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This night contains a date of death of a person who is very important and loved to me.
Rest in peace

The characters all belong to Shinobu Ohtaka.
I've only converted some changes.

Well, I don't want to stop you for long and wish you a lot of fun on my sixteenth night ^^

I can still remember very well how Sheba, and I looked at the pictures and then at Alayna.
"That was for the memories of the god. That's all there is to it," said Alayna, before the Rukh who showed us the memories slowly faded and flew away again.
Slowly grasping the memories, I looked at my wife, who was also looking at me.
Nodding what she wanted to ask, I then asked her.
"So, the Rukh, whom the god called Aladdin at the time, is the Rukh Aladdin we met?" I asked her, so she nodded and rose from her seat.
Looking at Sheba, we looked back at Alayna, who turned the Sacred Palace back into a library.
Sitting back to her pillow and reading a book, we also went to her and sat down opposite her.
"How is that possible? I mean... At that time, the Rukh said that he and the god cannot live without each other. But the Rukh Aladdin lives outside. He's protecting Kougyoku now!" Sheba said, so I nodded in agreement.
Looking at Alayna, she just shrugged her shoulders and said she didn't know.
"Something must have happened that caused the god to release his heart, this Rukh, so that it would not be destroyed," she said and looked briefly from the book at us.
"Unfortunately, I don't know any accuracies either. All I know is that there used to be two Aladdins. Hold the Rukh Aladdin, who spent three decades with his family and friends, and the god who wanted to kill the Rukh for three decades was imprisoned and had to suffer until the certain person saw his true face and fell in love with him."
"Is this certain person Kougyoku?" Sheba asked her, so that she looked up mischievously from the book and said that maybe it was her or maybe not.
Not understanding, she deftly changed the subject and put a wristwatch on the table.
Staring at her, I then asked what this watch was.
"To protect Aladdin or whatever you're going to call your child," she said, putting the book aside.
"But why a wristwatch?" my 15-year-old wife asked.
"Well, before it was just a bracelet. However, when Solomon handed them to me, as well as the documents, I discovered a small mistake," she said and fetched the documents, which I handed her one.
I searched the document in its entirety while Sheba examined me, as she did not understand this.
"But there's no mistake, Alayna! Together with Ugo, I experimented everything thoroughly! I even went to my mother, who showed me this, what I then changed!" I said, pointing to the clasp of the bracelet.
"That's good! Only this is a bracelet and not a wristwatch!" she said with a giggle and then fetched another document where a wristwatch is recorded.
"I used magic to transform the bracelet into a wristwatch. I changed the formulas you made for the bracelet a bit to make it fit the watch," she explained, then put the watch around her wrist.
"As you can see, the second hand is moving now. This means that the Rukh are now protecting me."
Looking at us, we were amazed to see when the hand stopped moving when she put the watch down again.
"So, the hand only moves as soon as you have the wristwatch around, understand. Pretty smart!" I said with a smile and recoiled a little when Alayna put the documents under my nose.
"It's not done yet. Some formulas need to be thoroughly re-examined, as well as this one..." she said and then gave me a small piece of paper that looks more like a shopping list.
"What am I supposed to do with it now?" I asked her and gave the note to Sheba when she wanted to take a closer look.
"There are ingredients on how to prepare a drug so that the Magoi comes into balance."
"Magoi in balance?" Sheba asked her.
Nodding her head, she said that she didn't know the rest of the ingredients anymore, as it had been a very long time since she and Karma made the drug.
"We made the drug when we met Rukh Aladdin. He told us that soon the god would come down to earth again, but he would be in a human body. As you know, the divine Rukh cannot take over the body, because it will be eaten away by greed. To prevent this from happening, and since the Rukh of the god are still in darkness and eat white Rukh, we made a medicine that keeps the Magoi in balance," she explained.
"And how do you know that this drug keeps the Magoi in balance?" I asked her, so she looked at me with a smile and said that she had tested it herself.
"I'm just a goddess, so of course I felt my divine and human Magoi coming together."
Nodding in understanding, we looked at her again when she was sorry not to know the rest of the ingredients.
