"When I woke up a Lady was standing over me. She told me that I had been summoned by the Well of Fate and passed a trial of nine days and nights." He paused.
"Just a moment, I have to grab one of the things I'm giving you." He got up and shuffled off to his room. He came back he held a sightly worn leather book.
"This is one of the few things I had after that battle. It is my journal. It holds all the things I have learned since." He caressed the book and hand it to me.
I opened it. It was all in Spanish. I would have to learn Spanish to understand the strange story it must contain.
"Do you see it?" he asked.
"See what?"
"The Truth."
"What?! No, it's a book."
"Take off your eye patch and look again." It was stupid, but I was willing to humor my grandfather. I did as I was told and looked again.
"Nothing, huh? Let's get back to the story then."
"The Lady that I meet was named Jupiter. She turned out to be a very nice person. She fed me and has helped me learn things ever since that day. But that day she gave me this."
He lifted the patch. There instead of a ruined hole or where a fake glass eye should be was an eye of solid blue sky. It was like someone had punched a hole through his head. Through the wall and the bright blue sky shown through those holes. It was not possible. Neither him having a hole in his head like that or the bright sky being his eye.
Before my shock could wear off. Grandpa reached up and tore his bright sky blue eye out screaming in pain. The blood was non-existent. You would think that if you tore your eye out there would be a lot of blood.
"I, Manual Ortiz, eldest of the new gods, command you, my true kin, See." Faster than I could see. He ripped out my bad eye and replaced it with his own sky blue one. This one was bloodless too.
"I have given you the Eye of Odin. With it, you can see the truth even if it hurts." My eye disappeared from his hand as if it had never been.
Grandpa collapsed on the floor. I called 911.
