Project Schemer - Salvatore Trilogy: Prelude

Arc 3 - Prologue: A journey hard to forget

"You are staying with the Abrelard right ?"

"Yes, anything special about that ?"

"I want you to come and stay in the palace, there is no one here, it felt kind of lonely sometime."

"Everyone felt lonely sometimes, you only need to remember you friend, that should make you feel better."

"That sound really nice."

"I can't stay here forever you see, i need to make a trip to the east after every problem in Soleil is solved, a lot of things to do and time is a cold and gentle thief. Demanding us to solve all the problem quick."

"So anything you suggest ?"

"How about we make a trip across the country, Sou's illusion magic should give you a mask for safety, a trip across the country and watching how people live beyond the wall of the city of light."

"Could that be the way for me to understand everyone ?"

"Well, to understand someone you need to make connection with them first. I want to help you understand the people first, sometime, bite down your sorrow and open the curtain of your mind, to see the sunlight."

Why turned your eye away from the reality and live in the past, not a bad solution but why do that when you can just move forward. A trip may help him learn that truth, to see his people, Alris is not the king of Tyerran but a king of Soleil and he need to learn that not staying in the room wailing in sorrow. Even Tyerran's state is flourishing because people learned how to treat each other with kindness while the sin of pride and envy is wiped but other beyond the wall, people thriving to live their life. Maybe a trip can help him understand everything, knowing his people beyond the wall of Tyerran.

"We all want you to go out there to see your people, we ask this not because you are our king but our friend, we defeated those corrupted nobles in the past. But the moment they fall till now, you has never watched those outside the wall of Tyerran, mayve the problem is understanding."

"Lucius, Illian, Abrelard... Alright, i will depart tomorrow, the management of the city and the country, please follow the note i left back for everyone."

"You should rest early today."

"Can't do that, we need to to make a schedule, we need to setting our bag for out journey, we have so much thing to do, i never left the castle before in last 100 years."

"Don't worry, you can go and take a rest, we will handle everything the moment you woke up."

Alria goes to sleep, may his dream be beautiful and may he has a stroll in the garden with his father. Watching seven moons in this world can be amusing, a world where there are seven moons shine with bright blue light. This journey there will only me, Tomoe and Alria, Sou wants to come along but the more people joining with us, that would just bring suspicion around us. This is just a journey used to open his eyes to his people and start to change his view on the world but i maybe fun to venture out there.

"So we go together on a wonderful and exciting adventure, i am happy when i can go to anywhere with you."

"I think this will be a wonderful journey, just three of us venture in that great wide world, always our dream right ? After this continent we will venture in the east then we travel north to Edolin then to the mysterious south."

"Sound really fun, i look forward to this adventure so much."

"We should rest, we will depart early tomorrow and we will depart early too."

We returned to our room in the castle, until now i am noticed, i never share my room with anyone before even Sou, maybe a private quarter is what the artist need for his artistic divination. Maybe in the name of art he won't cause a single sound to disturb me or maybe something else but maybe that memories are fake, so i was lied for more than 10 years, for the best right now, we shouldn't talk, the more we talk, the more complicated the problem would become. For now, this trip can be a way to help Alria but also help both of us, i believe time is the solution for both of us, time and space for both of us.

"So how does it feel, to have your best friend lying to you and having him imprison you for 10 years."

"I am taking you for you to wait for a perfect and elegant execution, not for you to speak, do not interupting my mind and my palace of thought."

Any artist have another layer of dimension in their mind, and inside that is their palace, their mind is cleared inside that palace, they can fill it with insprition, mold it, shape it however they like. But not like some palace where geniuses storing their memories, the artists's palace is filled with possibility, it is their own nexus of ideas. I am not talented, i can't be with legend like weaver Wynria so my nexus is just the size of a room for an introvert who love social distancing.

"My mind palace, a place for my own creation and idea, your presence stain it so leave now when i am nice and use words."

Such parasite should never exist in the first place, yet when the right moment come i think it have its use, now back to the palace. Maybe with this new power in this world, maybe i can create something new, the first thing when a child get a new toy is curiosity and excitement, i want to see more with this power, what can i create. The melody from the rule have influence on people who can hear them but is that everything, even with Tomoe's power, i think i still can do much more, to learn how to use this gift for my own journey.

"My domain isn't birth for things like you, when i appear in this place or not you have no permission to enter this place."

"And you can stop me ?"

"Learned your place, you exist till this moment because you earned my interest and still have a spot in my plan. Don't be flattered because you still can stay in my mind, remember our places and order."

"You sound like back then, this same voice and manner."

"I recognize my sins, i accept it and from all of that, i accept what i done in the past, my sin yet my strength to continue this journey. Don't even try to guilt me. WORLD and anyone who willing to serve, how can you live with your guilt when you even try to guilt me."

"..."

"Remember this, kingdom rises and kingdom falls, nothing is eternal and so is WORLD with that foundation, while this country may break that cycle so, i won't let you influence on this country any longer."

Our journey begin, the first step we wanted to stop at the closest town, a small town near Tyerran. Nightfall in Arborine still dangerous, who know what lurking in the dark, beyond the city wall is not a world filled with perfect harmony. People beyond the wall need to live, they have their own sorrow, their life is filled with hardship and anyone live a life like that much more vibrant. People of Tyerran are perfect, they are perfect but too perfect is just mundane, sometime, maybe having sins on you can make yourself become colorful.

"I never left the palace, never know there can be a place peaceful like this."

"People want to rest from a hard-working day, it may peaceful in the night, everyone is innocent inside their dream, let them have the rest they deserve."

"Everyone in Tyrran is not lazy you know, we share everything with each other, that is the reason for our perfect hermony, because we share our pain. There are secrets but we believe if a burden we can share, a pain we can share, we learned compassion."

Compassion to other, may that is what i am missing, i only want to join their choir, i only want to let me see my mind, i didn't think for them. Unity and now compassion, i am complete.