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The Alley
Quickly they ran up the stairs like the devil itself was following them. Lara led the way and Konstantin was almost right on her heels. How come the person you don't want to see at the very moment happens to appear like from thin air, she wondered.. Surely Karel was the last person she needed around right now. She ran to the end of the second storey and hastily opened the door that led to a small balcony and fire escape. They would have to do. Konstantin appeared behind her sweating a little. His breath came out as small gasps. Lara glanced at him a little bit of amusement on her beautiful eyes.
"Try spending a couple of years in captivity. I'm sure you're not as fit as you're now when you get out", he whispered her like being afraid that Karel was inside the building.
Only answer Konstantin got from Lara was faint grin that didn't reach her eyes. In a second the grin was gone and so was the eyecontact they had shared. She looked around and after finding the area safe lowered the fire escape.
They had ended to an alley behind the hotel and the smell told them that the door they saw separated them from kitchen. Konstantin looked around astonished. The alley was filled with dustbins. The damn hotel must produce more garbage in a day than a five-membered family during a year. The smell made him feel sick.
Lara on the other hand didn't seem to mind the smell. Her mind was filled with thoughts about Karel. The car! The car was still on the parking lot of the hospital. Had Karel noticed it? There was no way a car with a broken windscreen could be left unnoticed by his eyes and he'd know they are or at least were here when he'd see the car. What if he already had seen it? There was always the possibility that he wouldn't come and search the hotel but Lara couldn't risk it. They would've to leave and right now.
"Have another great plan?", Konstantin hissed to her like she was to blame for Karel's existence. At the moment it was easiest to him to blame her.
Lara shrugged her shoulders. What did he think she was? A fairy godmother that made all the little things he managed to wish for true? She looked at him while he stared at the dustbins wrinkling his nose like he had never have to smell a couple of days old trash before. There was something so not human in the man she thought. Perhaps it was the way he thought about his son. She knew there were people who even hated their children but franly said she had never met one who simply didn't care. While their escape it had seemed for a moment that he thought his son as something else than the continuation of the bloodline and Lux Veritatis.
She went to peek around the hotel corner wether it was safe to continue their little escape journey. At the moment she peeked she saw the same black car turning from the street corner.
"Konstantin", she whispered to him getting no response. He seemed to be too apalled by the amount of trash that he couldn't hear. "DUCK!" she yelled not minding if the cold-eyed man sitting in the approaching car heard them.
Her scream bore into his mind forcing himto hear the message. He looked around and found a hiding place behind a rather large dustbin while Lara simply pressed herself against the wall hoping Karel and his little friends weren't so observative that they would notice her. The few seconds before the car passed the small alley seemed like the last hour before the end of the world. Finally the car passed the alley moving slowly like a doom approaching and its victims knowing about its coming. She waited for a few moments after the car had glided out of her line of sight before she peeked again seeing the car taking a left turn from the next corner. Lara let out a breath she didn't realize she had been holding and signaled to Konstantin that it was safe now. Konstantin emerged from his hiding place next to her and Lara could only smile a little. The smell the man had despiced had partly attached itself on his clothes. A dark spot in his back told her that at least one of the carbage bags he had decided to hide with had had a hole in it. A silent litany of curses told her that he had noticed it too.
"Now what? We can't stay. They might come back", there wasn't a slightest sign of panic in his voice.
They might, she thought. There is already the chance that they had been seen. Konstantin began to grow restless and kept on talking about something she didn't understand. At least Karel deserved a great plus for one thing - his nerves. Lara couldn't believe how someone had put up with Konstantin for a couple of years. She was beginning to get bored already and she had known him only a short while. Perhaps Karel didn't have to put up with the ordinary Konstantin. The fear Konstantin had felt towards Karel had been a sort of a leash and Konstantin had been 'trained'...perhaps like the dogs of Pavlov. It was hard for Lara to imagine that Konstantin was once a member of Lux Veritatis. Perhaps he still could be counted as a member but at least not an active one. Then again fear had been known to tame the souls of the very bravest ones.
"Well?", he asked. The man sure didn't have much patience.
"We need to get a ride away from here", Lara answered him not bothering to look in his direction. Then she noticed it. Down the street was a payphone. "You got a few coins?"
