Kai was awakened by the noise in the palace. From the window listening to the screams he saw that everyone was fussing, walking, running. From separate phrases, it became clear that this chaos in their calm, measured life was caused by the arrival of Sheikh Arshad. He stood at the window and thought that, probably, in vain he had not tried to escape from here, knowing that this meeting would be followed by uncertainty.
Although, all this time he
thought about escape and even planned it. But everything was not easy here. In
his room, there were forged twisted lattices everywhere on the windows; it was
clearly pointless to saw them with a nail file. Guards were always guarding his
chambers. Everywhere he was accompanied by guards and servants. Even walking
accompanied by Maksud, Kai remained under guard. He saw helicopters on the roof
of the building, but Maksud never took him in that direction, although he
conducted a tour of part of the palace, showing its luxury and splendor.
When Kai tried to force
Maksud to lead him in the direction of the building with helicopters, Maksud,
being quite intelligent, understood everything at once and also tacitly
rejected his request.
During this time, of
course, Kai studied the part of the palace where he was allowed to be, he even
knew where the so-called "night half" is located, where the
concubines lived. Access to them was strictly prohibited. They also had their
own garden for walking, completely isolated from prying eyes.
All in all, Kai's escape
plan was dim. He knew approximately the location of garages and stables. After
getting in there, taking a horse or a car, to try to break through the locked
gate was very foolish.
He would not get there
unnoticed. Even if he got there, even if he miraculously broke through the gate
- where would he go? In an open area from a helicopter, he would be instantly
found and returned.
So he needed to capture the
helicopter. But this was real either in complete chaos, as it was during the
palace coup, or with a detailed escape plan. And this turned out to be unreal,
he could not even come close to them to find out where the keys were from them,
where the fuel was, and how they were guarded. But most importantly, Kai was
not ready to kill the people around him, and he could only try to escape. These
people, they did nothing wrong to him, they served the Sheikh, so why would he
then unleash a massacre with them? Kai knew he was trapped in his conscience.
Now, listening to the noise
and screams, he may have regretted that after all, at least he had not just
climbed over the wall and walked from here, and now what awaited him? What
verdict would the Sheikh give him?
Excited Maksud rushed into
his room. He informed about the arrival of Sheikh Arshad and entrusted him to
the care of his servants, very much asking Kai not to show off on this day and
take everything for granted, since he personally did not have time to be with
him now, he should be near Arshad.
Kai did not "show
off", realizing that for all his disobedience, Maksud would be punished.
During this time, he became very friendly with Maksud, who turned out to be an
educated and interesting person, albeit a cunning one. But Kai liked him.
Therefore, he stoically
endured all beauty procedures, ate everything that was brought. He allowed to
dress him up. He endured the coloring and decoration. All this dressing took
quite a long time.
***
Arshad was not in his
palace for a long time and therefore spent the first half of the day in common
affairs, listening to reports from Gifar and Maksud, who, in addition to Kai,
still had the whole harem on his shoulders and many problems associated with
this. At the end of all the reports, Arshad remembered the prisoner.
"Well, what about the
prisoner? Let them lead him. We need to decide something with him. However, for
his audacity, he should rot in prison, but he fought gloriously and saved my
life," Arshad fell silent, seeing the mysterious smiles on the faces of
Maksud and Gifar. "So ... I don't know something? Why are you smiling like
March male cats? Does this concern the prisoner?"
"Yes, Great
Arshad," Maksud purred.
"Well, that's enough!
We're not at an official reception right now, let's go without the Great Ones
and everything else. So what don't I
know about the prisoner? And stop smiling like that!"
"You don’t know much
about him, but you’d better see everything yourself," Maksud purred again.
"I’ll just tell you the main thing that you should know. This is a very
educated young man with excellent manners of behavior, with knowledge of
etiquette and everything that an intelligent person should know."
Seeing the surprise on
Arshad's face, Maksud continued.
"He knows many
languages, spends most of his time in your library, reads a lot in different
languages. Do you remember that there, on the upper shelf, on the right, there
is such an old book? He is already finishing it. During this time, he has read
a couple of German classics in the original, French literature of the
seventeenth century and regularly reads in Latin - medical volumes, which are
at the bottom on the left, well, and other things, you can ask him
yourself," Maksud was pleased with the effect of his speech. Arshad sat
and, not breathing, looked at him. "Well, there is another thing. You
remember - he perfectly wields a sword. Gifar now takes the Art of Combat
Mastery from him every day. But the bruises on him make me very sad."
