THE JUGGLER'S MAGIC

Chapter 6: Be a Yakhan in Yakha

That was a drowsy night yesterday, I can't even find the reason why did I slept so deeply yester evening even though I was sleeping continuously till that morning. I was searching for Barrinder so that he could find someone to help me out getting freshen up and have something warm. Yesterday evening after Barrinder taking the permission from his king for staying with me, he went to the hall for picking up his things. I came to my room and had a deep sleep. Sleeping then made woke me up now. Generally, I'm not adaptable to sleep at new places soon but maybe because of this weather I had a long sound sleep this night and it was the one which awoke me in the early hours. Sitting on my bed I had a look around the room, it was a well-built room made up of green stones maybe of metamorphic, granite and flint stones so to avoid the cold present all around. This is definitely a building constructed hundreds of years ago as these rock materials were used for construction only during those days. There was only one window in my room, situated at the other end of the room away from my bed, I walked towards it, when I had a look of it that was just morn. The sun is still coming up its horizon. I can find light, but I couldn't locate the sun in between these white snowy mountains from this room. So, I decided to go up to the top of the palace so that would help me have a better view of the artistry of the nature. I'd decided to take up my camera along with me so that I could secure some of those beauty shots in it. As I love capturing some scenic beauties of this kind, I remember packing up my camera into my bag when we'd started for Yakha from New York. I immediately moved to my bed and started searching for my bag. For a second of surprise coming out of my foolishness, I myself felt pity for my inactive brain. Then I'd realised that my sleep was so hard last night that I couldn't even remember that I am thrown into my future. With that act of insane in my mind putting a smile on my face, I walked out of my room. From the description of the palace given by Barrinder, I remembered that I should walk towards the dining hall and take a right after crossing it to find the steps which leads me up towards the top. I came out of my room and took a right towards the dining hall. There were lights some kept on and some kept off all around the house. Every room has a closed door which will not help me to trace out who's present in which room. That's a long way towards the dining hall almost of a distance of 100 to 150 meters with a row of people standing all along it. They were standing out with long spears in their hands dressed up in brown and violet coloured outfits. I found those outfits a bit weird but moved straight without any words. None of them spoke a single word but as I was going pass, each of them positioned their spears into their standing positions from a slant position and bent their heads as a token of respect for me. I've reached the dining hall and started up the stairs. The staircase was a completely narrow passage blindfolding almost to an extent of darkness. The steps were as high as they reach the height of my knees. For every ten to fifteen steps there found a flambeau for proving torch in the staircase. I understood I was climbing up a minaret as I found myself climbing up the stairs in a circular manner. Finally, at the end of it I found some light which led me to the terrace of the building. I guess that the building will easily have three to four floors as I'd taken up the steps for two to three minutes to the top. That was a completely open terrace with snow fallen marble as its base. Having of 4 minarets at the four ends of it, that completely reminded me of many of the palaces found in India. As I moved towards one of the walls of the top I found a long way of garden with entire row of greenery and a big place for maze constructed garden. There is still passage on the either sides of it and two more blocks of buildings similar to the one I'm standing on. That made me realise that this palace is much more bigger than the view I'd thought of. It is a row joint of three buildings with two rectangular grass gardens in between them. Each building has a terrace of its own and three of them are connected with two close roofed passages laid on either sides of the garden. The wall opposite to the one I'm standing locates towards the entrance of the palace and the wall to the right of it is towards the way directing to my auditorium. I found the mountains and the scenery which I'd seen through my window and understood that my room is located right below that end. The left wall from it directs into the city of Yakha. I understood that East is towards the buildings side of the palace. So, to get a clear view of the sun rising amidst the mountains I need to climb onto the third building. Even though the mountains are visible from this building, that wasn't a pleasing and a satisfying view. Since the third building is very far, that may take much longer time for a walk to it. So, I'd decided to wake up early tomorrow and climb up onto the third building before its dawn. After spending some time looking and walking all along the floor of the roof I'd felt like freshening up myself and have a strong coffee so that it could relax my mind out of these strong breezes of cold this morning. So, I started taking the minaret stairs down.When I reached the last stair, I found the king waiting for me at the dining hall. He wished me as,