1 It had an iron peg for a nose; his future wife, named Kciroy, she was a toothless dwarf and therefore they were soon to be married, and that in itself is a long story, which I will try to summarize in a jiffy. 2 She was the morbid princess of Oxas, a small bewildered kingdom in the high mountains of Bulgaria, during the early Middle Ages. 3 The king on his daughter’s wedding day, gave his son-in-law Ailepho, double gold nostril plugs, to plug those embracing nostrils of hers, like a pig’s snout, without a snout, only deep holes. 4 They smelled worse than rotten game, skunk holes, you might call them, even worse than devil’s breath. 5 To be honest, there are no words in those distant vocabularies that would have described such a stench. 6 Ailephus was middle-aged, while his wife was half his age, and his father twice his age. 7 Shortly after getting married, Kciroy gave birth to a hermaphrodite; The Dwarf Princess was completely enraged at the sight of the boy, and so was Ailepho. 8 As for the king, he took it no different from when his wife, now dead, gave birth to Kciroy, that is: his daughter, and when he allowed his daughter to marry Ailepho, now his son-in-law. of the. :-taste for taste, equal to equal, taking it simply as a human tragedy in short. 9 But back to why the king allowed Kciroy to marry Ailepho: In a nutshell, it was like this: she got rid of all the rats, with that damned smell of hers, in the whole kingdom. 10 No more was said on the subject that was the deal, lock-stock-and-barrel: “Get rid of the fees, the rats the fees!” 11 Well, now seven years had passed, and the old king was still alive, eighty-seven to be exact, and the boy was no longer a boy, he was a young man of serious reasoning. 12 Thus, out of bitterness, he was called ‘it’ not by the grandfather of course, but by the mother and father: out of disgust.
13 Now, before proceeding with this story, it must be explained, if only for the sake of psychology, or perception, what began as a good omen, or out of good will, as often happens, ends in a bad one. condition. -Will. 14 A child knows at the age of six months, the nature of his mother and father, therefore the child has to adapt, in order to survive, to smile when the child does not want to. 15 The child will cry, when the child knows that from that crying he can get what he wants. 16 On another note before continuing, evil knows evil, just as a fool knows a fool’s mind, just as a thief knows another thief’s heart. 17 And be it said, a king knows how much he will take the people from him before he rebels, he knows what they need most, that will settle them. 18 With this in mind I continue with the story.
19 Returning to the poor boy: was he more man than woman? 20 Or vice versa? 21 This, of course, was gossip among the inhabitants of the kingdom. 22 Who can tell? 23 I mean, it really matters, and on the other hand, some things can never be known, and for the better, and less gossip. 24 The prince and princess never loved this child, and that was the thorn, and the child and the grandfather knew this, particularly the child. 25 It was obvious; such things cannot be kept secret forever. 26 And the boy remembered that when he was only three years old, his mother had left the bedroom window open one night, hoping that the ravens, the hawks, and the ravens, and maybe even the great owls, would snatch him out. eyes and tear them out. the entrails and eat the child alive, little by little until the death of him, and low and behold, they profess that it was an accident. 27 But the boy was smart, that night he removed the golden plugs from his father’s nose and slept under his bed, therefore he was saved, and in the morning, he put the plugs back in his nostrils and he ran back to his bed, with the windows open, this seemed to his parents a kind of omen, that is, to leave him alone. 28 Well, the boy may have been a hermaphrodite, but he had a memory like an elephant. 29 At age seven, the age of formal reason, this event came to haunt him (now I’ll call him, him, because I really don’t like the name ‘it’, respectfully). 30 And to say the least, the boy was getting tired of looking so carefully, at his mother and father, lest he stop and get poisoned, or thrown off the tower wall, who can say what happens in a morbid mind.
31 It happened on the boy’s seventh birthday; snuck into his father and mother’s bedroom, pulled out the golden pegs from the father’s noise, and stunk up the whole kingdom, even the coming kingdom, one might say, and no one could find the golden pegs, specially made with two clasps. Valves to be put deep into those big holes like nostrils. 32 Furthermore, he (gently) tore off the iron nose his grandfather had made for Ailepho, causing an even more deadly sticky, suffocating rampage. 33 Oh, it was terrible; everyone in the kingdom wore masks. 34 Day after day, they couldn’t find those pegs, nor was the goldsmith around to make new ones, where it was, only the boy knew, and he played dumb, he had paid him well, to take him on a trip to China or somewhere place. , that same distance: again, who can say. 35 In any case, the persistence in these pestilential flavors of his nose was so repugnant, that they curled the eyelashes of men and beasts. 36 Well, what could the king do? 37 What began as a good omen turned out to be a bad one, rebellion was spreading throughout the kingdom; consequently, he had them both beheaded, for lack of crime, he called it, provoking rebellion. 38 And yes, ‘it’ took his rightful place as King and Queen of Oxas in his due time.
39 And perhaps it is better to say, in this case anyway: if one dares to overcome the resistance or existence of another, they breed hatred and chaos, if not dark dreams and revenge. 40 As it is, in this case, where to like, not to like: the hunted becomes the hunter.
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