Doctor Kaykew-Veee was worried. He was the cruel king's doctor.

Lately, the cruel king was acting dangerously unpredictable. There were four other kings in neighbouring countries.

All five did not trust one another. Every now and then a war would break out. The kings would take sides. This had been going on for many years.

At this point in time Doctor Kaykew-Veee's cruel king was suspicious that the four other kings were making plans to gang up against him.

He became suspicious of everyone around him in the palace. He had two of his army generals beheaded because he claimed they were making plans to betray him.

One of those army generals had been Doctor Kaykew-Veee's twin brother.

Doctor Kaykew-Veee was afraid that any day now the cruel king might have him beheaded because he was the twin brother of an executed traitor general.

What made matters worse was that the cruel king had heard of a magical sword being used in a far away village-town of Chumly. The cruel king wanted that sword.

The cruel king was preparing to send an army to kill everybody in Chumly to get the sword. His spies had informed him that only a few hundred persons lived in Chumly. He was not going to waste time trying to ask a few hundred persons to hand over the sword. It would be easier simply to kill everyone in Chumly and take the sword. That's how cruel that king was.

Doctor Kaykew-Veee was not happy with this idea of killing innocent people to get a sword, no matter how magical that sword was.

Doctor Kaykewvee was hoping he could find a way to run away from the cruel king. His only chance was to run to one of the other four kings.

Doctor Kaykew-Veee had no family. If he ran away, the cruel king would have nobody to take revenge on.

One day as Doctor Kaykew-Veee, deeply depressed as usual, was standing at the kitchen sink washing dishes, he looked out the window and there he saw a donkey standing in his backyard. For a second or two this meant nothing to him. Then it struck him!

A donkey in his backyard? How did a donkey get there? The backyard gate was locked with a large military grade iron lock.

He leaned over and he could see the large military grade iron lock. It was in place.

A surprising thought occurred to him; so surprising that he lost grip of a dish he was washing at the sink! It was fortunate that the kitchen sink was half-filled with soap-saturated water.
He had been dreaming of just such a donkey in his backyard every night for the last seven nights! Because he was a medical doctor he knew that one cause of sleep-dreams is intensely emotional experiences in waking times.

In all human communities, a donkey symbolizes unpleasant times. Doctor Kaykew-Veee would not have been surprised if every citizen in the cruel king’s country had dreams about donkeys.

In his dream Doctor Kaykew-Veee walked up to the donkey to chase it out of his yard. When he reached the donkey in his dream the donkey would lower itself as if inviting him to jump on for a ride. Before he could climb on in his dream the donkey would melt into the air and disappear.

Doctor Kaykew-Veee was a medical doctor. A scientist. Believing dreams show the way real life must go is not scientific. As a scientist, Doctor Kaykew-Veee had no choice but to dismiss his donkey dream as meaningless, at best; at worst it could be a symptom of a hidden lurking illness developing inside Doctor Kaykew-Veee!

He dismissed it as merely a consequence of his thinking so much about escaping the cruel king.

Donkeys are usually regarded by people as not being smart animals. Doctor Kaykew-Veee guessed that the donkey in his dreams was himself being traitorously not smart for thinking about trying to run away from the cruel king.

Now, here in front of him was the donkey of his dreams standing in front of him in his own backyard! A real flesh-and-blood donkey munching on flowers in his backyard garden! He was wide awake doing the dishes. The donkey he was looking at was no dream. He had spent a lot of time and money cultivating those flowers!

Doctor Kaykew-Veee quickly went out into the backyard to chase the donkey away. When he approached the donkey, it lowered its head. The next thing Doctor Kaykew-Veee knew he was on the donkey and riding it as it galloped away from his home!

He hung on tightly. “Definitely,” he kept reminding himself, “this is not a dream!”

Doctor Kaykew-Veee had many times ridden horses in battle at the king's side. He was well aware of just how fast the best horses can run. This donkey was moving many times faster than the fastest best horse in the king's army.

Doctor Kaykew-Veee wasn't sure how long they travelled. He found himself on the donkey's back in the village-town of Chumly.

The donkey lowered itself. Doctor Kaykew-Veee climbed off. He walked slowly forwards to take a closer look at the village-town.

He did not see the donkey behind him melt into the air and disappear.

He did not know where he was. The people he met told him he was in Chumly.

He now knew he had been brought here to warn the people of the cruel king's preparations to launch a surprise attack on their village-town to steal their magical sword.

The Doctor thought it best that while alerting the people of Chumly to the cruel king’s intention to attack, to not mention the cruel king’s only reason to attack Chumly. Doctor Kaykew-Veee, being a scientist, did not believe magic existed.

The people of Chumly asked Doctor Kaykew-Veee to show them how to prepare to defend themselves against the army of the cruel king.

Doctor Kaykew-Veee accepted their request. He knew a lot about the tactics of war. He asked the people if they would consider running away. If they started now they could run away in secret. The cruel king would never find them. Doctor Kaykew-Veee said he knew how to lead them safely to another kingdom where they would be allowed to live peacefully.

The people of Chumly did not want to leave their village. They and their ancestors had lived here for centuries. They were going to stay and fight the cruel king's army.

There were only about two-hundred-or-so people living in Chumly. The cruel king had thousands and thousands of soldiers. Doctor Kaykew-Veee thought it would be better for them if they just ran away, but he respected their wishes to stay and fight.

In the next few days he went all over the village-town inspecting places and things to plan how best to defend the village against the cruel king's army. After examining the whole village-town Doctor Kaykew-Veee came to the conclusion the people had a good fighting chance mainly because of how high up the mountain Chumly was.

Since he was a scientist he did not believe in magic. That is why he did not make any attempt to find out if there was a magical sword in Chumly.

He knew the cruel king's soldiers would not be able to ride up the mountain on their horses. The soldiers would not be able to wear their body armour or to carry their shields up the mountain side. The climb was too steep and too long. By the time any soldier reached Chumly at the top of the mountain he would be so tired it would be easy for a Chumly soldier to win the fight.

The people of Chumly prepared. They practised with bows and arrows. They practised sword fighting. They practised how to use long poles to push the cruel king's soldiers back down the mountain. They collected huge boulders to roll down the mountain side to bash the soldiers back as they climbed up.

All worked. When the cruel king's army attacked, not one soldier lived long enough to enter the village-town.

In the battle of Chumly, Minshee with her magical sword named Bowzhong turned dozens and dozens of soldiers into dust. She and Bowzhong were making so much dust she had to be extra aware of which way the wind was blowing when she attacked, or when she retaliated.

There were so few defeated soldiers left to return to the cruel king that the other four kings were able to defeat the cruel king himself in a later war. The cruel king was beheaded by the victorious four kings.

The people of Chumly invited Doctor Kaykew-Veee to become their king.

Doctor Kaykew-Veee accepted. He ruled the kingdom for a long time afterwards in peace with the other four kings in the neighbouring countries.

His majesty, Doctor Kaykew-Veee, ordered all the people to be especially kind to donkeys. The people of Chumly carried their king’s order further.

They built a four-storeyed-high monument of a donkey in pure gold, and placed it in a park in the centre of Chumly.