Part 4

Nishan heartily thanked the carter and they soon arrived at the city walls. After this Nishan was easily able to talk his way past the sentries, and get into the palace. Without further deliberation, he strode purposefully into the throne room where the emperor was holding court, and shouted: “It is I, Nishan, the one you exiled so long ago! I have come to demand that I be reinstated in my position as royal clairvoyant owing to an unprecedented increase in my foretelling abilities!”
Nishan bellowed this statement so loudly that the entire court could hear him. They could not, however, understand his proclamation because diction had gone out of fashion so that everyone spoke in simple sentences and read Hemingway.
The emperor then told everyone to leave him and Nishan alone. They did so, and when the room was free of jabbering courtiers, he spoke to the old man: “Why are you here? I made you go away ‘cause you told of bad things and I didn’t like that. Now you’re back and you think I’ll let you stay? You’re crazy.”
“Your supreme eminence, I am resolved on predicting only beneficial transpirations regarding yourself, and will not deviate from this voluntarily chosen method unless it is your will that I do so.” replied Nishan.
“Ok.” said the emperor, “If you don’t say that bad stuff will happen, you can stay.”