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 North wind was taciturn with his mouth, he lectured his pupil with lustful efficiency, so he did not spare any word or example. But he always kept a prudent and respectful distance with his student, he felt him as a powerful eagle that for some reason could not fly and was convalescent.

Night Eagle came to know all the facilities of this complex of women and men of knowledge. North wind was his patient guide. Thus one day came when Night Eagle was one more, of the warriors there seeking the spirit perfection and the body temperance through millenary secret teachings. However one morning he asked North wind, to take him before the illustrious Venerable Teacher, as he felt the need to talk to him.

Days later, Night Eagle was climbing as a snake, the steep stairs of the great pyramid. Now he noticed that at the top, in the middle of the two doors, was a small niche at the top of the wall. Resembling a small hut carved in stone, it had a door and inside was a wonderful sculpture of a coiled snake, it was finely sculpted in green stone, its skin and designs were carved and embossed in gold and silver. Its eyes were represented by two beautiful precious stones embedded in the green stone. The eyes of this sculpture had their own life, Night Eagle felt the weight of its glance, when he began the ascent. It seemed that the gemstones caught light and returned it in a fine and powerful beam of light.

He entered the same room on the right and found the old man, who asked him for the reason for his visit. Night Eagle told the Venerable Teacher that he felt his time there had concluded and that should go out to seek his destiny, that he had no words to express his gratitude for such fraternal solidarity from all those who struggled there, to be the best of themselves, to be humans and to flourish their hearts. He explained to the Venerable Teacher that something inside told him that he should embark on a path towards the profane world.