Lilies Glow

First Land

There in Tibet

Who’s the land for?

Chai Lee

From the valley covered in jungles.

White rocks stand out.

And in the cold sky,

Red leaves scatter.

And on the mountain trail,

The rain didn’t come down.

But from the blue of space,

My dressing gown is almost dripping.

Wang Wei.. From ancient Chinese literature

In the midst of his mind, he hears the the knocking . Someone is knocking on his door of mind with urgency. knocking comes from the majestic roof of the world, landing at rocket speed across mountains, valleys, plains and lands into that strange ship, then into salty blue and into that beach submerged in bright silver light. Trauma lands from his mind to his heart to wake up. With his strong fists, Ibo strikes to the chest of Chai Lee lying on the wet sand . It was been a few minutes, but it was heavy, before the Asian coughed repeatedly , to empty the sand-mixed saltwater on the sand . Slowly he gets up by the help of Ramo and Ibo, to get him from the wet sand to adry area where the group sat in a small semicircle.

Time was night but the beach was lit up as best by the bright silver moon light, or for precision more by the light coming from those three moons in the sky!

Taqiya said while she was looking up with fascination :

- It’s the same shape as the tattoo we carry on our foreheads!

Chai Lee said with exhaustion:

- Are we on another planet?

He was followed by Asia:

- Or aparallel universe .

Ramo said quietly:

- Whoever this place is, we have to stay together to see how we get out of it safely.

Milan said in a cynical tone:

- Maybe we’d better die than fall into that maze.

Ibo said:

- Maybe we’re already dead!

Aung sighed, closing her eyes, as if she was remembering the recent past that had become like centuries ago.They were surrounded by deep silence. Silence punctuated by breath of the eight while Each of them was piled in a corner then the temporary death carried them to another day.

****

The fumes of the three white bowls placed on that small table with flowery embellishments escalated, bearing the smell of hot buttered tea tasted, for which Chai Lee’s hand stretched first to sip a few sips that conveyed more warmth to his body. Here at the house of Chai Lee, governor of the Lubwe region of southeast Tibet, that small session was held which included Kang Di Ho.. IRS official and Han Makoto. Director of the Chinese Government’s Regional Bank.

Han spoke:

- The situation is getting more tense throughout Tibet. We should ask the Government to send reinforcements from the army to the region in anticipation of the movement of such unrest to Lubwe.

Kang agreed:

many clashes have occurred between the police and Tibetans, they are starting to attack the houses of the rich and the Han in Lassa, and we are afraid that all these unrest will extend to here, we have to take our precautions in anticipation of any emergency in the coming days.

Chai sighed and then slowly said:

- Things in Lubwe are quiet, relations between citizens of Han and Tibetan are stable, and this is what I have worked to achieve since taking my position . If citizens see the armed forces teams in the city, the fuse will set the hearts on fire, and we will have planted discord with our hands in town.

Han said:

- Our homes, families and interests here are not safe, Mr. Chai Lee. events can ignite at any moment. No matter how quiet the situation seems, the fuse of contention will remain in place and nothing will change it.

It takes no more than a superficial problem as Two-person arguments or differences of views , the hatred will emerge from its cave to ignite the fuse .

Kang said:

- I agree with Han Mr. Chai, if the dispute arises, everyone will be fanatical of his nationality and all years of stability will be forgotten in a moment. These Tibetans will not remember everything the Chinese Government has done to reconstruct and develop Tibet and the achievements they have experienced on the ground, and they will drift behind a few words from any monk in the temple to destroy everything we have done.

Chai said:

- Here lies the beginning .. Kang, the beginning of the ignition. You say these Tibetans, like we’re people and they’re other people. All those years I’ve been trying to erase all those names. Han, Shalpa, Luba, Canba... They’re all names of our multiple nationalities. But if we look at that paradise that God has given us and which we live on its land, and if we look at our identical features, we will renounce that tribal intolerance that we have burned by its flame for years.

