welcome back
This night is the penultimate night, when everything is still harmonious in Solomon's life, before something terrible happens.
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 twentieth night ^^
I can still remember very well how Sheba and I started our new life together with Aladdin.
I can also remember how we met a former Rukh of my father.
Well, meeting is a wrong word for it.
Rather, he showed up at our place and explained to us the formula of medicine that Aladdin's Magoi was supposed to bring into balance.
A few days passed after the remnants of the celebration were removed and the last guests who were still staying here said goodbye, as their ships or flights sending them back to their kingdom took longer than expected.
Sheba and I packed up the last things before we moved back to our new realm.
Aladdin, who was lying on my former bed and was entertained by Tess, the son of Falan and Wahid, we were able to collect all the things we needed at our leisure.
"Are you really sure you don't want to live in the palace, Solomon and Sheba?" asked Setta, who helped us to drag our things to the house.
Our other friends also helped us with the complete move.
"Yes! We want Aladdin to grow up in a normal environment," Sheba said as she taped a cardboard box.
"I'm not mad at my parents, and I'm more grateful to them that I was raised in this palace. Nevertheless... I don't want to force Aladdin to do something he might not want to become," I said, where Ithnan then asked if it was because he was the reincarnation of the god of the Rukh, and we nodded.
That's not the reason we left, but this one is that we promised Alayna to lead a normal family life.
However, our friends did not know this goddess, so we postponed it to rebirth.
"Can I still see Aladdin?" asked Tess, who was now holding Aladdin in his arms.
"Of course, Tess! You are welcome to visit us at any time. Aladdin will even be very happy about it!" Sheba grinned, with the little 4-year-old grinning and chatting with Aladdin.
Tess, the reincarnation of Teru Rahdo, a former best friend of Ala's, is one of nine friends who witnesses Aladdin's childhood.
At the party we already met another friend of Ala's.
However, the Rukh told us that they would get to know each other a little later and become friends.
"Tell me, Tess? Do you remember what we told you when you were asked if you knew Aladdin?" I asked the orange-haired child, who just nodded and replied that although he knew Aladdin, he lived in the palace and was therefore unreachable by unauthorized persons.
"Exactly!"
"And if you ask me if I know Ala, I'm supposed to say the same thing!" he said suddenly, each of us looking at him in shock.
Did he just say Ala?
As far as I know, no one had mentioned this name.
"That's right, Tess! You're going to be a good big brother to Aladdin!" Sheba praised him, stroking his hair.
Amazed at her reaction, I just smiled and taped the last cardboard box shut.
"So! That was the last one! Now we can move into our house," I smiled, grabbing the box and carrying it to the teleport circle a little away from my room.
Sheba also packed a box, as well as the others, while Tess carried Aladdin for us.
"I'm going to be the best big brother you have, Aladdin! We're going to go on adventures, travel, and cross the world!" Tess said, with Aladdin looking at him and squeaking his arms.
Smiling, watching them, we entered our new realm, placed the boxes in the rooms to which they belonged and unpacked them on them.
"Luckily Tess is here," Sheba whispered to me, so I nodded with a smile.
"Yes. Thanks to him, we can unpack our things in peace and quiet and leave the room without worrying that he will scream and destroy something," I said with a smile, so Sheba giggled.
After a few hours, when everything was unpacked and stood in its place, my parents came to the housewarming ceremony and ate with us.
While we were chatting and having a bite to eat, Sheba went with Aladdin to the living room area, which was rather open with the dining room and kitchen to give him the chest there.
"It's going to feel so empty," my mother sobbed, while my father next to her just stared at her desolately.
"Don't act like that, Alma. Solomon, Sheba and Aladdin are just a stone's throw away. We can take the teleporter that connects between this house and the palace," he said as he took another sip of his beer.
"And? What do you want to call yourselves?" Jehoahaz asked me.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, everyone in this neighborhood where you live is a normal family, and of course they have a last name. If you live under the name 'Jehoahaz Abraham,' everyone will know who you are," my uncle said, so I smiled, got up and got a cloth, gave this Sheba, and then turned back to the other.
