'Til Kingdom Comes - The Banished Prince Vol 3: The Prophecy

Meditate

I was sitting at the settee area and was sipping some tea and was playing with the twins, even though it was already late in the night with Heather beside me.

The twins don't want to leave my side when the moment they saw me return from the expedition and right now, I had to entertain them since they were fighting off their sleep in order to poke fun together with me.

"Yawn... My gosh... I'm so bushed that I could sleep all night long. Hahaha. I hope Gregory and his wife had gone back to their new home already. So dear, what do you think of the results for this expedition? 336 new residents, made up of 84 household families all gathered here due to a common cause."

Heather looked at me while she prepared some warm milk for the twins to drink to make them sleep since it had been so late and yet they wanted to be entertained by their daddy.

"Not too shabby dear. The most important thing is that you had managed to settle the matter in the most diplomatic way. Furthermore, you didn't lay a hand on that slimy bastard but let the one who was suffered take rightful revenge for her son."

"I guess you would have another boy who would make you as their idol very soon. Hahaha. Congrats my dear... Sorry I had to bite on you earlier. I had been missing you too much since you were gone."

Heather confessed and asked for my forgiveness as I rubbed her head and pulled her close to me so she would lay on my chest. The twins also followed suit and climbed over the sofa and came over to me as they too lay their heads on my chest to mimic their mummy.

"Good evening, Your Majesty. Sorry to intrude on your privacy and your time with the family. I believe that you are now at ease with the work and had nothing on your mind, am I right?"

Eagle came up to the second floor of the domain and in his hands, he was swinging a thurible which had been fitted with some coals earlier. He showed it to me while he had a small packet of crushed incense rocks that he would normally place inside the thurible and 'smoked' the Chapel.

"Oh... That's alright, Eagle. We were just resting a bit and even the twins were finding it hard to sleep since our return. So, is that the thurible that you were mentioning? It looked... Kind of exquisite with its intricate designs and shape. Is it made from gold?"

I asked Eagle and he simply nodded his head. Little did I know that the material used to make the thurible for the Chapel was indeed made from gold and not some polished brass...!

"Whenever you are ready, Your Majesty. It would be best for the young ones to be away from the incense smoke because it would irritate their noses."

"Most young ones were not advised to be near this kind of incense smoke. Its one of the causes of respiratory problems if one were to inhale this kind of smoke 8 hours a day for some years of their life."

Eagle advised while Heather quickly picked up the twins after I had kissed them goodnight and advised them to sleep early. I was wondering about the monks who would be exposed to this kind of smoke and wondering how their health would be affected by it...!

"Alright, Eagle. I guess this open area near the settee would be fine. Furthermore, there wouldn't any outdoor activities that would disrupt the meditation, would it?"

I suggested the meditation area to be at the settee since the smoke from the thurible would be dispersed out from the balcony.

"Yes, Your Majesty... This place would be fine. Alright, you need to sit cross-legged on the floor here in the centre of the settee with nothing against your back or else you might not meditate but fall asleep...!"

"Next you would clear your kind of anything, make it like a blank piece of writing slate and relax your mind and body. From there on, I would encircle you with the thurible and smoked you all around."

"Here is a tiny bell... Once I wiggle this tiny bell before you, you would slowly bring yourself out from your meditative state as ai can't do more than that."

"I am not sure of what you would be in your meditative relaxed state and only you could bring yourself back to this place."

"Do you understand what I am trying to say, Your Majesty?"

Eagle emphasise on the dangers of he were to shake my shoulders or even have any physical contact with me when I was in my meditative state.

He explained that I would need to bring myself back to my current state all by myself and Eagle even warned me that I might lose my mind if I did something against his advice...!!

I don't want to become a crazy old ruler...!!!

Finding a place to sit with nothing behind my back for support, I had to move the settee area around so Eagle would be able to move in circles around me with the thurible.

"Alright, we are set now. You may begin." I said as I sat cross-legged on the centre of the clearing and closed my eyes and blanked off my mind as much as possible.

I concentrated on the darkness of my mind before me as I closed my eyes tightly and I could sense the thurible had Ben fed with some of the crushed incense.

Soon, wisps of incense scent began to waft from the thurible and Eagle walked clockwise around me, swinging the thurible in his arms the air movement would feed the coals and burn the crushed incense rocks.

The smell was nice, and not pungent in itself as I soon was in a kind of dreamy state. I felt myself being light or even lightheaded due to the scent of the incense burning but it was kind of relaxed at the moment too.