Taking her in our arms, we said that she didn't have to apologize for it and that we would find out somehow.
So, we got up, said goodbye to Alayna and went to do the activities we had planned.
But before we left the library, Alayna shouted something to us that we didn't understand at first, but then afterwards.
"You can enjoy the time up to a certain age before Rukh come to prepare everything!"
When I understood what Alayna meant for a few weeks, I had a lot of fun with Sheba every night, we could just let ourselves go without worrying about fathering Aladdin.

A year had passed since Alayna showed us more memories of God and gave us parts of our memories.
Although we only saw these memories in dreams, which gradually became a nightmare, we accepted them and looked forward to a life with our child.
"Tell me, Solomon! Would you like to call our son Aladdin, or should he have another name?" Sheba asked me, stroking my chest as she lay lightly on top of her.
Slightly immersed in a medicine book, I looked down at her and asked her what she would like to call him.
Playing on my chest a little hesitantly, she then looked up at me.
"Well, my former self had loved the child very much and was looking forward to holding Aladdin in her arms. But because of this betrayal, she could never hold him. It's a feeling of love and sadness," she said, then looked cheekily at my chest.
"So... I feel it ... I... um..."
"Aladdin sounds great!" I said, staring at me wide-eyed.
"I like the name Aladdin! In addition... even though my former self seemed quite selfish and cold, my former self had nevertheless put together books that he wanted to read to Aladdin!" I said with a smile and then gave me a kiss on the forehead.
A little giggling, Sheba then said that that's just the way I am, whereupon I asked her, slightly annoyed, what she meant.
"Yes, you don't have anything else on your mind than books!" she said giggling and then started laughing when I pounced on her.
"Well, wait! You...! I'll show you that I have something else on my mind!" I said to her and then kissed her neck to her intimate zone.
Groaning, she bent down to give me enough space before we slept together again.
After our waves disappeared again, I looked at the clock and saw that it was already 12 o'clock midnight.
Turning to her, I pulled her closer to me and gave her a kiss first on the tip of her nose and then on her lips.
"Happy birthday, my beautiful wife," I said to her in a whisper, so that she cuddled closer to me, and we slowly fell into the world of dreams.

So, more years passed, in which Sheba and I enjoyed the time together.
"Alayna, what will happen to you when the Rukh come to give us the opportunity to conceive a child?" I asked her as the two women braid their hair.
Thinking for a moment, she hummed to herself and then replied that she was returning to the great river of the Rukh again.
"Great stream of the Rukh? What's that?" Sheba asked her.
"The great river of the Rukh is a vast collection of white and black Rukh. They live all over the universe and thus keep the balance together. Since there are more human Rukh in me, they will also return to the great river and wade there on the stake if the god wants more knowledge."
"And your divine Rukh? What happens to them?" I asked her.
Looking down at the ground, Alayna said that they were waiting in the Sacred Palace until the god was born.
Looking at each other, we looked back at her, who shook her head with a smile and mentioned that she didn't know exactly.
"It may also be that they also go to the great stream!"
Looking at her sadly, Sheba distracted us by asking which Rukh should come.
"Uh... What do you mean?"
"Yes, the Rukh who give Solomon and me the ability to conceive a child," Sheba said to Alayna.
"Oh this. Hehe! That's just Rukh Aladdin. You know that he was the heart of God at that time," she explained to us, so we nodded.
"Now that you're Sheba 21, it's going to be time for him to come to you."
"Really? Does that mean we'll see Rukh Aladdin again?" we asked her, so that she nodded with a smile and said that I had to turn 26 before he joined us briefly.
Glad to see him again, we thanked her for everything Alayna did.
So, we left the library, which is the Sacred Palace.

So, we waited another two months until it was my birthday.
On the night of February 10-11, I went to visit Alayna alone.
It felt so beautiful.
The memories I had experienced here were full of joy, sadness, fear, insecurity, betrayal and love.
I couldn't help but grin as I remembered how I had met Alayna and what she was like towards my mother.
A beautiful memory.
When I found the gate, many different Rukh immediately streamed past me, but no sinister Rukh.
Exhaling with relief, I went inside and looked for Alayna, who usually sat at the small table.