"I know. That's why I've already done some preparatory work." I said, went to the cutlery drawer and dug out a knife, whereupon I cut my braid without further ado.
Then I gave it to Sheba, who also cut her braid and then looked smilingly at the group who looked at us in shock.
"From today on we are called Hikari!" we said in chorus, everyone looking at us speechless.
When I looked at my parents, I could hear exactly what they were thinking.
Have you gone insane?!
No, we're not!
We want to live a peaceful family life, treat Aladdin like a normal child who is allowed to get dirty, paint the walls and climb trees.
We had promised Alayna all this and we keep it.
When no one said anything after a few silent minutes, I got a little nervous.
Until...
"Pff hiahahaha!"
Everyone in the room looked over at my father, who suddenly started laughing.
He should be disappointed that I got rid of the name and the hair by which we were recognized.
So why was he laughing?!
"That's how I know you, son!" he said suddenly.
"You have always, even then, stood against what you were. Just so that you can be free," he said, rising from his seat and putting his arms around us.
"But no matter what you set your mind to or how far you go to be free... I will always love you and support you in everything," my father said, opening my eyes and looking into the distance.
Even though I was born again, it still felt after the first time...
As if I had never gotten it from my father before, in the distant, distant past.
Smiling and with some tears, I thanked my father and spent a little more time with them, telling them my plans.
That's how a month went by after Sheba, and I moved into our new house.
My birthday was just around the corner, and I was worried that my family would have a ball like they always did on my birthday.
But nothing happened.
They came to our house and had a small celebration, we also had to be quiet since Aladdin and Tess slept at 8 pm.
Since it was my birthday on a Thursday and Tess went to kindergarten, the two of them were in another room where they slept.
Aladdin screamed immediately when his mother or I weren't with him.
But apparently, he can also sleep peacefully with Tess.
Ha, kind of mean to my family.
When they wanted to have him with them for a weekend, he had only yelled when Sheba or I wanted to leave, which is why we were afraid to leave him alone with Tess.
But maybe Aladdin was only so quiet with him because he was one of his former best friends.
Well, I can speculate about it later.
Now I celebrated my birthday with the people I cared about before I went back to work the next day.
My job was relatively simple.
Since Torran was the capital of the universe, so merchants from different cities and countries met monthly, we operated a farm building where merchants could register, choose a place where they could open their shop and/or unsubscribe.
Although this company was under the management of Abraham, I worked part-time.
"Are you sure about that, Solomon? I could easily appoint you as the head of a sector. If not make him the deputy head of this company," Abraham said when I asked him for a job with him.
Even as a child, I found his work interesting and wanted to be like him.
I shook my head and said that I wanted to work just as hard for a promotion as anyone else here did.
"Just because you're my uncle and you own this company doesn't mean I want to be protected! If I'm Solomon Hikari, then I'm not your nephew, I'm just some guy who works here!" I said confidently, although my uncle rather raised his hands and said that he couldn't do this, but he wanted to try it for my sake.
With these memories, I drove to the company and sat behind the reception desk, where my colleague greeted me.
"Good morning, Mr. Hikari."
"Good morning, Mr. Altec," I greeted him with the smile I gave to each employee.
Relieved, I exhaled and looked at Altec when he asked me if it was very tiring with a baby.
Laughing, I said that it wasn't too strenuous, but that the only thing was the traffic.
"Traffic?"
"Yes. The morning traffic is the only thing that upsets me," I said with a laugh and then took care of the work.
While I piled up some papers and from time-to-time greeted calls and new dealers and explained in detail what they should fill out, I continued to take care of finding a medicine or a country that made this said medicine for the balance of the Magois.
But none of the countries or worlds produced such medicine, so I came home disappointed in the evening.
When I opened the front door, a delicious smell immediately rose to my nose, so I had to smile, hang up my jacket and put my bag in the hallway before I loosened my tie a bit and went to the kitchen where my two treasures were waiting for me.
