To Provoke Soma
"Stop!" cried Aynur.
Everyone froze, and Soma rose softly as she aimed its blade at the wise's temple, its blue slowly turning deadly red, Amed and Fossan stopped, as well as the Viscount and his imperial guard, And she continues, panting: "He's not doing me any harm, he's just testing Soma."
The wise had already left her, looking at Soma with bright eyes, saying, "Beautiful."
Everyone wheezed from hypertension, and Soma quietly had blued when the wise walked away, landed, and then returned to its sheath, and he said apologising: "Excuse me, my dears, there was really no way to test bone magic but this act, I apologise again."
"He's right. The only way to provoke Soma is to try to kiss me or kill me," said Eynur, in stupefaction and shock, holding herself together. (Amed) said angrily:
"If it wasn't you who ordered me to stop, I would have unleashed Rokoshta."
'You and Rokoshta will fall off your head at once,' said the Viscount nervously, 'if you have offended the Wise, and then the masters will smash those lands to pieces. You do not know the wrath of the boars.'
"No one threatens Princess Aynur," Amed said to him in exasperation.
The wise interjected with a tone of regret: "I personally apologise to you, Mr. Amed." "Your orders, Princess," Fossan said to Aynur.
The Viscount beckoned his men to return their swords to the scabbards, and so did the two men of the princess, who said, "Hold on, Fossan, and you, Amed, nothing happened, the wise harboured no evil, he really wanted to test Soma. He will not make all this journey after he has given us A helping hand, that he finds nothing in the south, he wants to nourish his wisdom by finding and studying the magic of the pagans who remain there."
"Did he put all this information into your brain when he put his palms on your temples?" asked (Amed) doubtfully.
The wise replied quickly: "Yes, this is a fact that I do not evade. Otherwise, I would have put myself to death at your hands directly, had it not been for her belief in the sincerity of my purpose and nobility, she would not have saved me."
(Aynur) thought, "Did he just plant this in my mind? Or did he plant something else? Something about a witch?"
But she never said so.
His act of double wisdom was hard for their understanding to learn, but he was right in the end, there was no way to test Soma and implant his intent about bone magic into the princess's mind, except with his movement and direct contact.
The souls before this act were no longer the same as they became after, so Fossan stood in the distance between the wise and the princess, and he decided not to let him even shake hands with her, and the princess said, "Let's calm down, and let us bring a lunch feast in honour of the presence of the honourable wise, and then he rests in the royal guest suite.".
She pointed to everyone to move, and head to the dining hall, where the servants spread a giant table for the princess and her guest, and distributed various dishes, and fresh and spiritual drinks, to them and to the castle officials, including heads of stores, accounts, stables, and other tasks.
As they ate the castle clown playing some quick and cheerful pieces of music, they heard the call of the commissionaire announcing the arrival of a new guest:
"(Solaik Salkaik) warrior of the sea-jinn, nicknamed Solaik knight of knights".
The princess allowed him to enter, so (Farjoud) sensed a new weapon that he had extracted from the castle's secret weapon safes, after obtaining the princess' permission, a weapon that could kill the jinn.
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