In that dreamy state of mind and the lightness of my body, I felt that I was having a sort of out of body experience as I could feel I was going against the force of nature and was floating around where I was sitting and travelling through a vortex of some kind.

I was either floating or falling from a certain height, I am not really sure, but the feeling was neither frightening nor was in danger of splattering my brains and body parts on the ground if I were to land.

*BOOM BOOM BOOM*

There thunderous explosions could be heard within me... Literally within my body, as I felt some tremors in the centre of my abdomen, then the lower part of the abdomen and the top crown of my head. I had no knowledge of those feelings like some worms were wriggling on them.

The floating falling feeling had gone and now I was feeling as though I was walking upright in the vortex. Suddenly, I saw something out there in the distance through the dark vortex and it seemed to urge me to move forward towards it.

A layer of cloth flew past towards me as it slowed down and I could see someone sitting under some trees near the coastline as he was preparing some fishing gear. The next moment, he was lying down on a mat under a low palm tree with yellowish fruits hanging close to its trunks and within reach also...!

The image zoomed past and then another one layer of cloth seemed to replace the one that had passed me. I saw a different someone this time, with long wild hair that was not tied back, and was walking along with 2 of his supposed buddies and were meeting an old wrinkled short man.

In that vision, the old wrinkled man had that particular someone to sit on a hexagon-shaped mat and was guiding him how to meditate... Just like what I did now...!

The vision flashed past me again and once more, another vision played right before me and this time the old wrinkled man was standing up and despite his age and posture, that someone was unable to defeat him on a one on one hand to hand combat...!

A voice sounded amidst those visions and spoke in a loud and clear voice, "Concentrate on a single point and exert all your internal energy into it. Summon your internal energy which would grow within you as time passes by..."

Weird... Those two sentences rang loud and clear and as if I had heard of it many times before through different set of people.

Suddenly there was a flurry of images flying past me and it slowed down to show me another set. I saw a young lad with weird-looking coloured short hair and the person looked like he was much younger than myself.

From the look of his clothes, he had a small emblem and a name that was embroidered on the breast pocket of his tunic but I was unable to determine nor recognise the words.

The lad was in the middle of the jungle and he had just cut down a single piece of yellow bamboo.

Was he trying to build a thatched house?

He had a crude sickle on his hand with a long handle and a chain attached to it. It was like the weapon when one of the Shadow units was being possessed and became my assailant on top of the town's walls on one fateful night.

The young lad was shaving the tip of the bamboo and making is sharp while measuring it to his height. I's height was neither too long or too short.

A spear... Was this young lad going fishing near a stream?

The scene before me sped up and then another vision showed me that the young lad and a masked assailant, just like a Shadow unit were battling each other out.

The assailant was using a single-handed thin-bladed sword and was holding to the similarly looking crude sickle in the other hand. The young lad was also wielding the sharpened bamboo pole instead and had placed the crude sickle with the long handle and chain at the end of it in the small of his back.

There seemed to be some clumsy fight scenes as the young lad was unable to even land a single hit on his assailant. His opponent just took a step back or sideways as he evaded the futile attempts from the young lad.

Somehow the young lad lost his footing and fell back. The assailant saw his opportunity and moved forward.

As the assailant rushed forward, the lad happened to pick up the bamboo appear he dropped.

Due to the running movement of the assailant, he can't stop in time and the young lad had impaled the rushing assailant on his chest near the throat...!

The opposing force drove the bamboo spear deep and the young lad sprang to his feet and kicked at the back of the assailant, who was trying helplessly to dislodge the bamboo spear from his entry wound.

However, the kick drove the body forward violently and drove the spear which was at an angle to the ground to pierce through. Two helpless dangling arms, at first was flailing about, then hung lifelessly at the sides.

I can't help cringe at the sight, is this a scene from some kind of war?

A flurry of scenes flew past me again and then it stopped to one where it showed another young lad and this time his hair was black this time. He was walking beside a girl and was eating ice cream...

Wow... The scene is quite romantic. The girl's hair was also black and both were wearing a set of uniform that had an emblem and sort of name embroidered on the pockets of their tunic.

They were walking and having their ice cream as they seemed to chat animatedly without any sounds. And if there are sounds, would you be expecting me to understand a single word of what they might be saying?

The young lad had changed his appearance for the third time and yet there seems to be an attachment of his heart and mind with me.

Funny... how he may look in different scenes but then he had some kind of connection with the current me. Is this part of my meditation or is this part of a vision right now.