Kang and Han exchanged unconvinced looks, after keeping silent and not finding a convincing response to continue to argue, they left the Governor’s House desperately.. After becoming lonely, Kang spoke sarcastically:

- Chai Lee lives in another world, his dreamy thoughts will destroy us.

Han said:

- I think we must move to protect ourselves and our people, we will not wait until everything we have built on that land is destroyed for a group of peasants. If the Tibetans feel the weakness of the Governor, and if those turmoil arrives in the land of Lubwah, we will lose control and the Territory will be lost from our hands ,it will be the first bead , and then all Tibet will be lost from the hands of the Chinese!

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The Tibetan issue remains one of the most important issues that has occupied its` place in the meetings of the United Nations, as one of the disputed territories like occupied Palestine, although the circumstances differ.

It’s Tibet. The dead heart of Asia as it is called because of the ambiguity that surrounded it, for its topography and rugged geographical map, as well as it is called the roof of the world where the Everest has the highest point in the world. The dispute began after the Dalai Lama was named divine king of the Tibetan land. According to Tibetan Buddhism.. He was still five years old, upsetting the Chinese who imposed his deputy, Pantin Lama, in 1940. Ten years later, Communist China invaded Tibet to become self-governing area within the Republic of China, and let’s say that China considers Tibet to be an integral part of its territory. In 1959, Tibetans rose up to be independent of China, but the Chinese crushed the uprising and the Dalai Lama, who later emerged in India, formed a Tibetan government in exile and drafted a constitution to apply it when he returns, and later he won the Nobel Prize because he developed a plan to bring peace to Tibet and resolve the conflict.In 1991, George Bush announced a legal decision of Congress, requiring Tibet to be an occupying state, so China warned America against interfering in Tibet’s affairs because it was part of China. If we talk about nationalities in Tibet, we’ll say there’s Han nationalism. It is pure Chinese and its people occupy cadres and senior positions. There are Tibetans with their ethnicities from Luba, Kangba and Shalpa who work in agriculture, herding and handicrafts.If we spoke with China’s voice, we would say that under the Dalai Lama, Tibet was a feudal society of Cambodia, where clergy in temples monopolized all agricultural lands, forests and pastures, while the Chinese government freed them from slavery and disruption, and also reconstructed Tibet and built large and sophisticated cities. If we speak with the voice of Tibetans, we will say that Tibet is an independent sovereign State. And that China made Tibetans live like minorities in their homeland, having moved many Chinese to live in Tibet under the name of rehabilitation and reconstruction.Also The Tibetan language is about to become extinct because the Chinese language replaced it in transactions. Religious freedom was also restricted and further restrictions imposed on monks and many monasteries were demolished. So China here is working to erase Tibet’s identity.

Now we understand that Chai Lee grew up between these two voices. He is a Chinese Han nationalist, but he was born in Tibet and grew up in it until he became a governor. He was married and had three sons, but after the death of his wife and the increase in unrest in the homeland, his sons wanted to leave to Beijing where progress and civic and he stayed alone in Lubwe. Since he was young, he hated those names. the names made people split and disagree, who were the Hans and who were the people of Luba? They all live on the same land. What is China? What is Tibet? It is only God’s extended land and mankind who insists on laying lines, naming and dividing. What is Tibetan Buddhism or Indian Buddhism? What is Islam, Christianity or Judaism? Different names are created by humans to one superior entity, the God, but under those different names humanity was left under disagreement and wars.

In the eyes of those who know him, he is a Buddhist who goes to the temple to light candles and stands humbly in front of the Buddha statue. But as we said, he hates the labels. He believes in God’s existence the only absolute truth in the universe, and he sees Buddhism as just a name for understanding and dealing with the universe, to finally reach the spirit of God. His spirit was refined as a medieval knight. He believes in God, good, in humanity, in homeland and love . So chai was a wonderful and rare flower, dreamy as Kang Dei sees or accuses him Han Makoto , and as all the wonderful flowers, a lot of hands had to stretch out to pick it!.

