TALE OF A CHANGELING

Episode 16

Run! Run!! Run!!! keep running my son you mustn't look back if you want to save your life, you have to keep running very fast, as fast as your legs can carry you, do not turn back. An aged man exclaimed bitterly to the young man.

I can't leave her behind, she's all I have. The young man replied.

Don't be stupid Child, you don't have to put your life at stake for her, right now your priority should be your safety she will be fine, forget her and run away as far as your legs can carry you.

No no no I can't leave the woman I love so much, don't you understand Papa even if I ran away from this land without her I can never be happy. The young man replied in tears.

The aged man got furious and hit him with his walking stick so hard that he fell on his knees, secure your safety first before you talk about your happiness, if you aren't alive you can never get your happiness, now leave!!!!! He commanded angrily.

He stood up in tears and said sadly, If you meet my beloved tell her that I still love her so much, no matter what people think of our relationship, I will never give up on her.

Tell her that she should not cry because I will come back for her.

He turned to leave when he realized that they were already surrounded by the armed men, he tried to run but they held him tightly and were pouncing on him like hungry lions.

The aged man cried in pain, if only you have listened to me and ran away on time this would have been avoided, I pray you survived this, my son.

He tried to cry but couldn't the amount of pain he was experiencing was very severe, he lay helplessly on the floor looking at the moon.

Dear beautiful moon, what do you think my fate this night will be? He muttered painfully.

Just then a man in a royal dress walked towards him and dragged him up forcefully with a smirk on his face he said to the young man.

Look at you, just look at how miserable you are. Saying this he laughed so loudly, he ordered the armed men to tie him on a tree which they did immediately.

He walked up to the young man and say, I can never allow your dream to come true, I also can't allow what I kept seeing in my dreams come, you are a nobody. He immediately stabbed the young man who wailed in pain.

The armed men forcefully untied him from the tree and he helplessly fell on the ground fighting for breath.