The Rebellion of The Angels, page 18
—I have feelings of love for someone hurt —She was Love. Meanwhile, the hand of a second one was resting on the shoulder of Abed saying:
—I have feelings of compassion for my enemy —it was Compassion. And a third added:
—We have noble hearts. Hearts cover with purity like honey itself. Hearts that sparkle crystalline like pure spring water—Light approached Abed and later it was Youth who did it, reassuring him once again:
—I give you my sincere word as our feelings, that soon we will rescue Rahab, your daughter, from the clutches of the enemy —But nevertheless Abed was about to burst into tears although his only surviving friend tried to cheer him up, while the demon that made fun of him was lost by the passage that among other places led to the room where everyone was.
—But for that we need you. Now tell me, Abed, during the period you were held hostage, did you hear the demons talking about some secret place where they were hiding, a base or something like that? We need a clue that lead us to Rahab —Youth said.
He remained thoughtful before everyone´s silence, and before Eyes of Heaven and Hope looking at each other, who had known each other since long before that day, for having apparently met in the library of the town of Chacra.
—Actually, during the long journey that demanded me to arrive here as a hostage, the only thing I heard from the mouth of two demons who had an open talk, is that as soon as they got what they were looking for, they would return to the cloud forest camp... —Abed lost himself in his thoughts again and then said exasperated—. ¡...on the northern continent...!
—That is too far— Eyes of Heaven thought.
Then Youth remembered that among her clothes she kept an old world—map that she stole from the library, and quickly took it out saying:
—No, impossible, this map is a kind of world—map. We could never guess how far away we are.
—We are weeks away from that place, Youth —Temperance warned.
—Do you know any shorter path, Eyes of Heaven? —Hope asked.
—If we went for the horses, we could take the mountain range.
—Then now we have two reasons to return to the town of Chacra —Hope indicated in allusion in the first instance to inform Lagash, king of that town, what they would do, and secondly to take the horses that would facilitate them to carry out the mission they thought.
—Get on the train —Light ordered, as Youth approached Eyes of Heaven and Hope saying:
—Let's go, during the trip I will tell you from my departure from the Celestial Kingdom, along with Experience, until our arrival in this, the Earthly kingdom. Although you already know a lot about what happened, and fundamentally know the wisdom and power of the love of God our Father, infinite, both with us and with man and woman.
The group got on the only carriage left in the station, —The rest had been sent by them to other places— which was the one that had more wagons, —kind of wooden wagons that resemble a precarious train outside— And little later they left that seventh station in the direction of the town of Chacra.
Chapter IX
Dreams and romance
The wounded demon they let go, crossed the underground passages of low and deformed rocky walls, trying to reach the room, which not so long ago was the protagonist of so much battle.
He was not the only one who inhabited those passages since —although she was lost among so many mouths that appeared as possible alternatives to travel— Experience, the one everyone considered dead, was doing the same. After abandoning a straight path according to its own apparently infinite projection, she went by a new possibility to travel she discovered.
It was a short and tortuous passage that led to another straight road, and shortly before arriving at it, she discovered a light sparkling which, as if it was pushed by the wind, approached her. Experience quickly extinguished her torch and took refuge against the walls that united both ways, although remaining in the tortuous one and not in the straight one, where after waiting a little more, hidden in the intersection of both, she saw the wounded demon passing through, who protected himself with a rag around his waist where an enemy arrow grazed him, and he illuminated his route with a torch that was a little larger than the one used earlier by the young woman. Experience discovered that her enemy was wounded, but even so she did not hesitate to draw her bow and arrow, and helping herself with the light provided by his torch, which was dying to her but still allowed her to see where she stepped, she went after the footsteps of her enemy.
The demon left the straight and long road that at its end, curved abruptly, and led in the now peaceful room where so much battle took place before. In fact, as a consequence of those battles there were broken benches and bodies of natural humans, of neutral angels with the skin of men and women, and dead demons.
