Btw Italics means it's a flashback.
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"Do you ever wonder what it would be like to fly?" Adam sat down in the dark cavern. His brother sat across of him already taking a bite from the plain sandwich. They had another thirty minutes before they would get back to mining deep within the dark mountain.
The brother swallowed his food before answering.
"I mean there are people that are already able to fly Adam."
"I was not asking if you could, I was asking would you enjoy it IF you could."
The other brother took another bite of his sandwich.
"I don't know, probably. I have always viewed the sky as a symbol of freedom, so yes I would like to fly. It would be just you and the sky, watching the world bloom below you. All the cities, trees, the life you could see it stretch forever" He closed his eyes and smiled, the thought of it made him happy. Adam nodded his head at the response.
"Hey," Adam took a large bite of his sandwich, muffling his speech, "D- you thin we will evr make it ou of here?" He swallowed and looked to his brother for his reply.
"Of course. If we keep up the hard work we might be able to get a place to settle down. We still have the majority of our lives ahead of us. Maybe even one day we will fly." Adam took a bite from a bland apple.
"Hmmmmm" He looked down at the soot on his hands, letting them fall as he hung his head. There was a pat on his back.
"Don't worry we got this, we're gonna get out of this hellhole together."
"Promise?"
"Promise"
His eyes darted opened, he was laying down. Adam watched the fan on the ceiling rotate slowly in the light. He looked to the left and saw a small table with a glass of water on it. His arms and legs did not hurt when he moved them, they just felt sore and creaky. The clean cover fell off of him as he shrugged it off, sitting upright. An IV was stuck into his arm running from a bag above him.
"Hmm." He sat there looking up, just watching the fan go around and around. It was a few minutes before a nurse walked into the room. She was holding a clipboard and did not see Adam until she looked up. Her mouth formed an O and she moved to the side of the bed he was resting on.
"How are you feeling?" Adam peeled his eyes away from the fan and onto the person standing in front of him.
"Fine, thank you." She started to jot notes down on the paper in front of her.
"Does anything hurt or do you feel any discomfort?"
"No." She wrote down another note.
"Great, well I am glad to see that you're fine, you really got yourself in a situation."
"Which was?"
She took a deep breath before answering, "You were extremely malnourished and weak, multiple counts of internal bleeding, and exhaustion, your heart rate fluctuate constantly, you're lucky to be alive." He just looked into her eyes.
"I was told to inform them immediately of your awakening so I will be right back." She finished the short conversation and started to strut out of the room. Adam watched her leave keeping quiet. 'Hmmmm, Strange.'
"Vi! There is absolutely no chance that he could have anything to do with it." After they had gotten the call from the hospital they decided to go directly there. Two days ago when the incident occurred they had arrived on the scene which was already ablaze. The trees were on fire and ground burnt. Vi had immediately rushed in to make sure no one was there and luckily only one person was found in the middle of the inferno.
It had been a man laying on the ground next to a giant hole in the ground butt naked. This alone had confused Caitlyn, there had been no action around the graveyard for weeks if he was the person in the hole the cameras definitely didn't catch it. His body was very thin and frail from being malnourished, there was zero chance that he could have gotten out of that alive in that state. After he got to the hospital they had run a magic check to see if any at all resided in his body, it all returns zero.
The only evidence of who could have caused the event was the damage and the man found in the fire. At this point, she wouldn't be surprised if somehow he had come flying down in a meteor and somehow hundreds of people missed it, this was a rather strange anomaly.
Her mind blinked back into reality when she heard Vi's voice, "But how could he NOT be the one to cause the destruction, it was clearly him!" Vi threw her hands in the air, she was forced to leave her gauntlets back at the station because they were not officially on duty, they would not have allowed them in the hospital anyway.
"Then tell me how." Caitlyn continued her march down the hall, coming closer to the room that the man in question was in. "Give me some clear evidence how this man was able to blow a giant hole in the ground, survive the explosion, at the same time appear out of nowhere, and to top it off, without any traces whatsoever of magic!"
Vi folded her arms and scowled in defeat, she was well known for being stubborn.
They reached the entrance to the room and Caitlyn pulled the door open to step in, Vi closed it behind them.
Adam was sitting up in bed still watching the ceiling fan, the nurse had already left after confirming that he was in fit condition, not suffering from any more ailments. His eyes turned away from the fan and moved down to the two entering the room. He seemed to be in a slight trance as if he was still dreaming.
