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He remembers.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe71fotATC3
How his day started with his mother's kisses. The feast, the songs, the celebrations, the laughter of their people, and the gifts from his friends; he remembers.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQA7V42KeD
And there's the signet ring hanging on his neck.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ2zhd8QrxZ
It was the most beautiful thing he had received on that eventful day. The white gold ring, too large at that time on his small seven years old finger, feels cold and makes this tingly feeling on where his ring and skin touches. It's blue in the middle with the kingdom's gold "stag and guns" emblem, and dangling daintly on a silver Figaro chain. He remembered his mother's proud smile as she tucks the ring on his chest, and whisper words of knowledge behind his ears.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuGnvpFrfgj
"It is fine to rule with passion," She cupped with her hand the ring on his chest then placed a loving kiss on the crown of his head, "But remember that mind is above heart."817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2uo6SzqdM3
He took her words in his heart, not completely understanding the weight the words hold at the time, and though he convinced himself that he do now, he knows that her words we're still a puzzle for him.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6jSxD3YkNK
Then things went down to hell, the image of his mother's downfall that's as fresh as yesterday in his mind haunting him everytime he closed his eyes.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6LG7BdtK1o
She fought like the warrior she is, protected him like any mother would do for their child, and fell on the cold floor that no queen as great as her deserves. He can still sometimes see how her red blood blooms in her feast clothes, on how she grew pale, lungs heaving with lack of air, and the light in her eyes dying along with her heartbeat.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyZm7puc7zZ
"Run" Was the last word that left her lips.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPbx9QGPulO
It was her last order as the kingdom's queen and he disobeyed her. Instead the young naïve him took the dagger he received that day and attacked the heavy clothed men in his room. He stood no chance at all with those men, and he lost consciousness with a hit on the head as they took him away from home.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3cPUgzuA62
Away from his people, away from his friends, and above all, they took his mother's life; He then swears on his mother's memories, promised to pay them back ten folds of what they have done to him.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZsANFHa3GU
Then there was the man amongst monsters. A bit broken and frayed on the edges, but he owns a soul that shines brightly contrast to his dark defences.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡde76tm4GzY
He didn't free him, no. But when things went down in hell and disaster came, he cut the rope, gave him the same dagger he tried to save his mother with, and ordered him the same thing his mother told him.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe3NiOdnfpl
"Run."817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡheReouK6j3
So run he did, but for the second time at that night, he dismissed the plea as he stopped from his tracks and looked back. He saw the man - no, beast - fight for his life, not aware how his comrades and enemies alike fell one by one. That or he just does not care.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeauk2H7QIV
He remembers the picture of that beast, covered in blood, his shadowed face, and black eyes glinting in the dark, as the puddle of blood grows every second as they found their way out of fatal wounds. It made him shiver to the core.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA4jdwh2JMi
And he don't know how long he stood there, a few minute or hours - maybe even the whole night - he don't know, but he felt his knees go weak when that blood soaked beast turned to him, eyes locked unto him, and strode towards him.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGyOdsYUh0Z
He took two steps backwards on the man's every step and "too late" he thought, "I should have ran"-817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw14NcD28wd
And with those thoughts, he took off.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq5x0L9ahoB
As fast as his small limbs can, even though his lungs burns with lack of air, his tears blurs his vision, and his mind numb, he ran and ran and ran. He hears nothing but static, the breeze colder than he remembers, and he just feels too lost.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDcQga2lXsR
A rough, sticky, warm, slippery, bloody large hands caught his arms and he flailed uncoordinated, with fear choking him. He's aware that he screamed, but he didn't know what nor how loud it was, but he screamed.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdoSGrVR1OZ
And in between of everything that's happening, the clasps on his arms loosened and everything just stopped.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVLC6Lf9YWZ
He took a breath and looked around and saw the beast lying on the ground vulnerably. Same red grows on his stomach that he clutches for dear life - and maybe he really is clutching it dearly so - and red blood flows on the ground from his head, hair matted with his blood.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzpUGms2HZE
He doesn't know why, but he spared the man.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3XnKED607N
He remembers taking his dagger and unsheathing it, holding above the man's heart with trembling hands. He remembered seeing the beast as the same broken man earlier. He remembered seeing the tired soul behind those brown eyes.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlYpj7XnJz4
On how the breeze caressed him gently with cold hands, how the sun's rays peeks behind dark clouds as if promising tomorrow, remembers how the owls hoots above them, and how battered and resigned those eyes were.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhj7usxh3ix
But he saw a spark. It was something alive and stubborn, as they search through each other's soul. And that probably is the reason why he spared him, his body giving away and slumping above him; resigned and hopeful.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMkNnySejyh
But he forgets it all whenever he wakes up.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxGZRJRGLq4
Or rather, he makes himself to, and he's completely fine with that. He used to wake up gasping like a fish out of the water, tears streaming down his cheeks, air lacking and too much at the same time as his thoughts run wild.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡItwYyieOLH
He was pathetic.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIf3xxDyGcC
He stopped minding it nowadays. It's easier that way.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIASk1ni3sB
As easy as how he turns a blind eye with how a friend run as hard as he can as if hell's hounds are on him like dogs with their bones. Which would be a rightful reaction with how his own people - those very same people he pledged to protect and serve - are running after him like the mindless monsters they are. Like the selfish persons they are.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXkOtUsPJxL
And it hurts to see that the man stood no chance.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkYM1BxPHm0
With a sigh, he tangled his fingers together and stretched them, getting the familiar satisfying pop and crack, and he started working.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ZShYGCdSU
He typed codes and decryption, unlocking traps here and there, thanking heavens above that this man knows how to dodge. This friend of his may think that he's forsaking him, or the elders may think lower of him than they already have with his incompetence, but he have to help this man out of here.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Y7VNK5eR8
Satisfied with chasing his friend out towards safety and out of the kingdoms' borders, even succeeding with entrapping some of those poor excuse of knights on some traps, he sagged contently back in his chair.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmrbSR5C5Vc
He'll be berated about this later, even to be hold off with his duties, but he realized that he doesn't care. He's fine with that. After all, he can blame them back for neglecting his founding and suggestions for improvement. Their hate for science would always bite them back hard, with revenge.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIZGDnXplUe
He reviewed some of the recordings and deleted anything that would prove that he "helped" with the traps, as well as the videos that would tell where the man would be heading. Maybe leaving some few that would make a greatly handy false assumption on where would the man go.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3nf4Wg8ZuR
A knock rang from his door, followed by a steady voice.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaxgfPmEhnq
"Col. Hauger, the commanders ask for your presence in the meeting in an hour, sir."817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjY3CKvxZXh
"Thanks Joe." He replied, not even bothering to dismiss the man properly.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqQurC4eoYJ
Anyways, he does have a meeting to prepare. Either a boringly long reprimand regarding his lack of mental capability if he's lucky, or finally getting sacked if not. 817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIpYVG6RfyI
Even if they sack him though, he still is the most qualified person when it comes to electronics here in this kingdom and he could easily just crack through the network. Though knowing himself, he'd probably celebrated instead of sulk if he really got sacked.817Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz7XDiO04tK
Oh well.
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