That demon tried to cross the width of the room to be lost by the mouth of access that led to the tunnel by which the vast majority of them reached that place, back then with Abed, Rahab's father, as a hostage, but shortly before he achieved it, he was interrupted by a woman´s voice that came from his back saying:
—One more step and you will run the same fate as those around you... — With a threatening tone in reference to the fallen bodies in the room. It was Experience that pointed at him with her bow and arrow.
The demon stopped immediately and even with the torch in his hand he extended his arms in surrender.
—Turn around without trying any strange manoeuvre, and tell me what Satan's plan is —Experience approached a few meters while she continued pointing at him with her weapon.
—If I told you, my leaders would kill me —The demon answered
—If you do not tell me, you will die too —Experience said, searching with her bow and arrow for the enemy's forehead.
—There is no plan. Only thirst for revenge. I only want to finish with the man and whoever gets in our way.
—How do you think to finish the man off?
—Sending several armies to meet him.
—When and by what regions?
—At any time and covering all regions —He answered in allusion to the West, Central and East region.
—Where is the base, where are they hiding?
—I am not going to tell you.
—Tell me or I will blow your head right now.
—In the Ghost Port.
—Where is that? —Experience asked shortly before her guardian angel left the pocket of her jacket and twinkled red, a colour that indicated the presence of demons, and white, colour that indicated the presence of those who were neutral angels; those who did not delay their arrival to the room where, among the broken benches and fallen bodies, Experience tried to get information from their enemy.
—In the farthest northeast of the northern continent next to the cloudy forests...
—Go, go now... —She ordered still pointing at him with her weapon. The demon ran with difficulty pressing the injured area and as soon as he could, he disappeared by the same mouth that his comrades when they arrived with Abed as a hostage. Experience put her weapons away and with her guardian angel flying by her side, she walked to meet the large group of neutral angels with the skin of men and women; among them, those who escaped the battle, those who at one time came from the library of the town of Chacra with Hope, Youth and all others.
It was precisely one of those men who, walking next to a woman of similar age to Experience, with long dark hair and blue eyes, who was apparently in charge of them in the absence of Hope, said precisely to that little woman before standing in front of Experience:
—Kindness, I know this young woman... but how is she alive, if I myself have seen her when she fell under the weight of two enemy arrows...
—Not only you. We saw her too. They killed her at the reception on the third floor of the town library —One of his five remaining companions who also shared that experience interrupted.
—I do not explain what has happened, but only those who were and still are angels followers of God, our Father, had those species of butterflies — The first one said referring to Experience´s guardian angel—. That change its colour according to the presence of whoever is —He remembered the explanation that Youth gave them at the time.
—I am sorry I was not here at the time the fight started, to help Hope. I hope, I pray, that she is fine —Kindness answered to her companions after observing the number of fallen bodies, as if she did not care what they told her, but when standing in front of Experience she said:
—According to my companions, only our brothers and sisters followers of God have these...
—Guardian angels... —Experience kindly interrupted—. That is how God, our Father, baptized them, and that is how we call them. By the way, I am glad you are still considering us as your brothers and sisters —She confessed a little serious.
—But my companions tell me that they also saw you die in the reception on the third floor of the town library. How do you explain that?
—As a miracle of God... —They were surprised.
—You will see...We have found others before —Kindness told her.
—And there are no traces of them or Hope, Kindness —One of the men who saw her die in the reception on the third floor of the library in the town of Chacra said, and who knew Youth and the others, after inspecting the dead bodies that surrounded them.
—¡Kindness! —Experience exclaimed with a smile.
—Who of my sisters are you? —Kindness asked surprised.
—The older one maybe...
—¡Experience…! ¡Experience…! —Kindness exclaimed, while Experience affirmed smiling and later they merged in an hug, that perhaps due to the urgency of the time at that moment they could not give to their other friends, brothers and sisters, among others Hope, Youth and Eyes of Heaven, for example.
—I am happy to see you again, even if it is not a happy moment... —Kindness emphasized.
—I am also happy to see you even though it is no longer in our natural state of angels, and quite the contrary, we are going through a war. War that has not yet developed in its entirety and that we can still win. But for that we must act fast and with conviction and faith.
—We will not be able to return to the Kingdom of Heaven, will we? — Kindness asked sadly.