"I'm not interested in
this, it's about bruises," seeing the strange smiles on their faces,
Arshad flared up. "What is it! I do not mind, or rather, it’s even very
good that this prisoner is at least somewhat useful."
"By the way, do you
remember what he looks like?" Maksud radiated an enigmatic smile.
Arshad breathed in, drank
the water carefully placed in front of him by Gifar, who also enjoyed this scene.
"I remember - a thin
ragged arrogant draggle-tail who dared to look into my eyes," then he
added thoughtfully, "he has emerald eyes ..."
"Well, then, well,
you'll recognize him," Maksud finished his speech. "Maybe we will
invite him to our dinner?"
At first, Arshad had no
idea of admitting some prisoner from the desert to his table, but all this
strange behavior of his friends and what he had heard about this prisoner
intrigued him, and he nodded in agreement. Maksud did not give him time to
recover, immediately called the servants and ordered to set dinner on an open
veranda under the shade of vines for four people and bring the prisoner to the
table.
When Arshad, accompanied by
Maksud and Gifar, entered the veranda, Kai was already waiting for them there.
The servants had brought him, and now he thoughtfully considered the view from
the balcony to the exotic garden. At the sound of footsteps, he turned around.
Arshad took several steps
in his direction and froze.
"Who is he?…"
In a strange voice, Arshad
either asked or said.
"Our prisoner,"
Maksud replied calmly, enjoying the unfolding action.
Gifar also watched this
with interest, realizing that quite recently he also looked exactly like
Arshad.
"How do you do, Sheikh
Arshad," Kai slightly bowed his head in greeting. He did not become silent
and pretend to be an evil beech. Such roles are suitable for girls, not for
him.
"How do you do,"
Arshad fell silent, then said again, more confidently. "Hello. What's your
name?"
"Is it
important?"
"Well, now I know for
sure that it is you, only that impudent ragamuffin at the plane could answer
that way."
Arshad approached Kai, now
he was not angry, he examined him - or rather, devoured him with his eyes.
Kai did not quite
understand this look on himself, no one had ever looked at him like that. Men
usually look at girls with such looks when they want ... Kai shrank, drove this
thought out of his head, forbade himself to finish mentally this sentence.
Arshad by that time was
going the third circle around him.
Maksud saw that it was
necessary to save the situation. He knew how hot-tempered his captive was, and
he did not like such attention to himself, there could be a conflict. Maksud
quickly approached them.
"Great Sheikh Arshad,
do honor to your savior, invite him to the table."
Arshad shuddered at the
voice of Maksud, came to his senses, and remembered that no one had canceled
the role of the owner of the palace. He quickly grabbed Kai around the waist
and led him to the table.
Everyone was confused here.
Gifar's jaw dropped. Maksud
froze in place, and Kai was thinking whether to hit the Sheikh in the face for
the position of his hand on his hips or not ...
In such thoughts, Arshad
brought him to his chair and carefully sat him down, then sat down in his
rightful place opposite Kai. Maksud sat next to Kai, and Gifar - next to
Maksud. The dishes were brought with food.
Only Gifar and Maksud were
eating at the table. Arshad was absorbing Kai with his eyes, occasionally
bringing pieces of food to his mouth, and Kai was moving the food in the plate
with a fork, constantly bumping into Arshad's gaze.
Maksud again saw that it
was necessary to save the situation at lunch.
"O Great Arshad,
forgive your guest for eating so little," Maksud began theatrically.
"Maksud, that's
enough," Arshad grunted angrily at another word about his greatness, then
the meaning of the words reached Arshad, "and why does our guest eat so
little?" he turned to those present.
"Our guest does not
perceive the flavor of the food. Your doctors examined him. It is, indeed, a
nervous illness, a consequence of a hard life," Maksud again theatrically
recited, "therefore I have to carefully monitor his diet, otherwise he
forgets to eat altogether," he said in his usual tone.
Arshad came to his senses.
He hadn't expected to hear that.
"Eat," he said,
looking at Kai, "please don’t offend me."
Kai smiled and began to
eat. Arshad was also distracted by his plate, forcing himself not to take his
eyes off the food, although more than anything in the world now he wanted to
look at him ...
The wine was poured into
goblets. Arshad watched through half-closed eyelids as his guest with thin
fingers touched the silver goblet, slid along its surface, touching it
slightly, then squeezed and smoothly, in elusive grace, brought it to his lips,
taking a sip, put it back on the table, and lips retained their gloss moisture
of red wine ...
