Chapter 172: Ashes of Subject 3834
I walked away from him.
The conversation with Reynard made me happy, since I got to team up with him.
The last conversation regarding a subject like that still echoed in my mind. The moonlight had caught the side of his face just right, illuminating as if he was a higher being. I had stood beside him, fists clenched in my coat pockets, my voice full of passion.
"It means we're the only two that matter"
He hadn't given me a complete answer back then. Instead, he would simply say that he didn't trust me, but I was feeling like that was slowly changing. Though, I still regret the things that had happened after I promised to rule with him.
I walked away, knowing full well that he was the only person who ever made me feel more than just a ghost in someone else's machine.
Back then, as I stepped off the plane into the bleak industrial district of Szeged's southern border, I felt the weight of that night dig deeper into my spine. Hungary's sky was a low bruise above the buildings, thick with smog and the screech of distant mechanical whines.
They told me to come alone.
The message had come encrypted, of course and coded with a signature I'd never forget: D.C. The bastard never liked signing his name. Apparently, he had too many enemies.
I moved through the checkpoint with forged credentials and a forged smile. Even my gait had changed by now, slow and inconspicuous. Another blank figure in the churn of anonymous bodies passing through steel detectors and reinforced doors.
But once I passed the last turnstile, a different rhythm kicked in.