—Not in your angelic state, but you will be able to do so if you pray well in this earthly life. If so, at the end of your days in this life, you will have the possibility of returning to the Kingdom of Heaven. Although for that you will have to live many years. That is, also in this life you will live myriads of years like the life of angels outside. Only those of us who were sent to Earth by God our Father will be able to return to our home when our mission ends, if we do not fall in battle first. God our Father only gave me an opportunity to return, to understand that my mission had not yet concluded but such a miracle, blessing of God, will not be repeated either with me or with any other brother. With respect to all of you, you must know that God our Father, never stopped considering you as his children, even though you took the Grail with you. His heart is great and infinite as much as his forgiveness and his love for all of us. I ask you to reconsider and we can return to be the brotherhood that, in my understanding, we never cease to be, and together we will fight for the life and existence of man and woman as a will of God, our Father —All those who were neutral angels with the skin of men and women looked at each other, some of them smiling, others somewhat thoughtful, and others more serious; but seconds later everyone agreed that they would fight for the will of God in aid of men.
It was then when Kindness, who on behalf of all those, assured:
—We will fight together. We do not know much about the enemy. During all these years we have been hidden from him, although we knew some of their movements, but it does not make sense to do it; sooner or later they would find us.
—Thanks to the demon I let escape I know that they rose a base next to the Ghost Port, in the farthest Northeast of the northern continent, where the cloudy forests grow.
—We know that region, although we never visited those forests. It is a very distant place. We are weeks away from travel.
—Do you have horses?
—Yes.
—Then let's go for them. I am thinking that someone I met during the trip that brought me here can help us with the transport, reducing some days and maybe even weeks.
—Well, then, let's not waste any more time, let's go for the horses —Kindness agreed, ordering her followers:—. Come on, let's go back from where we came. We must go for the horses —And in a few minutes the large group of neutral angels with the skin of men and women, headed by Kindness and Experience, left the room by one of the entrances closest to the altar, which led to the roads that always underground would take them to, in this case, the East region closest to the coast.
The group of Youth, Hope, Eyes of Heaven, and company, had already reached the town of Chacra a long time ago, and after leaving behind not only the underground station that under a secret passage communicated with the library, but also the library, very guarded by the soldiers of that empire, afraid of the appearance of demons that could again attempt at that building or another, and even at the life of the king; they were waiting next to the access doors to the palace for permission to speak with the monarch, under a night that was growing windy.
Soon after, the General of the Army who knew Eyes of Heaven appeared at the group saying:
—My Lord is waiting for you.
Then Youth, Hope, Eyes of Heaven, Light and Abed entered the palace, being accompanied by the general and his personal guard. While outside Peace, Love, Compassion, Temperance, Offer and Abed's friend were waiting in the company of the guards who protected the door to the palace, consuming a cool breeze that came from the South flaming the fire of the torches placed on the strong walls of the place.
The visitors of the palace guided by the general and his personal guard crossed the different bends until they arrived at the office of the king Lagash, where the guards who protected his entrance immediately opened the doors allowing the entrance of the group, that with hurry went until the end of the vast room where a few steps led to the king's throne.
The general and his custody stood aside and aligned in front of his majesty, Eyes of Heaven, Hope, Youth, Light and Abed made a reverence before him.
Then it was Hope who took a step forward and after a gesture of the king as a signal of giving her the word she said, taking out of her clothes the Holy Grail, without letting it go from her hands and surprising in that way not only the king but his many soldiers:
—Sir, the threshold between peace and war has collapsed and the war hounds us without precedent and imminently... The enemy that once entered this town in a camouflaged way and attacked us in the library found my hiding place and that of my people, who I hope they are okay. The dispersal of the battle made us lose each other —Hope explained—. Even so I have been able to protect this sacred cup, but we could not prevent them from taking this man's daughter —She said, looking at Abed—. We do not know with what purpose or why they took her, but we must rescue her. We will leave divided into two groups with the light of dawn. Regarding the enemy, I do not think they use the library as a passport to this town. Quite the contrary, I believe that they attack will be frontal, visible and in a wild way. In your shelter, Lord, I will leave this sacred cup in your care for it not to be desecrated.
