MORE AWESOME!" he replied.

"No, I'm more awesome!" the echo responded.

The Young Villager gets agitated now, "I AM! I AM!"

"I am! I am!" shouts the echo.

"NO, YOU'RE NOT! I KNOW I AM!"

"No, you're not! I know I am!"

"OH, YOU'RE GOOD!"

"Oh, you're good!"

"I GOT YAH! AHAHA!" the Young Villager laughed for he taught he deceived the echo.

"I got yah! Ahaha!"

He was about to throw a tantrum but was interrupted when he saw from afar something floating on the molten magma. He saw a round thingy resting above a floating rock.

"FATHER! FATHER! LOOK! LOOK!" shout the Young Villager at her father.

"Father! Father! Look! Look!" the echo came back.

His father then came and said, "Don't worry, son. It's just your echo."

"Ekow? That round thingy is called Ekow?" the Young Villager pointed at the roundly creature he saw inside the crater.

His father gasped when he saw the creature, and noticed that it was still breathing. Though it was on a rock floating around that magma, the Young Villager's dad can't fathom how it is still breathing. Though it seems that it has full of bruises from all over.

They then realized that the rock is slowly crumbling now, as the magma burns around it, getting closer to that roundly creature.

So, the Young Villager's father hurriedly took his bow and specialized arrow. These arrows are the ones they use when they don't want to hunt but rather tame a beast. It has also a fiber string connected at its feather's end, extending to one of the Young Villager's father's bag around his waist. The arrow has no pointed arrowhead, rather it has a small round bag on its end.