But not this time.
When I went a little deeper, I noticed that I was suddenly in a cemetery.
I looked around and noticed that it is a cemetery that is right next to the church where Sheba and I were going to get married soon.
A beautiful church that looks like the church where Ala and his friends had lived.
Only the mosaic windows are slightly different and in the long red-carpet path there is not the throne on which the god sat.
It's in the palace.
I wondered why the Sacred Palace was connected to the church.
Because it suddenly started to rain, so I wanted to find Alayna quickly.
When I saw her kneeling at a tombstone and heard her sobbing, I hid a bit to hear who was lying there.
"Karma ... I have so much to tell you. You wouldn't believe what I've experienced in the last 915 years after you left me..." she said in a sad voice.
He left her?
"I wish you'd been with me... But since there are divine Rukh in me, I must not wish for anything..."
Looking depressed at the ground, she raised her hand and wiped dust and dirt from the stone.
"Our child is doing great. She has created a great kingdom in time. You'd have to see it! So many different stores for different types. A paradise that we had both always hoped for..."
Your child ...?
Wait... Does she mean?
"I also wish you could at least see our grandson. Hehe! He is exactly as Aladdin told us. Inquisitive like a little child," Alayna giggled.
Now hiding behind a pillar and looking into the distance with my eyes wide open, I continued to listen to her.
"I know you'd snap at me if you found out that Alma didn't know I'm her mother. But after you died, I had given up all will to live! I no longer knew what the meaning and purpose of my existence was... she sobbed, holding her hands to her ears.
"You're such an idiot! Instead of you, I should have died!" she roared suddenly, so that I glanced briefly and then was startled when she had short black hair.
Running to her and hugging her in my arms, I felt her face in shock.
"Solomon ...?"
"I don't know karma! But he certainly doesn't want you to think that way about yourself!" I said, squeezing her a little harder to drive away the sinister Rukh.
Feeling her slowly calming down, she put her arms around me and sank to her knees with me.
"Life is just mean now. Today you were happily romping around with friends and tomorrow it's all over again," I said and loosened my hug a bit when I noticed that her hair was turning blue again.
When the sinister Rukh also disappeared, I released the embrace and looked at them with a pitying look.
After a few minutes, she had completely calmed down and then looked at me.
"Why are you here at all?" she asked me.
"I could ask you the same thing. Besides, I have a lot of questions now."
"So, you heard it?"
Nodding, I then looked at the tombstone, where there is a faded picture and a name and date of death.
"Karma Pixl. Born on May 10 and died on July 6. Pixl ...? I've heard that name before, haven't I?" I asked and then looked at a certain Rukh who was flying to us.
"Yes. The surnames of Timpani and Kougyoku are the same."
"Aladdin!" I said joyfully and then looked at Alayna, who only asks him what he wanted from her.
"I was just looking for Solomon. You should be in bed with Sheba." Aladdin said and looked at me neutrally.
"I know. But before Alayna disappears forever, I wanted to spend some time with her. Now I find out that she is my grandmother and I want some explanations," I said and looked at her again.
Sighing, looking down at the ground, she said that she was not part of the family.
"Why do you think that? You gave birth to my mother! You are her mother and therefore also my grandmother!"
"Because I hadn't brought her into the world the way it should be for a woman! Besides, I never felt it! When Karma died two days after Alma was born, I lost all feelings! He couldn't even hold his own daughter in his arms anymore because he was already ..." Alayna said, then stopped and started crying again.
Holding her in her arms again, she said that all these times she had only played the feelings.
"I didn't feel anything ... I never visited his grave either. I didn't start until you and Sheba told me about Timpani and Kougyoku," she said, wiping away her tears.
"Why?" I asked her and then looked at the Rukh.
"Because Karma is the male form of Timpani, Master's girlfriend, whose real name was Koura, and Kougyoku."
Looking in shock at Alayna, who took the bleached image in her hand, she did magic so that she and Karma could be seen.
Karma was wearing a black jacket with a plain white top and plain gray pants.
His dark pink hair was short and had forehead fringes that reached to his pink eyes.
