Europe / Russian Empire / St. Petersburg (Sennaya Square): May 6th, 1817.
It was a beautiful day for the world. The birds were chirping their songs as mankind went about their daily routines with smiles on their faces at beauty of the city, but also sad looks on their faces at the horror of it whether it be financially, emotionally or physically, yet if you were to look closely in saint petersburg at the bustling sennaya square full of lined up stalls. To be more specific, In of a crowed full of a lot people. You can see two very handsome light skinned men that stood out in dirty outfits and looked like twins but if you looked at one of them even closer with strange milky white eyes that were void of any pupil or iris you wouldn't think the same.
(Mordred Svyatopolovich Ainsworth's POV)
"Why did you stop. We are almost there." Asked vladimir with a confused look on his face.
I covered my nose with my left sleeve from the countless different scents and thought while feeling light headed "I will never get used to this but I will have to. I can't be weak"
"Give me a second." I said calmly while taking a deep breath and exhaling as I focused all of my senses to specific scents like the smell of food, gunpowder, perfume and the smell of piss and shit.
Vladimir stared at me silently for a moment and sighed and said while looking around at the countless people passing by us "Are you sure you're alright."
I was silent.
My head jerking in the direction of every loud noise and overwhelming scent that I smelled.
The world started to close in. The silhouetted people overwhelming.
"M…" Said a barely audible voice.
"Mor…" Said a voice becoming clearing.
"MORDRED." Said vladimir loudly as he threw a right hook at my face.
*BOOM*
*SPLAT*
I swayed slightly as blood dripped onto the ground from my nose. My eyes wide as my senses calmed.
"You scared me there." Said vladimir with a sigh of relief as he kept me steady with both of his hands.
I held my forehead with my left hand and took slow deep breaths while thinking with creased eyebrows "Unacceptable. This cannot go on."
"You know. This reminds me of when we were kids…hahaha, I feel like an actual big brother again…hahaha." Said vladimir with a smile an look of pride on his face as he held his chin up high with his back straightened.
I Immediately glanced at vladimir and thought as a memory flashed through my mind of a blurrry grinning face of a child playing in the sand with me and thought "Ah. I almost forgot that he helped me develop tactile touch when I was going blind. He was there for me and the previous mordred every step of the way"
"Stop staring at me so blankly. It feels very faggy, I'm not into men." Said vladimir as he let go of my shoulders and and crossed his arms over his chest with a guarded look on his face.
"What is he eve…nevermind" I thought with a sigh as I closed my eyes with my right hand out.
Vladimir chuckled and grabbed my hand and placed it on his left arm and started leading me in a certain direction while saying "So even you can be stupid sometimes. You know your weaknesses so why even come with me to meet you know who."
People glanced at us with judgemental looks as they past by us. Some nodding and others ignoring.
"I have a Iq of 199 so I don't see how I can be categorized as the species known as stupidity." I said calmly with a shrug and my eyes still closed.
Vladimir was silent for a moment with a very confused look on his face and asked "What is a Iq…you know what. Nevermind, your a very weird brother to understand."
"Am I though when this is for our survival and for me to make it big unlike my previous sad life where I wa robbed of my opportunities by a someone way dumber than me" I thought while my left eye slightly and spotted a very hunched over silhouette walking past me an bumped into her shoulder.
*Thump*
"OH…" Said an elderly woman loudly and very startledly. Her hunched silhouetted figure starting to fall forward.
I Immediately let gif of vladimir's arm. My face forming a perfect gentle smile as I caught the falling old woman with both of my hands and steadied her with my right hand in her back am my left hand where a pouch was "Are you alright ma'am."
"Ah…th…thank you young." Said the old woman stutteringly as she took took deep breaths to calm herself down.
The old woman looked up at me. Her eyes widening and said stutteringly as she started to take her leave quickly "Th…thank you very much young man. I'll repay this good deed if we ever meet again."
I was absolutely silent. The smile on my face still gentle and smiling.
"Uhh…what was that about." Asked vladimir next to me with a confused look on his face.
I held up my left hand with a brown pouch in it and shook it slightly while saying calmly as the stoic look on my face returned as fast as the wind "This."
*Chk* *Chk*
"Is…th…that." Said vladimir stutteringly with a flabbergasted look on his face and wide eyes at the pouch in my left hand.
I looked at vladimir's silhouette and said with slightly pursed lips "It's coin."
Vladimir was silent. His face going grim as he said lowly "But it's wrong. She said that she would repay you, isn't that enough."
The street was bustling. The atmosphere very heavy between me and vladimir.
"Vladimir, you agreed to do this. You gave me your word that you would do anything for the survival of this family." I said calmly as my right hand landed on his right shoulder and squeezed it.
My eyes squinting as I thought "Don't you dare pull out of this"
Vladimir gritted his teeth momentarily and said with a sigh "Yeah, maybe your right. I need to look at things from a broader perspective…hahaha, we're poor."
"Good, this money will be used to buy guns from this Ivan fletcher. Nothing in life is free." I said calmly while wiping my bloody nose with my right hand and grabbing vladimir's arm as he continued to lead the way with a sigh.
I squeezed the pouch in my left hand and felt around with it, with my fingers as an mental Image started appearing inside my mind and thought "This is Inefficient. Next time, I'll take more."
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THE END…