The breeze was quite refreshing. It carried with it the tangy scent of salt. All in all it was my first experience of seeing a large body of water. I'd only seen ponds and lakes up till now, but the Orgallion Sea was much more.
It hinted at freedom to look upon its wide-open expanses, but freedom was far from me at the moment. However, so were the expected hardships of being a prisoner of war.
I gazed around the opulently furnished room in a sense of continual puzzlement. I felt more like an honored guest than I did a prisoner.
I knew there were guards outside the door, but there was little in the way of making me feel like an impoverished prisoner whose life was easily forfeit. It felt odd. Somehow I think I'd have been more at home with the sounds of water dripping off the ceiling of a dungeon and the sound of rats gnawing on a bone in a darkened corner.
The opulence of this room in comparison to that dark reality was unsettling. It would have been easier to hate my foe, if I had been suffering under the other reality. As it was I almost felt indebted to the man who had taken me prisoner. I might actually have to leave a note of apology when I made my attempt to escape out the window tonight.
"I want you to stay," spoke an indwelling voice from within, which I recognized instantly as that of Ruach, the Spirit of El Elyon.
Stunned, I stared out the window. I wasn't supposed to try to escape?
"No," came the affirming answer from within.
Time passed and then, as before, came words from within, "Do not be in fear. If you wish to understand you have but to ask."
I went with the obvious, "You want me to be a prisoner?"
Silence met my question. I thought about my question and I decided that it had been a flawed one. The matter-of-fact truth was that I was a prisoner. But what was more than that was that the Ruach not only knew my situation, but had asked me to stay in it. My question had been a denial of what was obviously El Elyon's will.
With my tongue thick in my mouth I tried to rephrase the question, but I found it difficult to do so. I really didn't like being a prisoner and embracing it was hard, but there was no other way.
"Ruach, could you help me understand what it is I am to do for El Elyon in my current situation of being held against my will? I will do El Elyon's will, even if it is to remain a prisoner."