Alayna had the same hairstyle as always.
Only in the picture she was wearing a blue summer dress, and you could see in her face that she was incredibly happy.
What makes me giggle a bit was that Alayna was a few inches taller than Karma, so she had to duck a bit to stick to his chest.
"That was the only picture I have of him. Our friends took pictures of us a few months before he fainted," she said, looking at the picture.
Looking at her first, I then looked at Aladdin.
"You must know Solomon that I knew Karma very well. I knew him a little better than Alayna and he knew me before we met." said the Rukh, so I looked at him questioningly.
"When the two of them showed up here, I was terrified to see Kougyoku in this form."
"Oh yes! I can still remember that! You and Karma argued because none of you could give me a clear answer!" giggled Alayna, allowing the Rukh Aladdin to show me some memories.
So, I closed my eyes and saw them getting to know each other and arguing.

"A bracelet?" asked Alayna Karma, who looked at the bracelet next to her, just as puzzled, as it played a softly beautiful melody.
Fascinating, she then crouched down and fasted it so that a bright beam of light appeared.
"Alayna!" her boyfriend shouted, hugging her in his arms so that the light would not harm her.
"Uhaaa! Have I slept for a long time..." a voice sounded, so that Alayna looked over from Karma's shoulder and saw a white Rukh stretching his wings.
Seeing that she was staring at it, it flew to her and bowed slightly.
"Hello! Good to see you again, Alayna!" said the Rukh, so she pushed Karma away and asked him in shock how he knew her name.
"And who the hell are you anyway?!"
But before the Rukh could answer her, Karma was already calling, turning to them.
"Aladdin?!"
"Oh! Hello Kougy – oku? Why are you a man?!"
"Why are you a Rukh?!"
"Uh... because I'm just a Rukh now! Why are you a man and not a woman now?" asked the Rukh, whose name was Aladdin, Karma.
Looking back and forth confusingly as they started arguing, Alayna interfered and wanted some answers.
"Okay, okay, okay. How do you know him and why should you be a woman?" she asked him.
Staring nervously away from her and wondering what to answer, Karma almost grabbed the Rukh and threw him far away.
"Aha! So, you haven't told her yet?" He asked him and then flew away from him when he tried to attack him.
"I just didn't have the time for it! Got it?!"

Laughing at this, I opened my eyes again and saw Alayna and Aladdin talking about what I had seen.
"Karma should have been a woman. His Rukh were not male Rukh, but female. At least that's what Aladdin said," Alayna said, stroking the picture while I stared at her, slightly confused.
"Since I'm a Rukh, I can see all the Rukh. Even those who are rejected or banished from the Master."
"Does that mean that God, Aladdin and Alayna can't see all Rukh?" I asked them and then looked at the woman.
"I wouldn't call it that now. The god, as well as his human forms, can also see every Rukh. But just not the Rukh of ... Kougyoku or like my case Karma," she explained to me and then looked at the Rukh.
"That's why I could see that Kougyoku is behind Karma. She or he also knew that he was a woman. He was stupid about going to the toilet, etc." said the Rukh and flew closer to me again when Alayna wanted to hit him.
"Now don't talk about him like that! How would you feel to suddenly have a woman's body instead of the one you were supposed to have?" she asked him, so that he replied that the two are one and the same person.
The only difference between them is gender.
"In addition, the god forgets his previous form when he is born again. Until he reaches a certain age. From then on, he gradually gets parts of his previous life." Rukh Aladdin then said.
Keeping looking back and forth, I looked back at the tombstone and then asked why Karma couldn't forget his previous form.
"What do you mean, Solomon?"
"Well, on his tombstone is born on May 10th. Then Karma shouldn't have had any problems touching himself down there," I said and then looked at Alayna, who stood up and put the picture back again.
"Well, you're right. However, he is not born again," she said, looking at me.
Staring at her confusingly, she sighed and sat down again.
"No one knows why Karma appeared in the first place. I met him when he was 4/5 years old. My parents locked me in a small room, which was supposed to be my room."
"Your parents have what?! You're not serious, are you?!" I asked her and was shot down from faith when she said she was serious.
