Homo Avatarius: ( Your Consciousness is an Alien ) Read Online Free PDF Page A

honey-colored eyes, which always looked straight and bright. So this is my student?
    I greeted the boy in disappointment and continued riding my horse beside Brother Cebe while I asked many questions of the exhausted cavalry. The evening sky was darkening when we arrived at the camp. After receiving the greetings and delivering their gifts, both brothers headed to their tent.
    In the morning, after a restful night’s sleep, I ran to the tent of Brother Cebe with fresh excitement. Brother Cebe wasn’t there, but the thin boy was still sleeping under the fur. An old woman was occupied with unpacking in the tent. I talked to her in a voice loud enough to wake up the sleeping boy. When the boy finally awoke, he was visibly surprised by his surroundings. He looked around and smiled when he saw me. The old woman gave us some hot soup and, as the boy and I ate, we waited patiently for the other to break the silence.
    “ My name is Cuci,” I finally said.
    “ I’m Sobutay.” It was the first time I’d heard the boy speak. He had a weak, strange voice, like those I had imagined from faraway lands.
    “ Did you come here to be a great warrior like your brother?” I asked.
    “ My father sent me. He told me it was time. I missed my brother a lot. But I guess I can’t be as good as him.”
    “ If you work hard, why not?” I said without believing myself. “Let’s go. Let me show you around.”
    When we left the tent, the wolf came to us. Sobutay was scared at first, but, when I let the wolf get closer to him, he relaxed and affectionately caressed its neck. He was amazed that it was a real wolf. He said he had never seen anything that big and blue before.
    While wandering around, I spoke freely and showed him how the tents were organized, who lived where, which paths were best to use, and where to find the hole for the toilet. I also showed him where the kids gathered in the plain, a safe area shielded from the wind by the surrounding rocks.
    It was the day of the solar eclipse and we watched as dozens of children talked excitedly amongst themselves, watched the phenomenon, and cheered.
    When the event was over, the kids returned to their activities. Some of them practiced archery and some of them just gathered together and talked. When we got closer to them, all the activities stopped, and several children encircled us, laid eyes on the stranger, and began to ask questions. The magic of a new stranger was soon broken when Sobutay couldn’t quickly answer questions about himself, and soon the children began to make fun of him. In order to protect my guest, I tried to answer the questions on his behalf, but it didn’t help.
    I realized that Batu, the leader of the child gang, had noticed Sobutay’s weakness and was trying to humiliate him in order to solidify his status in the group. He stood next to Sobutay and began to pull at the boy’s fur. Batu was two or three times bigger and, as Sobutay tried to brush off his interrogator, Batu responded by getting more animated and began shaking him.
    I didn’t know what to do, but I weakly tried to prevent matters from getting out of hand. I regretted that I had brought Sobutay to the plain so soon. Without preparing him, I had put him in a situation where I couldn’t protect him. I thought of dragging him away by his arm. He was my responsibility, after all.
    Sobutay looked at the area surrounding him with a measured expression, then, to Batu’s and all of our surprise, he pushed away Batu’s hand and took a step back. Sobutay used this brief moment of confusion to his advantage and threw a sudden, shocking punch that crashed right between Batu’s chin and ear. Everyone—including me—stopped and stared in shocked silence.
    Sobutay didn’t linger, but quickly turned and ran away as fast as he could. I didn’t expect the punch, and I didn’t expect his sudden escape. If you wanted to fight , I thought, then why did you run away, and if you planned to run away, then why