17 Chapter 16

"Then ask the one which is more important to you," Suran suggested.

Taeyan directly after he finished the last word said "why they left me?"

Suran said in determination "I told you before, they didn't leave you, two days after your birth someone kidnapped you from them."

"You mean that they are alive, aren't they?" Taeyan said.

Sorrow showed up on King Sayan's face and said, "Your father is, but about your mother, I'm sorry," he finished his last word with alas and deep grief.

"When can I meet them? I like to see them soon!" he threw his head down and quietly said, "I'm tired of being alone. I had thought they left me aside for poverty."

The first time that he confessed about his real emotions, never complained about his hard life and bad situations, it was wasting of time thinking about that or being depressed for his loneliness. Instead, he used to attempt more to achieve what he deserved.

He kept being nice to people and had helped them in the bazaar, if someone asked for a favor he was always there to give a hand, most people who had known him, loved him, but he never talked about himself because didn't want to share his secretes or emotions with anyone else.

"From now you are with your family; I'm willing you accept us," the humble king said.

Taeyan looked at them with widening surprised eyes, his tongue tightens like a dried stick, and hardly said, "You meant, I'm your son?"

The King got up and went beside him sat on the ground on his knees, grabbed his hand and gently said "Yes, it's all the truth, we didn't know you are alive, Sarya found you accidentally and to consider the fact she was watching over you and after a lot of tough researching shared it with us, however, Atendor said before, but he wasn't still assured about if you're our missing one. I wasn't confident till last night; I met you. You and Suran have different features than the other elves. Indeed, you know that already, today I realized that also you have so many moral similarities".

"It's really hard to discover and comprehend all of these issues, many years I wished to have a family like other people, I spent tough moments and handled all that, but in an only one it pretty changed to another road, I found myself in a world that I had belonged to and even never believe in it before, also know nothing about it, and of course, Atendor knew! He said my life is about to change". suddenly like he reminded something, tighten his eyes and said "What? You know him?"

"You are right; we know you need time to get along with this," "Yes, he is a close friend to us a half-bleed," Suran said.

"I'm sorry I have a lot of questions," "How did you realized that I'm your missing son? How she figured it out that I'm an elf?" He paused for a second and said "Of course, Atendor, the day that I talked to him he found out everything…"

"Well, not only Atendor caused that, one day she was walking there invisibly, but you saw her and asked her to buy from you, because of your similarity with me, she became curious, in the other day she had a meeting with Atendor, and saw a couple who distributed some declarations, the picture on them had belonged to you, then she found out about your name and that orphanage, she went there and searched about your information, the manager liked her and explained what your story is about, she returned to Farya and re-told us everything, then we had decided to act out, so you are here now". Suran finished his last word with a satisfying light smile.

"I feel my brain is going to blow up now; I really need fresh air to help myself understand." He said while playing with his fingers. He felt bombs are exploding in his brain one another.

He was right and didn't remember if he saw her till yesterday, he remembered the stranger who was accustomed to follow him everywhere in the shadows, it shows that she knew that, where he had lived even before taking her to his place.

"I'm giving you the right, Suran will take you around please feel free."

"I'm thankful for your favor," Taeyan said with a short forced bitter smile.

Suran got up, looked at him, and said, "Ok, let's go" and said to his father "We will be here by tomorrow."

Taeyan followed him, and they left the castle. He looked at the beautiful nature around him, but his mind was busy with nonsense things such as, why someone kidnapped him? Did his mother die for losing him? Why some of the parts of this puzzle is missing? ... Constantly used to ask many questions from himself, but Suran brought him out of his thought and said "There is something more, that you must know."

He stood right beside the bridge leaning on a stone, peering inside the valley, steams and moisturized it was, "I hope it's not a bad thing."

"No, it's not, the next six months, on the first day of spring, they will take you to the truth room, and the officials will see what had happened the night you had taken from us."

"How is that possible, how should I explain the truth that I know nothing about it?" he asked surprisingly.

"No, they won't ask you any question, you don't need to do something specific, there is only a crystal and when you touch it, it takes us to the night which you had kidnapped it shows the hidden part of memories that you never know about them, but you were a part of it".

"How it turns out to the memories that you are looking for? Can we see the faces?"

"You are a part of that fact which happened long ago, imagine a camera which is recording things, it's showing us that day only once, if we lose that chance we must wait till the next spring," "Do you want to see our mother? We can't change the past, but can only visit in a few minutes".

He nodded, for the first time in life felt blessed for having a brother like him. He seemed to be strong, brave, and smart. Suran tried to explain everything simply and fluently, had no rush for it and didn't get angry with his questions, although he didn't see the camera before, but knew that many years ago man used it to capture their memories and …

He wanted to Accept this new amazing weird world, but it was so hard for him, he was sad for his lost mother.

Never thought maybe something happened to her, the only thing that he knew was the story of the orphanage's manager "A strange, beautiful woman who gave a baby to her and left quickly", he whispered.

After a short hesitance, Taeyan smiled and said "Thank you; now I'm considering", "Anyways there was no camera anymore," Taeyan said.

That day, they spent the whole time visiting around. Suran had shown him close places to the castle. The only parts left were Fury gates on the floating islands above the castle. He was so interested in the gates' uses, but his brother told him that they would educate him about the stories of this world as soon as they meet the rest. And said that soon he will find many friends who are completely different than Jimmy so they will help him to learn easily, as fast as he could imagine.

Beside the castle, there were two sylvan mounts, a waterfall crumbling down like white thin lace.

Taeyan was staring at the flower garden and said "You said the school would get started in the spring, So, I must learn so many in a very short time, am I right?"

"Yes, we will teach you, the first part is history and learning about crystals, the second one is how to fight with sword and bow, the third part is how to transfer."

"Sword? Bow? Does It mean you will teach me how to fight? Like Daniel?"

"Exactly, you must learn to defend yourself when you got stuck with a demon; always there are creatures which are walking inside the shadows out there and waiting to hurt us."

"All these conversation made me more excited, never thought of them already, my whole worries were to save my money for getting ready to inter to school, although I study a little bit, now I understand that those strange hooded people were you, no one had attention because they were not able to see them, can I learn to transfer as soon as possible?".

Suran got surprised and said, "Yes, next week we will start," "Are you sure they were elves? We go there only in emergencies."

He reminded their hands, stared at his hand, and said "I regularly saw them, but their hands were pretty different than yours."

"They are red devils, but how weird, they were walking between them so ordinary", Suran said thoughtfully "I don't know who you are talking about, but they used to go to governor houses."