I keep losing time in the market, I was afraid of going home, but I had to go home, and when I arrived, my dad was waiting for me, I started crying, dad then hugged me and asked me what had happened, why was I crying?, then I told him what had happen and that I lost 12 of the shekels that Mrs. Fili gave me and that it was a bargain, I told him about the man that won the sword, and the one that won the urn, and about my plan of becoming rich, and having a lion, but he still nag at me and told that I had been scammed.

That day my dad was very mad, and punished me with one unpaid month of work in the store.

That night I went to sleep really sad and with my eyes swollen of all the crying, I even forgot to take my boots off, and to put my bag away.

Something really weird happened that night, I had a dream, a really bad dream, my bag started heating up, then that heat went into my body, and started moving directly to my heart, it started heating up, I felt it started burning, then it burned every piece of my body, and in my pain a whisper came to mi ear, it said “Never” “I will be reborn”, I didn’t understand anything, those words made no sense, but I started getting angry, I tighten my fists so hard, that my nails staved on my hand, I was so mad, I tighten so much my mouth that my teeth started chipping , then some of my teeth broke, I was there mad, my blood dripping from my hands and mouth, but I was mad, crazy mad, noting mattered.

I was about to become completely crazy, I couldn’t even scream, and those dam whispers in my ears, they were becoming louder, and louder, and I felt that those whispers had become yells, my body was breaking down, and my mind was staring to become fuzzy.

Then I felt something, a movement, something that made me open my eyes.

Suddenly I was awoken, showered in sweat, and my dad was beside me. He said that I was screaming nonstop in pain, so I hugged him and started recounting my dream, but dad hugged me and told me that I was only a dream, that my hands were fine, my teeth to, so I looked at my hands, and there was no blood.

It was only a weird dream, a terrible dream, a nightmare.

Next day I woke up early, changed my clothes, and cleaned my bad, it was full of black sand, maybe the black stone was just charcoal or something and I crushed with my body in that nightmare, then I run down to the workshop, dad was already there, but he didn’t tell me anything, maybe he thought that the nightmare from yesterday was a hard enough punishment made by my own conscience for letting myself getting scammed.

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I said hello to Mr. Kashir, he just touched my head y scrambled my hair, then I went to say hello to Mrs. Karma, she asked me about my night, and about how I felt, and offered me breakfast, I obviously accepted. She then asked me to go wake up Creon, because that lazy boy was still sleeping.

So, I walked very slowly until I arrived next to Creon’s bed, he was deep sleep, and then I jumped over him, I rebound on his big fat belly and fell on the floor, he woke up screaming “dam you little dwarf, I’m going to kill you, came here Drago”, I stand up, and ran laughing at his face, while screaming, “breakfast time”.

We both had a piece of bread with a glass full of goat milk, and then we went to the workshop where everyone was already working. I left Creon there so he could start his work, and went to the store, as I still had to fulfill my punishment for a whole month.

When I arrived there, the store was already open, and Runa’s was cleaning the vases, so I started sweeping the front of the store, we finished really fast the cleaning chores of the store, and while we were waiting for customers, Runa started asking me really weird questions, like if I missed my mom? And that if I wanted to have a mom? and I answered well, with the truth, that I didn’t remember my real mom, I was just a newborn, and that I already have a very nice family, with her, and dad, and everyone in the workshop, and Mrs. Karma, looks after me, so she’s like my mom, and I like her a lot.

After that she was really quiet for some time, and then when I looked at her again, she just smiled at me, and told me to go out to announce our offers, and pick up customers.

A month went by really fast, and well, my days were really calm, and happy, even if I couldn’t go out to the flea market, and on the last day of my punishment my dad called me, and told me that he liked Runa a lot, and asked for my opinion, so I told him that Runa was very nice and kind to me, that I also liked her a lot. Then after a small silence dad asked me about what would I think if Runa was my new mom. I didn’t know what to say, but I answered that Mrs. Karma was like my mom, and dad just laugh at me, he tucked my hair and told me that I was really innocent, and that now he would give me a new mom, and I would have 3 moms, Kora, the one who gave me my life, Mrs. Karma, that always looked after me, and now Runa, she would be my new mom, and I would have to respect her more. Then dad gave me ten new shekels and send me out to play and as I was running out, I turn my head to look at my dad, he was just smiling, and moving his head one side to another like saying no, no, no.

I didn’t understand anything that happened that day.