Hope aligned again with the others. Worried, King Lagash look at the five, and feeling that Eyes of Heaven —known by him by his fantasy name Oilim, for until recently did not reveal his true identity and thus not be discovered among others by demons, such as Hope, who was known to the king by the name of Mairim— had something more to add, he said:
—I am happy to see you again, my young friend, even in times of despair —Then Eyes of Heaven took a step forward and spoke.
—With my people, we regret not being able to lend our services, Sir, but our mission aims not only to find the daughter of this man —He also pointed out in reference to Abed—. but to find the roots of our enemy in common, putting an end to this latent threat. If their hearts are kind and their conscience matures, in a few days the small kingdoms from the East and West regions of this continent should reach this town, in aid of your forces. At least, I myself a few weeks ago asked the respective kings to contact you and yours, feeling that they would be the most exposed and that you would shelter them, and together, you could reject enemy attacks.
Eyes of Heaven aligned again with his companions and the king looked at them one more time, and when he realised that the short meeting had come to an end, he stood up and after taking the Holy Grail from Hope, he put it in a piece of furniture behind him saying:
—The enemy can knock the walls of this town down, but never enter this room and even less, steal this sacred cup that will return to you when you return from your mission —The king, perhaps for being king, said words of hope although sure and by obligation, words of encouragement to the group—. Now, I will accompany you to the halls and then, I myself will prepare my men for the war —And opening the way for the monarch to guide them, Youth´s group slowly left the room that took the form of the king's office.
Shortly after, Youth´s group arrived at the hall where the angels with the skin of men and women followers of God, led by Eyes of Heaven and among them, the three men, natural human friends of Abed they met in the abandoned castle.
—Abed, friend —One of the three of them welcomed him, close to the wide doors of the room where most of the occupants, Eyes of Heaven´s companions, were having dinner at that time.
Abed hugged each of his three friends there, who also shared greetings with Abed's other companion, who along with him came as the only survivors of the battle against the demons.
—Are you okay? What did those subjects do to you? Why did they kidnap you? When did they set you free? —He asked.
—I have feelings of compassion for my enemy —it was Compassion. And a third added:
—We have noble hearts. Hearts cover with purity like honey itself. Hearts that sparkle crystalline like pure spring water—Light approached Abed and later it was Youth who did it, reassuring him once again:
—I give you my sincere word as our feelings, that soon we will rescue Rahab, your daughter, from the clutches of the enemy —But nevertheless Abed was about to burst into tears although his only surviving friend tried to cheer him up, while the demon that made fun of him was lost by the passage that among other places led to the room where everyone was.
—But for that we need you. Now tell me, Abed, during the period you were held hostage, did you hear the demons talking about some secret place where they were hiding, a base or something like that? We need a clue that lead us to Rahab —Youth said.
He remained thoughtful before everyone´s silence, and before Eyes of Heaven and Hope looking at each other, who had known each other since long before that day, for having apparently met in the library of the town of Chacra.
—Actually, during the long journey that demanded me to arrive here as a hostage, the only thing I heard from the mouth of two demons who had an open talk, is that as soon as they got what they were looking for, they would return to the cloud forest camp... —Abed lost himself in his thoughts again and then said exasperated—. ¡...on the northern continent...!
—That is too far— Eyes of Heaven thought.
Then Youth remembered that among her clothes she kept an old world—map that she stole from the library, and quickly took it out saying:
—No, impossible, this map is a kind of world—map. We could never guess how far away we are.
—We are weeks away from that place, Youth —Temperance warned.
—Do you know any shorter path, Eyes of Heaven? —Hope asked.
—If we went for the horses, we could take the mountain range.
—Then now we have two reasons to return to the town of Chacra —Hope indicated in allusion in the first instance to inform Lagash, king of that town, what they would do, and secondly to take the horses that would facilitate them to carry out the mission they thought.
