This story
will take you back to the age where dragons and magic still rule the earth. Even
though this is not the real story, well I make it as a parable version of the
real story. So here it goes.
I was
once a wandering knight, lonely, no master to be served, no place to be
settled, and no home for me to go back. One day I was just wandering in the
woods near borderville, they said the woods are dark and many dangerous beast
lives there, it got me more curious so I ventured deeper into the dark woods. But
instead of beast from the darkness I found something. I found a high wall going
in circle with a single gate, with something inside it. I know this is not an
ordinary place, because there is a lemniscates symbol above the gate, which
means this place must be bound to a time magic which prevent it or anyone in it
from being affected by time. I tried to look inside and it turned out to be a
hut, with a small river goes through the wall to the other side of the wall, a
small vegetable farm. It was a simple hut, the roof were covered in hay and
looked like a mushroom top, with some black stones spread over the roof.
“I wonder
if there’s anyone inside” I thought. i tried to go in but the gate were tightly
shut, so I shouted “hello? Is anyone inside?”. Not even a second after I shouted,
a voice from inside the hut answered “who’s there?”. I was expecting no one
inside but the voice that answered me was a woman voice, it got me more curious
so I answered that voice “im just a wandering knight, ma’am. I mean you no harm,
haven’t even use my sword for months, the last time I use it was for cutting
tall grass over my journey on a meadow. Sorry I talked too much, I just want to
convince you, I really do mean you no harm”. “then why are you here for?” said
the voice again. I am already too curious about the source of the voice, so I answered
“if you come out, and let me in, and maybe give me some water to drink, I will
tell you about how I got here, im so thirsty, please, ma’am”.
A figure
slowly walked out of the hut. It was a woman! I knew it was a woman, but I didn’t
expect her to looked like that, I mean who lives in the middle of a dark
forest, in a hut, circled by high wall, not to mention it’s gate that was tightly
shut but turned out to be an interesting person. And by interesting here I mean
like if you see her, hear her voice and talk a bit with her and you will be
like “hmmm…I need to know more about this person”.
“I’ve
come out, and here is the water you requested, but I really can’t let you in
because of a reason. So now tell me” she said while giving me water in a wooden
cup. “well…why can’t you let me in? im not gonna tell you if you won’t let me
in” I said while holding the cup of water she gave me. “I really can’t do, the
last time I let someone in, that person destroyed my hut” she said. And then I said
“well, im not that person, am I? I won’t even try to destroy your house” I said
after drinking the water, and I gave the cup back to her. She took back the cup
and said “well then, there’s nothing more you can do here, I suppose you should
go back to whatever you were doing” turned her back and slowly walking back
into the hut. I laughed a little and said “I told you, ma’am. I am just a
wandering knight, there was nothing I do, I will be back wandering aimlessly if
you are to shoo me away”. She turned against me again and said “there is
nothing anyone can do so that I will let you in, you may stay but you will
never be able to enter that gate”. I think she felt sorry for me, but she said I
may stay, which means I don’t have to go wander aimlessly anymore, so immediately
answered “ofcourse! I cannot thank you enough for allowing me to stay here, ma’am.
I will build a small post out here where I can rest at night, and shelter my
self from the rain and storm”.
She didn’t say anything as if she
was waiting for me to say something or ask her something and so I did say “ummm…ma’am,
in return of the water and allowing me to stay here I will eternally guard this
place from anything that might come and try to do harm to this place. But if I may
know, why are you out here alone and surrounded by these high walls?”. She immediately
answered as if she was holding these words for thousands of years and someone
finally asked her about it “I was once a princess on a great kingdom, but I don’t
have the look of a princess, I was more look like a peasant, almost everyone on
the kingdom looked down on me even though I was a princess, they started
mocking me and making fun of me. Day by day they’re getting meaner on their
words, which caused my inner self to develop insecurity and thoughts about how I
will never be a real princess like what I was supposed to be. And so ashamed of
my self I went into seclusion, here, in this dark forest where I can live alone
not anymore disturbed by insecurity and bad thoughts”. I stood there trying to
remember those words she just said and rearrange it to what she just said
because I was thinking about how to make the post where I will stay while
listening, and I am quite a forgetful person. After I manage to remember
correctly what she said, which took a complete minute in silence from both
person, I said then “well then, I will talk to you too about how you shouldn’t be
insecure and having bad thoughts, because I suppose you’re not the person you
used to be anymore”. But she said “you just don’t know how ugly I was!”. I immediately
answered “but ma’am, we didn’t live in the past, we live the present, no matter
how you looked in the past, the present you that is currently talking to me and
has given me a place to stay looks like a princess, just without her royal
clothes”.
She ran inside, slammed the door,
and left me alone outside, I didn’t know what I said wrong but I don’t think it’s
a wrong words that got her running, maybe it is flattery that she hasn’t feel
for a very long time. Well, anyway I started building my small post and will
eternally guard this place from harm. I am no more The Wandering Knight, I am
now The Guardian.
Well that was the first part of the
story, about how I become a guardian. There will be some part of the story,
cause the story is still going on until now, so please don’t get bored or
anything reading it :p
Byee! :D