"Baba... uba!" babbled Aladdin as I stepped into the dining room and saw him lying in his highchair.
Since Aladdin wanted to be with one of us around the clock, but I went to work and Sheba took care of the food or household, we bought one of these special highchairs in a baby market, which could be changed into two variants.
In the sitting and reclining variants.
Pretty handy, this chair.
I stroked his blue hair, gave him a little kiss, and then walked over to Sheba, who jerked slightly as I pressed against her from behind.
"Solomon?! Welcome my darling!" she squealed before I took a kiss from her.
"I'm back," I whispered, then gave her another kiss and then went to the drawers to set the table.
I passed Aladdin again, who was playing with his mobile again, babbling from time to time and then trying to see me, which didn't work because he was strapped in.
Because of this, he started screaming, so both Sheba and I moved to him.
"Yes, yes. It's not easy with him." suddenly someone spoke, so we took Aladdin out of his seat and looked at that person.
However, when we saw him, my wife and I blinked more paintings.
In front of us stood a 170 tall person, with short black hair whose strands fell on the side over his shoulders and turquoise blue eyes piercing between his bangs.
"Father?" I asked incredulously, but I only heard a slight laugh.
"No Solomon. I am not your father. I used to be your father in the past. But that was a very, very long time ago." meant the guy who resembled my father from Alayna's memory.
"But ... Who are you then?" Sheba asked him.
He walked up to us a bit, bowed slightly and introduced himself to us.
"My name is David. David Jehoahaz Abraham. A former Rukh of the then David Jehoahaz Abraham. But Master thought it was complicated, so he just calls me David." he introduced us, so we calmed down a bit and released Aladdin slightly.
"Why... Are you here? Shouldn't you be with my father when you're his Rukh?" I asked him, so he shook his head laughing and said that this was no longer possible.
"Why not? You're his Rukh, aren't you?" I spoke.
"In the past. But now I belong to the Master and follow his command."
"Order?" Sheba asked, and then looked at Aladdin, which I did.
"What command?"
"I have been ordered by Master to tell you how to get the medicine." he said, so we both jerked up and then laughed.
I meant that Alayna had told us that she didn't know the formulas of medicine anymore, so we should try it with our own hands.
He laughed and said that she knew.
"At least she would have known if she had asked me or the 'other' about it. Well, but she couldn't ask us, because otherwise you would have wondered who she was talking to." he said suddenly, laughing.
Sheba and I stared at him speechless before looking at Aladdin, who was staring at David.
As we stared at him, Rukh suddenly stopped laughing and apologized to him.
"I know, I know! On the other hand, sentence to him, I obey your commands, Master! As soon as I reveal the formula, I'll go back to him." he said suddenly, looking at Aladdin with a smile and then at us.
Had he just conversed with the god in Aladdin?
When I asked myself this, he cleared his throat and asked me to write down what he was saying.
So I went to the kitchen, got a pen and a sheet and wrote down the formula that will give us the medicine that we would later give Aladdin.
"This medicine is relatively easy to create. It is not created in the same way as the others. It is created through magic and deep connection." David explained to us, so Sheba and I stared at him questioningly.
Sheba put Aladdin back in his seat during the explanation, where he fell asleep immediately afterwards.
In doing so, she turned the flame for the food a little lower so that it would not burn.
"What do you mean?" I asked the Rukh, who was sitting, floating in the air while my wife joined me.
"It is the case that this medicine ensures that no one can have a wish fulfilled in the presence of Master, i.e., Aladdin." he explained but sighed when he saw Sheba's questioning face.
He stood up, or floated over to Aladdin, and wished for a plant to appear on the dining table.
A slight glow appeared on it and suddenly there was an orchid on our dining table, which we both stared at in amazement.
"That was just an example. However, if someone near him wishes to become God or start a war, the Master, that is, Aladdin, would unconsciously fulfill it." he explained to us, looking shocked at Aladdin, who slept peacefully.
