The Trapped Princess
A Miracle
"Then, people deified us, as if we were immortal beings, until we forgot that we were born human. We forget to live using our feelings, listening and protecting the weak, and fighting alongside the strong. We forget the importance of life as a social being. We only remember it when death came to pick us up" said the young man followed by a nod of the heads of those behind him.
"Hate was seen in the eyes of all those who attacked us, without any mercy, they took our lives by force, we knew that we did not deserve any help, because we never reached out our hands either," the young man looked unsteady, he fell down before Ara, so he looked like he was on his knees.
"But now that I'm here," Ara looked at the young man before her. "Can I help you?"
All eyes looked back at Ara, now they looked expectantly as if pleading in silence.
"The last thing we regret is when we used to think that women were weak and troublesome creatures."
All the men behind the young man, seemed to be kneeling together, their faces looking full of regret.
"We only realized that, when there was not a single female left in our clan," the young man seemed to clench his hands together. "We realized that we desperately needed women, without women our lives were meaningless. Extinction threatened our clan, until we were blinded by the deceit that guzzled a covenant to carry on the lineage."
The young man swung his fist violently to the ground, until dust scattered around him. "We are angry, but helpless. We want revenge, but we know that their cruel treatment is a reflection of our past behavior."
Ara looked at the young man before her, "isn't it natural for humans to make mistakes?"
The young man before Ara raised his head to level with a pair of Ara eyes that looked still wet.
"What is not natural is that if you make the same mistakes over and over again, and never want to learn from the mistakes you have made," Ara tried to express the meaning of his words.
"After seeing you, I understand that you are deeply sorry for all the mistakes you have made" Ara continued. "I think that's more than enough."
Ara took a deep breath, and stared alternately at the people before her, "since I first met, all I heard were screams of regret, cries, and despair." Ara pulled her lips up and revealed a faint smile, "you know, behind all the sadness and regret you feel, I believe there is happiness full of laughter. Do you remember it?"
All eyes looked at each other, seemingly trying to find the truth from Ara's words, while the young man before Ara now looked at her with a pair of teary eyes.
The young man smiled, "it turns out that you are indeed a descendant of Vinn, your thoughts are very similar to her."
The young man seemed to take a deep breath, "there are indeed many things that we should be grateful for, one of which is when we agreed to seal our core strength here."
Ara's eyes widened, if they were the ones who left the red clan's power core on the mountain of truth, then shouldn't they all be dead?
"At that time we ignored Vinn's message to wait, we felt very impatient because Vinn never came. So we agreed to accept the agreement, but fortunately at that time Gentala continued to remind that most likely the agreement was a trap. So unbeknownst to Vinn and Gentala, we secretly agreed to seal our core strength here before finally meeting another clan that had apparently been waiting to take our lives."
Ara's heart trembled again violently, warmth radiating in her body. The young man turned towards the people behind him and gave a nod, like a signal to start something. After that he stepped closer towards Ara with his right hand extended towards the tip of Ara's head.
"We, all your ancestors have given you the blessing to inherit the power core of the red clan," said the young man before Ara.
"We, all your ancestors have given you the blessing to inherit the power core of the red clan," said the young man continuously repeated by the people behind him, thousands of strands of red light began to enter the top of Ara's head.
Ara recalled the previous incident and prepared to endure the pain that came, but Ara turned out to be wrong. It was not the pain that came, but rather the immensely comfortable warmth, as if the warmth that was now beginning to spread across his body, treating all the wounds he had felt before, encompassing the red aura that was within him.
"Click," like the sound of an open key, Ara felt all the strands of red light coming in, opening up another space within her, filling the room so quickly that Ara strangely felt more complete. He felt that what he had lost, was now filled.
"O descendants of Vinn, live happily, we will always pray for you and take care of you with the strength we have bequeathed you."
Ara cried so hard that she could not speak. The young man and the people behind him, slowly got up and seemed to walk towards an eye-blinding light.
Before disappearing, the young man who touched the top of Ara's head turned around and whispered silently, Ara observing the movements of her lips, but as a result of being too tired and the bright light, Ara could not capture the message she was conveying until she disappeared into the light.
"What did he say?" Ara was curious but could do nothing.
"Wait, how do I get back?" asked Ara puzzledly looking at the red clan village that was still before her.
"Grandfather, do you hear me?"
No answer, Ara tried again. "Grandfather?"
Ara waited for a while, but still the voice of the grandfather was inaudible. Ara tried to calm herself down and look around her. The village of the red clan that had looked crowded, now seemed quiet and empty, there was only a wind blowing against the trees. The towering buildings seemed creepy because they were uninhabited.
"What should I do?"
Ara clenched her hands together, she started to get cold, "are I stuck here?"
Ara looked at the sky that was beginning to darken in the village of the red clan. He realized that if he stayed, he could freeze to death, so he began to move, walking along his instincts, exploring the village that had been abandoned by its inhabitants.