The moon was out gleaming over the city of Corinth yet Prosperous always thought about how there was only one moon and two suns. Alexandre was a greedy peasant for he had downed an entire bottle of wine and was carrying on when Prosperous pointed out that it was nearly nightfall and that he had to go. Alexandre had obeyed but quite unwillingly as he had a plot to kill Prosperous and claim the hut for his own. Around 3 a.m. Alexandre returned to the hut and carefully prised open the door and tiptoed in. Prosperous was snoring on a mattress with a quilt over himself as Alexandre pulled a knife from his back pocket and positioned it in his fingers to stab Prosperous right in the heart. But that never happened, at the very moment a phoenix the color of gold came through the open door and flapped its great amber wings and Alexandre was carried away as day broke over the city of Corinth and the second sun was gone. The phoenix had flown with a wailing Alexandre on its back, into the second sun which exploded over the city in a finality of a brightest of bright dazzle of light, before it left the …show more content…
No phoenixes exist in the real world, but who knows, they may live in the sun or in other places in the universe! “The phoenix had always stated that he would be there someday to rescue me.” Prosperous had stated. “And when the time comes I know the world will no longer have phoenixes nor the second sun.” Prosperous became very famous as he strolled the marketplace every day after that. Though the climate was much cooler, people had developed fire, a source of warmth, light, and a great flame for cooking with. Marketplaces had developed into great trading landmarks and many foreign people came to trade goods. Once, a foreign Chinese merchant produced silk, a delicate white cloth, which had to be very valuable, Prosperous had inferenced, for the merchant traded a cloth of silk for a whole wooden box of glassware from the popular glass stall. Propsperous’ parents and brothers and sisters came to apologize for their horrific behavior during Prosperous’s childhood and Prosperous never regretted the terrible childhood he had had those many years