"But why? We thought this medicine was supposed to bring his Magoi into balance. Did Alayna lie to us?" Sheba asked him, so I nodded in agreement.
He shook his head and explained that she hadn't lied to us.
"She just couldn't tell you everything because she didn't know about it. Aladdin and I thought it was better and gave her and her boyfriend the necessary ingredients." he explained to us and sat in the air again.
"Do you mean Rukh Aladdin?" we both asked, so he nodded.
"That's exactly what I meant. While he made sure to tell Alayna some of the shadows and dangers that Master had given him, I worked with Karma to take care of the medicine in question, which Alayna was then to swallow daily."
Nodding in understanding, I looked briefly at Aladdin, who tried to lie on his stomach, which is why he started whining.
Sheba, who was closest to him, unfastened the buckles so that he could turn around.
"The only thing I don't understand is what the Magoi has to do with the wish," I said now and then looked at Rukh David, who also looked at Aladdin before looking at me.
[style type="italic"]"For every wish he fulfills... No! Every time the eight-pointed star or this breathtakingly beautiful light shines, it loses its life light. The divine Rukh in him gradually become stronger, so that the weak human Rukh gradually die." [/style]
Shocked by what he said, we looked at each other.
"The only people who knew about it were those who lived by his side. The people with whom he had created the kingdom of Hikarishi. However, he did not expect that there would be some between them who would betray him. So, it turned out that he lied to them all these times and only gave this opportunity to those who were his closest 'friends'. For this reason, the person who hated him above all else, since he did not fulfill his wish, created the plan to become God himself and thus destroy him. You know that." he explained, so that we both trembled, but looked at Aladdin with hatred for this person.
David then told us that the god suppressed this magic by means of a certain flute that he once received as a gift from someone.
On this he carved the eight-pointed star that kept his magic wishes suppressed.
Even after he lost his lover and closest friends, the flute was the only thing he still owned before he halfway killed humanity.
"Even when the master, that is, Aladdin, was born, he owned this flute. Since I know you don't know Aladdin's past, you'll most likely wonder where that flute is now, if he had it then, won't you?" he asked us with a grin, so we nodded.
True, we knew about a flute, but we had no idea that this flute was important, so we wondered what happened to it.
"This flute was destroyed when you, Solomon, granted Alibaba's wish. Through a mistake and an attack by the shadow that haunted the Master for decades, he was finally able to manipulate him, but the Master, I mean Aladdin, fought back at the beginning." he said and then looked sadly over at him.
"However, he lost the battle, with this golden flute breaking into pieces and scattered in the world in which he regained consciousness. It was only after three decades, when this shadow carried out terror and the Master was finally freed from it, that he went in search of these individual parts with his other self and his friends, as well as lovers."
"Other me?" I asked, so David jerked up briefly and muttered something to himself.
"Oh damn! I forgot that you weren't alive at that time and Rukh Aladdin's parents, as well as everyone else, were just puppets..."
Confused, we stared at him so that he looked at us and grinned.
"Forget what I said! Okay?" he asked us, Sheba and I looked at each other and then back to David when he said it would be best for us if we didn't know what was happening in that time.
We were already interested.
Especially because he said that we were just puppets and didn't live at all.
Alayna and this shadow had also mentioned something similar.
But we accepted his request and continued to listen to what he told us.
"Well, the flute nowadays is this wristwatch, what the master, that is, Aladdin, wears there." he said and pointed to Aladdin's little hand, where the clock hung, which Alayna once handed us.
This watch was once a flute that Ala wore as a souvenir of his 'friends' at the time?
I couldn't really imagine that, but I looked back at David, who was now telling us the formulas of medicine.
When an hour passed, he looked at the clock and said that he should go back to the person he had to take care of.
"What person do you mean, David?" I asked him, startled for a moment when I saw something black on him as well.
"To a person you both get to know later." he grinned and then turned into a black and white Rukh.
Looking after him, we looked back at Aladdin when he started screaming.
Two months have passed since I tried to create this medicine together with my parents, Jehoahaz and Ugo.
