Ch. 1

Everything has changed since that time when he saw the SUV leave. It´s been three years of unsuccessful attempts to forget the fact of that car leaving with everything he once cared about. But that fact no longer hurts, ha has made sure of it. He had taken care of those nuisance feelings. No longer the fact of being alone and his destiny to be unloved were things breaking him from the inside.

Now he had nothing to stop him from accomplishing his sole reason to be on this earth. Now he can solely be the protector, the guardian shadow who ensures happiness from the distance. He had realized that once you accept your reality, you no longer long for what you cannot have. He´ll no longer desire what his brothers have, he is better off living through them. And for that, he will make sure they are happy.

I can hear my sister approaching me. She walks slowly as if trying to not startle me, as if I was going to lose it in any moment. If only my brothers knew that I am more in control than I have ever been.

Elijah- Freya calls me almost in a whisper. –They are coming back today, are you not excited?

I would not use that word to describe their return- She knows I can no longer feel excitement either- but it certainly is good news.-

Yes, we…. I was thinking that maybe…. Maybe this would make you reconsider- she takes a deep breath in order to continue- we can take it back so you can be whole again. The real you- Ahhhhh finally! So this is what Freya has been wanting to say all along. If only she could understand.

My dear sister- Elijah says with a smile portraying on his face- but I am the real me. What you so mercifully helped do to me allowed me to be who I was meant to be all along- I walk towards her and I gently touch her cheek- And for that I´m grateful. So don´t trouble yourself trying to undo what made me whole.

Elijah takes for finished this conversation. There is no need to convince Freya, she will eventually realize that everyone is better off with leaving thing the way they are now.

So he leaves the compound, he needs to make sure everything in the quarter is ready for the return of his brother, his niece…. And her.