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She had run away to her palace, sneaking from everyone, she moved towards the royal kitchen at the back of the palace residence.

There was darkness and silence everywhere, surely at that hour of the night, all the rabbits were enjoying their dreams and the only one who was awake at night had come to get food for his new companion.

If she wanted, she would have gone to the garden and asked for fruit from the trees, which they would have bent their branches in front of her, but she wanted to take good and tasty food for him.

In the royal kitchen, she saw a pile of royal food lying on huge tables in pots covered with cloth.

She picked up a big silver tray and placed it on the table and she herself climbed on the high and long table and crawled on her knees and picked up the cloth from every dish.

With one hand, the tray was also being filled by sliding it forward.

A large portion of dark brown, well-made slightly hard bread was taken and placed in the tray.

From the large plate of roasted chickens, scrape off the chicken legs (leg pieces) and keep them in the tray.

In a golden bowl, she filled the ice made of venison, in which the carcasses of meat and fat were floating. Honey was poured on the soft white sweet bread and kept in a small plate.

Then she filled the bowl of sweetened condensed milk on the other side of the table. And along with it, she picked up the clarity of transparent water.

She got down from the table and started looking at all the things with worry.

She wanted to give all this to this young man named Alian, but she could not carry this stuff alone.

She wanted help but none was available at that time.

She opened the outer door of the kitchen and looked, from there was a straight and short path leading to the lake. She turned back and started looking worriedly at the goods; did she take one thing at a time? But she was tired of it.

Thinking of something, she moved towards the warehouse to the left of the kitchen, there were two-wheeled carts of different sizes for bringing grain, with a square space in front of it, through which the cart could be driven by holding the hand. She quickly pulled out the smallest cart and brought it to the table and started loading it.

She entered the square frame and started pulling the carriage towards the outer door. After leaving the door, she got out of the first carriage and started closing the doors. The guardians of this door were sleeping with sharp spears in their hands and woke up with a loud noise.

Ivan held her breath and hid the carriage in the dark. She was panting badly when she reached the lake, managing the carriage with difficulty on the rocky road.

Lying on the soft grass, Alian saw this delicate girl with surprise and sat up. She had brought a small cart full of food.

"You take all this. Eat it and keep what is left for you.”

She gasped and fell on the ground some distance away from the lake. Now the courage was answered, she pointed to the carriage and spoke between puffed breaths.

Instead of eating, he stepped towards her and picked up the tired Ivan. Like a delicate flower, her existence felt completely weightless to Alian. He brought her and carefully laid her down on the soft grass.

"Thank you for bringing the food. And I'm sorry for this pain." He said while gently wrapping the fringes that were coming randomly on her face, and then she was looking at the open mouth, her eyes started to look at his face.

He got up and walked over to the cart, took hold of the handle with one hand and brought it to a stop right there on the grass.

"Would you like to drink some water?" He asked while raising the glass of water towards her, she shook her head in the negative.

He placed his mouth on the end of the bowl and took a few sips down his throat. It was clear sweet water. He went on drinking more and more.

After drinking half of the bowl, he ran his tongue over his water-soaked lips, and suddenly he was relieved.

He glanced at the food. She had really brought so much stuff that he could store it and run comfortably for two days.

He picked up the brown bread and broke a part of it from one side and began to chew it. The taste of the bread was so good that all the expensive breads he had bought so far seemed useless. He picked up a leg piece and ate it; it was well roasted salty meat. The bowl of ice cream was also half drunk.

His stomach was already full.

He didn't even see anything else and just covered everything. All this time Ivan's eyes were fixed on him, she was looking at him with very passionate eyes.

Seeing her, he parked his chariot near a tree and came and lay down on the soft grass. He had eaten the food, now he had to wait for the night to pass and the morning to come. He thought he would find his way back through this old tree.

There was nothing left for him in this world, he had left it on his own, but still it was not easy to live in this strange and ancient world.

He was lying with his eyes closed when he opened his eyes to see the soft sounds. Bathed in the moonlight by the lake, that glass princess was talking to the plants engrossed in her world. The small plants next to her were also raising their heads and talking, small squirrels and some other small animals had spread around her.