—Get on the train —Light ordered, as Youth approached Eyes of Heaven and Hope saying:
—Let's go, during the trip I will tell you from my departure from the Celestial Kingdom, along with Experience, until our arrival in this, the Earthly kingdom. Although you already know a lot about what happened, and fundamentally know the wisdom and power of the love of God our Father, infinite, both with us and with man and woman.
The group got on the only carriage left in the station, —The rest had been sent by them to other places— which was the one that had more wagons, —kind of wooden wagons that resemble a precarious train outside— And little later they left that seventh station in the direction of the town of Chacra.
Chapter IX
Dreams and romance
The wounded demon they let go, crossed the underground passages of low and deformed rocky walls, trying to reach the room, which not so long ago was the protagonist of so much battle.
He was not the only one who inhabited those passages since —although she was lost among so many mouths that appeared as possible alternatives to travel— Experience, the one everyone considered dead, was doing the same. After abandoning a straight path according to its own apparently infinite projection, she went by a new possibility to travel she discovered.
It was a short and tortuous passage that led to another straight road, and shortly before arriving at it, she discovered a light sparkling which, as if it was pushed by the wind, approached her. Experience quickly extinguished her torch and took refuge against the walls that united both ways, although remaining in the tortuous one and not in the straight one, where after waiting a little more, hidden in the intersection of both, she saw the wounded demon passing through, who protected himself with a rag around his waist where an enemy arrow grazed him, and he illuminated his route with a torch that was a little larger than the one used earlier by the young woman. Experience discovered that her enemy was wounded, but even so she did not hesitate to draw her bow and arrow, and helping herself with the light provided by his torch, which was dying to her but still allowed her to see where she stepped, she went after the footsteps of her enemy.
The demon left the straight and long road that at its end, curved abruptly, and led in the now peaceful room where so much battle took place before. In fact, as a consequence of those battles there were broken benches and bodies of natural humans, of neutral angels with the skin of men and women, and dead demons.
That demon tried to cross the width of the room to be lost by the mouth of access that led to the tunnel by which the vast majority of them reached that place, back then with Abed, Rahab's father, as a hostage, but shortly before he achieved it, he was interrupted by a woman´s voice that came from his back saying:
—One more step and you will run the same fate as those around you... — With a threatening tone in reference to the fallen bodies in the room. It was Experience that pointed at him with her bow and arrow.
The demon stopped immediately and even with the torch in his hand he extended his arms in surrender.
—Turn around without trying any strange manoeuvre, and tell me what Satan's plan is —Experience approached a few meters while she continued pointing at him with her weapon.
—If I told you, my leaders would kill me —The demon answered
—If you do not tell me, you will die too —Experience said, searching with her bow and arrow for the enemy's forehead.
—There is no plan. Only thirst for revenge. I only want to finish with the man and whoever gets in our way.
—How do you think to finish the man off?
—Sending several armies to meet him.
—When and by what regions?
—At any time and covering all regions —He answered in allusion to the West, Central and East region.
—Where is the base, where are they hiding?
—I am not going to tell you.
—Tell me or I will blow your head right now.
—In the Ghost Port.
—Where is that? —Experience asked shortly before her guardian angel left the pocket of her jacket and twinkled red, a colour that indicated the presence of demons, and white, colour that indicated the presence of those who were neutral angels; those who did not delay their arrival to the room where, among the broken benches and fallen bodies, Experience tried to get information from their enemy.
—In the farthest northeast of the northern continent next to the cloudy forests...
—Go, go now... —She ordered still pointing at him with her weapon. The demon ran with difficulty pressing the injured area and as soon as he could, he disappeared by the same mouth that his comrades when they arrived with Abed as a hostage. Experience put her weapons away and with her guardian angel flying by her side, she walked to meet the large group of neutral angels with the skin of men and women; among them, those who escaped the battle, those who at one time came from the library of the town of Chacra with Hope, Youth and all others.
It was precisely one of those men who, walking next to a woman of similar age to Experience, with long dark hair and blue eyes, who was apparently in charge of them in the absence of Hope, said precisely to that little woman before standing in front of Experience:
—Kindness, I know this young woman... but how is she alive, if I myself have seen her when she fell under the weight of two enemy arrows...
