I AM AN ATHEIST

Esteemed Sir

" Hey old man, watch out" when Xavier heard the voice, he saw the bunch of hyaenas falling after being covered with blood, as arrows after arrows pierced through them.

But, one of the hyaenas somehow dodged the arrow and headed at Xavier.

Xavier who was breathing heavily startled after he felt something crawling onto him.

The hyaena was pushing itself onto Xavier, Xavier tried to dodge, but he was too weak to do so.

The hyaena climbed up to his neck and was in the process of biting the neck.

" Old man, you should not wander around alone" a young girl about age 16 appeared in front of Xavier.

While carrying a knife in her hand, she sliced off the neck of the hyaena within a few breaths of time.

The hyaena fell onto the ground, it died as blood splashed out of its neck.

" Old man, what are you doing here alone? " Turning towards Xavier, the girl asked.

Xavier thought for a while for an appropriate answer before replying: " I was meditating ".

Xavier could not think of anything other than meditation since he was a monk, of course, he would meditate, what else a monk would do other than meditating?.

" oh..old man" The girl called Xavier as an old man out of habit.

" Sorry, I did not notice, my apologies for my rude behaviour, esteemed sir "

The Lil girl became respectful and corrected herself as soon as she realized that Xavier was a monk.

" No problem, No problem," Xavier replied, Xavier, did not mind such petty things, after all, he was no real monk.

At the same time, Xavier realized that a Monk has quite a good status in society for being addressed with respect.

" What is your name? What are you doing here? Is your home nearby? " Then Xavier asked.

" Esteemed sir, my name is Zivia. I came here in search of some food but accidentally was discovered by hyenas, and my tribe is not much far away from here " she replied while keeping her head down.

" Then show me the way, I want to visit your tribe," Xavier said, he decided to take this chance to meet the natives.

" It would be our honour esteemed one" Zivia replied.

Then Zivia and Xavier together began their journey towards the tribe, they faced no dangers at all until they reached the destination.

Xavier saw that their civilization was not much advanced, it was quite primitive, they all lived in the huts.

Their clothes were not special either, all of them were plain and covered only the important parts.

Xavier now understood that the difficulty of the story is not hard at all, he was sure of that.

When Xavier first entered into the area of their residency, be it, men or women who were working halted their jobs, lifted their head and glared at Xavier.

Xavier felt a bit uncomfortable at first, then as he walked forward, more and more people gathered around him.

Soon they surrounded him, Xavier and Zivia found no gap out to escape.

" Esteemed Sir"

" Esteemed Sir"

The atmosphere was quite noisy.

At the moment, when Xavier was trying away to break away from the crowd, he heard: " Everyone, calm down, and give me the way".

Xavier did not know who it was, but when this voice sounded, people began making away on one of the sides, Xavier thought he might be some head or something.