The Frog Collector

Chapter Three Part 3/5

There was a terrible murder because of the flower. The dead man's family asked for an audience with the king and Isra and brought the body so Isra could use the plants to raise the dead, but he said he couldn't do that. That family... It was one of the most terrible scenes I have ever witnessed. My advisor abdicated when this occurred and warned me for the last time that if I didn't take action, the kingdom would be destroyed. Violence became more and more common so that the strongest always managed to steal all the flowers for themselves. Many people died, but Isra remained adamant. Then I regretted that I had let this happen and thought about expelling Isra from the kingdom.

I communicated to the queen my intention. She had a good heart and still believed that people could use the flower for good. So she had the idea to make a test to let it be known who were the people that had a good intention in wanting the flower and she asked me to apply it before driving out Isra. So she created a small dome that prevented people from entering it or leaving if they were inside. Your mother was the only person who could enter and leave at any time she wanted, because she made her body immune to the magic of the dome. In this way only she could take people into the dome and take them out. If someone touched her, they could go through the dome, but they would only come out if they were a good person, because the place trapped those with bad intentions. The queen made this magic so that we would know who were the bad people who could cause evil in the kingdom. But she wanted everyone to be able to learn how to be good and she planned to personally teach everyone who got stuck and she would take them away when they had good intentions in their heart again. Eventually your mother wanted to make me immune too, but I thought it was better that only she was able to, and I also asked her never to tell anyone so that the information wouldn't leak out.

We showed the idea to Isra. He was enraged and did not accept that the queen should make this test with the people. He was even angrier that he had been outclassed in magic and wanted to know how he could circumvent the dome, because he couldn't. He left angry and turned against us. But I ordered the people that it was forbidden to use the flowers except by those people who passed a certain test. I did not tell them what this test consisted of. Your mother then built a giant dome at a certain distance from the palace. And this time she made it invisible so that people wouldn't know that they would be tested, but Isra told everyone what it was about, but that didn't shake us. Some people took the test and passed, and others stuck around until they had good intentions in using the flower.

To be continued...