"I remember dying"
…
The two of them were in shock, and even thought that the knight was high on the flower.
The scholar twitched his lips and asked in a serious tone, "Can you elaborate what you just said?"
The knight pressed his moustache with his fingers as to smoothen it and replied, "A scavenger first attacked and then killed the prince with a weapon I've never seen before."
What the knight had said didn't make any sense for the scholar, since the prince was still alive–the scholar had never felt this awkward before.
The prince, who was silent all this time, finally talked, "What he's saying does not make any sense, but I feel like it's true;" he paused and took a breath, then continued, "I faintly remember what had happened before, and I also remember sending the knight to take your dagger for a potential battle against the scavenger. After that… it was silent, as if everyone and everything vanished, and I was left alone in the eternal darkness—then I came back here."
After the prince stopped, the knight took the opportunity and said, "I took the slumber flower and decided to run towards you," he pointed at the scholar, "but then I got killed too and came back in this moment."
The scholar didn't believe them, since he himself didn't experience this scenario. But he sticked with their words and looked towards the knight with frown eyebrows and eyes of concern, "If that is the case, why is this guy so calm about it, didn't you just die? If what you say is true…"
Hearing this, the knight's eyes glimmered and he straightened his back, as if to tell a grand epic.
"It was prince's first time experiencing this, but I have had this experience two or three times before" his words were a mix of truth and lie.
"You mean you've died before?" The scholar asked while pressing his temples with his fingers.
"Yes… and it was way more painful than you think, I wanted to scream and cry and break down, but if I did, I would die again and again, so I decided to stay calm and resolve the problems without ever getting in a life-threatening situation."
The prince closed up to the knight with wide eyes and asked, "When did it first happen- I mean, when were you first killed?"
'A weird way to phrase it,' the knight thought, 'why would you assume that I was killed by someone! Well, I was…'
"Remember the time when I was butt naked in the dreary cold, that was the first time I was killed by some scavengers" he lied, for good reasons, "and that was also when I started returning to life right after dying."
"Then why didn't you tell us then?" The scholar asked.
"I am really sorry! I thought it was all just a dream, I think that even now. But prince experienced the same thing as me, and we returned here, at this moment." He paused and shoved his face in his arms and pretended to despair, like the world was ending, then he muttered softly, "This is so bad, I didn't trust her, and now we are all going to perish!" he cried out.
"Who are you talking about? What do you mean by that? All of us are going to perish?" asked the prince, in total fear.
To which the knight smirked in his mind. He had made a very small plan to insure his safety in the future, and it seemed to be working.
'I needed to get out of this situation, if my plan succeeds, I will at least be safe for some time. Sigh.'
He had decided to lure both of his 'partners' in this resurrection thing, and somehow convince them to become his guards.
Yes, guards, he had a really good plan to embed fear in them, and for that he had to break the taboo that you never lie in the name of the deities.
He replied to the prince, matching the anxious tone, "The Goddess of the night… She enlightened me about the curse of the slumber flower."
The prince and the scholar looked at him in shock.
"Curse of the slumber flower?"