—Not only you. We saw her too. They killed her at the reception on the third floor of the town library —One of his five remaining companions who also shared that experience interrupted.
—I do not explain what has happened, but only those who were and still are angels followers of God, our Father, had those species of butterflies — The first one said referring to Experience´s guardian angel—. That change its colour according to the presence of whoever is —He remembered the explanation that Youth gave them at the time.
—I am sorry I was not here at the time the fight started, to help Hope. I hope, I pray, that she is fine —Kindness answered to her companions after observing the number of fallen bodies, as if she did not care what they told her, but when standing in front of Experience she said:
—According to my companions, only our brothers and sisters followers of God have these...
—Guardian angels... —Experience kindly interrupted—. That is how God, our Father, baptized them, and that is how we call them. By the way, I am glad you are still considering us as your brothers and sisters —She confessed a little serious.
—But my companions tell me that they also saw you die in the reception on the third floor of the town library. How do you explain that?
—As a miracle of God... —They were surprised.
—You will see...We have found others before —Kindness told her.
—And there are no traces of them or Hope, Kindness —One of the men who saw her die in the reception on the third floor of the library in the town of Chacra said, and who knew Youth and the others, after inspecting the dead bodies that surrounded them.
—¡Kindness! —Experience exclaimed with a smile.
—Who of my sisters are you? —Kindness asked surprised.
—The older one maybe...
—¡Experience…! ¡Experience…! —Kindness exclaimed, while Experience affirmed smiling and later they merged in an hug, that perhaps due to the urgency of the time at that moment they could not give to their other friends, brothers and sisters, among others Hope, Youth and Eyes of Heaven, for example.
—I am happy to see you again, even if it is not a happy moment... —Kindness emphasized.
—I am also happy to see you even though it is no longer in our natural state of angels, and quite the contrary, we are going through a war. War that has not yet developed in its entirety and that we can still win. But for that we must act fast and with conviction and faith.
—We will not be able to return to the Kingdom of Heaven, will we? — Kindness asked sadly.
—Not in your angelic state, but you will be able to do so if you pray well in this earthly life. If so, at the end of your days in this life, you will have the possibility of returning to the Kingdom of Heaven. Although for that you will have to live many years. That is, also in this life you will live myriads of years like the life of angels outside. Only those of us who were sent to Earth by God our Father will be able to return to our home when our mission ends, if we do not fall in battle first. God our Father only gave me an opportunity to return, to understand that my mission had not yet concluded but such a miracle, blessing of God, will not be repeated either with me or with any other brother. With respect to all of you, you must know that God our Father, never stopped considering you as his children, even though you took the Grail with you. His heart is great and infinite as much as his forgiveness and his love for all of us. I ask you to reconsider and we can return to be the brotherhood that, in my understanding, we never cease to be, and together we will fight for the life and existence of man and woman as a will of God, our Father —All those who were neutral angels with the skin of men and women looked at each other, some of them smiling, others somewhat thoughtful, and others more serious; but seconds later everyone agreed that they would fight for the will of God in aid of men.
It was then when Kindness, who on behalf of all those, assured:
—We will fight together. We do not know much about the enemy. During all these years we have been hidden from him, although we knew some of their movements, but it does not make sense to do it; sooner or later they would find us.
—Thanks to the demon I let escape I know that they rose a base next to the Ghost Port, in the farthest Northeast of the northern continent, where the cloudy forests grow.
—We know that region, although we never visited those forests. It is a very distant place. We are weeks away from travel.
—Do you have horses?
—Yes.
—Then let's go for them. I am thinking that someone I met during the trip that brought me here can help us with the transport, reducing some days and maybe even weeks.
—Well, then, let's not waste any more time, let's go for the horses —Kindness agreed, ordering her followers:—. Come on, let's go back from where we came. We must go for the horses —And in a few minutes the large group of neutral angels with the skin of men and women, headed by Kindness and Experience, left the room by one of the entrances closest to the altar, which led to the roads that always underground would take them to, in this case, the East region closest to the coast.
