Chapter 3: Alone in the dark Part I

In the cold winds of winter Witold was born. He was born at the rise of the empire that is attached to his name and a destiny he has yet to fulfill.

Witold as a child didn’t have many friends, but because he chose to, his best friend and partner in crime was his dog Husdent.

Witold’s favorite past time was going into the forest with his father and Husdent. In one of those trips Husdent got himself in a hunting trap, Witold ran toward him and freed him, but Husdent still lay in pain and whimpered, Witold cried in unison as he saw his dog in pain and yelled for his father to come. But he suddenly stopped in shock as he saw a white light that emerged from his hand and into Husdent’s leg, he then realized that Husdent got up from the floor and licked his face in gratitude.

At the age of 17, as he finished High School, he realized that his mind also had some sort of ability, he noticed this when he received images of him and a girl of his class In a somewhat sordid fantasy, but he realized it wasn’t his fantasy which made him look over toward the girl in the vision, who was looking at him intently. He blushed deep red and decided to stay away from her for it look rather painful what he saw.

As an university student, Witold was mostly aware and in control of his abilities, on a football game he healed himself after he crashed with a player of the other team. Not one of the spectators noticed the subtle white light that went up to his leg, except for one. Richard Mcentire, an exchange student from England noticed when Witold healed himself and was left in awe at the sight of someone using the craft.

Richard was not user of the craft himself, but he studied it out of curiosity, the use of the craft was not something prohibited in society, but there was much to learn and to know about this practice.

Richard approached him after the game, wanting to know Witold’s abilities and quirks. Witold didn’t know how to react to such a person, he tried to tell him he couldn’t do magic, but to no avail. After that encounter Witold and Richard became friends, Richard was thrilled to have a friend that could use magic and learned a lot from him and vice versa.

As the years passed, their friendship grew, even though Richard went back to England after his time as an exchange student was finished.

Witold graduated in time from college and moved back to his hometown in Poland. There he did jobs for his father’s company and worked alongside him for quite some time, until one day Richard found him.

It was quite different than that time in the university, Richard was a picture of seriousness, and Witold was worried and inquired what was wrong.

It was then that Richard talked about Kobayashi.

Kenji Kobayashi, a prolific businessman of New Tokyo employed youngsters with an affinity to the craft so to speak in specific areas of his so called empire, he believed that people that could use and understand the craft were able to understand how the world worked, spiritually and physically, a view he believed was essential for everyone to understand, using craft or not.

But Richard had a purpose for seeing Witold, he went to find him so he could use his healing abilities to try and save someone within the organization who had gotten into a serious fight with those who wanted to unbalance the world, as dramatic as it sounds and rather science fiction like.