Alim

The night was quiet and gloomy. At this time, people should have been sleeping, but one person was not sleeping.

Approaching the church with a basket, the man prayed to God for this: for the birth of a monster, for all his sins, and for wanting to kill the child. He placed the basket with the child near the massive church doors. He crossed himself and knocked on the door. He quickly left before the door opened.

The massive doors didn't open right away, but they did. The head priest peered out. At first, he didn't notice the basket with the child, but when he did, he crossed himself in horror.

A baby was sleeping in a basket. It had short, light hair, a fragile body, and pale skin. It looked normal, but it had small, curled horns. The dark horns grew straight out of its head, and its soft ears were drooping.

The church was in an uproar. What kind of child was this? Where did he come from? Why did he have horns? He was a monster. He needed to be burned! While other priests and senior officials were trying to figure out what to do, the patriarch named Alim, the most important man in the church, sat next to the basket and looked at this little miracle.

Alim was the one making the final decision, so he decided to keep the child and raise him. The others were against it, but they couldn't go against the Patriarch.

Five years have passed since then, and the boy grew up quiet and calm, not as wild as many thought. Almost the entire church disliked him; they said nasty things behind his back, and the bold ones even said them to his face. Alim, however, raised the boy well, according to God's rules, but he himself was beginning to get angry at those who spoke ill of his boy.

Alim was fed up with all this and decided to end it once and for all. He took the boy in his arms and went with him to the main hall.

In five years, the boy had hardly changed, only his hair had grown a little and his horns had grown too. He was dressed in white clothes, as white as his hair. The boy obediently sat in his mentor's arms as they walked to the main hall.

Alim stood in the middle of the entire hall, other priests and not only stood on both sides of him.

• This boy was created by God. How dare you offend him?