the beginning

Born of ashes and suffering, it establishes wisdom, peace and prosperity, but all this does not belong to a single person but to a community from where the kingdom of Adjeya, King Ahmed was waging a war without release on all sides of the kingdom which acted under the command of the enemy of his father died during the war, two months before, he promised him then that he was going to avenge him whatever the price he was going to pay

- My son…. All passion is suicide, don't let revenge eat away at your heart….

- Dad …. It was not you who was targeted by this attack why did you take this arrow in my place?

- My son, the day you will have a child, you will know that a father and a mother are ready to make all the sacrifices in the world if the life of their child is threatened, even if it means dying. From today you become the new king as I would have liked to see you sit on the throne but promise me one thing and make sure you keep that promise no matter what the price.

- Tell me father what should I do?

- Make sure to make the village flourish and not sink into darkness because if that should happen, getting out of this path will prove to be a really difficult and demanding mission.

- …… I will honor this promise even if for that I would have to sacrifice my own father life.

And after that his father breathed his last, Ahmed inherited his father's throne, and despite the words of the late king, he plunged his soul and his kingdom into the sweet waves of revenge, Palem, the Minister of Finance lives there an opportunity to fill their pockets and began to bribe the other ministers and by common agreement they increased the tax which fell to the villagers and the hunters. Months passed and the tax did not cease to increase without the king realizing what the Minister of Finance and his acolytes were planning, during this period the villagers turned to the soothsayer to implore his compassion and ask help with him, he promised to intervene on their behalf with the king, days passed and the big diviner did not seem to lift a finger for the population, but one day during an audience with the king, the grand diviner posed his problem without mincing his words and the king from whom all this had been hiding preferred to say nothing and asked that an investigation be carried out on this problem. Palem felt that everything he had spawned was falling apart and decided to save his own skin. To do this, he first tried to bribe the king's envoys, but the latter did not seem to want to cooperate, he no longer knew what he was going to do with this situation and the more days passed the more his situation became critical meanwhile, he sought to raise a large sum and try to make the trunk as soon as he had the opportunity and without saying anything to the other ministers, he began his project and after two months, he deserted the village taking with him a colossal sum leaving behind his family and loved ones. After his departure, the king understood the situation but he could not go up the slope all by himself so the city very quickly became a dead city, the peasants could no longer eat their fillings due to its taxes which did not stop increasing over the months, King Ahmed, who was only interested in one thing, the war, tried as best he could to put his kingdom back on the right track, but he realized that only he had no chance of achieve it, so he decided to appeal to the gods asking for their help, the gods who saw the situation decided to help him. The grand diviner then told him that the gods had granted him their favors and that within two months he was going to have children, twins whose vocation was to save the kingdom, their births were marked by the roar of the lion that the king had raised from a young age and the lion only roared if the king was absent for a long time, but this day the king was in the throne room awaiting news about his wife who awaited the arrival of the announced twins by the predictions of the gods. The midwives came to announce to the king that the birth had taken place without complications and that his wife and the children were well and that he would soon be able to see them but that his wife needed rest after this childbirth, the king remained in the room to contemplate his wife and the children that the gods had given him before setting out again in the throne room to announce the news to his town crier, who was going to announce it in his turn to the four corners of the kingdom. A short time later, the queen came out of her sleep and asked the king for her favorite servant, who ran up and hastened to carry out the order of her mistress, she left the royal room, a pretty room vast decorated with patterns of lion in white color which contrasted with the red color of the earth, the king had arranged two stools carved in a very original wood, the sculptor who produced the patterns took almost two months before finishing the motifs engraved on these stools and affixed the royal seal, the servant walked a corridor filled with sculpture and vases just as old as each other, these sculptures represented both the past of the kingdom and its most immediate future, when the servant brought the news to the ears of the king, the latter running in the royal room, he found his wife nursing their children, after having attended this scene, the king and the queen gave a name to the children Ramdane for the boy and Ramatoulaye for the girl.

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