soul marker

chapter 1 the dream

Chapter 1 the Dream
"What has that been?!, I don't understand anything, will it be real? It seems so real I have noticed the cold of the room on the skin
-relax you are sweating!
-I can't relax! I don't understand this dream, it is so real more than a dream. Has it never happened to you that you dream something and notice that you are living it? or that you are sure it has to happen?
-Yes, but they are things that happen relax and tell me, what is the dream that has you so disturbed tonight and to wake up from the seventh dream
(he says smiling and caressing the boy's bare shoulder)
"It was my boss was in his bed. with eyes open but it was not normal, the eyes were
totally in a dark color, as if the night had occupied its basins leaving only a
groups of stars, forming a constellation, did not emerge one iota of life from his body, which seemed empty, soulless.
A laugh is heard that rumbles throughout the room even  in the dark, in which only two naked silhouettes are distinguished, silhouettes of two young people on the bed, observing the movement of a hand which caresses the face of the boy.
-honey your boss was born without a soul! Come and sleep that are not hours
The alarm clock goes off at 7 a.m. on a new day. The first rays of the day sneak through a tiny opening between curtains, which lets you see this time if the young couple, only seeing the awakened very close to her just a few centimeters from each other.
Without much eagerness the boy turns off the alarm clock, turns to the only covered by a savannah of a silky texture red as blood, pulls his hair away directing his hand towards the woman's face caressing the cheek, approaches and kisses her repeatedly on the cheek and neck,  He lowers his hand to push away the savannah leaving the girl's shoulder bare, biting anxiously repeatedly to which with more eagerness and desire finally getting  her to wake up. They stare into each other's eyes smiling, as if the two of them at that moment saw the light for the first time. That look that gives off a special brightness that almost manages to break the little darkness that remains in the room, a brightness so spatial that it gives the feeling that time is stopped, that none of them is aware that the seconds continue to pass.
-good morning, how about you asleep? Were you able to sleep after sleep?
-Good morning love, yes, it took me a while the truth to be able to catch the dream again, I still do not get out of my head, if what happened to me can be real or not, I had the feeling of noticing how my lungs were filled with air in each breath, I noticed that anxiety in the chest, those nerves were so real. ,  the truth has me stunned and intrigued  I have planned to go to the library, I have to find out the first thing that constellation was the one I saw and as a result of that I will continue looking, everything has to have logic if I do not find anything I will leave it in a bad dream.
-Are you still with that?   , I thought it would not be so much, that he was only going to stay in a nightmare, but I see that no, do not give it more thought until you find a logic, (the girl laughs) and do not obsess over the subject, we know each other well and I know that until you get the answer, you will not have time to think about something else and I remind you that you need that time,  to think about how to pamper myself.
She turns to him while still looking into his eyes, slowly moving her hand up and down the boy's muscular arm, giving off love at every touch, at every caress,  smiling as if she had in front of her the most important thing at that moment in the rest of the universe.
-that's why I'm going to get to it, I don't want to steal time from my "girl" who then puts noses on me, because I steal her time.
Now he is the one who jokes and smiles with the zagala making her shudder, closing his eyes tenderly, for hearing those words that run along with a chill all over his body. He kisses the girl again on the forehead and gets out of bed heading towards the bathroom, you can hear him moving from the park at every step. He opens the door that leads to the bathroom, goes to the shower where he starts the shower by hand testing the water temperature.  While showering you hear background music a relaxing music with sounds of water and animals. the water runs through his body while in his mind there are still the images that in his dream he saw.  the room of his boss with the window open and the prostrate in bed lifeless and that strange situation of the eyes but, there was nothing that could give a clue as to whether someone was in place something that told him something else, some clue that would let him only imagine that it had happened in that place.  it still seemed so real to him that it tormented him to think that this was going to happen.
Already in something else His head does not stop a single second of thinking about everything he had to do, planning the day while the water relaxed him enough to think about everything, the way to the library, what books  to look for, the shape of the constellation in the eyes of his boss, the meaning of such,  look for references, coincidences, linked legends and everything related to those stars, he thought about the time that could take him all that, time was essential in his life that he organized from the first minute of the day, since it was not the only thing that was going to occupy his day,  he had to  fulfill his duty as head of security for one of the most men  important and rich of the country and the world.
You can hear how they open the door
-love you are going to be late, you have been in the shower for more than half an hour.  When you shower with me you are not so long underwater, rogue.
she winks at her as she opens the shower screen, which leaves the image of the totally naked in front of her.
- I'm coming! The saint has gone to heaven, I hope that today gives me time to do what I have in mind, to see if hopefully tonight I can sleep, because another night the same and I do not know how to get up.
-well come on! I leave the towel in the sink.
The boy stops the water and gets out of the shower, dries and grooms himself to leave.
After getting dressed and picking up a briefcase, he says goodbye to his beloved, goes to the door which he opens and the images of the dream coming back from nowhere freezing time at that moment of the hand on the door handle <.