The group of Youth, Hope, Eyes of Heaven, and company, had already reached the town of Chacra a long time ago, and after leaving behind not only the underground station that under a secret passage communicated with the library, but also the library, very guarded by the soldiers of that empire, afraid of the appearance of demons that could again attempt at that building or another, and even at the life of the king; they were waiting next to the access doors to the palace for permission to speak with the monarch, under a night that was growing windy.
Soon after, the General of the Army who knew Eyes of Heaven appeared at the group saying:
—My Lord is waiting for you.
Then Youth, Hope, Eyes of Heaven, Light and Abed entered the palace, being accompanied by the general and his personal guard. While outside Peace, Love, Compassion, Temperance, Offer and Abed's friend were waiting in the company of the guards who protected the door to the palace, consuming a cool breeze that came from the South flaming the fire of the torches placed on the strong walls of the place.
The visitors of the palace guided by the general and his personal guard crossed the different bends until they arrived at the office of the king Lagash, where the guards who protected his entrance immediately opened the doors allowing the entrance of the group, that with hurry went until the end of the vast room where a few steps led to the king's throne.
The general and his custody stood aside and aligned in front of his majesty, Eyes of Heaven, Hope, Youth, Light and Abed made a reverence before him.
Then it was Hope who took a step forward and after a gesture of the king as a signal of giving her the word she said, taking out of her clothes the Holy Grail, without letting it go from her hands and surprising in that way not only the king but his many soldiers:
—Sir, the threshold between peace and war has collapsed and the war hounds us without precedent and imminently... The enemy that once entered this town in a camouflaged way and attacked us in the library found my hiding place and that of my people, who I hope they are okay. The dispersal of the battle made us lose each other —Hope explained—. Even so I have been able to protect this sacred cup, but we could not prevent them from taking this man's daughter —She said, looking at Abed—. We do not know with what purpose or why they took her, but we must rescue her. We will leave divided into two groups with the light of dawn. Regarding the enemy, I do not think they use the library as a passport to this town. Quite the contrary, I believe that they attack will be frontal, visible and in a wild way. In your shelter, Lord, I will leave this sacred cup in your care for it not to be desecrated.
Hope aligned again with the others. Worried, King Lagash look at the five, and feeling that Eyes of Heaven —known by him by his fantasy name Oilim, for until recently did not reveal his true identity and thus not be discovered among others by demons, such as Hope, who was known to the king by the name of Mairim— had something more to add, he said:
—I am happy to see you again, my young friend, even in times of despair —Then Eyes of Heaven took a step forward and spoke.
—With my people, we regret not being able to lend our services, Sir, but our mission aims not only to find the daughter of this man —He also pointed out in reference to Abed—. but to find the roots of our enemy in common, putting an end to this latent threat. If their hearts are kind and their conscience matures, in a few days the small kingdoms from the East and West regions of this continent should reach this town, in aid of your forces. At least, I myself a few weeks ago asked the respective kings to contact you and yours, feeling that they would be the most exposed and that you would shelter them, and together, you could reject enemy attacks.
Eyes of Heaven aligned again with his companions and the king looked at them one more time, and when he realised that the short meeting had come to an end, he stood up and after taking the Holy Grail from Hope, he put it in a piece of furniture behind him saying:
—The enemy can knock the walls of this town down, but never enter this room and even less, steal this sacred cup that will return to you when you return from your mission —The king, perhaps for being king, said words of hope although sure and by obligation, words of encouragement to the group—. Now, I will accompany you to the halls and then, I myself will prepare my men for the war —And opening the way for the monarch to guide them, Youth´s group slowly left the room that took the form of the king's office.
Shortly after, Youth´s group arrived at the hall where the angels with the skin of men and women followers of God, led by Eyes of Heaven and among them, the three men, natural human friends of Abed they met in the abandoned castle.
—Abed, friend —One of the three of them welcomed him, close to the wide doors of the room where most of the occupants, Eyes of Heaven´s companions, were having dinner at that time.
Abed hugged each of his three friends there, who also shared greetings with Abed's other companion, who along with him came as the only survivors of the battle against the demons.
—Are you okay? What did those subjects do to you? Why did they kidnap you? When did they set you free? —He asked.
