Chapter 90. Otavio (3)

Moses got up and went to him and hugged him. Then he returned to where he was, with tears in his eyes.

"And after you came to the palace did the visions stop?"

"No. I saw the tiger that always followed your father around the palace and it always winked at me when I passed by, as if it knew me. As soon as your father died, the tiger started following you, but it was no longer as constant with you as it was with your father."

"You didn't try to talk to him?"

"No. After everything I went through, I was afraid of my childhood becoming my adult reality too. I never said anything even to Matheus that I could see the tiger."

"And you didn't see the figures anymore? Here in the palace?"

"Yes. I saw them. But they just filled me with a light, which warmed my whole body, and then they went away. It was as if they were preparing me for something, but there was a difference. I knew they were th