Prologue…

"Grandpa, I have a riddle for you," Yugi said as he held down a squirming sheep. "Wanna hear it?" Grandpa smiled.

"I don't know," he replied. "Your riddles get harder every time I hear them." Yugi giggled and gave his grandfather his infamous puppy dog eyes.

"Oh, all right!" Grandpa laughed, giving in. "What is it?"

"What gives us flavor, color under our feet and brings sunlight indoors?" Grandpa stopped shearing the sheep in front of him and thought for a moment.

"I don't know. Could you give me a hint?" he asked after a while.

"No. No hints! I gave you a hint last time." Yugi answered stubbornly.

"Please? I'm a tired old man who can't remember as well as he could when he was younger. Just one hint?" Grandpa begged as he finished shaving the wool off of the sheep in front of him."

"Fine," Yugi singled out another animal to be shaved, thinking about what clue he could give. "Alright I have one, too large of a dose can cause uncontrollable laughter."

"Well then it must be zafaran!" Grandpa said as he dug the shears into the wool, slicing off big chunks with skilled hands. "It seasons rice, dyes the yarn for our carpets and has the same color as the setting sun."

"Oh you didn't need a hint!" Yugi mock glared at his grandfather. He gathered the large amounts of the wool that had been cut off and removed stained locks. The best locks went into a basket so that it could be used for weaving. Yugi loved spring. It meant he could work with his grandfather. Most of the men in the village loved working with him too. There was a rumor that he survived a bite from horned viper. Though it wasn't much of a rumor because the scars were still visible on his leg. 'Maybe that's why Pegasus made him the leader of this village…' Yugi thought absentmindedly.

Breaking out of his thoughts he went to grab another sheep. "Why don't you give me riddle, Grandpa?"

"This will be a bit hard." Yugi rolled his eyes, thinking that he could figure it out easy enough. Grandpa paused for a moment, thinking of a good riddle. "Okay, I have one. What, like a garden, never stays the same?" Yugi furrowed his brow in concentration.

"Yugi, I want you to think of something else while you try to figure out that riddle." Yugi turned to give his undivided attention… meaning he was petting the sheep still thinking about the riddle. Grandpa didn't notice though. "Next year you will be old enough to get married." He then grew a smile that almost seemed to say 'isn't this the greatest news ever?!' "Pegasus told me that he would like to marry you." Yugi's hand stopped stroking the sheep.

"What?" 'I can't be old enough to marry! Especially not to him!' Yugi thought frantically. 'Let's see. Joey was eighteen when he married, Mai was nineteen, Malik… oh man! Both Malik and Isis married at sixteen!' He gathered up the newly trimmed wool as he said his response. "I can't marry next year. I'm going to become an apprentice for the dyemaster remember?" True, he had never actually told him that but Grandpa would just assume he forgot… right?

"I don't ever recall you telling me that," Grandpa claimed, crossing his arms across his chest. 'Well there goes that plan.'

"Well even if I didn't I am going to become an apprentice! The dyemaster needs help! He is always running out of indigo and forgets to ask for someone to get more. He mixes up the dyes sometimes and he mixes up the yarn to!" The sheep currently getting shaved made a noise of discomfort at Yugi's tone. Yugi flinched at the noise and stroked its belly as an apology.

"So you can't marry because the dyemaster gets confused at times?"

"But Grandpa! Those colors are important for our village! Our carpets and tapestries are the most beautiful in the market and if I don't learn the secrets then they will be lost forever!" Yugi pleaded. Grandpa sighed.

"You can be married and be the dyemaster's apprentice right?"

"If I was married to someone in the village but Pegasus doesn't even live close by! And I don't know very many people in the village. Besides, I won't marry a stranger." Yugi crossed his arms and glared at the ground defiantly.

"But you know Pegasus," Grandpa reminded.

"He's older than you!"

"Age does not matter when it comes to marriage… Or love." Yugi scoffed.

"Love?! I don't even think he's talked to me! He only likes me for my looks," he tried. 'I will not marry that man!' "Besides. He is a diplomat. He would rather sit in an office all day in the city."

"But you like Dahshur." 'He's got me there.'

"But I've only seen the marketplace," Yugi thought quickly. "I don't know what the rest of it is like. For all I know it could be the worst thing I've ever experienced." Grandpa tried a different approach.

"Oh come on! There must be something you like about him." Yugi sat a thought while Grandpa held down the sheep so it wouldn't get away.

"He's nice to cats," Yugi said after a while, thinking about when Pegasus saved a cat stuck in a tree. Once he had gotten the mewling animal the branch broke. When Pegasus got up he noticed that the cat was stuck firmly to his head, too scared to let go. Many of the children started mimicking him by putting cats on their heads after that.

Grandpa rolled his eyes, throwing the wool he had cut to Yugi. "Well go make your carpet and get ready for a wedding." Then his voice grew cold from lack of patience with Yugi. "Don't forget, Pegasus controls our water. If we upset him… there goes our life." Yugi walked away briskly, not wanting to upset Grandpa anymore.

'What do I do?' he thought, sitting under a tree. He started cleaning the wool by picking out the burs and dead bugs that found its way into the locks. 'I can't be married to that selfish jerk! He does nothing but insult our ways! And even if he did save that cat he never gave it back. I wish Joey or Malik was here.' Yugi sighed as he thought about his long gone two best friends.

"What do I do?"

Disclaimer: I own nothing! I don't own Yugioh! I don't own the idea! Yugioh belongs to Kazuki Takahashi! The story idea goes to Meghan Nuttall Sayres in her book Anahita's Woven Riddle.

Well there you go! I wish it was longer but this is just the prologue. By the way, my story Notes about Random has been updated too for those who want to read it.

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