Fortunately the five dirhams that he had previously still remained, and he is now heading to his beloved home.
As soon as he entered he found three people who were waiting for him there.
- Hello Mater.
- Who are you? What are you doing here? Mater was afraid.
- We have come here to make a deal with you.
- What deal? Why did you enter my house like this?
- We are the jinn creatures of Abdullah the Fox.
- Abdullah the Fox? Who is this?
The face of Abdullah frowned, he was watching everything through the ethereal screen that the demoness Clara had made, he did not expect that he would know Mater but Mater had not even heard his name, this led to Hisham laughing for a few seconds.
- Get out of my house.
- Hmph, don't you want that gem of yours and your construction tools? We are the ones who stole them.
... Mater noticed for a moment, excitement began to appear from his eyes.
He tried to forget the matter but it had rooted itself in the depths of his subconscious.
- How will I recover my possessions?
- Come with us.
- Okay.
The four walked in the poor streets of Babylon until they began to reach the houses that were slightly more elegant, when Mater saw them he began to feel longing for the days when he was successful which caused a quantity of tears to gather in his eye sockets.
In the middle of a barren desert there was a group of small mice in their burrow waiting for their mother until she brings them food, they were three small mice screaming in a gentle voice because of hunger, after a period their mother came, she was a gray mouse of the type that lives in the desert, she had just hunted a yellow scorpion and she will present it as a meal to her young, and indeed the young ate and slept, but the mother now had to feed herself.
She exited her burrow, headed west and began walking in the barren desert land, the heat of the sands and the harshness of the sun were increasing the exhaustion of this poor mother.
After a long walk she reached a large rock in the middle of the desert with cavities, as soon as she approached her aura changed from exhaustion to happiness because she spotted a scorpion stopped without movement, this was a scorpion different from the previous one, its color was black and it seemed motionless as if it were a free corpse, but if we looked from its perspective it was watching a cockroach that was inside a cavity of the large rock while it was eating fleas, exactly like the mouse this scorpion had its family waiting for it to bring them food, it prepared well while waiting for the right moment to launch the attack then the sting, it approached very slowly from the cockroach and when its instinct ordered it it surprised in the attack, it advanced quickly.
The scorpion stung the cockroach successfully, it felt overwhelming joy throughout its body starting from its venomous tail all the way to its pincers with which it holds the corpse of the cockroach and heads to its own cavity, it and its family were living in a cavity at the top of the rock, the happy scorpion climbed the rock and with great difficulty reached the top of the rock.
The mouse was stalking it and following it, she had decided to let it lead her to the place of its burrow so she could hunt the entire family, better than hunting the breadwinner father and leaving the rest to die of hunger, it would be better for the mouse that the young scorpions die in the bellies of her young.
When the scorpion reached its home the hungry gazes of its young attacked it, it was happy, but as we all know in the end it will end up killed, and that is what happened, the mouse pounced on it ferociously, it tried to sting her desperately but her thick fur was resistant to scorpion stings, the scorpion died, the mouse ate it with all thirst, as soon as her belly was full her thinking returned to her children, she looked at the frightened young scorpions, she took several slow steps to make sure there was no surrounding danger, everything was safe.
Half an hour passed, the mother mouse exited the scorpions' burrow carrying four corpses hanging from her mouth, she headed down from the rock, and while she was on her way back from this dangerous adventure outside she encountered a black mamba snake heading toward her after it smelled the scent of mice.
As soon as that happened the mouse abandoned the corpses and fled at maximum possible speed..... for this is no joke, it is a filthy black mamba, one drop of its venom can kill an elephant.
Although the mouse was running fast the mamba was faster, to the degree that after seconds the mother mouse was cut into two halves, the back half of her body was in the mamba's throat and the head and the other half were on the ground waiting for its turn, it seems this snake loves to savor the food.
The mouse's sin was greed, she could have hunted the scorpion but she preferred to take the whole family which made her noticeable while returning to her burrow.
While the scorpion's sin was arrogance, it took a long time watching the cockroach ignoring the possibility of being spotted by other animals that consider it food.
And this snake here takes a long time swallowing the food, it had just finished eating the back part and now it holds the head with its black mouth and began swallowing it.
Directly behind it there was a vulture flying at very high speed at a height of one meter from the ground.
Three seconds... was the time period that the vulture needed to sink its talons into the body of the lazy snake.
Laziness was the most destructive of the seven sins, despite its clear skill in hunting yet this talent of hers has now become meaningless, for she is in the belly of a vulture rising in its flight, and after a period the gray and brown colored vulture was at a height exceeding the clouds.
All these events were in the middle of a barren desert that at first glance appears dead and containing no life, but upon delving deeper we saw the life of many creatures begin and end, the most stories and lessons we can learn from such conditions....
The interesting thing is that the demon Gorj was flying with his wings that resemble bat wings but with black fur and larger size than his body, for Gorj was nicknamed the Flying Demon, nothing could stop him, he was among the elite of demons for several centuries and still is, while he flies above the clouds in the middle of the barren desert he saw a vulture from afar, he headed toward it and grabbed it with his fist and put it in his large mouth then began chewing it with his sharp teeth, the sound of the vulture's screaming can be heard while it is being crushed and fragmented while still alive.
- Your screaming is music, said Gorj laughing after he finished eating the vulture and descended to the ground.
The poor bird had not caused its death in any way, it hunted quickly and professionally and was not attracting danger to itself by any fatal mistake.
Sometimes suffering and destruction come to yourself because of your actions and habits, but sometimes destruction comes to you by itself whether you deserved it or did not deserve it.... luck plays a role in all events of life.