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When they stepped on the island, the night did not give them a chance to see the landscape clearly around them, despite the silver light from the three moons. They received the sunlight that settled in the air, giving it a strange color. It was not the yellow light characteristic to the sun, it was in a middle area between yellow, red and orange, but it was an indescribable , in addition to the weather being milder. After they got up from their sleeping, they found that the sand they were sleeping on wasTurquoise Colored ! , Covers the island from the beach front to the tree-lined interior.

Taqiya said:

-Is this the heaven?

After a period of silence, Ramo said:

- We don’t yet know what is waiting for us, we are still on the beach, we have to go inside to explore the place.

Milan saidsarcastically:

- What heaven are you talking about ? If memory does not let me down, I think we are all criminals, or why have we been sentenced to death?

Ramo said:

“Talk about yourself, not all those sentenced to death are criminals , Milan.

Milan replied:

- so what did you do to be thrown here, you snobby?

The three women were silent, as if they were keeping their minds out of this painful dialog, which reminded them of a pain hidden , while Ibo said:

-Yes, each of us has a past, but have you been appointed by someone as our judge Mr. Milan? You are the only one to complain here.

Milan answered him :

- I did not talk to you, nigger.

It was few seconds , Ibo raised Milan high holding his neck by his fist. Milan was as the red rat stucked between the claws of a black monster , then Ibo said from among his teeth:

- another word, and I will bury you here,you dirty white insect.

Milan’s face was engorged . Chai Lee and Bilal motivated and so the three women, while Ramo approached Ibo and quietly told him:

- be quiet . We will not kill each other here, no matter what happened in the past of each other , everyone closes the door on his past, and we are living in that moment and we will pass from it together.

He then told Milan:

It is not helpful to act with impudding here Milan, if you disrupt us, We will not be late for your exclusion and I think Ibo will do it easily.

Milan started to be close to death, after which Ibo released him so he fell to the ground coughing and holling amid the gazes of the group , which varied between scorn, pity and indifference, then Ramo spoke with his leadership way :

—Let’s go inside. .

Toward the high trees,they were standing as silent witnesses on the play on this weired island. the crowd moved in slowly , turning their backs to the beach . The sands had kept itsturquoise color and The sun rays found its way among the strong interlocking tree branches, drawing spots of shadow and light on the land . The leaves of the trees were colored in a red charming color , and the rays had given it a special luster , while crystal-shaped gems were hanging from the branches! .

Silence was prevalent, which could only be cut by the sound of their steps on the ground and their dazzling breaths with this beauty. Asia approached one of the branches and picked one of this jewels. once she touched it, she said:

- it is not glass, it is like paper!

Ramo took it from her, then he lightly pressed and broke it on the palm of his hand in front of their wondering eyes. white liquid was expeled out from it . Ramo raised it on the rest of his hand toward his lips and tasted it, then he closed his eyes with fascination saying:

-It is fruits and and it’s taste is great !

The group spreaded among the trees so that everyone filledhis hands with those fruits and they were eating like the deprived.they just remembered that their stomach is dry as desert . Chai Li sat down on the sands to eat the fruit while he mumiged for himself:

- is it reasonable that this is paradise?

****

Hisuka tightened her pink apron and began to clean up the entire house. She was working as a maid in the house of Kang Di, who is an official of the tax administration. She was a Tibetan from Lupa,lived with her family in a village not far from town. She was staying at Mr Kang’s home and visiting her family in the high mountains once a week. She was apretty cute girl with smooth black long hair . Although the town is more urbanized and civic than its village, and although Kang family family was treating her as one of them, she was not comfortable with the town. She only had to leave her village after her mother became sick. She and her brothers had to go out to work in the city to collect the money of her costly treatment , and certainly there was another reason to prefer her simple village, her lover young man who engaged her last month and so she was waiting every weekend with longing to see him . the days were passing, and her mother’s health started to improve, and it seemed that she did not have much time , then she would leave house of Mr kang to her village without return. She hoped and begged the days to pass to rest from home service and to get rid of this sticky young man who is standing at the kitchen entrance now and rudely looking at her body ! .

