promise to give him a percentage of his treasure if heever found it. When he left the fortuneteller, he went and sat in the park toread his new book. He was not in the mood for talking with others when theold king approached him and tried to strike up a conversation with him. Hetold the boy that everyone has a personal legend that he has to fulfill at sometime in his life. He tells him that his could be found at the pyramids becauseof the dreams that he has been having lately. He tells him that he will help him if he will give him ten percent of his herd, because you should neverpromise anything that you don't have yet. He sold all of his sheep and he wasgiven ummim and thummim, the two rocks that would help him make anydecisions that he was unable to make. Then off he went down the road and traveled to the northern tip ofAfrica. From there he left with all of his money in his pocket and set to a barwhere he didn't speak the same language as any of the people there. He wastaken for a fool and all of his money was taken in the first few hours. Hestayed in the town for a while and he went into a shop that sold crystal. Hehelped the man to clean all of the crystal and while he was there, two peoplecame in and bought crystal. The owner thought that this was a good omen andthat he should try to keep the boy around. Since he didn't have any money hestayed on for eleven months and greatly improved the man's shop. When hefinally left he had enough money to do with what he wanted and he set off tofulfill his personal legend. He traveled to the pyramids by way of northernAfrica. About half way through his trip he came onto an oasis that was in themiddle of a war between two native tribes. The rules of war said that theoasis should be a safe haven for all of the people that were traveling throughthe desert. This is where he met the alchemist, the man that would help him torealize his personal legend. By going off into the desert at night, he lear...
