The Frog Collector

Chapter Three Part 2/5

There was nothing like it in the world. It was necessary to eat the yellow center of the flower and say the command words for the magic to be performed, but if the magic was too difficult it was necessary to eat more flower to perform it. The man said that this could make me the most important king in the world, because money would no longer be a problem. Practically everything was now within my reach. I was impressed by this, then my advisor warned me: 'What did the man want with this? To give people everything for free for nothing?'. I asked Isra, and he said that he didn't want wealth or power or anything like that. He said he just wanted to make people better, he believed that after the discovery of the flower, humans would stop hurting each other, because now they didn't have to keep robbing and killing for ridiculous things like gold. So he just wanted the king's permission to plant the flower in the kingdom and to allow him to coordinate the distribution of the flowers to the people. Each person would receive the same amount of plants every month. My advisor warned me that this could be a trick of the neighboring kingdom to destroy ours, but Isra, who was a smiling and optimistic person, also said that he had already tested the flowers in other kingdoms and that they were so well that they didn't need him anymore so he left to find another place to show the wonderful flower. He said that it was his mission to go from kingdom to kingdom showing the flower. He believed that everyone could make good use of it as they were doing in these other kingdoms, and that our kingdom could be left behind by the advance of the others. And if we didn't want it, he would go somewhere else. I thought for a while, talked to your mother. She was also amazed by the magic and I accepted his proposal. It wouldn't hurt to try. Today I think that it happened because I didn't want to miss an opportunity like that.

So Isra brought long roots that were planted all over the kingdom. And in a short time the flowers were born in various places. The euphoria took over everyone in the kingdom and every month each person received a flower to make magic. Your mother and Isra became close friends and she learned many things from him. She was very intelligent and quickly mastered the spells in the book and even created her own spells, so that she became more powerful than Isra himself.

But my counselor always had me on my guard about this, he worried that someone might do some magic to take over the kingdom as they became powerful, but I didn't listen to him anymore because I had never seen anything like this in my life and everything was going very well. But as time went on, we found out that the plant was not making people better, it was making them worse. It didn't take long before we heard reports of fights and robberies because of the flower. To contain this, the counselor had the idea to be more selective in choosing who would receive the plant, but Isra said that what was happening was natural, because people needed to get used to the new reality. He said that in other places it was like this too, but that they had learned. I still believed that the flower was something phenomenal and that it would work, so I let things continue as they were.

It was then that there was the event that changed everything. 

To be continued...