- Laith Taher 219
to do at any cost, he had to find the bastard who ruined his
life, and kill him.
People of the village where he lived had not buried
the bodies of his wife and two daughters because they did
not want to get involved and preferred to leave it to him to
do as he wished when he returned from his trip.
He approached them, filled with extreme anger.
“Which way did the bastard go?”
They told him that he had headed to a nearby town.
The Advisor went there immediately and asked its people
about the bastard, and they told him that he had headed to
another town. So he went there and asked about him. That
way, he kept tracking him down in villages and towns. He
kept looking and looking without giving up. He found him
after more than three whole years from the day his wife and
two daughters were killed. For all that long period, he kept
looking relentlessly, as a leaf driven by the strong wind of
hatred to the fields of revenge.
When Irwin saw the Advisor, he was terrified. They
both pulled their swords and started fighting. The Advisor
was much stronger because, in addition to his physical
strength, he was fighting with the force of great fury and
desire for revenge. After hitting each other’s sword twice,
the Advisor hit Irwin’s sword hard enough to take it from
Irwin’s hand.
So he fell to his knees and started begging the
Advisor in a very humiliating manner. “Please, spare me.
Please, forgive me. You are a noble man and a son of noble
people.”
Life was so precious to Irwin, and he was willing to
lose his dignity in return for it. But the fire of revenge in