Azlan Before Me, Azlan Beside Me

Richard stood in the morning's dawn light looking into the space where the Azlan had lain and had spoken to him on the dewy grass.

This session had left him with a contentedness ... and he felt as though this strength of peace and knowing would never leave him, no matter what contest or circumstance should follow.

Such meetings are private and there are few accounts in public record given, but suffice to say that the instruction King Richard received had come to him because of his honest heart that was open enough to receive it.

He truly was a noble man - who had thought himself both troubled and weak - and had downcast his own opinion of himself so dangerously that the Azlan had now come to remedy this.

And now he was uplifted again and he thereafter honoured his emissary - he soon changed the royal coat to depict this beloved Lion who had, beyond all meta-physicks, made himself known to him.

And although he could not give explanation to this royal signature that now bore three lions, he would privately say to himself (and his children to follow):

"Azlan behind me, Azlan before me, Azlan beside me."

-Gabriel Brunsdon, Puck in Hell, Azlander Series