Arshad felt that everything
swam before his eyes, a wave of excitement went through his body and began to
concentrate on his awakening dick. He quickly drank the water and forced
himself to calm down. He had never felt this way. Never, even being a green
teenager, he did not get turned on like that, sitting at a table and dripping
saliva and desire. This began to anger him, but when faced with the green
lights in the eyes of this young man, he realized that he could not be angry
with him.
Lunch passed in a daze.
Maksud constantly created the background of a lively conversation, Gifar helped
him in this. Kai answered in a very cultured and restrained manner, while
Arshad was silent. The shock was too strong, he was overwhelmed too hard, he
fought too hard with himself to regain his calmness and suppress the wave of
animal desire that covered him. It was all too strong. He was not ready for
this.
When Maksud said that
their guest was being escorted to his chambers, Arshad did not object. He
watched him go, remaining seated at the table.
"You're not happy, are
you? Have I deserved your anger?" Maksud was already worried, looking at
the strange state of Arshad.
"Well, what have you
to do with it!" Arshad blurted out irritably. "I can't understand
myself ..." already softening, he answered, "once again repeat what
you've said about him."
Maksud patiently repeated
everything that he had said earlier about Kai, only he began to enumerate the
books that he read in even more detail.
"You said about
training. Are you training tomorrow?" Arshad turned to Gifar.
"Yes - at ten."
"Very good, train as
usual, I'll come to see."
Arshad's face changed
again, he pondered and, not looking at Maksud, asked:
"Did the doctors
examine him?"
"Yes, he is completely
healthy."
"You know, I’m not
asking about that."
"He has never slept
with men. He's a virgin."
Arshad's fingers drummed on
the table. Then he got up and silently retired to his chambers. Gifar and
Maksud followed him, meaningfully exchanging glances behind him.
Already in the evening
Maksud, as usual, went to Arshad to clarify whom he would like to see in the
chambers of love today.
"A fragile short boy,
let him be curly."
For some reason, Maksud was
not even surprised, he bowed with an imperturbable face and left.
When Arshad entered the
chambers for love, there was a young man of twenty or twenty-two years old,
thin, short. Arshad quickly approached him, then stopped, realizing that it was
not him...
This guy was not so
graceful, the face was different, although handsome; he had curly hair, though
it was a perm, and dyed black; the eyes were green, but he saw that they were
just lenses.
"Fake," Arshad
breathed in disappointment.
The young man was not taken
aback, caught the moment of his confusion, and knelt in front of him.
Arshad ran his hand through
his hair, felt curly locks, closed his eyes, and saw his eyes, shining like
emeralds.
"Yes, you can… touch
me," Arshad said with a hesitant breath, felt his fingers on his aroused
flesh, remembered his thin fingers hugging a goblet of wine, and sweet pain
passed through his body.
All night, he caressed his
hair, hugged and pressed him to himself. Deceiving himself that this was the
one he wanted so badly.
Why did Arshad not demand
him that night? This prisoner touched something in him that now stopped him
from wanting to possess him. He decided to wait. For his sake, he agreed to a
fake. Arshad was angry with himself, with his actions, until he understood why
he behaved this way. After all, he always took what he wanted, and now he
deviated from his rule.
***
Kai felt strange that day.
This look of Arshad pursued him everywhere, not allowing him to focus on books,
then haunted and resurfaced in memory while he was kept in baths and smeared
with oils. Even playing the console, he saw in front of him those burning eyes
piercing right through him.
Before going to bed, Maksud
came in, they chatted as usual, although Maksud noticed that Kai was sad and
thoughtful.
"Maksud, please bring
me something to sleep from your magical tinctures."
Kai understood that now it
would be difficult for him to fall asleep, but he so wanted to fall asleep and
forget everything.
"Of course, I'll bring
it now, your dream will be beautiful, no sorrows will touch you."
Maksud smiled as usual
and left his chambers.
***
In the morning training
with Gifar, Kai forgot about everything, as soon as he had felt the sword in
his hand although with a blunt blade. All problems receded for a while.
Now they were practicing
another combat technique with a lunge, sweep and roll over the back. Then he
repeated the same technique with five of Gifar's warriors.
Then they began to repeat
the previous combat techniques. Kai fought them one on one, then all together.
He corrected them, explained, then they attacked him again or he attacked
himself. At one of these moments, he felt someone's eyes on him and saw Arshad.
Kai guessed that Arshad had been watching him for a long time, and before that
he had felt his gaze on him, he was simply too carried away by the battle.
