Chapter 2

Remember


He remembered a pain through his chest as him and his small militia escorting the Grand Master stopped for the powerful man to examine the Assassin's hideaway for his unmentioned plans. Krosis had looked down in surprise; Rodrigo had impaled him through the back with the blade of one of his men. The young guard who was once a lover of Krosis looked horrified at the sight of the betrayal and the death of a man close to him.

Not whishing to stay around, the Grand Master then rode away quickly with the rest of the militia while giving the single guard the order to behead Krosis and send it to the assassins. Krosis looked at the soldier to await the blow, but to his surprise it never came.

The guard lifted Krosis to his own horses back with a struggle and tied him down. "I am sorry… I should have come back to you…" The guard sobbed and gave Krosis a soft kiss on the lips that the tall man weakly returned with a small smile of understanding, before sending the horse and dying man towards the assassin town.

When he arrived in a blur of colour, Ezio had cried for him and hugged him close, he remembered bits of their conversation and the faces of Claudia and Mario looking down at him. But it faded into a strange world and he felt knew the place.

""What hurts humanity?"" Another cube like the one in his first life that started all this slowly spun as it hovered, but it was larger, the size of Krosis' head. ""What hurts our own creations which we instilled in them an emotion?""

That was a hard one as Krosis knelt on the floor, his mind filtered through memories painfully and he tried to grasp to his more recent ones. There was him during the Crusades and him in Florence, how many more lives will he go through?

He remembered his last answer as desire, which he thought drove humanity. What hurts humanity? An emotion that these 'beings' gave us?

"Love." He spoke before he could even think about it and he blinked. That sounded both so right and so wrong. Love hurt as much as it healed. He saw that by watching Ezio and his family, the loss of so many of his family members to Uberto had hurt him so much but his love for the rest and their love for him kept him strong. Love, and not revenge.

""Your second answer is being considered among us. Go on Krosis and live carefully, danger lurks everywhere. Forces wish to destroy that which we all strive for.""

Once again before he could ask a question about that was going on and if his answers were right, Krosis felt himself spinning through the universe towards another crying baby, was it him again? How far in the future was this?

He didn't even get to see where he was going before he plunged into the baby's life; in the background he could hear the guttural singing of men, cruel laughter and the sound of water on wood. There was a woman sobbing as she clenched him to her chest, was that the sound of chains?

Then everything in his mind was cleared for the new life.