"And you got it from someone who just explained it to you?" Ugo asked me, so I nodded and explained to him that this person didn't know as much about magic as he did, which is why he had entrusted it to me so that I could go to Ugo with this formula.
A little embarrassed, he crawled into the corner and mumbled something to himself, so I just laughed and then looked at my father and uncle.
"David is really special, isn't he?" my father asked me, so I just nodded with a smile.
The next day, after the Rukh gave me this formula, I rushed to my parents with Sheba and Aladdin and showed them how we got them, they laughed and complained that David could already entrust it to them.
"Well! But that's how you were!" my mother laughed, although my father first complained and then agreed with her.
Two months ago, I thought it was strange, because my father called himself.
But in the meantime, I got used to it and always had to smile when he called himself.
"Tell me, father? Why does your Rukh always call Aladdin 'Master'?" I asked him, so he laughed and said that he was no longer his Rukh.
"Yes, okay! Why does he always call him that?" I asked again, adding that he got on his nerves by calling my son Master repeatedly and then called his name after all.
"Yes! That's what he always did, even when Alayna still existed! Always called her Master and then mentioned her name!" my mother giggled to herself, so that my father laughed as well.
I just looked at her in confusion until my father answered my question.
"Well, that's because he's a Rukh and doesn't belong to anyone but the Master."
"Yes. As you know, all the Rukh who return to the Sacred Palace from the dead call him only Master, while the Rukh of the living call him a god," my mother explained, so I nodded and said that the dead Rukh who return to the Sacred Palace are free to decide what they want to do, while those of the living are protected by the god, since these obeyed the life of the host in which they are, according to the rules of him whom they gave a life.
Nodding, my mother explained to me that this was also the reason why the Rukh always called David Aladdin only Master.
"I just don't quite understand it. I mean, Father is alive. So why doesn't he call him God, as well as the others?" I asked.
My parents looked at each other, nodded, and asked me to follow them.
They asked Ugo to continue working on conjuring up the magic formula of the medicine while they went with me to Sheba, who was with Falan and Arba in the meantime.
"Solomon! Are you done with the medicine formula?" she asked me, so I shook my head and explained to her that my parents wanted to tell us something.
I asked her where Aladdin was, with Falan joining us and pointing to the meadow where Tess was playing with him.
It was quite nice weather and Aladdin developed quite well.
Although Aladdin is only in his third/fourth month, he can crawl a bit, although it looked more like crawling than crawling.
He can't get his legs under his belly yet, so he just crawled.
Even sitting only works a little bit ... about 5 minutes before he says together and threw himself on his back, which made him laugh because Sheba and I always scared each other.
Yes, yes!
We already have a special little child by our side, who made our day an adventure again and again.
I looked over at them and saw Tess keep pushing one of the flowers into his hands and explaining to him what kind of flower it was.
I had to smile slightly and then looked over at Falan.
"Do you think Tess could keep Aladdin busy for a while Sheba and I discuss something with my parents?" I asked her, so she thought for a moment and asked me to wait a moment.
She went to her son, who was lying on his back with Aladdin on his back, looking at the clear blue sky.
I saw him smile and nod his head, so Falan stroked his head and said that it was even a lot of fun for him to play with Aladdin, and I exhaled slightly relieved.
I mean, he was still a kid himself and still went to kindergarten where he could hang out with his peers, so I was slightly worried that it would be a bit too annoying for him to hang out with an infant.
But luckily, he loved Aladdin, so we could leave for a while without worrying.
When we followed my parents to my father's study, we sat on the couch and listened to what they had to say.
Before that, I explained to Sheba what they were explaining to us, so she understood what they were talking about.
"Well, Rukh David once belonged to the man who was your father in the world Alma Torran, Solomon," my mother began to tell.
"However, since I became a fallen man, as your mother died, and I had a desire to become God, some Rukh of mine, who were blessed by your mother's white light, tried to escape," my father continued.
