Tentacles enter my body, everything turns ice cold, Agnes disappears from my view.
The castle and the bridge appear once again infront of my eyes, this time from the other side of the bridge there is a person, someone that looks like me but with a darker expression... Tomh! The castle looming behind him.
"Is it really you?" He doesn't answer me, he stares at me.
"Don't steal my life" the voice is calm but it burns in my visceral.
"I-i didn't, im borrowing it, you are dead anyway" i say holding my stomach.
"Those people don't care about you, if they knew who you truly are you would be already dead, fate saved you" my ears start bleeding, my vision turning red.
"Piece of shit, im going to steal your life, is that what you want?" I provoke him at no use, he smiles "don't forget who killed me, you don't have time to enjoy my life"
I spit out blood. "I will kill him for you if the chance present itself, and go home", it's weird, why i cannot speak freely?
"Mh" he chuckles "don't you understand? The way €;@8€;3" he touches his mouth "it looks like i cannot tell". What was he gonna say?
"Listen and listen well, don't come for any reason to the castle" what? His tough look softening. Everything turns dark, a vortex sucks everything away. "Don't come".
Agnes appers infront of my eyes, applying the cream from the bottle on my wounds.
Shit, what that really Tomh? He was to the other side of the bridge, it is the path of death? That damn castle again...
"What were you doing before?" I try to distract my mind.
"I was reading a book about the battle of the three kings" she wraps the bandages around my left arm. "It is an old war, more than two hundred years ago there were three kings fighting for this city, to be the real king, it was a disaster, most of the people of the kingdom died, but in the end king Solom won thanks to the first Messanger"
"The frst Messanger fought with king Solom?" You are more impressing than i thought Henry.
"Yes, he had to make a decision, he already had built a gran community and until then he didn't choose a side but then god sent a message to him, to choose and to end this war" she lowers her eyes "and he died because of it, he sacrificed himself" she applies the cream on the arm.
"How did he die?"
"He was executed" her voice low "the king said it was because he betrayed his trust trying to help the fallen king Rask that was still alive, but he never did that, he simply died because he was more influential and important than the king, he was the true king of the kingdom but he chose to go to the king doors, alone under the king invite, and he was taken. The first Messenger ordered that nobody did anything, he didn't want blood to be spilled anymore, he died alone, killed by the people he saved"
Shiver run through my spine. Someone like me changed history so much, died for people that weren't his. I look the experssion of Agnes, sadness in her eyes. But to her he isn't a stranger, it is someone that died for them.
"In the end blood was spilled anyway, and there was a massacre, 'the red letter'" she makes a disgusted expression "it was to make fun of us, we didn't forget, our people died beliveing in him, and we still do, you still do" she says wrapping my right arm.
'the red letter' i hate to say it but it is a good name.
"That's why you fight against the king and his people, i heard you, Mark and Alfred mention the order too" i close and open my fingers. This cream is really good, it doesn't burn so much now.
"Yes no one got ever close to the castle, and no one comes out, it is the order that connects the city with the castle, it maintains 'order' but in reality they simply do as the king orders" she gets up and puts the cream back. "But let's not talk about this now, you are already tired, too much information isn't good, let me give you a tour" she says putting a smile out. I smile back. "Thank you, it is easier with someone like you" i really appreciate it, Agnes. The coldness spreads through my body. Why did Henry help the king and why did he go to the castle alone. There's something about that castle, 'don't come'... It seems everything connects there. I get up, in that moment the door opens. An old man with a long beard and short white hair comes in, he has green eyes and gray tunic with a rope around his waist with metal bottles, on his left a young man, dark skin, with curly black hair, green eyes and a radiant face. He has a black linen shirt, a brown jerking of leather and green trousers.
"You are back" Agnes says smiling at them.
The young man with green eyes looks me astonished, he comes over me and hugs me. What is he doing? "Are you alright Tomh? I wanted to come see you but the boss didn't let me, he told me to wait, im glad you are okay"
"Ehehe im glad to see you Tomh, people talked alot but truth was left behind, i hope you can brief us of it" the old man says emptying himself of the weight of the bottles and putting them on the table.
"Miles don't hug him like that, he dosen't know you" she says laughing at my face.
Miles chuckles and leaves me, he puts a hand on my shoulder "im just happy to see you Tomh, sorry to scare you"
"No that's okay, it seems we were friends" i say a bit confused.
"Yes we are, i will help you get your memory back don't worry about it" he clicks his tongue "those pieces of shit, saying you were a demon, or wanting to kill you, i beat a few of them up" Agnes looks away a bit in embarrassment. You have one infront of you.
"I don't blame them, i would think the same"
"Yes now you would think like this but you would never leave someone behind, we don't do that, always stand by your people or else what life do you want to live, right Vincent?" He says with fierce determination. I stay in silence stunned.
Vincent laughs and touches his beard "you are right young man, but having a bit of detachment is always good, you never know" he opens the drawer and looks inside.
"What happened to you, did you fight?" Miles says to me looking at the blood i still have on my face and shirt.
"Oh this, yes i did" i turn to Agnes "there is somewhere i can clean?"
"Come with us, Vincent let's go take a bath now, we did as we could but I don't think first Messenger would be happy" he says looking at himself.
"Why?" I ask to Miles.
"The first Messanger told us to keep our body clean so that our soul could be clean too, it is bad to keep evils attached to us" Agnes respond to me instead of Miles.
"What she said" he points at her.
"Alright let's go now, i have to report everything later on" Vincent takes off a haversack he has on his back and puts it in his bed.
Miles starts walking out the room, Vincent behind him.
"Im going with them, let's do the tour later" i say to Agnes.
"Of course, in the meantime i will try to finish the book, so that i can give it to you" she says slapping my shoulder.
I nod and walk off.
As we walk through the hallway a scream breaks the silence. "I don't know!" A man yells.
"What are they doing?" Miles ask to Vincent. He scrolls his shoulders "i came here with you" This voice is familiar. I touch the blood on my face. The rat man... A small translucent light comes out of my chest towards the sound, a feel a weird attraction to it, I touch it. My eyes turn dark, everything around me is dark, the rat man appears infront of me.