16/05/15
Reads much better in French
Last human stand.
A dark, old city made of winding roads.
Humans kept alive by technology and magic.
A guild servicing the others and guarantying security as long as there is money.
Women, men with diverse powers, separated in two groups.
An invisible one and a woman who shouldn’t be here.
He is hated for his power and his freedom of mind.
She has no power but no one knows.
No one, except him.
They know each other.
Maybe from another life.
Each tries to protect the other one.
He regularly infringes their numerous laws.
She has to follow it closely or people might discover her secret.
Their section is located on a crossroad between the high city and the low one.
It is a place of unplanned meetings between rich and poor ones.
He usually works in the lower levels.
Investigation, surveillance, violence.
Sometimes higher.
Spying.
Up high.
She works for the wealthy.
Most often as a servant, sometimes as a savant.
If she has no power, her knowledge and her wisdom are worth one.
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He heard something he should never have.
Followed, hunted he tried to find her.
Tell her what he knew and save her.
Tell her how he felt.
She was avoiding him.
He did everything he could for her.
He would be her loss sooner or later.
She knew it from the beginning but carried on.
Because he could also save her from this decaying world.