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Chapter 2 - betrayal

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Uncle Zayd tells Nesar:

The Ashraf are people of pure royal blood as they claim, and they prefer themselves and their offspring over all, and they are the opposite of the Nudala, the oppressed who lack freedom, and they live underground in Gardeen which is four lands: Isis, and Mari, and Benapoli, and Nord, and under their lands are the dwellings of the Nudala. And the truth is that those Ashraf falsified history to make of themselves kings and rulers and made this land their land after killing the descendants of the true ruler, the lineage of the Adalsa. When the servants of the palace and the soldiers wanted to assassinate the king, the king Momir at that time had a people who loved him and held respect for him, except his followers and servants, so they conspired against him but he was smart and expected that and put all possibilities, so he left his mark in the spiritual crossings that preserve the soul and memories of all the Adalsa the owners of the blue blood, which remained inherited the Key of Honor that opens the noble library or the House of Substitution by another name. After the king advanced a step forward the traitors felt danger so they exterminated the lineage of the Adalsa and the last of them was the king Momir who was stabbed in his bed.

Uncle Zayd said: The only one the king trusted was your father, O Nesar, so he gave him the Key of Honor and his son as a trust to be returned if he stayed alive, your father was a servant in the palace but he was close to the king. And you, O Nesar, are one of the Adalsa and you are the son of king Momir, and your father was not your real father even your mother they are not from the Adalsa. And also your father knew that the lineage will die because he went to the crossings and knew the future to save you, O Nesar.

Uncle Zayd finished his words and said: I left with me the Key of Honor, if you want it I will give it to you. Nesar said: I want it! Where is it?!

Uncle Zayd said: It is in the closet.

Nesar searched the closet and took out the key that was iron and not distinguished. Uncle Zayd said to Nesar: Return to the lands of the Ashraf and you will find there the House of Substitution and all you have to do is open the library.

Nesar's body shivered and he said in himself: Do I return to the place where my family died and sadness grew in me there, how do I return?

Nesar moved to his room and carried his bag and as he opened the door to leave his uncle Zayd called him and said: Take with you this map so you don't get lost, only move in the path drawn in the map.

While Nesar moves in the forest his eye glimpses a crow, his eye tears and he wonders from this, this crow lands on Nesar's hand so Nesar sees shots of himself fishing and comes one from the sect that said Nesar's father. Nesar wondered and remembered: What happened now is similar to what happened with me in childhood when I was playing chase with the children and I touched one of the children and I saw shots and memories from his life and that child confirmed to me that they are memories from his real life but I did not care for the matter. Nesar continued his way and said: Maybe I find an answer in the House of Substitution for what I saw.

Nesar reaches the gate of the ruined city, Nesar moved in the city while turning his eyes in the place and he found the Nudala living in tents among the ruins of the houses. Nesar continues his way careless until he reaches the House of Substitution which was from crystal and which was not affected by the explosion that happened long ago. He puts the key to open a door of green emerald and as soon as he opened it someone stabs him from behind and Nesar hears the voice of his uncle Zayd denying: Thank you, O Nesar, you have helped me and finished your mission in opening in this life, for this gate none opens it except one from the lineage of the Adalsa with the ability of foresight, and now rest in peace so I may return and eat your flesh.

Nesar loses his consciousness slowly to see that this person is truly his uncle Zayd, he thinks that Nesar has died but Nesar only lost consciousness. After a short while Nesar wakes up to examine the place of the stab and finds it as if it was not, and he thinks himself that he dreams but he finds his blue blood on the ground and the House of Substitution open so he makes sure that it was not a dream but reality. He enters Nesar the library and searches among the shelves to find one of the books, he pulls it and his eye falls on the eye of his uncle Zayd serious, Zayd changes his place to the corridor where Nesar is and chases me. Nesar sees his uncle Zayd in the corridor that he is in, and Nesar says to uncle Zayd (while crying in a state of weakness): Why?!!!! (he said it while screaming) … Uncle Zayd says and Nesar's tears had no place in his heart and he deceives: You lived to open the Library of Honor you are a project in the hand of your father only, did you not think when your father entered the spiritual crossings he did not see what happens now?

Zayd moved toward Nesar while running and also Nesar runs, and while he flees and his tears leave traces behind him he said while thinking whom to blame: Truly? My father saw everything and even with this he left me to live this life, he left me to the destiny, what is the benefit of all this?

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