"However, all of them died in the attempt. Except for one. The Rukh who is now at Ala's side, but is now someone else's side," my father said, so I meant that the Rukh explained to us that we would meet this person later.
They nodded and said that this person, whom the Rukh meant, was a former friend as well as an enemy of Ala/Aladin.
Not understanding, they laughed and then said that in two years we will see what they meant.
"In any case, since the Rukh is a half-fallen one, he can only live with God or with someone who has a half-fallen soul as well as he does," my mother said, so we looked at my father, who said that he was no longer a fallen man and that his Rukh were all white, and we nodded.
"In a world that didn't really exist, however, he lived by Aladdin's side for three decades, until the right one came along and destroyed this one world so that our world today could be created," he said, looking questioningly at my mother as she beat him.
"We're not allowed to tell you that!" she grumbled at him, so that he only uttered a 'Sorry' and then another ouch, when he was beaten again by my mother.
Sheba and I looked at each other questioningly before asking them what world they meant.
"David also mentioned them very briefly. He said something that we didn't really live there and were just puppets. What did he mean?" I asked my parents, who looked at each other and then sighed.
"That's something that doesn't matter here," my mother said.
I stared at her.
Excuse me?!
That didn't matter here?!
Damn!
This world, which didn't exist, is now our world, isn't it?!
I asked her this too and became extremely angry when my mother said the following: "You were not made for this! You are only the parents of Ala, not the ones who delivered him from the darkness!"
She yelled at me when I became rebellious.
"Why fucking shit do you keep saying that?! We are no longer children! We can take it just as much as you can!" I yelled at her angrily.
"If Ala hasn't told you, then he will have realized that you are both still children!"
Horrified by what my mother said, I looked at her angrily, grabbed Sheba and pulled her out of the study.
Luckily, Sheba didn't resist, so I could just leave the palace with her without looking at them again.
Another two months had passed since then.
Aladdin was now in his sixth month and got his first teeth, which is why he started nibbling on everything.
"Ouch! Aladdin, don't bite me!" Sheba grumbled slightly but looked at him with a smile.
I sat at the dining table and examined the documents of the magical medicine that Ugo gave me.
Since I quarreled with my mother, I had no contact with my parents and therefore tried to reduce honest contact with them.
However, this didn't always work, which is why I always argued with my mother when we saw each other.
"You poorest! Maybe we should slowly switch to more solid food," I said to her as she pressed Aladdin into my arms and cleaned her chest.
I smiled at him when I felt his gaze and played with his little hand.
As he did so, he babbled something to himself.
"No! I don't want that yet, and I certainly don't want to do that yet!" she said, turning around to me so that I could see the wound that she was applying with some cream.
Then I looked at Aladdin again and shook my head.
"You mustn't hurt your mummy, Aladdin. At some point, you must protect her," I said, then lifted him up and snuggled my face against his, causing him to squeal.
"But before you get to that, we'll protect you from everything," I smiled and then lowered him down so he could crawl a bit on the floor.
"I think we should buy him a teether to bite on," she suggested, so I looked at her and nodded when Aladdin found something and immediately put it in his mouth.
Snatching it from him, he grumbled something, looked at me angrily, and then crawled somewhere else.
Now that he was six months old, he became a little more rebellious, so I sighed.
Does he feel that I was arguing with my parents?
I know that there was a divine being in him, but he is also human, so I thought he couldn't feel it.
So, I sighed my way onto the couch as Aladdin crawled back and crawled to his play corner, where building blocks and everything else that strengthened his motor skills.
"I think I should apologize to my parents," I said suddenly as Sheba sat next to me and gave me a glass.
She looked at me confused and asked what I meant.
I explained to her that I must have overreacted a bit when my mother labeled us as 'not worthy'.
"Besides, Alayna had told us at the time that there was still a time that existed before this one."
Sheba nodded and said that she had also explained to us at the time why we shouldn't know about the time.
I nodded, remembering the conversation we had with her back then.
"|Why can't we know about the time, Alayna?|" I asked the goddess.