"They were so afraid of me that they locked me up... Aladdin ... you think ... may I show him?" she asked the Rukh who was hovering next to us.
"That's for you to decide." he gave her only as an answer.
Looking down at the ground, she took a deep breath and called out a black Rukh.
"As you know, black Rukh are full of grief and hatred. This Rukh is a part of my heart. He'll show you my past," she said with sad eyes.
Taking a deep breath, I nodded in confirmation, so that the Rukh briefly led into me, and I saw Alayna's past.

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I had been locked in this small room for almost 4 years.
The windows were too hammered with wooden boards, so I didn't even know if it was day or night.
The door was locked from the outside, and it only opened when I was pulled in with my parents or another victim was thrown in.
On the floor of my room lay heaps of human corpses, whose Magoi I unintentionally deprived.
That's why my parents locked me up here.
They were afraid of me.
Afraid that I might deprive them of their Magoi.
But I don't do this on purpose.
I can't do anything about it!
Why didn't they understand...?
I hate you...
I hate them with all my heart and for everything they did to me!
I tended to my wounds, which were still bleeding slightly, before I heard my door being unlocked.
With a gloomy look, I saw a guard grabbing me by the wrist and pulling me to my parents.
I tried to free myself from the tight grip.
But I was much too weak, so I was simply pushed to the ground in front of my parents and other nobles.
Supporting myself slightly, I saw my parents sitting on the throne, who looked at me repulsively.
"Have you taken in enough Magoi, monster?" my father asked me.
"If so, then we can drink your blood again! It gives us soft skin and eternal youth!" my mother gushed with a smile.
Staring at them with anxious looks, I pleaded in a weak voice that they should please stop.
But my father kicked me and punched me in the face, causing my nose to bleed.
"If you want blood from this monster, you have to go to it quickly! Because the blood quickly turns into black blood as soon as it flows out of this body!" my father shouted, so that everyone ran to me, inflicted wounds on me and swallowed my blood.
Full of pain, I cried, begged for help, and at one point fainted full of weakness.
After a few hours, I woke up back to my dark room.
Looking around, I tried to sit up, which hurt like hell.
"I hate you ..." I cursed quietly and tried to get to the small bathroom, which had only a toilet and a sink with dirty water.
I tried to clean the new wounds a bit, which was not a good idea.
But I lived with it for 4 years, so I didn't really care what I cleaned my wounds with.
With weak legs, I stumbled upon one of the corpses, which slowly rotted into my room.
The stench was unbearable, and I kept begging to get her out of my room.
But they ignored me and treated me as if I were a cruel monster who could live with it.
Picking myself up again, I sat on my dirty bed and heard voices outside my door.
"Hey! Is there a gentler way?!" I heard a boy speak, before my door was opened again, and this boy was pushed in.
Then the guards closed my door again, so the boy went to her and tried to open it.
"Hey! That's not possible! You can't just lock me up here!" he shouted, banging on the door.
Silently looking at him, I continued to take care of my wounds.
"Fucking shit! It stinks of corpses here! Where the hell is the light switch?" the boy asked, and then startled when I said that there is no light here.
"Who-who are you?" he asked me.
But I didn't answer him and took care of another bleeding wound.
"Um... Could you please answer me?" he asked me in a stricter tone, so I didn't look at him and just said that it wasn't his business.
"You're about to lose your Magoi and die..." I said and then lay to the side so as not to look him in the face as I slowly picked up his Magoi.
Feeling him staring at his hands, he then sat down on a chair and stared at me.

An hour has passed since I deprived the boy of his Magoi.
I guess I fell asleep and stretched when I looked at the boy who was still sitting in the chair and asked me if I slept well.
"How...? Where...? Why are you still alive?" I asked him, shocked.
"You can take as much Magoi from me as you want, Princess Alayna Jehoahaz Abraham."
Shocked that he knew my name, even though I hadn't told him, he got up and went to me.
Full of fear, I jumped off my bed and walked in a corner.
"Go away! Stay away from me!" I shouted, so that the boy stopped in an instant and went back to his seat.
Full of silence we sat in my room.
