Family
The boy was summoned by his master and taken outside of the wall. There on the great plain in front of the temple there were many white sheets of silk hung between polls. This was obviously a great maze of some sort, but for what the boy could not tell.
The master handed the boy a sack with the admonition to keep the sack with him at all times, and then took him to the entrance of the maze. "There is only one way out, and one way in" he told the boy, "and there is only one path to this maze, bring this bag to me at the other end of this labyrinth."
The boy entered the maze and followed the path. He came to a point where the maze ended in a blank wall. This puzzled him and he sat down to think. As he thought, he looked inside the bag, and there was a stone. On one side of the stone he found a picture of his mother. He set that stone down and looked back in side the bag, but it was empty. He went to put the stone back in the bag, but could not move it from the place where he had placed it, and, when he looked up, the way was no longer blocked.
This happened again, but this time in the bag he found a stone with an image of his father. When set on the ground it would not move, and the blocking silk was again gone. This happened more times, showing his grandparents, his brothers, and even an old teacher who was also his uncle.
When he reached the end of the maze and found it blocked he sat the bag down on the ground as the bag dissolved into the ground the way opened, and there he found his Master waiting for him. "Where is the bag, boy, have you failed me?"
"No." replied the boy confidently "I still have the bag, it is in my heart and in my mind, and can never be taken away from me."
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