"|If we didn't know about it, you shouldn't have mentioned it in the first place.|" I said, to which the 16-year-old girl nodded in agreement.
Alayna scratched her cheek and thought about how she could explain it to us.
She investigated the distance for a moment before answering us.
"|Because nothing was real during that time. The people, except for 18 of them, and the god as well as this shadow, had not really lived. As soon as the 18 people died, so did the world, which was only their fantasy. It went down and for 1000 years that he had to live, there was complete darkness in the world. Until the 18 Rukh came back into the world and gave the 18 people a false memory.|"
She sounded so sad.
Already as if this was what happened in time was the fault of God.
I had so many questions about these 'false memories'.
But I didn't want to ask her, because I felt her sadness at the time.
I then looked over at Aladdin, who started screaming, so I asked Sheba to stay seated and I cleaned him this time.
Smiling and thankful, she followed me when I went into Aladdin's room and placed him on his changing table.
We had painted his room in a light blue one, with a few clouds and golden birds that were supposed to indicate the Rukh.
His curtains were long white silk curtains that blew lightly as we opened the window.
I mean, it's June right now and its damn warm outside, so the wind gave a pleasant breeze.
The floor was made of laminate, but where there was a large round carpet that was in a deeper blue.
His furniture, as well as the furniture of the other rooms, was made of oak wood, which gave off a slight pleasant smell of an oak forest.
Sheba and I wanted his room to be natural, but also to have something childlike as well as something grown-up, which worked to some extent.
Well, if Sheba hadn't interfered and hadn't painted clouds, but just kept drawing the golden birds I asked her to draw, his room would be optimal for the future as he gets older.
I sighed at the very thought of painting this room again so that Aladdin would be satisfied.
But now, and for a few more years, he was still a child, so I didn't worry about it.
I dug out a fresh diaper, watched Aladdin play with the mobile and then turned to his mother, who stretched her finger to him to give her attention instead of the mobile.
I smiled a little, cleaned him up a bit, then put him on in his sleeping body and lifted him up when he started yawning.
It was already 8 p.m., his bedtime, and since he didn't sleep alone, but in our bedroom, Sheba and I had to follow him.
My parents told us that we shouldn't let him sleep with us.
But we protested and explained to them that we had the feeling that we had never had anything like that.
As if we had fathered Aladdin, but we could never hug him, never educate him, or anything else, which is why we explained it to them that way and were only accepted by them afterwards.
I put him in the middle of our bed, gave him a little kiss on the forehead when he looked at me, and then walked over to the walk-in closet where I just pulled out a pair of sleeping pants.
When the bedroom door opened, Sheba entered her Neglije nightgown, which she only wore when she was hot on me or when it was summer.
And since we have Aladdin here, firstly, who didn't sleep, but rather crawled around on our bed, she wore this for the second reason.
I hate summer so much...
She giggled when she saw my expression and immediately threw herself on the bed, with Aladdin jumping slightly as he was still relatively small, which is why he flew briefly into the air every time someone went to bed a little too stormy.
However, he always giggled afterwards when he landed back on the bed and made signs that he wanted to fly again, so I imitated Sheba and then pulled them into my arms when Aladdin landed back on the bed and giggled.
Like Aladin, Sheba and I giggled before I pulled up the big blanket a bit and at least covered him, while Sheba and I were only covered a little.
I turned on the TV we were attaching to the wall and turned on a channel that was somewhat more child-friendly than the others that were running at the time.
I turned down the volume a bit, while Sheba switched the light to a darker tone using a remote control so that Aladdin fell asleep peacefully.
We watched him, brushing a strand of his hair from his face every now and then, which was always creeping up, and gave him a kiss as he slowly disappeared into the world of dreams.
"This still feels so new to me, Solomon," Sheba whispered to me as I turned off the lights.
I nodded, put my hand on hers, which was lying on Aladdin's stomach and whispered that it still felt so new and strange to me too.
"Do you think David is right after all?" she asked me now.