He continued training, but
the joy of the lesson had already passed. Fortunately, their time came to an
end. He was taken by Maksud to make beauty. Kai felt Arshad's gaze until he
disappeared behind the doors of the palace.
At lunchtime, Arshad sat at
the table with Gifar and Maksud. He ordered Maksud not to bring the prisoner,
realizing that he did not yet know how to behave. He was completely confused.
What he saw today on the parade ground for fights impressed him. Yes, this
prisoner was excellent with a sword and fighting technique. He was flexible,
plastic, and it took the breath away. Arshad was watching and could not take
his eyes off. He caught every movement of the guy, how he fell and stood up at
the same second, how he moved softly like a cat and how sharp his lunges were
when he struck. Arshad was not ready for such a contrast in one person. He was
at a loss.
"Maksud, after dinner
in the garden, when I will smoke a hookah, invite our guest, I want to talk to
him."
Maksud bowed his head
respectfully.
After dinner, Arshad
usually went into the garden to a huge bower covered with carpets, on which
there were low sofas with numerous pillows. Here he reclined with a hookah.
There were always vases with fruits, oriental sweets, and drinks on the table
in front of him. Although according to his faith it was impossible to drink
wine, he sometimes allowed himself to sip a glass of the red one.
The bower was winded with
vines, flowers were fragrant around, light curtains of transparent chiffon
descended on the sides of the columns.
Arshad in thought was
inhaling the sweet smoke from the hookah, through half-closed eyelids he saw
him.
When Kai climbed the steps
and froze, Arshad gestured to a low sofa with pillows opposite. Kai sat down on
the sofa and leaned against the pillows.
Arshad offered his guest
wines and sweets. Kai thanked him, took a sip of wine, did not touch sweets and
fruits.
Then Arshad continued the
conversation on general topics: nature, weather, palace life, politics, war,
art, and others. His mysterious guest, as Maksud had warned, was well educated
in all spheres, answered everything within the framework of small talk -
nothing superfluous, and, at the same time, he could not be reproached for lack
of communication.
Arshad saw that the young
man was ideal in behavior and education. He never once admitted disrespect in
answers, showing natural tact and subtle knowledge of etiquette. All this infuriated
Arshad! He needed something else, but he understood that during the
conversation he had not been able to break through the framework of the
diplomatic dialogue. Arshad went over all the topics, but he could not destroy
this invisible wall between them. And then he realized that he had
underestimated his captive. Despite his age, his education, and his experience,
he lost to him.
Arshad took a drag on his
hookah again and, listening to another diplomatic answer from his guest,
watched as he ran his beautiful thin fingers over the cold steel of the goblet,
squeezed them slightly, and brought this goblet to his lips incredibly
gracefully. A small sip of wine and the goblet was placed on the table, and the
lips shine a little with moisture.
Arshad lowered his eyes,
again feeling that a warm wave, running through his body, was concentrated in
the lower abdomen.
As though through the fog
he heard a voice, shuddered, looked up, and saw that a servant was standing
beside him and, probably, had already been trying to draw his attention to
himself for several minutes.
He waved his hand.
The servant, as always,
began with a lengthy listing of Arshad's merits. He was not ready to listen to
all this now.
"What do you want to
say?" he interrupted the servant.
"Great Arshad, you've
asked to report to you about the arrival of the stallion you have acquired,
named North Star. We have big problems with it. The horse is very aggressive.
Our best riders can't handle it! Give us more time, perhaps in two weeks, we
will be able to pacify his character. I hope this news did not darken your day,
and your anger will not overtake us ..."
Then the servant again
began to enumerate all the merits of the great Sheikh.
Arshad listened deeply to
all this and accidentally glanced at the face of his guest. And here he was
pierced like lightning. He saw a completely different face of his guest.
Instead of the indifferently calm, now the face of the young man sitting
opposite him shone, green eyes sparkled and burned, listening to every word
from the servant's lips. And Arshad understood - was it really something that
could destroy this wall?! Did he find the key to him?
Arshad chuckled, then said
indifferently.
"I want to go and look
at this stallion," he looked at the guest. "Will you keep me
company?"
"Yes!" Kai
exclaimed too emotionally and stood up, then, recollecting himself, sat back
down. But Arshad already understood everything - he won!
He stood up with a sly
smile and showed with his hand that he was inviting his guest to join him.
Walking along the paths of
the garden to the stable building, they talked to each other like two people
who had found each other with a common passion - it was horses. Arshad was a
fan of horses, he could talk about them for hours, and now he saw that this
young man was just like him. They talked excitedly, interrupting each other,
arguing, discussing ...