"Hello there, my name is Caitlyn and this is my partner, Vi." Vi just kept her arms folded. "We are both officers from the Piltover Police department and have a couple of questions of you Mister …"
"Adam."
"Right then Adam would you like to tell us what happened two days ago at the graveyard where we found you."
"I am having trouble recalling the incident can you tell me what happened please." He asked, keeping himself calm.
"Well there was a large explosion that rocked the ground and we arrived at the scene to find the entire cemetery ablaze. No other people except you were currently present and we were able to bring you to the hospital in one piece. Now tell me, Adam, what were you doing in the middle of the Cemetery on the brink of death?"
He waited a couple of seconds before answering, "I don't know." Caitlyn pursed her lips.
"No idea at all?"
"I can't recall anything before then."
"Well then." She was trying to decide what to ask next, this was another dead lead. Although there was nothing but some burnt gravestones and a large patch of trees removed it would still help if she could figure out HOW it happened.
"Can you tell us where you live? Any information to shed some light on this event. Relatives?"
"Well I was traveling to Demacia from Ionia, I'm somewhat of a nomad, no relatives."
"That's quite aways." Vi talked for the first time. He would have had to travel across the ocean and trek a good way just to get to the outer towns and cities.
"Yes, well I just wanted a change of scenery but now." He motioned towards the window next to his bed, providing a magnificent view of Piltover. "I am not so sure that I am in Demacia right now." He smiled and let out a soft chuckle.
"How did I get myself into this mess."
"So this is the first time you have seen Piltover based on what you just said." Adam's face lit up,
"So this is Piltover, what a lovely city."
Vi tapped Caitlyn's shoulder, motioning for them to step out of the room. She complied and closed the door behind them.
"So he didn't do it."
"Most definitely not." Vi sighed and rubbed her eyes, she had stayed up last at the tavern listening to shitty puns and bad jokes from Ezreal and Jayce.
"So what do we do?" She seemed impatient as if just itching for something exciting to happen.
"Leave him to his own devices, I will look into it more and double check if anyone else could be involved but after that, some cases just can't be solved." Caitlyn sighed and moved back into the room.
"I think that's all, for now, Adam, thank you for your cooperation." She nodded curtly and quickly left, started down the hallway with Vi in tow.
"We're coming back tomorrow to double check before seeing him off, he's not cleared to leave here until tomorrow evening"
"I don't think we are going to be able to get any more answers."
"It is still worth a shot, it's not a very interesting case but it is still one worth solving."
Adam stared out the window, the machinery keeping the scene constantly moving. He enjoyed watching the clouds, their complexity and abstractness being so beautiful.
The majority of Piltover's electricity and power was generated by separate hextech power plants underground, silently able to make power by extracting it from runes at a highly efficient rate. Although this was able to supply the majority of Piltover the original source of energy was there. The Reservoir that was kept almost directly in the center of the city. He wasn't sure where in Piltover he was but he had heard before that this place was absolutely massive.
This reservoir was on the top of a large hill and man-made rivers and gullies would stream it to different parts of the city, both for the fresh water and to generate electricity for smaller households.
Although this system was not the most efficient it had not been changed and constantly reliable.
The hospital Adam was staying in was near the bottom of the mainstream of water off to the side, providing a good of the ever-changing city. Adam sat there in the bed, recently he had just been thinking, not of anything particular, just thinking.
His mind finally landed on the Demon, the being that had gotten him and kept him in this mess.
"Oh yeaaaaaa." He said aloud, he still needed to reap a soul to get power for the demon.
For a second he felt discontent, realizing why. It was not because of the fact that he would kill someone but more about the fact that he was fine with killing someone. That sense of other life was gone. He muttered incoherently to himself, trying to parse together his mind to find the reason behind it. He wanted to feel remorse yet, It was like trying to remember a word you just forgot, that feeling right there except so far away.
Where was the regret, where was the regret...
He looked at his hands, nothing seemed out of the ordinary when he looked at his wrists, turning his hands face up and face down. He let out a sigh and turned back to the circular window on the side of the hospital. The sunset had started and cast the brilliantly glowing city into an art show, hues of pink and orange dancing along the windows.
'Hmmm Piltover.' The room was quiet, the fan casting a rotating shadow along the wall.
'Piltover.'