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KINGDOM
STORY The Value of the Vulnerable Victim
The Violence of the Vile Villain and
The Valor of the Valiant Victor
The Kingdom Story Begins...
It was before dawn when Allison hurriedly trekked and leaned to the lens and centered her eyes again onto the
climbed her way up the steep terrain of the mountain. Just in telescope eyepiece to another portion of the city.
time to the top, vibrant hues emerged slowly from the
horizon. The sun and its beautiful red, orange and mixed Her sight brought her to a different field. She saw another
palettes of colors illuminated her view, falling into every man with a mustard seed in his hand; he took the smallest of
corner of the city below her creating a glittering landscape. all seeds and sowed it in his field. Surprisingly the mustard
plant grew larger than all the garden plants and it became a
She pulled her telescope out from her bag and focused its tree. Alison was delighted to see it and now the birds of the
lens to help her see as far down below as possible while the air came and made nests in its branches. Adjacent to that
light was at its rosiest. A revolutionary scene appeared before field was another field; Alison saw another man scattering
her sight. seed on the ground. The seed sprouted and grew and the
grain became ripe; the man put in a sickle because the
She saw a field with a man walking on it. When the man harvest had come.
leaned over to study the ground, he was surprised to see that
there was a hidden treasure on it. Many had walked this field MANY HAD WALKED THIS
but he alone was the first to discover this hidden treasure. He FIELD, BUT HE ALONE WAS
went home and sold everything he owned to get enough THE FIRST TO DISCOVER
money to buy the field. Now he owned the field, and the THIS HIDDEN TREASURE. HE
hidden treasure was with him, safe and secure. WENT HOME AND SOLD
EVERYTHING HE OWNED TO
When Alison moved her telescope to a slightly different view, GET ENOUGH MONEY TO BUY
she saw another man, a merchant, on the lookout for choice THE FIELD.
pearls. He was offered so many pearls to choose from, but he
found a far superior pearl of great value, and he could not
resist it so he sold everything he owned and bought it.
Now there was another man who appeared before her sight At this point, Alison moved around a bit and the view brought
who seemed to be the master of the house, and he brought her sight to the sea.
out something new and something old from his chest of
family treasures.
Allison moved a few degrees from that site and she saw a She saw some fisher-folks who threw a net into the sea. The
woman who took some yeast and mixed it into about sixty net gathered all sorts of fish and when the net was full the
pounds of flour until it was worked all the way through. fisher-folk drew it ashore. They sat down and sorted the good
fish into containers but threw away the bad. Alison quickly
Alison tried to distance her eyes from the telescope eyepiece. withdrew her gaze from the last scene. This time her eyes felt
Meanwhile, as she blinked several times, she gradually weary but her brain painted a thousand words she couldn’t
