~ Thirty-Six - Season I ~

I turned to Mother and she had this grin on her face.

She knew I just realised what she was talking about. She could tell that her suggestion clicked inside my brain.

“Mother,” I suddenly held onto the side of her arms near her shoulders, my eyes still widened. “The sea creatures…” I struggled to construct a single sentence.

“I know, my child,” Mother chuckled, smiling as she removed my hands from her arms. She held my hands in hers, just smiling at me.

I kissed her hands as a thank-you for her idea. I was so lost in my desperation to get through the pirates without having a battle, to be able to get all of us home in one piece. And a little part of me wanted to prove that I could be a great warrior king.

I returned to the map. “Do you think you can summon the creatures as we go through here on the Island of Dangling Trees?” I asked for advice.

“Why don’t we just return to the path we’re supposed to take a while ago?” she offered, pointing at the map. “Since we’ll be having the c