Keep on reviewing and thank you for all of whom have already done so.
The Alley
Quickly they ran up the stairs like the devil itself was following them. Lara led the way and Konstantin was almost right on her heels. How come the person you don't want to see at the very moment happens to appear like from thin air, she wondered.. Surely Karel was the last person she needed around right now. She ran to the end of the second storey and hastily opened the door that led to a small balcony and fire escape. They would have to do. Konstantin appeared behind her sweating a little. His breath came out as small gasps. Lara glanced at him a little bit of amusement on her beautiful eyes.
"Try spending a couple of years in captivity. I'm sure you're not as fit as you're now when you get out", he whispered her like being afraid that Karel was inside the building.
Only answer Konstantin got from Lara was faint grin that didn't reach her eyes. In a second the grin was gone and so was the eyecontact they had shared. She looked around and after finding the area safe lowered the fire escape.
They had ended to an alley behind the hotel and the smell told them that the door they saw separated them from kitchen. Konstantin looked around astonished. The alley was filled with dustbins. The damn hotel must produce more garbage in a day than a five-membered family during a year. The smell made him feel sick.
Lara on the other hand didn't seem to mind the smell. Her mind was filled with thoughts about Karel. The car! The car was still on the parking lot of the hospital. Had Karel noticed it? There was no way a car with a broken windscreen could be left unnoticed by his eyes and he'd know they are or at least were here when he'd see the car. What if he already had seen it? There was always the possibility that he wouldn't come and search the hotel but Lara couldn't risk it. They would've to leave and right now.
"Have another great plan?", Konstantin hissed to her like she was to blame for Karel's existence. At the moment it was easiest to him to blame her.
Lara shrugged her shoulders. What did he think she was? A fairy godmother that made all the little things he managed to wish for true? She looked at him while he stared at the dustbins wrinkling his nose like he had never have to smell a couple of days old trash before. There was something so not human in the man she thought. Perhaps it was the way he thought about his son. She knew there were people who even hated their children but franly said she had never met one who simply didn't care. While their escape it had seemed for a moment that he thought his son as something else than the continuation of the bloodline and Lux Veritatis.
She went to peek around the hotel corner wether it was safe to continue their little escape journey. At the moment she peeked she saw the same black car turning from the street corner.
"Konstantin", she whispered to him getting no response. He seemed to be too apalled by the amount of trash that he couldn't hear. "DUCK!" she yelled not minding if the cold-eyed man sitting in the approaching car heard them.
Her scream bore into his mind forcing himto hear the message. He looked around and found a hiding place behind a rather large dustbin while Lara simply pressed herself against the wall hoping Karel and his little friends weren't so observative that they would notice her. The few seconds before the car passed the small alley seemed like the last hour before the end of the world. Finally the car passed the alley moving slowly like a doom approaching and its victims knowing about its coming. She waited for a few moments after the car had glided out of her line of sight before she peeked again seeing the car taking a left turn from the next corner. Lara let out a breath she didn't realize she had been holding and signaled to Konstantin that it was safe now. Konstantin emerged from his hiding place next to her and Lara could only smile a little. The smell the man had despiced had partly attached itself on his clothes. A dark spot in his back told her that at least one of the carbage bags he had decided to hide with had had a hole in it. A silent litany of curses told her that he had noticed it too.
"Now what? We can't stay. They might come back", there wasn't a slightest sign of panic in his voice.
They might, she thought. There is already the chance that they had been seen. Konstantin began to grow restless and kept on talking about something she didn't understand. At least Karel deserved a great plus for one thing - his nerves. Lara couldn't believe how someone had put up with Konstantin for a couple of years. She was beginning to get bored already and she had known him only a short while. Perhaps Karel didn't have to put up with the ordinary Konstantin. The fear Konstantin had felt towards Karel had been a sort of a leash and Konstantin had been 'trained'...perhaps like the dogs of Pavlov. It was hard for Lara to imagine that Konstantin was once a member of Lux Veritatis. Perhaps he still could be counted as a member but at least not an active one. Then again fear had been known to tame the souls of the very bravest ones.
"Well?", he asked. The man sure didn't have much patience.
"We need to get a ride away from here", Lara answered him not bothering to look in his direction. Then she noticed it. Down the street was a payphone. "You got a few coins?"