Chapter 4. Too close to breathe. Part IV.

-"I have to say Yevgeny, I had imagined a scrawny looking guy...I see you do train at least..." The man said laughing a little.

-"Sorry to disappoint you...so why are we here?" Yevgeny asked not taking his eyes off the man.

-"Well I have been ordered to terminate your existance..." -The man said tilting his head to the side- "Your kind brings unbalance to my employer's peace of mind...".

-"'My kind'?"

-"Yes...Spellhowlers..." The man said starting to parry with Yevgeny's sword.

-"I bring harm to no one" Yevgeny said escaping a blow from his assailant. He put his hand on the ground as he chanted a spell making the ground below the man slippery. The man fell and tried to get up with the help of his sword. Yevgeny got off the ground quickly and pointed his sword to the man's throat.

-"I think you ought to tell me now what the hell is going on...and you better start by saying who your employer is" Yevgeny said gritting his teeth.

Clad in a black skirt, shirt and boots, Nessa walked the streets of Hikawa district, around her people were going toward recreation centers, toward train stations. Some chattered, some laughed, some read the news, Nessa looked and smiled.

The busy streets swept past her as she walked the path toward the cemetery, the sound of her boots on the ground echoing on her mind.

She stopped at the gates of the cemetery, she shook her head as if getting herself together and she walked inside.

Yevgeny fought with great strengh as he tried to push the man from above him. The man laughed as he saw Yevgeny's efforts to be somewhat in vain, he screamed as the man stabbed himin the arm with a small knife he got out of his pocket.

Nessa sat beside the tombstone, she put her hand on the ground and with a spell the wind blew some leaves from it. She smiled sadly as she dusted off the tombstone, singing softly as she did so.

-"Pardon me for earlier Charlie...I didn't mean to ignore you." She said softly while lying down on the grass.

-"It still hurts you know, your death...Witold leaving afterwards...I never got really over it all...maybe it is because I never said goodbye to either of you, even Witold, now back in Neo Tokyo, I can't get over this...why? I don't know...I wish I knew." -the wind blew softly around her, she closed her eyes and sighed- "I guess that with this abbilities one tends to think that we can be inmortal..that we can stop anything and anyone..."

Yevgeny ran away from the man, exhausted he whispered spells of protection on himself. The man laughed as he kept running toward him.

-"Give it up Yevgeny! you can't hide from me..."

-"Niet!" Yevgeny yelled as he casted a spell on his attacker.