The time slowly passed, everything was getting in its place. The days went down, and we were getting better and better in communicating. He slowly began to open to me, and I was happy for that. I decided to do thing that way, however, so that I could allow everything that happened to go as smoothly as possible inside his soul and mind. History is packed with examples of young people facing the overload of burdens imposed on them by cracking under pressure and becoming some of the worst and hardest people ever remembered. Or they were driven into madness. 

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The truth was that we had more and more work in the carpentry workshop and I made him preoccupied with hard and long work. The villagers who came to my hut, met and accepted boy in the same way as me, so much earlier. They did not raise questions, and I was glad to finally have a company. For this reason, we also received more requests for ordinary things, tables, chairs, shelves. It filled me up and I was quite pleased how things developed.

Maris was actually a cheerful boy, full of adventure and stories he gathered on the streets. There were all kinds of story, petty offenses, theft, and sometimes even harder beatings. He grew up in a poor quarter, and he only had a mother. Of course, the King knew of him from the moment he was born, and occasionally he would send money to him and his mother, but they should not have used it all. Just because they lived there, in that quarter. It would become too suspicious. And so, in moments when the struggle for power prevailed, things in the court did not become anything simple for the King, the boy was dismembered from his established life and sent on a far journey with two unknown officers. I am sure that the King explained everything about situation, about me, about their relationship, and about what is expected of him in future. Or from the moment when he returns to the capital.

I made sure to communicate at a completely different level than what he had used to have before. I was building a new foundation for all what is still to come.  All this was more than necessary for him to adopt everything that I am ready to teach  him. What was hidden behind this assignment, and it was known only by me and the King. Besides warrior skills, he will also have to adopt the knowledge that will be crucial for him to rule and command. I gained that knowledge in a strange manner, someone would say by scam but it was here, in my head. Some would say I stole it, but it was necessary. For future times, for such times and situations as this one. That I possess this knowledge, the only King knew. And that's why he sent his son here. I knew what this act meant to him and me a lot more. It means that I am the person holding the future of this people under my responsibility. I'm not sure exactly how much time I will have to teach him all this. But I do my best to make that happen. This last time.