The king is quickly in his chamber, opening the door, to his left side, hanging on the wall is a painting of distress and chaos, the king will not stop staring at it.
and then he spoke to himself,
"what is at the end of life? I am worried, at least i am certain now, more than ever, that the right choices I made, well, so I thought, It has become reasons for my season to be cut short.
Nabonidus, your wisdom is sure, but you are so young, you do not understand sacrifice, my days are truly coming to an end.
as he was speaking, "the palace bell is ringing, furiously it rings, the guards came rushing in, "protect the king"!! a man shouted,
"what is happening?" King Sargon asks, the guard said "assassin's"
"Five assassin entered the palace, no magical spell can work on them, from their face to their feet was covered, their blades was untraceable, it could cut through the wind, blood followed their blade,
suddenly fifty troops of soldiers is around them, charging towards them at an instant, with one swing of this assassin's blade, the lives of ten men is collected from them, and so it was for the rest of the assassin's, with quick speed no one can see, the assassin's made their way to the kings successor, and kidnapped him.
The king on his knees grieving, "it has finally befall me, it is here the beginning of my downfall".
he ordered his guards to search for him, the search for him continued for a whole year, but he could not be found, the king grieving in the palace.
He had not tend to himself, his beard had overgrown, he looked seriously disturbed.
"Your mother died after giving birth to you, my son Naram-sin, and now you have been collected from me.
what will I do? Should I bring back your sister, so that she can bring madness to the people? realizing that he is in the palace and everyone is staring at him.
in frustration he said, "it is one year already, withdraw the guards from searching, i have done my best".
then Gilgamesh Sakkanakku suggested to him, "my king, please pardon my tongue, why haven't you seek the attention of the gods?
perhaps in their mercy they can show you the location of your son or the assassin's and their tribe."
Everybody nodding and agreeing, even the king, in distress, quickly responded.
"why haven't I thought of this?, all the ranking officials murmuring with one another said, "he has thought himself to be a god and now he seeks a priestess".
King sargon sensing their murmur shouted with a loud voice, "send for me the priestess of Nanshe Now!!!"
breathing heavily, slowly said, "she is the goddess of prophecy and social justice, the priestess has no name.
it is said that the goddess Nanshe collected her, when she first saw the sun light and after 29years, she appeared again, her words are treasures...
A shout from the butler introduced the priestess.
"The priestess of Nanshe has arrived",
The palace became chilly with goosebumps all over everyone in the palace, and like a Shadow she was already before the face of the king, causing panic.
king Sargon, speaking in fear, "I was about to send for you, seeing that I am in distress and in a desperate moment, I do not intend to bribe the gods but please name your price and I will have it brought to you.
but I must say, I desire to seek my son, Naram-sin, he was taken by some assassin's I have never seen before, their blades was untraceable, no man, no flesh could prevent them, if they tried.
Please tell me, priestess, who are those men? And where have they taken my son? He is only 25years of age, he is weak and untrained, I have feared to teach him the ways of the sword, I did that with my daughter and I have been regretting since.
"Sargon", the priestess of Nanshe called his name, "from the moment I returned, I have been watching you, waiting for you to abase, to reach your lowest point, and when I heard you screamed my name, we decided to pay you a visit, but you must tell me, I beseech you, what is a social matter? And what is prophecy?
"You people without understanding have limited the gods, there's no limit to what my eyes can see, if I desire, if... We desire to constrain ourselves what harm have we done?
It is to control you, seeing that when mortals reach out to gods, something in them desire to control those gods, even amongst you, they're them who do not believe in the gods, but will they not see?,
(her soothing voice, strong but yet soft and smooth, it is like giving drink to a thirsty soul, she carried all of them with her voice)
how long can you doubt? Seeing that you can not bare much sorrow, you short life men, pitiful, but wickedness has blinded you all.
"What? Tell me, what do you seek with the gods? Yes I know...yes we know, of many men, some have asked of immortality, the other, to know the knowledge of their heart, some to take a large glimpse of the universe and it's power
"Should I be impressed? Maybe, humans have a way of making even the gods ponder greatly, but I ask you all a question, as I asked that man that came for immortality, what will you do with long life?
"He said, "the fullness of life is not such to be done with in 90years", I asked him to return after two seasons",
to the man that asked of a yet a severe matter, "to know his heart and the heart of others", I asked him, "why have you made such a request? seeing that the heart of a man deceives it's owner and tries to do thesame to the gods through knowledge?
"He said, "where is the wrong in this thing I seek?" I could not answer him, so I said to him, "you have received first the knowledge of your heart, if you can control it, then at ease, it will come to you the knowledge of the hearts of the others.
"That man have made me... have made us, Nanshe to think, even the gods test men to know their hearts, but I, but we, we are open to a newer knowledge, you may not understand,
"then those that sought a glimpse of the universe, I gave them sight, we gave them sight, most of them became mad instantly,
they couldn't contain the things they have seen, some had twisted hearts, admist this kind where some that thought of themselves to be gods, and the universe rejected them,
some became mad some became writers of great stories and tales, things they have observed from many lives.
some became priest and priestess
King Sargon replied, "priestess, I still have no knowledge of your wise words, give me thy mercy, seeing that I am easily in distress and worried",
then she said, "you have not answered my question, Sargon, I have asked you to tell me, what is prophecy and social justice?"
Sargon replied, "I have no knowledge of this thing you have asked of me,"
then she said, "you have asked me in like manner of those that desire to see the universe, will it reject you?
When the years is complete your son will return, but I must say, you will not see your son, until social justice is complete, the little things you did have brought this things upon you, and you will experience the fire of the gods.
forget the search, prepare now, even your own soul so that it doesn't see corruption and evil torments, seeing that you deserve it and they are yet many with you that have done this.
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