Horses are a boundless,
immense world. And, starting to talk about the complexity of the character of
one horse, they gradually moved on to general issues of riding horses with
specific examples from the personal experience of one and the other then talked
about horse breeds, feeding, and grooming. They mentioned forging, horseshoes.
Men discussed the issue of saddles and who preferred which ones, moved on to
the issue of accustoming the horse to the saddle, and so, in a heated
discussion, they reached the parade ground, where this rebellious stallion was
fetched.
The horse was gorgeous,
black, thin-legged, with the eyes of a wild beast and flaring nostrils. It was
held on both sides by grooms on long ropes. The horse kicked its legs, snorted,
and clattering its teeth tried to bite the people who were holding it back. The
man who worked with it tried for a very long time to approach the horse. The
horse did not admit anyone, it turned around to the approaching one with its
backside and waved his hind legs away. All this was dangerous, the animal was
aggressive and posed a threat to people.
"Arshad, let me sit on
it!" Kai barely restrained himself not to cling to Arshad's hand when he
saw such a beautiful horse.
"Well ... if you want
..." Arshad did not expect such a request and answered, not fully thinking
about its meaning.
This permission was enough
for Kai, he quickly threw off a robe, remaining in wide trousers and a shirt
tied with a wide silk belt, quickly crawled under the fences of the parade
ground, and ran to the grooms holding the horse. He said something to them, and
then, after waiting for a second, while the horse, having beaten off with its
hind legs, had not yet grouped itself, jumped into the saddle. The grooms let
go of the ropes, which were threaded into the snaffle rings and have now
slipped out of them.
The stallion felt freedom
and immediately reared up.
Arshad regretted his rash
decision, seeing that it was very dangerous, and he needed this young man alive
and well. But it was too late!
Then he just stood and
watched everything that was happening.
The horse, dropping to
four legs, tried to grab its rider by the leg, but Kai foresaw this, did not
give it a reason to turn its head and bite his leg. The stallion began to rage,
also realizing that it could not reach the rider's leg. It galloped along the
parade ground, raising clouds of sand, bucked, braked sharply, spun, but the
rider sat on it like a "glove". The stallion reared up again and, not
calculating its strength, began to fall on its back. Everything turned into ice
inside Arshad.
Feeling that the horse
under him lost its balance and was falling on its back, Kai pushed off from him
and, without releasing the reins, jumped to the ground. The horse fell, quickly
turned on its side, and began to get up, and at that moment Kai again jumped
into the saddle.
Getting up from the ground
and feeling that the rider was on it again, the stallion continued its attempts
to throw him off itself. For another twenty minutes, it rode, bucked, kicked
up, tried to reach the rider's leg, twirled, wheezed, and snorted with anger.
Two more times it rolled over onto its back, but the rider returned to the saddle,
and everything was repeated again. Finally, the horse ran out of steam. And
then Kai began to urge him on. He did not give the stallion a chance to rest.
He made him gallop around the parade ground circle after circle, and gradually
the horse resigned itself and already began to listen to its rider, obeying
him, fulfilling his wishes to turn in one direction or the other, stop and
gallop again, go to step or again to gallop. For such obedience, Kai let the
lathering and sweaty animal change its gallop to a step, patted it on the neck,
and let go of the reins. The stallion exhaled and, with the air of a submissive
lamb, walked towards Arshad and the waiting grooms.
Kai calmly jumped off it,
patted it on the neck again, stroked its face, and gave the occasion to the
grooms, who took it to have a clean up after such a jump.
Arshad exhaled when he
finally saw that Kai got off this crazy horse.
"Tomorrow it's
necessary to ride it, but I think it won't behave like that," Kai said
quite calmly, going up to Arshad.
"You are very good in
the saddle."
"I have been riding
horses since childhood. I had to tame more violent ones," Kai laughed.
Arshad smiled too. Here it
was - his victory! He even laughed, but how sincere! How handsome he was when
this smile was on his face!
"Let's go - I'll show
you my stable!"
Arshad made a gesture
towards the stable.
"Great! Let's go
to!"
Almost jumping, overtaking
Arshad, Kai went with him.
Once inside the stable,
they forgot about time and reality. Arshad with delight and pride showed Kai
his horses, and Kai competently discussed each with Arshad. Then they reviewed
the horse equipment, fodder, utility rooms, and everything related to the life
of the stable. Arshad was delighted. He had no one to talk about this with, or
rather, formally everyone was ready to listen to him, but he understood that
this topic was of no interest to anyone. Another thing was his mysterious
prisoner, who listened with delight to everything, climbed all the nooks,
discussed all the topics, and was ready to listen and talk about it endlessly,
just like himself.