He was in the chair, and I was shivering in the corner, looking repeatedly and looking away again when he looked at me.
Eventually, my door was opened again, where I was most likely moved back in with my parents.
But since the boy placed the chair at the doorway, the guard was startled when he spoke to him.
"Well, you don't know hospitable, do you?" the boy asked the guard, who immediately closed the door again without taking me with her.
Hearing him sigh, he looked around him.
Apparently, he was looking for something.
"Tell me, Your Highness! Is there something to eat and drink here? I'm dying of thirst and starvation!" he said, looking at me.
"The ... only drink ... is... the faucet ..." I replied to him, stuttering and startled when he went to the tap.
I heard him turn it up and yuck.
Then he looked around the corner and grumbled at me to say that the water was polluted.
Frightened, I pushed myself more into the corner, so that the boy pressed his fingers to his forehead and told me that it was okay before we both looked at the door.
"You are there! The king and queen want to talk to you!" the guard ordered, grabbing the boy by the upper arm.
"Hey! Don't tackle me like that! In which slap mill did I end up here?!" he asked himself and tried to free himself from the handle before my door was locked again.
Exhaling with relief, I went back to my bed.
"What a strange guy...!" I thought, and then went back to sleep.
So, another hour of nightmares passed, so I stared startled at the ceiling and sat up when I took the opening of my door.
The boy was pushed back in, so that he fell to the ground again and stared angrily at the guard.
"Cursed are you! If I only had my metal vessel, I'd give you a lot back!" the boy fled, so that the guard just laughed at him and said that he had a lovely fantasy before closing the door again.
Standing up, he patted the dirt off his clothes and looked over at me.
Staring at him in shock, I was briefly about to jump from the bed back into the corner.
But he smiled at me, put something on the end of my bed, sat back on the chair and crossed his arms and legs.
Again and again to him and to what he had put on the end of my bed, I sniffed, in addition to the stench of the corpses, a delicious smell of freshly baked rolls.
Slowly I crawled there and looked at it before I heard a soft giggle from the boy.
Startled back to my starting point, I stared at him.
"Hihi! You can eat it quietly! It's not poisoned or anything else! It's a perfectly normal bun, which was hard to bring here!" said the boy and looked angrily at the door.
Looking at him for what felt like hours, I crawled back to the bun, grabbed it quickly, crawled back to the starting point and smelled it before I took a bite.
The boy stared at me the whole time, giggling a little as my cheeks turned slightly pink and I literally devoured the bun.
I had never eaten anything so delicious before!
The only thing I got for 'food' were the people whose Magoi I had withdrawn when my hunger got worse.
By picking up the Magois, I satisfied my hunger a bit, but it didn't last very long.
Looking at the boy, who had to stop laughing, looked at me and said that this was probably the first real meal I had ever eaten.
I nodded shyly and stared at my duvet cover.
"I know..." I heard him whisper, so I looked at him and tilted my head slightly.
"I haven't even introduced myself to you yet. My name is Kougy-"
He cleared his throat and coughed, apologized and introduced himself more decently.
"My name is Karma. Karma Pixl." he introduced himself and knelt in front of me.
Somehow, I have the feeling that it didn't suit him at all to kneel in front of someone.
"Um... I'm glad to make your acquaintance, Karma. You already know my name and ... Please stop kneeling in front of me. I didn't deserve it," I said, so Karma looked up and asked me why I didn't deserve it.
Only staring into his beautiful bright pink eyes, I looked to the side, put my hands on my fast-beating heart and tried to calm it down a bit.
"I am not a princess of this country. I am a monster who is imprisoned here by the king and queen," I said and then looked sadly at the corpses.
Looking there as well, he asked me that I was their daughter.
"After all, they look like you down to the hair!"
"Do they?" I asked him.
Nodding, he asked me if I didn't see the faces of my parents.
Shaking my head, I said that I had been lying here since I was born, in the darkness and my eyes hurt like hell when I am pulled into the light.
Holding his hands in front of his mouth, he stared at me in shock as I said, "I only see outlines of them when I am drawn to them. My eyes are trying to get used to the light ... However, they can't, because they hurt me immediately..."