Yes, Mr Kang’s family was niceexcept thatjerk! . It is the eternal story between the maid and the master, daily He was bothering herand sometimes it comes to the point of harassment, but she was avoiding him as much as she could.she felt he was approaching from her back.she closed her eyes and took a deep breath and skillfully - used to her - she moved from her place in seconds before he stuck to her. She turned around and looked at him with cold smile, then she said:

- do you want something Mr. Suhan?

He looked at her closer, then said in a meaningful tone:

- I want a lot of, Hesuka, but this time I just want a tea pot and bring it to my room quickly. She said with the same smile:

-at your service , Mr. Suhan.

She moved out to the kitchen with amissed smile and hurried to prepare tea.

she knocked on the door of his room and then she put the hot pot quickly on the nearby table, turned around and said quickly:

-Tea,Mr Sohan.

She walked out in hasty steps, but he was faster this time and the door was closed. She slowly retreated backwards while hewas approaching her with his naked torso. She stopped drawing her smile and said:

- What do you want from me ?

He approached her more and said:

- stop acting like a robot!

She knew that her method was bothering him. she continued saying:

-I am your servant, Mr. Suhan!

He approached her more and started to tamper with all parts of her body.

- you will not succeed in provoking me.

She remained firm and did not resist while she was looking at the doorresolutely, as if she was calculatingher next step and then at asecond after he reassuredher stabilitybetween his hands, she raised her knee strongly to hit between his thighs. He screamedand she ran awayto leave the room with accelerated heart-beats.

In a fast-moving steps , Hesuka went off on the mountain road leading to her village! After she apologized to the housewoman for continuing work for circumstances beyond her control, and of course she did not mention what Suhan did. The honorable lady accepted her apology and even gave her an enclosed amount of money to help her family. She was holding the envelope tightly. she didnot believe that she had got away from the wolf with the least possible losses, in addition to the money that would save her from working for a good period of time. . So she was thinking,so she didn’t notice that there wassomeone waiting for her at the entrance to that dark cave! .

From daylight, someone pulled her to darkness. Inside, the devil handscovered her mouth, while the eyes met.He whispered in her ears as asnake

- now you will not smile Hisuka!

He raped her in the midst of her desperate screaming and after he ended, she remained lying on the ground drenched in her blood and sweat while her handsstill firmly held on the money envelope. He approached her and held her head saying:

“Goodbye Hisuka!”

Then he sliced her own throat !!

****

Chai opened his eyes quickly and scepitantly, holding his throat in pain.he had a heavy moment between sleep and vigilance, after which he realized that it was just a nightmare. He woke up dizzily and found the group sitting close to him. Bilal asked him when he saw panic in his eyes:

- What is the matter Mr. Chai Lee ?

Chai mumbled:

- just bad dream.

Milan said to him by his usual sarcastic tone:

- you sleep a lot, Mr. Chai, I wonder how sleep comes to you and we are in such a situation?

Ramo looked at him a look that prevented him from continuing making his mockery, after which Aung said:

- will we keep going inside? Why dont we stay on the beach? we may have found any passing ship that gets us out of here.

Ibo said:

- don’t you see that? We don’t even know on which planet we are.

Bilal said:

- if this is another planet, where is its inhabitants?

At this point, those voices rose as if they were answering Bilal question! . All the tongues stopped talking but their ears was hearing as if their senses stoped working and focused on the sides of their heads. They gathered spontaneously, stuck in fear, and then moved in the direction of votes as if they were one unit . The sun is about to leave and the air is still bathed in the remains of the orange light. The steps are slow toward that sound that looks like chewing! . There behind those trees, the sound of teeth stopped, and the sounds of fast steps were heard as if they were leaving the place. They crossed that tree to see the whole scene clearly. There is that thing lying on the ground, or more precisely that Torn corpse lying on the ground!

it was seemed to be a member of the group because of that red uniform similar to the one they wear!

