THE CHOSEN: A Man Much Loved: Historical Fiction (The Chosen Trilogy Book 3) by Kalo Shlomo

Author:Kalo, Shlomo [Kalo, Shlomo]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: DAT Publications
Published: 2015-05-19T04:00:00+00:00

In the parlour Nashdernach was sitting, in the same clothes that he had worn for the garden-party. It was clear that he had not slept that night.

“King Nebuchadnezzar, glorious King of Babylon, has given back his soul to his Maker,” he reported in a dry voice, trying to hold back the tears but failing, breaking down and sobbing, his round shoulders shaking. It was some time before he regained control of himself, wiped his eyes and nose with a handkerchief and said:

“I came to inform you, because you have been chosen to accompany me in the funeral procession and give support to Queen Temior. Yes, he died in her arms. The physicians say it was his heart that failed him. He was sixty-eight years old – crowned King at the age of twenty-five, he reigned forty-three years and God was with him, and he was good to his people, and good to all the races and nations and tongues that he conquered and annexed. He was a man of dauntless courage, integrity, sincerity and incomparable loyalty; he believed firmly in his God and he loved Temior, his Queen, in a way that only a king is capable of loving… As to the physicians and their diagnosis, I have nothing to say. They are the ones who must decide, in the final analysis and we cannot quarrel with their conclusions – nor is there any point, as nothing will bring the dead back to life!

“I’m sure you noticed yesterday, how he took me aside during the garden-party. He did everything he could to avoid drawing attention, but I saw you when we went into the palace and when we came out, and you saw us, and you no doubt had conjectures and speculations of your own – and if ever there was a time for conjecture and speculation, this was it!

“What he told me went far beyond anything I ever heard him say before. He foresaw his death, and reckoned he had only hours to live. And visions such as this are not vouchsafed to anyone, save by the will of God!” Once more, Nashdernach wiped his red eyes and nose.

“Blessed be the Judge of truth!” he exclaimed, adding: “And how is Queen Temior faring? Does she have anyone to comfort her in this fateful hour?”

“You wouldn’t believe it, but she has composed herself in a way beyond the understanding of ordinary mortals! As befits a queen and as befits her! She sent for me, and I found her sitting on her throne in the reception hall. As you may know, recently King Nebuchadnezzar, may he rest in peace, commanded that another throne be set up beside his, a precise copy of his own, but she opposed the idea and in the end, her wishes prevailed. So the throne set up there for her was lower, and more modest both in dimensions and decorations. And this was where she was sitting, cool and restrained and you might almost say – frozen, speaking in a clear and articulate voice.

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