Ziritsa NaDoldor, your eyes open to a warm sun bathing your face, a blue sky welcoming your gaze, and humid air dampening your clothes. A slight breeze cools your body. It feels good in the heat. The surface you are laying on is hard, but your body feels like it is at a perfect angle. As you look to the side you realize you are lounging on a roof of your childhood house. Something you used to do a lot in your formative years. You lay there, just enjoying what feels like a well deserved break, for what feels like a long time, until some storm clouds start slowly moving in.
Just as you decide to finally move and climb down a voice freezes you into the spot. It is the voice of your mother's boyfriend. His rapid vocal angulations make you curse under your breath. You have learned that it's just better to stay out of his way. But now he stands between you and the best route off of the roof.
As you sort your options as his conversation catches your ear. He must be talking on a comm link. You haven't heard him this excited in a while.
Ziritsa NaDoldor, you are so well hidden you yourself even forget where you are for a second. You strain your ear, catching a sound reflection off of a wall.
"No, we'll get the fucker and you will pay us the money."
Pause for a voice coming from the other side. It sounds female, but try as you might you can't hear the words.
"Oh rest assured we'll snip all those little wires in his fucking head. It will be a pleasure. He’ll be a new man” You don't see his face, but you have known the man long enough to imagine his stupid cruel smile in your head.
You think you hear a voice laughing on the other side followed by words you can’t discern.
"We'll depart for Unknown in a week and get you your fucking kids, but given these recent developments the risk has gone up. It's going to be double."
A long pause ensues followed by a short reply.
“Yeah I though you might. Ya’ll sick, even for me. But damn it’s good doing business with you.”
The other side disconnects and you hear him type something on his comm and walk off.
You heard the steps of your mom’s boyfriend, Rush McGorry, fade out. And it’s about to rain. This may be a good opportunity to get back to your room. The kitchen door is ajar. No signs of Rush McGorry, but you see through the opening that a bunch of papers on the kitchen table. As you look carefully and quickly, two papers in particular look interesting:
One has a picture of a planet and a subject that reads Unknown. The paper also contains coordinates to a location on the planet and the words, “Capture the children. Terminate the rest with prejudice.”
The other document has a picture of a tall handsome man and text that reads…
Classified - Top Secret
Dossier
Code Name: Saider
Occupation: Unknown Agent
Cybernetic Host Number: 8
Human Template: Dantes Pyrique
Just as soon as you read through the few lines, you hear a sound from the living room. The hairs on the back of your neck rise. There is something about this sound that sounds familiar. Your adrenaline spikes vigorously. You feel like you need to get in there, like it’s the most important thing in the world.
There in front of you lies your mother, Kolaje NaDoldor of Clan Myesso in a pool of blood with a knife deep in her chest. She is trying to say something to you, but she is very weak and the sound is more like a wheezing, dying animal, choking on its own blood, then what you know as human speech. Your mother’s eyes are filled with tears and are full of fear.
You have to come closer to hear.
You lower yourself low to the ground, still straining to hear. She can’t even move her head, but through labored breathing she manages to say
“I… I’m sorry. I should have never brought him in… This… is my fault.”
A whimper as new tears stream from her eyes.
“I love you Ziri… I love you so much…
…he’ll be back soon. Take the knife and run. Please run.”
As you pull the knife out blood squirt out of your mother’s chest.
“Please don’t let him get you. Please…”
her voice gives out, but here eyes remain fixed on you in a steady pleading gaze.
“Here you are you little shit!”
Rush McGorry’s voice booms behind you.
“Your mommy and I are very disappointed in you. What did you read you fucking piss stain? What did she tell you?…
Wait for response, if it comes
…ow you’re gonna tell me everything.”
His big muscular body quickly darts into the room as he tries to grab you. He tries to throw you against the wall but misses and throws you through a window instead. You are cut up by the glass, but have a chance to run. You know you can’t take him on like this.
As you run through the alleyways, you can hear him from some ways behind,
“Come back to daddy bitch! Come back or I’m going to fucking kill you!”
You turn a dark corner and have a chance to hide up a fire escape. He turns the corner just as you hide, walks right under you and stands looking around.
A fight ensues ending in Rush McGorry bleeding out, losing consciousness, and crushing Ziritsa NaDoldor under his weight until her last breath leaves her body.