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In the presence of that place, you can meditate and call for the purest level of your locked spirit, brought to you by the stable calm and candlelight in the vessels spread here and there, in addition to the smell of incense that permeates the pores of your soul itself. In that temple, which is found in the high mountains , He always liked to come to it when he is overwhelmed by disturbing Ideas , when he feels that this world is too harsh.

He was standing and behind him the temple priest who was silent and waiting for end of the rituals with patience, and it seemed on his face that there was important thing he wanted to discuss with the governor. Outside the temple, they walked in the lush garden surrounding the temple . Chai said while looking at the greenery around them:

- How I wish my end would be in such a place.

The priest said:

- Your life was blessed , Mr. Chai Li. you sowed the seeds of peace and love in that town.

Chai said :

- but I see anxiety in your eyes, you priest.

- I won’t hide the matter from you Mr. Chai . our people in an unwelcome state of anger, and I do not know what will eventually happen , because of that girl they found slaughtered and criminal examination has proved that she was brutally raped.

- of course, I know this case and I personally follow it. I will not rest until we find that criminal.

The priest said in tension:

- Her family knows the killer!

Chai Li stopped and looked at the priest asking:

-What do you mean?

-I will tell you Mr. Chai and I am sure you will bring justice to Lubwe! . The killed girl told her sister before her death about the harassment she had been subjected to at the home of Mr. Kang de by his son Suhan, who had been harassing her frequently during her work at home.

-But this is not a proof, you priest.

- I know, but some villagers who know him saw him near the village with traces of blood on his clothes on the same day the girl was killed.

- this must be said to the investigators’ committee.

The priest said slowly:

- they trust that he will be acquitted because he is from the Han, and because of his father’s strong ties with the government. the villagers are going to take revenge! .

Chai angrily said :

- do you know the aftershocks of this matter? The town will be on fire and lots of blood will be shed.

- then stop this matter.

- What do you mean ?

- do the investigation and discover the murderer, and if you are sure that this young man is Suhan, you have to take justice with your hands and save Lubwe from a possible massacre.

The priest stopped as if he was studying the next sentence, then he continued his words saying:

-If he was the killer, hand him over to the people of the village to take their daughter’s vendetta by their own hands.

Chai looked at him angrily but The priest continued to speak:

- It is a horrible crime, you do not know the feeling of the girl’s family when they found her body, believe me Mr. Chai, the fire will not cool except with fair retribution!

****

the silver light returned to color the air . the group found that they are not alone on this island.there are other creatures and obviously it is predators, and it is also clear that there are others sentenced to death who are thrown here to feed those monsters! . So it’s not paradise as some had hoped, it seems they are just here as human offerings . Ramo went to a tree and raised his arm up to break one of the branches then with his hands and teeth started making a spear .. Ibo asked him:

- What are you doing?

He responded without taking his eyes off the branch:

- I make a spear to defend myself, or will i wait until i am devoured?!

Chai Lee said:

- Do you think it will work?

Ramo said:

- Will we sit waiting for our end?

Milan said:

- I think everyone here is not waiting for the end, but craving it!

Aung said:

- Fear is not from the end, but from the terror that awaits us before the end!

Ibo came forward to one of the trees and started doing what Ramo was doing, saying:

- I think Ramo is right, if there’s a chance even one percent, that we could get out of here alive to start a new life, I think I’m not going to let that opportunity slip from my hands.

Slowly the rest began to follow him unconvinced. Asia approached one of the branches thinking... A new life and a new page?! Is that a possibility? And even if they came out of this place alive to live in a new land, would that wipe out the ruins of the past like it wasn’t exist. the amount of pain inside her will not enable her to open a new page even if she is given this opportunity . she is still fixed on her old position. I want to leave this world! She doesn’t even want paradise, she wants to end Like she didn’t exist.

she felt someone’s breaths behind her back and when she turned to him, she found Ramo extending his hand with the spear he made from the branch. she looked at him with un understanding:

- You can take it, I’ll make another one for me.

