Chapter twenty-five: The omen

At the Kim's residential building, Kim Ga-young (Yoona's mother) is seen fretting very early in the morning.

She couldn't sleep very well last night, she had a dream of foreboding.

In the dream, she saw her beloved daughter crying, crying out loud for help. Trying to rush in and help her, she found out that they were both bound with a strong rope and movement was limited.

She rolled over to the place her daughter was, but on reaching there an earthquake occurred and ripped her child off right before her eyes.

Shaking her head at the remembrance of such an ominous dream, she rushed to her husband's bedroom to report to him ,and bring back her daughter to her compound to avoid any future possibilities of an ominous event.

Her maidservants wanted to stop her from disturbing the old master but she stubbornly shied away from their touch in order not to be held back, who stays calm when they know that their beloved ones are in danger?

At Kim chang-min's bedroom, the poor man was still deep in his sleep enjoying the solitude that comes from it.

Knowing that the husband is a late waker, she proceeded into his room without knocking or announcing her presence.

Treading softly, she walked near his bed and sat down quietly without waking him up.

She marvelled at the well-chiseled face of this man that fell in love with her. The young master whom she didn't dare put in her heart for the fear that her dreams might be shattered.

Reminiscing on the past, she smiled at how they got together but felt guilty that because of his marriage with her he lost the right to be his father's son.

The man that was supposed to be her father-in-law rejected the marriage right from the first day he heard that his son had fallen in love with a slave woman, the lowliest rank of the slaves .

Shrugging away from her thoughts, she lightly tapped on his shoulder to wake him up, slightly aroused, he smelled her fragrance and drew her suddenly into his arms and whispered ' lie down with me'

Smiling shyly, she wanted to cuddle with her husband but remembering what brought her there pushed him away slightly and blurted out her mission.

Fully awake now , he placed his hands on her shoulder and brought her closer so that they see each other eye to eye.

"Did you really have this kind of dream?... When?" he asked panicking.

It's not weird to see a man like Kim chang-min getting alarmed because of his wife's dream. Her dreams of foreboding always came to pass and there is no stop to it, it can be delayed but never averted.

Asking her to re-narrate the dream, cold sweats broke out from his forehead , despite his unsettling fear he appeared calm and told his wife to invite the shaman over to their house , and after telling his wife not to fret over it dismissed her so that he could gather himself together.

The sleep he has been enjoying has long been forgotten and right now is replaced with the fear of unknown.

Mother Kim ordered her maidservants to get the shaman from the mountain. This shaman that resides in the mountain is the most powerful shaman who helped alot of people despite their status.

The royal family once sent a special palanquin with a royal command to employ her in the celestial house but she refused the command and personally sent a letter to the emperor that monopoly is a word not found in the dictionary, and that her gift of foresight is something given to her to serve the people and not just a particular set of people.

The emperor decided to let her be but consulted her from time to time for her services.

Succeeding with bringing her to the house, the servants went to prepare the payment of her service according to their madam's order.

She just entered the guest room and mother Kim narrated her dream to her. Getting a full grab of the situation, she ordered that the birth chart of all the members of the family be brought to her.

Looking at the charts, she requested for those present to come so that she can compare their facial features with the charts but only one person was missing.

She asked for her portrait and marvelled at what she saw, she saw a heavenly grace on her visage, doubting her own findings she looked again and was shocked.

' She has the blessings of a Phoenix?... but how is that possible?' she thought to herself.

She might reside in the mountain but that doesn't mean she's oblivious to the happenings around her.

If her memory serves her right, she knows that their present empress is someone not to be trifled with. She also knows that she (the empress) will never allow the daughter of a slave to be her daughter-in-law.

How will she survive with her kind of person pending that her mother was a slave?

Looking at the woman that invited her,she felt pity for the woman. She signaled her to send her servants away so that they could talk in private.

"My lady, you have been gifted with a blessed child but trouble will come because of that, many people will covert what she has and will even try to kill her, I would have tried to prevent it but you guys came late because it has already started. She has met with the one person she shouldn't have met if she wanted a peaceful life...

*waah! ...waah!! ...waah!!!* mother Kim sobbed so loudly and suddenly that the shaman was startled.

Trying not delay the information, she consoled her and urged her to listen.

"If she survives the first tribulations then the rest is something she can overcome but if she can't overcome the first one, she will die a horrible death"

Looking up at the sky , she sighed .

"A storm is coming" done with her divinations she collected her payment and made to leave but she was held back by a hand that grabbed her own hands.

*sobs*

"My pitiful child, can she be saved from this person?"

"I don't think so, their fate has already intertwined with each other and only themselves can break it ..." counts something with her fingers.

*phew*

"If she doesn't meet again with this person, fate might be delayed but if she does... she can never escape"

With this last bit of information she left.

Mother Kim immediately sent someone to inform her husband that she's going to visit their child and that once she returns with her, she will tell him all that the shaman has predicted.

Afraid that if she lingers any longer her husband might stop her or that her child might meet this person ,she ran towards the stable refusing to use the palanquin as a means of voyage.

She has always been afraid of horses but right now, she has no option but to use one.

Climbing on the white one, she galloped away amidst the cries of her servants telling her to slow down and allow them to go with her .

Tears clouded her eyes as she gallops, allowing it to flow down she muttered to herself.

"Yoona... my dear Yoona... my pitiful child, please be safe until mother comes to bring you home , mother swears that rather than let anything happen to you , I will die in your stead"

Crying freely now, she keeps kicking the horse to urge it to run faster but the horse was already at it's highest speed.

"Stupid horse, run faster!" she cried and kicked the horse.

The horse "...".