I looked at her questioningly, whereupon she said that she meant the Rukh David.
"I mean what he mumbled to himself. That we in the time where Aladdin lived ... The time that had never existed, hadn't really lived," she said, looking at Aladdin.
"What if that was the real reason why she never wanted to show us this time..."
I pondered.
It's true!
All my memories that I possess are those that I had in the world of Alma Torran.
The memories of how we fought against my father and this covenant back then.
I also saw the memories of how Arba betrayed me every time in my dreams.
Nevertheless...
But from time to time, I also dream of a world that slightly resembled Alma Torran and of Aladdin, whom we saw one in the glass dome.
"I don't think that was the reason why she didn't want to show us the legendary time. I mean, every now and then I dream the Aladdin that we saw in the dome 4 years ago. Besides, otherwise the picture in which we can all be seen would not have existed," I said with a smile, so Sheba stared at me first and then Aladdin before nodding and resting her head on the big pillow.
"You're right, Solomon. I'm sorry I doubted it a bit," she whispered smiling, smiling, leaning over Aladdin a little so I could kiss Sheba.
"You don't need to apologize. It is human to doubt something that cannot be properly proven. I doubt it from time to time," I said in a whisper, looking into her beautiful pink eyes before I gave her another kiss and then laid my head on the pillow.
So, I watched as Sheba also went into the world of dreams before I turned off the TV and joined them.
"|Kiaaaaaah! Someone can help me!|"
One voice ...
A woman's voice I didn't know.
"|Help! Someone can help us!|" now screamed a male voice I didn't know.
When I opened my eyes, I was scared to death.
Around me were dead people, none of whom had any Magoi.
"|Why are you doing this, Khan?!|" asked a voice I recognized.
It was Aladdin's voice that asked this.
I looked over at him and rejoiced when I recognized Shiba, my parents, our friends, Aladdin's friends, as well as myself.
Why did I stand there so motionless?
Why did everyone else, except Aladdin's friends, stand there so motionless?
"|Answer, Khan!|" he shouted and raised his staff as this person, whose name was Khan, moved.
When did he mean?
As I followed the direction of his staff, two blood-red eyes stood out from the ash cloud.
Ice-cold eyes that seemed to make the darkness personal.
I heard soft laughter and then a sinister laugh, which sounded kind of tormented.
As the ash cloud slowly disappeared, a young man with short black hair appeared.
But wait...
The figure disappeared again and again briefly and showed someone else for a fraction of a second.
Someone who looked similar in the group ...
"|Give them to me ... Give them to me ...! GIVE THEM BACK TO ME!|"
I opened my eyes abruptly and felt my heart beating fast.
I was drenched in sweat and breathing heavily when I awoke from this nightmare.
"What the h...?" I asked myself, only now noticing the shouting of Aladdin.
I turned to him, stared at him before I lifted him in my arms and calmed him down.
"Shh All's well. It was just a bad nightmare," I whispered, bobbing him back and forth a bit before he calmed down in my arms.
Wait!
Did I just say to him that it was just a nightmare?
Why did I say it to him?
He could never have dreamed the same thing in his life as I did earlier... or?
I stared at him as he made himself comfortable in my arms before staring at me.
A small tear rolled down my cheek, which I wiped away with my thumb before smiling at him and bobbing again.
"All is well. Daddy is with you," I whispered, smiling, so that Aladdin looked at me in fear before showing me his charming smile what I loved so much about him.
Slowly, I rocked him back to sleep and then put him back in the middle of the bed as he fell asleep in my arms.
Covering him, I looked over at Sheba, who was fast asleep.
Confused, I stared at her, wondering why she didn't wake up when Aladdin screamed.
Normally, she always woke up immediately when Aladdin just blew a beep.
So why not this time?
I shook my head and looked at Aladdin again.
With the dream in the back of my mind, I stroked his little cheek and thought about what I saw earlier.
"Is that the real reason why you can't show us anything of the world that didn't exist, Ala... Because you existed twice in the world?"
Well, that was my twentieth night.
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