She looked at him with a real emptiness. she didn’t need help or moral generosity from anyone, but he was so weird! She almost sees her eyes in his face! even Aung told her that there was a resemblance between them, and she certainly noticed his stolen looks at her, but she didn’t care and she not gonna care , so she responded him briefly :

- no,thanks.

That was when the whistle went!

Long. High. sharp. it sneaked into their eardrums to knock it hard, and then breaks into their insides with no permission! a monster’s palm stretched inside bodies to squeeze hearts! Everyone fell to the knees, and each of them grabbed his chest as he moaned in pain, Ibo said aloud:

- cover the ears !

They raised their hands high to cover their ears to relieve the pain slightly . Their looks scattered on the ground to find anything to save them from this deadly buzz, finding nothing but fallen turquoise leaves that when they touched it, they found it like soft cotton so they rushed to put it into the cavities of their ears, so that the sound disappeared . Asia glimpsed moving shadow from behind the trees. she approached cautiously and slowly, and she could see the full and clear shot under the silvery light. He was there .he was like very tall man and the dark hair was covering his body and face as a gorilla, but he was standing upright as a strong man!. It is a terrible combination between human and gorilla but it is a combination that devours meat! .on The land , there was a torn body of human beings in red uniform like them .

the monster started to make a terrible gnawing sound... Chump, Chump! . Asia was about to scream if it wasn’t for that hand that was covered her lips to stop her... Ramo’s hand. They slowly retreated back until that creature lifted his head as if he was feeling he is not alone. Here the fear controled them and they started to run , and as soon as the rest of them received the signal, everyone ran and the throats broke by screaming which desecrated Silent night sanctity of the island!.

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Following the investigation of the case and appointing secret investigators away from the official course , it became clear in front of Chai Lee, as the priest told him.. that The boy is guilty. It was also clear that justice would not proceed properly, since the boy’s name had not been listed as suspected in investigations . Strangely, the whole town knew he was the perpetrator of the crime. everyone knew but nobody spoke as if an agreement between them implied silence and finally Chai Lee’s decision was taken .

-So what do you intend to do with Suhan?

Chai Lee asked Kang, as they sat in the latter’s house talking . Kang stuttered:

- What about Suhan, Mr. Chai Lee?

Chai Lee said coolly:

- There is no need to be afraid in talking.. Kang, we have to face the facts.

kang started talking, but Chai interrupted him , saying:

- Suhan is like my son and he’s from the Han and I won’t let anyone touch him badly. I think it’s better for him to leave Lubwe in order to keep him safe, Is he here now?

Kang sighed with satisfaction and then said:

- Yes, he’s home. The truth ,You’ve taken a heavy burden out of me. He is a young man and he is prone to make mistakes . I was angry at him and i punished him, but at the end he will remain my son and I’m not going to let him get bad. I already arranged for him to leave Lubwe.

Chai sighed with satisfaction and he got up from his council saying:

- The truth, Kang, that you are the one who comforted me by this confession, you have cut the way on any doubt inside me.

Kang got up to say something, if it wasn’t for the sound of knocks on the door which interrupted him. a group of men in village clothing broke into their Council. Kang looked around with shocked face then looked at Chai Lee to find his facial features rigid as if he knew what would happening, and before he uttered a word, he found three of them taking Suhan as a spaniel mouse and his woman was behind him and screaming. He looked at Chai Lee in disbelief and then said in trembling accent :

-What’s going on here?

Chai Lee said quietly:

- Accept reality and accept losing your son. The crime he committed would have drowned the land of Lubwe with blood. The blood of the Han and the blood of the people of Luba. He must pay for his crime, I will not sacrifice hundreds for a murderous and vile soul, this is the only solution.

The men came out with the young man who wilted as if they were leading him to the execution and the fact is that the execution will more merciful than what waits him in the village! . Before they left the house, someone turned around and bowed respectfully towards Chai :

- Thank you, Mr. Chai Lee.