Sensing that he rose from his chair, I was startled and immediately jumped into the corner.
"Please! Don't get close to me!" I pleaded with him, so Karma stopped again, looked down in disappointment and nodded.
So, the days passed, which then became weeks and then months.

A few months had passed.
Whenever Karma was pulled out of my room, he would come back after an hour and steal some food with him, which he hid under his clothes, and then give it to me.
Little by little we got to know each other.
Once I heard him cursing in the bathroom and not knowing how this works.
With a crooked and confused look, I looked at the door, which he was repairing a bit to be able to go to the toilet decently and wondered what he meant.
When I spoke to him about it, he turned red in the face and yelled at me that it was none of my business and that he should never ask him anything like that again.
Staring at him in confusion, I shrugged my shoulders and accepted his decision.
When he was once again pulled out to eat, he took with him a deck of cards that he found in the dining room, in addition to something to eat.
"What's that?" I asked him, so he stared at me in shock and asked me if I really didn't know Crazy Eights.
Shaking his head, he sat at the end of my bed, explained to me that the rules are quite easy to understand and then showed me how to play them.
Fascinatingly, we played the game for hours until he eventually stopped in frustration.
"Why are you stopping?" I asked him, looking into his pink eyes that cast a strange spell over me.
"It's not fun anymore if you're always winning! It was fun in the beginning because you didn't know it yet and I had always won!" he said pouting and looked to the side.
Staring at him in confusion, I laughed and reared up like a show-off.
"Well! Then you shouldn't have shown it to me! Against your style of play, I'm a thousand times better and more charming than you!" I laughed and looked at him with a self-indulgent look.
"You're just as self-absorbed as he is..." he said in a whisper, gathering the cards, then jerked up when I crawled up to him a bit and asked who he meant.
"It's none of your business!" he said, hiding the cards behind a leafy wallpaper.
Then the door opened again, and I thought that Karma had been pulled out again.
But this time I was pulled out of my room.
After months of silence, the guards pulled me off my bed, which I had been clinging to.
"No! No! I don't want to!" I shouted, judging myself as much as I could.
But the guards beat my little fingers, so I let go in pain and was pulled out by them.
"Wait! Where are you taking them?!" Karma asked and I heard from his voice that he was angry.
"Don't worry! The monster is coming right back!" said one of the guards and closed the door again.
After a few hours of torturing my parents and the others, the guard threw me against the wall of my room and then closed the door.
"Oh God! Alayna!" I heard Karma's voice.
He lifted me up from the floor and laid me down on the bed to look at me.
I heard a breath of shock before I cried out as he recovered one of my wounds.
"Calm down, Alayna! I didn't mean to hurt you!" he said, trying to calm me down a bit.
But when it didn't work, I felt some weight on my bed, so I opened my eyes slightly and saw his eyes in front of me.
He put a hand on my cheek, stroked it gently, and sang a song, which slowly calmed me down.
Staring at him, he smiled at me and asked if I had calmed down a bit.
Nodding his head slightly, he then got off my bed and went to the bathroom.
At least I heard him turn on the faucet and drag a small bucket of water to my bed.
"It might hurt a bit," he said, gently dabbing at my deep wounds.
I tried to pull myself together but couldn't stop it any longer and cried out as he went a little lower.
I noticed his worried gaze turning to me, so I tried to pull myself together again and closed my eyes.
Noticing this, he took my little hand, which dug into the duvet cover, and voluntarily gave me some Magoi, so that I opened my eyes again and looked at him.
"You don't need to be afraid, Alayna. I will always protect you as long as I live. I promise you that."
I looked at him with watery eyes before I fell asleep in pain.

So, a few years passed.
Whenever they pulled out Karma to eat, there were some who pulled me to my parents.
But I wasn't afraid of them anymore and just let it happen.
After all, Karma was waiting for me in my room, and he took fabulous care of wounds that I couldn't handle.
"Tell me, Alayna, when is your birthday?" he asked me.
I snuggled closer to him when I got a little cold and then looked up at him.
"But you're asking me that very late?" I said and only got a slight grin.
"Sorry! What can I do about the fact that you are so stubborn and don't answer correctly?"
