On silent nights, when the wind refused to move and the land looked like a forgotten hell, a lion and his young son walked across an empty world where no souls lived and no voices existed.
The ground was dry and cracked, and the sky above them was dark and endless. There were no stars, no moon, only a heavy darkness that made the world feel abandoned.
They walked in silence.
Batista, the father, walked in front with slow and steady steps. His body was strong, his head held high, but his eyes were full of quiet pain. Tears gathered in his eyes, but they never fell. He kept moving forward like a king who refused to fall, even when his heart was wounded.
Behind him walked Kista, his young son. Small, curious, and silent, he watched his father carefully. He could feel the sadness around him, but he did not understand it. He only knew that his father was strong, and when his father walked, he followed.
They continued walking across the empty land for a long time without speaking. The only sound was the soft movement of their paws on the dry ground.
Finally, Kista spoke.
"Father… why do we always walk and never stop?"
Batista did not answer immediately. He kept looking at the dark horizon as if he was searching for something that no longer existed.
After a long silence, he finally said, quietly and calmly,
"A lion does not stop when the world becomes empty. He walks until he finds a new world."
Kista did not fully understand the words, but he remembered them.
They walked a few more steps before Batista suddenly stopped.
A strange vibration started in his right leg. The mysterious mark on his leg began to glow with a soft blue light. The ground under them started shaking slowly, like the world was waking up from a deep sleep.
Kista looked at the glowing mark, but this time he was not afraid.
"Is it happening again?" he asked.
Batista looked down at his son and nodded slowly.
"Yes," he said.
"And every time it happens, the world wants to teach us something new."
The ground suddenly cracked like broken glass, and the dark land around them began to disappear. The sky twisted into light and shadows, and the empty world faded away.
Before everything vanished, Batista spoke one last time.
"Remember this, Kista…
The world is not dangerous because of monsters…
The world is dangerous because of lessons."
Then the light swallowed them, and they disappeared into the unknown...