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Originally Posted by ernestro  but you know how this is...some will just bash stuff at the first glance of it |
Here is a section from the Fable "the alchemist", at this part the main character and the alchemist are crossing the desert together......
On the following day, the first clear sign of danger appeared. Three armed tribesman approached, and asked what the boy and the alchemist were doing there.
"I'm hunting with my falcon" the alchemist answered.
"We're going to have to search you to see weather you're armed", one of the tribesman said.
The alchemist dismounted slowly, and the boy did the same.
"why are you carrying money?" asked the tribesman, when he had searched the boys bag.
"I need to get to the pyramids," he said.
The tribesman who was searching the alchemist's belongings found a small crystal flask filled with a liquid, and a yellow glass egg that was slightly larger than a chicken's egg.
"what are these things?" he asked.
"That's my philosopher's stone and the Elixir of life. It's the master work of the alchemists. Whoever swallows that elixir will never be sick again, and a fragment from that stone turns any metal into gold"
The Arabs laughed at him, and the alchemist laughed along. They thought his answer was amusing, and they allowed the boy and the alchemist to proceed with all of their belongings.
"Are you crazy?" the boy asked the alchemist, when they had moved on. "what did you do that for?"
"To show you one of life's simple lessons," the alchemist answered. "When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed."
The alchemist P. 133-134
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-wishy