During this occupation,
Maksud found them, who had already been told about the heroic ride of a wild
stallion by a handsome young man, now the whole palace was talking about this,
naturally embellishing this story with more and more terrible and incredible
details.
Maksud was already
preparing for the most terrible, therefore, seeing Kai, he rushed to him,
grabbed him by the shoulders, set him in front of him, and, walking around him
four times, exclaimed:
"Glory to the Almighty
- you are safe and sound!"
Kai had already forgotten
what he was talking about.
"What has
happened?"
"Well, the whole
palace talks only about how you tamed this crazy stallion ... Oh, forgive me,
Great Arshad, I was very worried about the health of our guest!"
"You know, Maksud, I
was also very worried about his health when I saw him on this horse,"
Arshad laughed.
"So, was it really so
serious?"
Kai smiled at the
frightened face of Maksud.
"Yes, very
seriously," he became sad, "I even have lost an earring and erased
lipstick."
Arshad burst out laughing,
and Maksud blossomed, finally seeing that everything was going as well as
possible!
With tremendous efforts,
Maksud finally managed to take Kai out of the stable, and then only because
Arshad remembered that they had been waiting for him for a long time on
business in the meeting room.
"I'm waiting for you
for dinner!" leaving, threw Arshad to Kai.
Maksud nodded
understandingly and, taking Kai by the shoulders, with an effort led him out of
the stable to make beauty. Kai was indignant all the way, telling Maksud how he
made him tired with his bathrooms, massages, rubbing with oils, and all this
bullshit. That he could clean the horse instead and do more interesting things
in the stable. Maksud listened to everything, smiled, and dragged Kai with him
towards the bathhouse.
***
This dinner was strikingly
different from their first meeting at the table. Kai and Arshad talked
incessantly like old friends. Naturally, their topics of conversation were
about horses. Maksud and Gifar ate in silence and were sincerely happy that the
two had found each other.
By the end of dinner,
Arshad remembered what he wanted to tell Kai:
"We’ll go falconry
early tomorrow."
"Will you take me with
you?" Kai did not believe what he had heard.
"Of course! Who else
will I go with then?"
"Will you give me the
North Star?"
"It's still unreliable
..."
"Well, please,"
by the way with which eyes Kai looked at Arshad, the Sheikh realized that he
was ready to give him everything that he didn’t ask.
"Okay," Arshad
smiled, "maybe you will tell me what your name is?"
Kai averted his eyes in
embarrassment.
"Call me as you
want."
Arshad saw, he would not
tell him his name. His gaze fell on a fruit bowl containing sand roses for
aesthetics. This amazing miracle of nature, which is created by winds, sun, and
sand - a desert rose.
"The rose of a
desert," said Arshad. "I will call you the rose of a desert," he
picked up a rose made of sand from a bowl of fruit.
Kai flushed, wanted to
argue, then restrained himself, realizing that it could be worse. And, in
general, it was his own fault that he did not say his name.
"Are you
offended?"
"No, but I hoped the
name would be different."
"Tell me your name ...
are you silent? Then I will call you the rose of a desert. Maksud, Gifar, have
you heard the name of our handsome guest?"
They nodded in agreement.
Kai did not take offense at this, Arshad's tone was too friendly, he did not
want to offend him with this name. Kai saw it.
The conversation at the
table again returned to the topic of horses. They began to discuss the upcoming
horse hunt with a falcon of the next day.
Kai did not like hunting,
or rather, did not understand why it was necessary to kill animals when there
was so much food? But hunting with a falcon was different. It was a duel
between a raptorial bird and its prey. Here the person did not interfere but
only waited and watched. Therefore, Kai considered that such a hunt did not
contradict his principles and views on the humane treatment of animals. He had
never been on such a hunt, but he had read a lot about it from old books and
now he was glad to be there himself.
Returning after dinner to
his chambers, accompanied by Maksud, the guy simply blew Maksud's mind out
brain with these horses and everything connected with them.
Maksud had angelic
patience, he listened, agreed with everything and after all the beauty
procedures he happily gave Kai an evening herbal tincture for sleep. After
that, seeing that Kai was falling asleep, he left the guy's chambers
contentedly.
Despite all this, Maksud
simply glowed from within with the understanding of what he saw. And he saw
love ...
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