Nyema desired to run away from the palace to keep himself safe from his stepmother. Dawa being a devoted brother decided to go with his brother.
So the two of them arranged to slip away by midnight and make sure that no one else knew about their plans.
They took some supplies to last them for a few days.
They traveled over day and night for the next few days, and all the supplies that they had bought were finished.
They were very hungry and thirsty. They came to a village, but unfortunately there was no water in the entire village.
Dawa was getting very weak.
Nyema asked Dawa to lay down under the shade of a tree, and he decided to go further to the next village or anywhere around this place to see if he could get some water. He searched for water in the entire mountain but found none.
Nyema came back to the place where he had left his younger brother and saw that Dawa was dead.
Nyema was numb with shock and did not know what to do.
He built a tomb for his younger sick brother and went further away from this place.
He crossed two mountain ranges and came onto a cliff there.
He saw a big door on a cave there and knocked on it.
He found an old hermit inside.
The hermit looked at Nyema and instantly felt that he was waiting for this boy to come here.
When Nyema told the hermit about why he had come, the hermit prayed to the gods with all his power and to bring the younger Dawa back to life.
Dava came back to life and followed his older brother's tracks and came to the old hermit's house, and the two step brothers lived in the cave as the old hermit's son
Adapted from Tibetan Folk Stories
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