Seeing her, Alian's eyes became heavy with sleep and he did not know when he slept.

In the bright morning, the entire kingdom of Renam woke up everyone from sleep, as soon as the sun rose, everything in the kingdom of Renam came alive, the water flowing from the mountains started making noise, and the branches of the green trees were swaying from left to right. Plants and flowers were also looking everywhere with open eyes. The animals that had slept in the night were now awake and making noise and movement.

The birds were flying in the air with their wings spread.

He, who was sleeping restlessly by the lake, woke up due to this noise and the light stinging his eyes.

When he rubbed his eyes and looked around, he was stunned.

Was it a place or heaven? Such a bright morning and beautiful land full of such colors.

Water, the mountain Trees and flowers.

It seemed that there were a lot of these things on this land; it was like a fairytale wonderland. That little girl of the night was nowhere. Nor the small animals that wake up with him.

Perhaps they were all sleeping at that time, when he got up and washed his face with the lake water, the laziness and disgust suddenly disappeared. The magical things of the magical world. He was seeing the transparency and freshness of his skin while looking at the reflection in the lake. It seemed that his age had decreased.

He got up and quickly reached those trees, but he got a blow.

That tree was now complete; there was no cave or hole left.

He searched every tree like a madman, but there was no cave in any of them. Is he dreaming? He was worried. He remembered very well that night there was a big cave in that old thick tree.

Everyone had told him that he was there, had come from there.

Old Brag was drowsing with the branches hanging on the ground when he went to the trunk of the tree.

Bragg woke up with a jolt and gazed intently at the princely boy in the daylight. 

"Here, there was a cave here. Here was the place where I came from.” The boy was looking at the brag looking at the boy and asking.

Brag opened his sleepy eyes with a loud shudder. Its branches were swaying here and there with a noise.

"Yes, it was. It was exactly. Not anymore. My stomach was suddenly empty and after a while it was full again. Maybe it was empty for you till now. It's full now.”

Bragg said with a yawn and once again took a careful look at the boy who seemed shocked at his words.

His face was bright and beautiful, his charm was impressive. He was tall and had a strong build. His color was so golden that no one on this earth had ever seen it. The color of his eyes was also different, brownish blue. Changed. Full of two colors. The voice sounded heavy and unfamiliar.

His hair was honey colored, shiny, straight and soft. Long hair coming from the front to the eyes and slightly touching the shoulders from the back.

Bragg had called it dangerous at night..? He regretted his own comment.

"How did it fill up? How did it get so full? How will I go back now?

He was speaking worriedly. Holding the head and scratching the hair. Sometimes he opens his fists. He was speaking as if a prisoner lost his way to freedom after being imprisoned in a prison.

"Why do you have to go back? If you had to go, why did you come?” Bragg seemed upset at his departure. He said with a frown.

Alian suddenly became silent. Yes, he is right. Why did he have to go back? For who..? He had left the world.

He came to die, so he just died for this world. Now here in a new place. In a new way, with new people. He can live again.

He started walking towards the lake with defeated steps. Old Bragg sadly looked at the traveler who had lost his way back and again he closed his eyes and began to sleep. The branches were bending again and touching the ground.

Alian came and sat near the lake. The sun had spread, but it was a cool, soothing sun. It was as much as any creature needed.

He kept his head down, if he wanted to stay here, he had to think, how and where to stay. Now he could not spend his whole life sitting here by the lake. He turned around and saw the small carriage standing by the far side. 

Then he got up and went and took a bowl of sweet thick milk from that cart and started drinking milk. He doesn’t know if he was hungry or really everything here was very bad. He drank all the milk.

Then he picked up a little sweet bread wrapped in honey and ate it.

His stomach was full; this time also he covered everything and sat there on the ground full of soft soil near the tree.

He had not seen any human being here except this girl.

Where was the population, where and how did people live, what did they do for food and living.

These many questions that were circulating in his mind could only be answered by that girl.

He got up and started taking a walk around.