Rolling my eyes, I snuggled up to his chest, heard and felt his heart beating fast and smiled a little.
"It's my birthday on December 8th."
"That's tomorrow!" he said and tried to push me away a bit.
"I don't know if it's tomorrow. I just don't feel the time," I said, hugging him tighter.
Feeling Karma staring at me, he then rested his head on my pillow and hummed to himself.
My eyes closed; I opened them again when Karma asked me if I would be 10 tomorrow.
Staring at him, I then looked at his chest and shrugged my shoulders.
"I don't know if I'll be 10 tomorrow. My family didn't celebrate my birthday, but rather loathed it..." I said sadly.
Caressing my back, Karma gave me a good night kiss on the head and then fell asleep.
The next day, Karma was again pulled out to eat by the guards while I waited for him in the room.
But as hours passed and he still didn't come back, I feared that he had been caught stealing food.
When the door opened, I hoped to see him again, but it was only a guard who pulled me out.
When I was thrown in front of my parents, I propped myself up a bit and looked around with dull eyes.
This time it was just my parents, some guards and ... Karma here?
"Karma!" I shouted, trying to get to him.
But I was held down so that I looked at my father.
"Soso! So, it's true that this boy secretly stole food and gave it to you?"
Staring at him and slowly catching sight of his face, I then looked at my mother, who was staring at me in horror.
"How repulsive! To give our beautiful food to a monster! Oh! I can't imagine that!" she said dramatically.
Gradually, my eyes got used to the light, so that I now recognized my parents.
Both had long blue hair.
Only my mother had the same facial features as me and lighter blue eyes, while my father had darker ones.
I then looked at Karma, who was hung up with his hands and had suffered some wounds.
"What did you do to him?!" I asked, horrified.
"This boy was rummaging around in the kitchen and wanted to bring a cake! Supposedly for your birthday!" my father said full of disgust at what Karma had done and showed me the cake he wanted to bring me.
Touched by this act, I looked again at my parents, who said that a dusty thief gets a just punishment.
When I wanted to ask what that was, my father raised his staff and used his light spell, which is harmful to Karma.
"STOP! I shouted pleadingly.
But my father just laughed terribly and said that as a monster I had no decision.
"Hahaha! The king is right! You as an abomination have no decision! You can't even do magic anymore!" my mother said, rising from her throne and attacking Karma with her lightning spells.
He cried out, writhing in pain, and began to spit blood.
Everyone in the room laughed.
They didn't even try to help him or stop them.
I fell to my knees, shook my head, held my hands to my ears, and stared at the floor.
"No... No. No! NO!" I cried out and before I knew it, sinister lightning struck everywhere.
The noose tied around my neck came loose as well as the shackles to which Karma was attached.
Slowly, I opened my blood-red eyes and saw my reflection on the glass floor.
Then I looked at my parents, slowly got up, walked slowly to them, and killed anyone who tried to stop me.
When all the blood was pouring on the ground, I raised my hand, strangled my father with magic and then looked at my mother.
"Hehe... Alayna ... Darling... You're not killing your loving mommy, are you?" she asked me.
She with a deadly look, I stared at her first and then raised my hand.
"You and loving mommy? If you had really loved me, you would never have harmed me," I said, lifting her up with magic.
"I don't have parents and I'll never have parents who accept me for who I am," I said in a sinister voice before magically cutting my mother's throat so that the blood stuck to me.
Throwing them away like garbage, I used another magic that killed all the people in this kingdom.
I didn't give a fuck now if they had anything to do with it or not.
I wanted to destroy this kingdom.
When the Rukh came back to me, I slowly went down the stairs and stopped when I heard Karma.
"Ala- ... Alayna, where do you want to go?"
"I don't know... Somewhere where a monster like me belongs..." I said, without looking at him.
I couldn't look into his eyes.
I was so scared that he was afraid of me.
But when I felt his hand on my little shoulder, I looked up at him and saw a gentle smile.
"No matter where you go, I'll follow you to the ends of the world."

Well, that was my sixteenth night.
I hope you liked it and gave you suspense, harmony and humour. Especially humor ^^

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