The air was still when someone suddenly destroyed the stillness. Flying with the swarm of colorful birds was a boy. In his white robe, he became more odd. His golden hair never moved as he flew through the sky. It stands still, like a mountain pointing upward.
He flies up at a high speed, more than the birds do. In just a blink, he was already in the clouds that looked like thick ice. Because they are solid rather than a gas with liquid. That is also the reason why the sun's rays cannot pass through them. It creates gorgeous colors on and around the horizon.
Weird but wonderful. That is the exact description of everything. Yet, that is not the end of wonders, because when the weird boy reaches the cloud, there is something amazing. The thing that has never been seen by anyone in eons before. It was not just any ordinary castle, but a massive castle standing and erected upon the clouds, with a combination of blue and white colors. Its three pointed edges looked like the trident of Poseidon, with a three-pronged spear.
On its wide gate, above was written the word, "Welcome to Castillo De Saat." It generally means the castle upon the clouds.
Flying towards the gate, was a boy, but in just a blink, he disappeared, as his speed scaled like lightning. He's now inside the gate of the castle. Someone was also here, inside the courtyard, two people that looked like him. They are both wearing white robes and slippers with a strip of leather or as if it were the lash of a whip.
As the boy went near to them, their hearts seemed to jump with happiness. In a few seconds, no words came out of their lips, but a fervent embrace met each other. They tried to remove their hands from each other, but the emotions and feelings prevailed over them, as they embraced each other again. No tears dripped down, but hearts that wanted to jump out of their rib cages.
"Ylarry! My son!" The man exclaimed. His emotions reached the universe as he said those words. "Praise Zadiv, as he brings you back safe after a long time."
The tears wanted to drip from his eyes, but at the same time, he gently wiped them with his index finger. His lashing bluish-green eyes seemed to convey how much he adored the boy. As his hair, which was standing erect like a tower, wanted to fall down because of getting rid of worries.
"I am so..." The boy tried to finish saying his words, but not going far enough, the words could not be understood. His emotions prevailed, and the clear liquid from his eyes began to drip down the thick ice below. Looked thick, but iced as the eyes of the boy began to melt.
The female creature, or the weird woman, was just looking at the two in front of her. Not long after watching them, her world came to not be cloudy, but her tears were still rain. She cries wildly, like a woman who has lost something very important that happened in her life. She cries, as it comes back by itself.
A heartbeat elapsed, and everything came back to normal, like an actor taping a sad movie about losing and finding. Everything has its end, and it seemed that their emotional chapter was also over. The cries wanted to turn into laughter, and the ice tried to stop melting.
"I'm sorry, my father and mother, I spent a long time below, and I swore to you that it couldn't happen," the boy began, but the woman cut him off.
"Don't be concerned, son; we understand. It was not your mistake, but ours. We are so sorry because..." the woman had not finished her words when the man interrupted.
"Forgive me, my son!" The man implored "Elyza, don't blame yourself; it was all my mistake and I am the one to be blamed." He attempted to kneel down on the ice, but in his immediate movements, the boy stopped him.
"Father, you don't need to implore for forgiveness. Whatever happens, I never planted any hatred in my heart, whether towards you or my mother," the boy said.
The man stood straightly and said, "Ylarry, thank you so much for your understanding and soft heart. I and your mother are pleased to have a son like you." The man tapped his son's shoulder as a sign of gratitude.
"Heshnok, you better let go of your son because he looked tired and hungry. We had better get back inside the castle, so that I can prepare a meal for him," the woman said.
"What do you think, Ylar? Your mother is going to prepare your favorite food by herself, and she will also prepare your room alone without the help of the maidservants."
"You!" Elyza barked. "I said that I would only prepare him a meal, but if he wants me to prepare his room too, then I will do that for him." Impelled to say those words was her.
"Mother, I am already big and old for you to prepare my bedroom. I can manage them by myself, and you must not bother yourself with cooking foods, because there are many maidservants inside the castle."
"Son, don't you want to taste the food that I cooked? Don't you miss them? Don't you miss your mother?" she asked.
"Of course I do miss my mother, but I don't want her to become tired because of me." His face tells that he cared, as his eyes closed and opened slowly.
"You just said to stop the drama, we better go back inside the castle because the wind here freezes us," the man said.
"Your father is right, son. Let us go back inside first."
Suddenly, the spot became empty, except for the ice that was always alone, and again, it began melting. The family went inside the gorgeous castle. It was spacious all around.
The cols stood without doubt. The silence seemed to swallow everything, even the whole castle. The silence was just broken when the God of revelry showed up. The maidservants began to sing a paean, and the boy felt a warm welcome from the people around him.
