Targeted
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Tuesday, 23rd August 1442
Gwen and the hunter-gatherers had just returned back and from their hunting trip today it seemed they had failed to secure any venison today.
But from another angle, they had managed to hunt down three families of wild boars and had numerous young ones in tow. Since Crystal does not need the young ones to be reared in the farmhouse, they were immediately slain to bring up the total for the meats for our cold storage.
It would be sufficient for the sponsorship of meat later on by the end of the week for Heather's cuisines in the outdoor kitchen area. Besides, she would need a bit of meat here and there to make some compliments to the boodle fight that everyone was anticipating.
After a hurried meal of dinner, the pioneers and the said people had already gathered anxiously at the conference hall of the domain.
The twins were there as well and even though they were young, they need to be exposed to the reality that I would be presenting to them through my roller coaster myriad of dreams.
To the best of my knowledge, dreams were just a tool to bring people to sleep or though some weird experiences and not to be based solely on the accuracy of facts that I would be lining them up afterwards.
The writing slate was arranged next to where I was sitting and everyone was gathered there and had pieces of paper in front of them to take down some important notes or just to scribble something to while the time away.
"Hey guys, we are gathered here today because I had some premonitions or sensibly known as dreams after I had ingested some crappy crab meat."
"I don't blame on Heather's cooking but Marcel, please refrain from getting any crabs from the East Coast shoreline, will you?"
A smattering of laughter erupted from the hall as everyone never had doubted Heather's cooking but rather to the unfamiliar and peculiar way to fine on crabs.
"First and foremost, we are glad to be alive today and therefore whatever we wish to convey today, hope it would be a blessing for our Lord Almighty, Amen...!"
The group replied in unison as we formally start the conference. As I had put on a serious tone of voice, everyone took particular notice to it as I stepped up to the writing slate and picked up a chalk.
I drew a horizontal line across the slate and on the end of the leftmost line, I wrote 1424, the year I was born. Then I draw a notch which I indicated 1440 and from there I made a branch of it as I made several notes.
First was the siege and the fall of Darlington. Then next was the setting up of a settlement and from there the influx of several new residents coming over to slowly build our new found land.
I threw the chalk on the bottom of the slate and turned towards the pioneers. "Do you remember the time when the first time we met? Did I bring along with me a huge knapsack, a short sword by my sides, a knighting sword as well as our coat of arms shield that hands here right now in the walls of the conference hall?"
Old Jack, Old Kayla, Ben, Crystal, Frank and Gwen looked at one another before they answered. "No... Your Majesty. All you had with you that time was a small backpack, your unsharpened short sword and also the tattered cloak that you had worn front side back."
"Yup... You were guarding the backpack as if it was your dear life, Your Majesty and we didn't realise that it contained some savings that helped saved our skins and also had our first trade with Marcel."
I was a bit surprised since in my dream I thought I had removed the whole savings from the hidden drawer in the wardrobe and had also brought it along with me.
"So, it means to say that the knighting sword and coat of arms were taken by Eagle on his trip back to Darlington along with the initial startup for our settlement back then?"
Eagle looked at me and nodded his head and this confirms that my dream was just a dream and I didn't actually bury my parents that time.
I went back to the writing slate and drew another notch and marked it as 1453 and a few inches away I made another notch and marked it as 14th May 1453 and 9th August 1453.
"Samuel...you're a Seer... Someone who would suddenly announce to the world of some happenings in the future without warning or without many realisations. Could you tell everyone what you had told me before about being reborn?"
Samuel looked around in an anxious state as he stood up and shrugged his shoulders as he replied, "It's not what I wanted to say to you actually but rather it was like a spur of the moment without me realising it. Yes, Your Majesty, I did mention about reborn a bd I had mentioned to you that you were actually reborn in this world."
"You had actually lived somewhere in the future and had multiple lives and then you had ever lived in the past nearly 300 years ago before you lived somewhere in the near future."
"Somehow you were reborn back as who you are right now, Your Majesty and there's no other additional information that I should shed to you right now."
After saying his piece, he sat down ruefully and looked on ahead and not directly at me as he knitted his eyebrows together as if he was in deep thought.
To me, Samuel being in this state was somewhat normal since he seldom speaks unnecessarily and would only reveal something crucial a week or so before the actual happenings.
"Guys... Look at the slate now. See what I marked on the timeline and placed two dates in the future, about 11 years from now. Do you have the faintest idea on why I should be able to write those two dates prominently?"
Everyone shook their heads as they waited with bated breaths on why I write those two dates that clearly marked something in the future that no one else could foresee. Even Samuel was dumbfounded on why the two dates were mentioned there and then.
The moment I spoke the next few sentences, nearly everyone heard gasped in surprise and was shocked beyond words. Even the twins looked like they would bawl out anytime soon.
"On 14th May 1453, our town suffered a terrible and unspeakable form of attack. It was also some time after the Hundred Years War had already ended. The attack was swift and precise with deadly intent that left many dead and the irrecoverable damage in almost all of the essential service buildings including this domain, which was its first target."
"It was on that fateful day, that many of our pioneers were injured and perished, Samuel and Andy Cole in the armoury. The attack was when everyone was at the most relaxed and unsuspecting and the ones that perished include Her Majesty and our two twins."
Heather gasped aloud and she hugged the twins as they couldn't control their emotions somehow and started to bawl. I'm not sure how but the twins seemed to understand what I was trying to really at that time.
"What a preposterous and illogical remark, Audemars...! How can you say that I and the twins died on the day that you had marked on the timeline?"
Heather literally hugged the twins tight and screamed at me, regardless of royalty or not because, in this conference, we abandon everything and became commoners instead.
Old Kayla and Old Jack tried to console the screaming Heather and the bawling twins as they looked so pathetic with their scrunched up faces with tears and snot running on their little faces.
"So toy think I would make up some dates and proclaim that you all died on this day? We were overrun by gnomes and they had bombarded the domain from the top and the devastation ripped the main bedroom and the twin's rooms as well."
"I was there and I saw everything...! This date all our pioneers were killed in the blast and those inside the essential service buildings were totally wiped out...!"
"Alright... I know that it's baseless now but I have to bring this up since this denotes the future and I want to put a stop to what would happen to us on the future right here and now."
"Samuel, what do you have your word in this?"
Samuel jumped in his seat as his name was mentioned again as he was likely to be targeted for the whole evening as he was the Seer and his ability to see into the future was right now being truly tested.
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