A Love In Dark Times

The king again carried Luisa on his back to a village of abandoned buildings. -Luisa, we must act fast, we are in Chornobyl, the air is very radioactive and I assure you that its effects are no fun and wi not give you superpowers. “What a place they locked her up in? “In such a deadly place, please, this time I need you to concentrate on when your siblings or babies were born, it doesn’t matter if it's your pet or something, keep that feeling in mind and then tear the ground with the sword Darmela. Luisa remembered a dream she had in the barracks, where she followed a bright red thread that at the end led her to Lui where they kissed, appearing full of grey hair surrounded by lots of babies that she supposed were her children, which st said: “1 was making fun of my mother for having ten children and I had about a thousand. She hit the earth making the metal blade rattle, immediately another pyramid of very black metal sprouted, -Excellent Luisa, now you just have to focus on your feelings of loss, remember the burial of your mother and all your lov ones, by hitting this prison. She remembered her losses, how they put the coffin where what was left of her mother's body rested, sending it to the oven where she would never see her again, losing hope that she would wake up saying that everything had been a well elaborated joke, that cameras would come out and many people smiling, or a miracle where her mother would appear in an aura of light, and nothing came, only a wave of endless crying, the pain materialised in tears that are born from the windows that register the lamentable events, again she cried bitterly, she hit the prison without hurting it, she hit it agair and nothing, she wiped her eyes throwing the drops of water and for the third time she faced that object venting her sorrows and she didn't even get a scratch, again she lay down on her knees she let go of the sword and cried covering he face with her hands. Don't cry.” whispered lucifer kneeling down and hugging her, “Luisa dear, you are very strong, in spite of that we can do nothing in front of the losses that we are destined to have and against which we can do nothing, we all lose something, even me, the real power lies in recovering ourselves, in moving forward forcing our legs to walk, convincing ourselves to ¢ out of bed to receive condolences, we have to raise our faces to keep looking for the triumphs that overshadow the failur and to make those we lost proud wherever they are. Luisa stood up, gently pushing her momentary boss aside, and again hit that prison hard, sending those feelings of loss and helplessness as if they were a ball travelling down the sword. Boom, that pyramid broke, and out of it came a beautiful woman with a candle in her hand. -l imagined that death was a skull in a white tunic with a sickle for harvesting wheat,” said Luisa, wiping away her tears. -It's another one of them, this is the one that obeys me and is in cahoots with the other riders. -Good morning guys, this is Celeste speaking, today is a good day to die, fatherland or death! Ready, don Luci, the last one is missing, let's go quickly, I want to finish this now. -Luisa, if I knew what was waiting for you, you wouldn't be exasperated. “What do you mean, it must be no worse than being pandora, releasing these evils, their dead will fall on my conscience. “I already told you Luisa, I'm not interested in destroying humanity, others will take care of that, the defenders have already been decimated, they won't be able to deal with what's coming. -But don Luci, you don't need them to be eliminated, you want them to help you open up Las Capas. -Luisa, that's the idea, although one should never depend on just one option, there are other ways and I will find one of them if necessary, even you were not my only option to free these henchmen, I just like you. -1 was told that there were no more like me. That's true, but just as you appeared, others will appear, your father had more children, it's possible that they were around, by the way you should meet him, he's a good guy. -1 don't know if I want to meet him, after all he abandoned my mother with me. Don't judge the past if you can't change it, learn from what happened, it's that your father made mistakes when he was young, added to other bad decisions, I'm sure he'll explain them to you well, they're human things that I don't know well. I'm going to think about it, we'd better free the fifth horseman. “It seems to me that he's already free, going around the world, filing the world with tares and slander, creating discord ai resentment. So I can go now. No, it's a gossip, he's also locked up, only his power to break through prisons, the truth is that 'm a little afraid or cautious of him, I consider that it's because of him that his parents were locked up. -Are all four his parents? ~You know those poly relationships. Well, let's release him, I want to go home, wherever that is. He looked at her, hugged her again and took her flying through mountains and valleys, arriving at a small building with a big sign that said: EXTRA! -Luisa we arrived, this is the headquarters where they used to spread tabloid news, now it is the headquarters of a politi party warehouse where they produce false news and slander, even for both rivals, it is a very funny circus, where the clowns generate stories to deceive the public, it is said that a lie can be made to seem true if it is repeated many times. Don Luci is like my mother told me that the truth and the lie went swimming naked in a lake, the lie came out first puttir on the clothes of the truth, then the naked truth went to look for it, not finding it, it had to dress in the clothes of the lie, that's why you have to know how to recognise whether it is a lie disguised as truth or a truth that had to dress up as a lie “It reminds me of the story that the truth is the yeast, and the lie is the flour, then you mix a little bit of yeast in the flour and keep it, after some time it will be all yeast, all truth, the truth always comes out, the bad thing is that it takes a long time and sometimes it comes out late and there is no one to listen to it or to repair it. It's better my mother’s story, but well, let's get on with it, here's how I do it. -At this point you should already know. -It seems to me that I should remember when I told the truth or in moments of sincerity. You are right, Luisa, my dear. She concentrated on those moments when she was pledging the flag at school, with her right hand on her heart, standing firm, seeing how her beautiful flag was waving, she remembered how they shouted: -yes I swear, -she saw herself standin there on a planet revolving on a sun of a galaxy that was in a universe, full of wonders and possibilities, also that an all powerful being created everything and that each one of us is assigned a special purpose, that was her great truth. From the ground another metallic pyramid sprouted causing a sound like a murmur. 1 guess now I'll have to hit it by concentrating on a moment when I slander or say something with the intention of creati a bad atmosphere. That's it Luisa, you're already learning, you should consider being my apprentice. -1 don't know, better let me think about it for about eighty years. “1 hope you have all that time. Luisa concentrated on the time she ate all the meat for lunch, that day her mother prepared it with beer, and it smelled s good that she couldn't resist and gave it a taste when her mother went out to bring something from the shop, it was. delicious, so juicy, its salty, bitter, a little bit spicy and smoky, it was a delicacy in the scarce food of her diet, she couldn't resist and ate it all, just before her mother came back to plead: -Who ate the meat? -1 don't know, maybe it was the cat” lied Luisa pointing to her stepfather who was lying down because he was working taking care of cars in a car park, She lifted him up with blows, and he was very scared and said: “What's wrong, crazy? “What's the matter, crazy woman? Don't do that, you swallowed the meat, pimp, you left us without tasting it. -No, loca, it must have been the angora cat that passes it around. “Yes, you're the Angora cat, you wretch. And they fought for weeks, the meat in Luisa’s stomach became knots, this caused her to never again be a cat and her stepfather to be nicknamed the Angora cat. With this feeling, she gave a blow to that prison that exploded like a pifiata, and from there, this effeminate being, full of curls, who seemed to be a man and a woman at the same time, with a voice that was like a murmur, burst out: Thank you for freeing me, I know the reason why it took you so long, it's that you guys kind of attract each other, while I almost died there in that cage, you guys are out there together enjoying the best delicacies. “If you see Luisa, it's a real horror, I swear that if it didn't cause more deaths than the war and the plague, I would destroy it, it's just impossible. -Please don Luci take me home, I'm very tired, please let me go. 1d like to, I'm just that I've been tricked by your presence, it occurred to me to force you to stay with me, you proved to t useful, I'll train you to your fullest potential. -No, don Lucifer, please, I want to be with Luis.

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