"Food. Sleep. Sex." I say unconsciously out loud, where the lad who is walking next to me was surprised.

"Ah! Yes, sire… The basic needs of a mortal." he answers attentively.

"So tell me, young lad. Why of those I did mention, three aspects are importance to us? You can say: orcs, elves, us humans, demi-humans in general; and also including with the likes of the anthromorphs?" I ask, as we continue to walk through and maintain the pace.

"Well, your highness, I don't really know the full concept of it. I can give you what meager notion I have in me." he smiles, pausing his breath.

He then adds, as to strengthen his claims to my enquiry: "So, in retrospect, those things are called 'pleasures' - a leisure, so they speak. An entertainment for the gods or the entities dwelling up above the skies. But; I think, perhaps, for us it is essential for our living. Sex because in the analogy itself we are only mortals, therefore, in order to immortalize our biddings and our legacy we procreate. Sex is for our survivability and in hindsight, we shall pass down our line, our deeds, our existence as a mortal. For mortals are finite." wherein we are unaware that we are about to have reached our rendezvous - the Auditing Governance Chamber.

"Sire Guan, can we procrastinate for the time being?" he asks, as rather procrastinating means slowing down, I guess? so I bop with my head approving of his request.

"Sleep. Slaves. But slaves are property. Correct me if I am not. But I digress. Resting is crucial to us and resting is a form of sleeping. Sleep, in allusion, means there is another time for work and for our endeavors to accomplish. Sleep consumes time and as such our interests require time." under our unspoken agreement we slow down, he then claims.

I like to keep myself in focus. I have been entertained. I have been so stressed out since yesterday. During the wedding, they claimed the circumstances outside Kehina were in absolute disarray. The reports have been sent by the Lord Augur himself - Augur Gervas. Shame. Lord Gervas was present to my wedding and was busy proselytizing people from Inglovia. Good wishes on your interests, Lord Gervas. And do your best.

"Sire Guan?" as he is drawing my attention upon him out of a sudden.

"Hmmm? Yes?" I respond to his call with a hum.

"May I ask you something?" he adds, where he is looking at me in the eyes in a sharp view.

"Well, of course. What is it that you want to ask?" I reply, brimming with confidence.

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"What is it that you want in your mind? The one that you desire?" asking, as his question made me flinch and wherein my knees went into concession in a subtle way.

As I halt a bit to recover my stance. I clear my throat to reinitiate my poise, I say: "Acknowledgement and recognition." in a resounding voice. I, again, then realize that those two namesake contexts are what I wanted.

"Acknowledgement and recognition, huh?" he repeats those two feats, as visible to his face it made him confused.

"Interesting! Why is it, my lord?" he wonders, following, prior to the aforementioned answers.

"Well, the thing is… you all know that I came from a labor family. Has some decent friends, memories, and dreams-..." I explain before I got rebutted.

"Well, I am sorry to interrupt you, my lord. I guess I haven't heard this lore before. Well actually, 'till the moment you said it." he intercepts, as I assumed that literally everyone in this nation had already learned this story.

"... well, moving on. I talk a lot. I talk big and big and stuff. But sort of trying to imagine, I don't achieve much more. Recognition? Recognition is for the people of 'you', the Kehinans, to approve of my worth through my hard work and diligence. And as such, to recognize me not just as a consort of the chieftess but as well as a resident of this nation." I state, whereupon he gives a gentle thud to my left shoulder using his right clenched fist.

"I recognize you, Sire Guan. As a fellow Kehinan." saying, as he accepts my existence of being one of them.

I thank him in words which I whisper: "Thank you, young fellow. I appreciate it." as uttering unto him with the same sentiment I had in my thought.

Acceptance. A music to my ears. No longer an ostracized, an ex-Inglovian in a different 'Inglovia', though, and as a full fledged Kehinan. All of my labor came with a blissful result - my hard earned and well deserved 'recognition'. It gets me teary and as visible as I am bawling my eyes. His words moved me.

"...and recognition. The recognition of the chieftess herself." I say, as he wonders, giving me a fazed look.

"Why recognition, my lord? You already are one of the consorts of Lady Anda, are you not?" Oh, I see! It seems it needs an explanation, as he is asking.

"Well, young lad. I had such a feeling of recognition as well undeserved. And I am one of those who is granted unfairly." I explain, he still can't get the statement clear.

And 'Food'. He states that food creates creativity and innovation - arts in general. With the likes of painting, sculpture, poetry, and so on and so forth. Food also builds evolution.

"Food is the ambiguous amongst the three. As it therefore, food breeds arts…" yes, as he has stated before.

"...and aside of giving us the strength, the energy to perform task that requires to be done when it is consumed. Food is the driving factor of ambitions and of endeavors of a mortal. Our interest to live for another day." he continues, as the words he explained resonates my way, the path of my purpose.

"We need to 'sleep' in order to dream. The 'food' to conquer our dreams. And the 'sex' for them - the proceeding generations to continue what we left behind during our days in this world." as I am gladly he explains to me in the simplest form of the three pleasures of what the gods enjoy or whatnot.

"Young lad, this information is what I am desperately needed." I smile, where I am thanking him in a non-verbal way.