Hello! Second chapter!
Please tell me what you think :)
Oh and after the third one they will be longer!
Each Continent has its own general rules and dates. They even have different years, but these years are hardly taken on account, they've almost been forgotten actually. However, we'll stick to them for now.
It was on year twenty four, Pacific Land dating (PLd), that Dominic Cobb was born.
He was born in an awful southern district of Mirage, but definitely not the worst one. His mother was a Trader, and she knew from experience how babies' expenses more often than not exceeded the profits. So, as many others, she left the blonde child in a common orphanage up north of the district.
Orphanages weren't common, but then neither were kids. Most people didn't really care about parenting or didn't even think about it as they had better things to worry about than sex, such as hunger and dying from tuberculosis. Prostitutes often were infertile, had natural abortions or dropped the kids for their own luck.
Kids that made it through the first few years of life where often used as stealing tools in public fairs or middle class market centers. Only a few worked in the trading market as you could never get much gain unless you had certain abilities, meaning being sharp.
In this orphan he was given his name: Dominic (he was found at the entrance of the building on a Sunday morning) Cobb (from the nick name of the guy who found him, Jacob). There were only a few workers who actually gave a damn about children there, but you couldn't really ask for cuddles when people around you are trying to feed more than ten kids of different ages.
He never really made any friends there. And the only woman who cared enough to scold him for disappearing was dead by the time he was seven. An old grumpy lady anyways.
He was blonde with green blue eyes which gave him the advantage of looking harmless or at least naïve. He was no idiot, and making the most of this aspect he improved the art of pick pocketing fairly quickly.
However, it was around this time that things went to hell.
During this time, when he was about seven years old and frequented the fairs for cash and food, the Guards had started to make more and more rounds in the district and soon enough they were burning down the settlement's outer limits.
Back at the time Dominic didn't get to ask himself many questions about what had happened. He had made sure to follow the fairs so could still eat, not really caring about a roof to sleep under. Sadly, winter was around the corner and the guards were still making rounds from time to time. People took advantage of this and started to grant roof in exchange of money. Of course, whether your things got 'lost' or broken, wasn't their problem. And they had no shame to announce every three days that the rent had gone up two coins.
Dominic could barely stand it, but it was winter. However, those excuses weren't enough after he woke up to hands holding him down and trying to get anything they could from his shoes and pockets.
He was eight by then. He left and for two days slept under some rubbish pile along with dogs. On the third day, he met Eames.
That's it, i'm posting the third one i a few and then chapter should start being more dinamic :)
Hugs and snowflakes
Pipps