Chai Lee moved out of the house and behind him were the weeping Wife and Kang who fell to the floor screaming and swearing :

- you will regret, Chai . this will not go unnoticed.

Chai Lee looked at him firmly and said:

- Accept your loss as men.

Then he left the place and the screams continued behind:

- Chai Lee, you will regret, you will regret!

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Their legs carried them as far as possible,eventually they sat breathless and close to each other with trembling limbs. they sat adhering to their spears with defensive postures, in anticipation of any possible attack from those creatures. Aung said while shaking:

- Death is more merciful than that horror, how are we going to get out of here?

Ramo said:

- I noticed that whistling is just before eating prey.

Milan said:

What does this mean?

- When the whistle went, our hearts almost stopped. That’s how they kill and after the heart stops, they immediately start devouring their prey.

Bilal said:

- So the greatest danger from the wheezing. we must keep the leaves in our ears.

Taqiya sighed then exploded into stark tears as if she was emptying a water barrel that had breaked inside.

Milan said angrily:

-This is what we lack!

Ramo looked around with concern then said:

-Please calm down, you’ll guide them to our place .

She put her hand over her mouth to turn the screaming into silent crying. Aung approached with her arm surrounding Taqiya shoulder to calm her . Asia kept sitting in her place looking at them with shocked face . . The time passed and they were still in that Frightened Session. they were overwhelmed by the tiredness of adrenaline overflowing into their bodies in those terrible past minutes. Ramo spoke to break the silence:

- Let’s sleep and distribute surveillance patrols on men, and I’ll start my patrol now.

They looked at him in surrender. the fact that he was the only one who had a spirit of initiative and positivity among them, automatically and without prior appointment, he became the leader of the group. Each one took acorner where they would sleep, while Asia headed alone to a corner that was relatively distant from them. Ramo approached her to say quietly:

-We have to stay close together, Asia.

She looked at him, and then she said:

- Please provide your advice to yourself and stop playing the role of the leader, or at least don’t practice it on me.

- I don’t play leader, I just want you to be as safe as the rest.

She looked at him carefully and then mumbled:

- So a noble man like you make me wondering .. what did you do to become with a bunch of criminals?

Ramo didn’t reply while she continued:

- I don’t care to know what you did and I don’t care about any of these, I just want to leave, these monsters are killed mercifully. they stop the heart and then devour their meal, and I have no objection to being the first dead here!.

Ramo sighed with surrender then he turned his back to her ,but before walking away he spoke:

-So why did you escape when you saw them? Why are you putting the leaves so far in your ears? Whatever you say, your instinct to hold on to life will still be inside you, and it never dies. Asia didn’t answer .she laid down and turned her back to him.

He went on to sit in a place where he could see everyone, and he could see her too!

****

He was in his office looking at some of his own files on his laptop, while he was drinking butter tea in consecutive careful sips. Knocks on the door then his personal assistant walked in to take his signature on some paperwork and then she went off.

He took his eyes off the screen to the glass window from which the leaves and branches of the pine tree that the governorate building overlook, while the white snowflakes was falling. A very quiet day Immersed in Peace . Chai Lee succeeded in extracting the clutches of sedition that almost was brought to Lubwe . The turmoil across Tibet had abated and many Tibetans and policemen had unfortunately lost their lives. Surely he is upset with all that wasted blood that is shed every time, because the conflict is not diminished in Tibet, it may sleep a little but he wakes up every while to generate more violence, hatred and tribal intolerance. But at least he tried to preserve his region and he was personally satisfied.

Other knocks on the door, and then his assistant told him that Kang Di is waitingfor him !. He raised his eyebrows high with automatic motion. he had not met him in a while after his son’s crisis, but he nodded to let him in. The silence dominated the session at the beginning and the eyes met with their sleeping anger, lended a fair tension to the session. Chai speaked first:

- How are you, Kang?

Kang said coolly:

- Fine .

- I knew you asked for your transfer from Lubwe.

