On a green slope of a high mountain, there was a single gravestone, facing the valley and the sun shining beyond the horizon. Erik had knelt before it, fallen deep into his thoughts… But no, he was actually talking. To the grave.
“So, that’s the situation. She was quite beautiful, you know – a tiny one, with fragrant brown hair and those brown eyes full of compassion and childish spark… She reminded me of certain someone when he was young…” he bitterly smiled, scratching his bushy blond hair. “But her big brother is overprotective”.
“I can’t blame him. He too reminds me of certain someone”.
A tall guy of short blond hair and light blue eyes, four years younger than Erik, was sitting on the gravestone. He was wearing white robes and a white bandana on his forehead.
“You wanted to say ‘he reminds me of you’, right?” Erik chuckled.
“You’ve guessed,” the guy laughed.
“You were always so playful… So, how do you think? Will she make it?”
“Uhm, isn’t that too early to judge? She’s still a newbie”.
“Her brother has made it to the highest level of the Cancer in only three years. Don’t you think she has potential?”
“Yeah, if we judge by sibling bonds and talents, she might as well make it,” the guy shrugged and began playing with an air sphere in his hand. “But I still need time to watch her, and you, just like you always do, screwed it all up”.
Erik raised an eyebrow:
“Now you’re blaming it on me?”
“Who else? I wasn’t there. You should’ve figured it was a bad idea to accompany her to her order building where her brother would most likely see you and tell her everything about our past”.
“Hmph, you’re telling me I should’ve left that unconscious girl alone in the street in Tamie’s hands? But wait, what did you say just now? Our past?”
“Yeah. What is it?”
“It is that Lord Nick doesn’t know our past but only mine…” Erik’s eyes sparkled with joy. “It’s decided – it is time for you to act. You must go and enter that order”.
“Are you crazy?!” the guy bent so forward he almost fell off the gravestone, “Have you totally forgotten what I truly am?”
“Ugh, come on, who can see through you? You’re a professional!”
“Don’t forget that Edmund Jaeger is the overlord of Rose Cruce Order. I greatly suspect that he, as a fellow Libra, can perfectly see through me, with those eyes of his!”
“Relax, he always wears those glasses”.
“Damn you… Why should I always do the dirty work? – Because you can’t maintain any contact with a girl?”
“I’ve told you, it wasn’t so easy! Seriously, you know that if we don’t get your work done I will never_” Erik stopped and heaved a sigh.
“Ugh, fine, I’ll go there. I’ll try my best to not get caught. But you’d better be right about that girl of yours – that she can become powerful enough”.
“On that one, you can fully trust me,” Erik smiled.
“You were always too trustful towards people… I loved that quality of yours, though,” the young man stood, “Well then, I’ll get going. I’ll send you all the info from time to time, to keep you up to date”.
“Sounds good”.
“Well then, good luck to us!” the boy laughed and vanished in thin air.
“Good luck to us, brother”.
Erik stared at the gravestone – those grey letters that notified who lay there fallen into eternal slumber:
“Jan von Drachen”.
Tiny tears fell from his eyes.
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