- Yes, my family and I will leave for Lassa soon.

- Bless, this is a good step, you will move to a higher degree in your career ladder.

Kang sighed and then slowly said:

- How did they kill him?

Chai took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes and then quietly said:

- No use for such talk, just think that justice has been done, even if you make a precious sacrifice for it.It’s the crises that shape our lives to understand the meaning of our message in it.

- Save your bombastic speech for the monks of temples!

-What did bring you here?

- I come to repay you beautiful, Mr. Chai Lee!

At that moment, There was a fuss outside and the shocked assistant opened the door while she was saying... Mr. Chai Lee , the ... She did not complete her sentence, as heavily armed men- appeared to be special forces from the Chinese army- stormed the office hard. . Chai Lee got up wondering, to receive the thunderous Words.... (Chai Lee, you are under arrest for high treason of the State, conspiring with monks to destabilize the Chinese Government’s sovereignty over Lubwe!) .

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He opened his eyes after a stable sleep .. that habit that made milan ridiculed him as how does sleep come to a reasonable man in such circumstances?. He was the most calm and stable of them as if It’s like a huge stabilization Prevailing on him which generated from his entrenched roots in Tibet for thousands of years.The three moons were still complete with the highest possible light and the silence prevailed even from insect sounds. Is it reasonable that this place is not having little -organisms that break the silence of the night with its continuous whining? The idea seemed ridiculous and trivial to him and not commensurate with the size of the maze in which they found themselves. He got up and found that They’re all asleep, each in his own corner but they were close, except for Asia who chose to leave them relatively far away, giving her back to them and approached her face from the tree trunk. Isn’t that girl afraid? That’s how he said to himself in a faint voice. He saw Milan sitting, apparently taking the night patrol, but his head was falling on his chest and Snoring loudly!

He moved from his place dazzled by the magic of the night. The place is really like a paradise, the crystal fruits shimmering under the silvery light like stars hanging in the sky. Actually, the whole place is shimmering in his eyes right now!. He did not feel any fear as he walked alone among the trees, while a wonderful smell crept into his nose, reminding him of the charming smell of night at homeland .The courage overwhelmed him and he unloaded the papers from his ears So he could hear well as he was thinking of the same ridiculous question..does that make sense?.. No insects here?!

But he ended up hearing a much better voice, the sound of the Chinese Archu machine with impossible-to-describe melodies! And automatically he found his tongue compose it on the verses of poetry he was memorizing :

When confronted with my wine, i didn’t see twilight.

Fallen flowers fill my clothes folds

Full of drunkenness

I go up and I come closer

to the moon on the horizon. .

The fly is too far away.

and few people, too!

As he continued his steps between the trees like the drunk, he did not see in those moments other than the garden, which was in the highest of the mountains there outside the temple, and in which he hoped his life would end one day. He spinned around himself holding his chest!. There’s a strange feeling inside, he can’t describe it with pain, because what he was feeling is quite the opposite..delicious drunkenness feeling And so when he finished his spin, he found that he was staring at the face of the human gorilla!

The fact is that even he didn’t feel surprised, he fell to the ground after his heart released his final beats! and as Asia said, those monsters mercifully kill !..

Between sleep and mindfulness, she got stuck in that stressful area that those who get insomnia know. When she heard the sound of leaves, she flinched then get up on her knees hiding with the tree trunk to see what is up there. She saw nothing so she got up slowly trying not to get falter . She saw the fruits pulsing with the usual glow . the branch shook and dropped the fruit to the water!.. Where did that water come from?! she heard as if some one was moving behind her and when she turned around , she found a handsome young man with dark skin and naked torso and his glowing forehead was tattooed ! . He Slowly approached her and without warning, he touched her forehead so she fell on her back and the ground swallowed her !.

She opened her eyes with fast breaths to find that she was staring at the brown trunk and her back still facing her group . she turned around to face them but she found them frozen in their places with their wide eyes, listening. They was listening to the gnawing sound... Chump, Chump!