He is already going down the stairs when he remembers something new from the dream, he gets reflections of which he had not realized , or had not thought after his wakefulness, he sees on the ground a kind of pendant of a bird, but he can not distinguish anything more than a dark blue bow and the silhouette of that bird carved in a kind of black stone.
When he gets ready to get into the car, his phone rings and he sees that he is one of his colleagues who at the moment occupied his place as responsible for security.
-tell me Ricardo, I'm about to leave the house, I just got in the car, but before going to the office I have to do some things that I need to do a lot.
-good morning Jorge, he calls you to notify you that they have changed the meeting that was for 12, they delay it to 4 in the afternoon, I know that it was your turn to go so I do not know how you are going to have it to accompany the boss today.
-very well, calm and I manage so that I am the one to accompany him since he only wants me in this matter. In a while we talk again you will have to replace me until I finish what I have to do.
-perfect companion do not worry I wait for news from you.
Once the conversation is over, start the car and put on your seat belt and leave your garage towards the library. After about 15 minutes He arrives at the building and stands at the same entrance thinking once again about the dream he does not want to forget anything and thinks once again everything he had to look for to put a reason for that dream. Upon entering, she goes to the counter where the librarian is located, an elderly woman in her 70s and a few years old, with gray hair and brown paste glasses, with a dark dress and a star brooch. which makes the boy draw a smile on his face and think that everything today was heading to the subject of the stars. would it be a coincidence? or is that he in the right way to find the solution that had you thinking so much that day? .
-good morning, Cloti How is it today?
-good morning, Jorge, today you are going to inaugurate the day, by the way, and today so soon you are here? , because it is not very normal to see you so soon around here.
-I come to look for an information about some constellations for entertainment lol
Could you tell me where I can find books on constellations?
- Of course! If you go to the third aisle look in section 4, there is everything that is related to the universe I guess there are you will find what you are looking for.
-thank you very much, I'm going to do it
He goes to the third corridor and looks for section 4, there are books about the planets, solar system,
galaxies, etc....... searching the fifth shelf he finds several books of constellations and takes two of them.
-first I will look for what constellation it is, once I have it I will try to look for legends and stories that I can find.
He speaks loudly alone in that hallway full of bookshelves and books, which causes his voice to bounce throughout the room.
He spends more than an hour without finding anything since he took very seriously the search for what he saw. with a slow pace so as not to lose a single detail of everything he is seeing since easy was not being suddenly finds the constellation he was looking for, as he was not sure I look in other books to see if the silhouette matches that of the dream and so it was.
-it is the constellation of the crow, now I just need to look for more infamation about it.
Look for more books on the constellations some in which apart from saying that it is composed
talk about stories myths or legends about that group of stars, it was true that it was not being easy to find anything was taking him  longer than he had thought it was going to take.
In one of the books he seems to have found the solution or at least a way where
Guided. And at last he seemed to have found something.
"The brightest star in the constellation the crow is Gienah of an apparent magnitude No
It has relevant deep space objects: the most important is the planetary nebula NGC 4361 It has a meteor shower known as Eta Córvidas.
Legends: in mythology tells the story that Apollo sent Corvus to watch over his lover, and when the crow returned he informed him that she was deceiving him, Apollo rewarded Corvus for getting him this information by giving him a place in the stars, in which apart from being eternal he gave him a job to  keep the souls of all those who did not lead a dignified path in their lives and were  marked by the marker of souls for their misdeeds by snatching his soul and leaving his body empty, be that as it may, a reward or punishment, the raven in his group of stars was to receive and keep for eternity all those souls marked by pain and sin."
Once read the text leaves him surprised even more he could read the legend believe it or not, but it stunned him even more because if that was real What was really happened to his boss in the dream? he did not stop thinking and at one point the idea of looking for infamation about that marker of souls came to him. who was it and what was its function?  , was not going to be an easy job, just as finding the constellation of the crow had to know where to look and did not know where to start.
As he was so confused he went once again to the counter to see the old woman since she knew well all the books in that library and it was a way to shorten the work time, not that he had much time having already lost almost two hours.
-Cloti! I need your help once again, the truth is that now if I am lost
He addresses the woman with a smile on his face.
-quiet kid, I'm here for whatever you need ask me for what you want and if I can I will help you, but sometimes it is easier and faster to search online, at the end of the room you have computers but I know you are not a friend of technology.
-thank you Cloti, but the truth if you can help me I prefer the paper before a screen.
I'm looking for legends or stories about such a soul marker, do you know anything about it?
-these lucky is a story that my great-grandfather told me as a child, he met a marker when he was a child not far from here, if you want I tell you where to find the story or if you prefer I tell you what I know.
-run away! Well the truth haha if you can tell me what you know you do me a great favor.
-well, sit here. And get as if to delight the story as my great-grandfather told me as a child.
She puts a chair inside the counter near her between two tables full of books very well.
sorted ready to place in their corresponding places.
-well get ready. As I told you, it's a story my great-grandfather told me when I was a child. He met a marker almost 150 years ago a few more peoples have told me that it was a lonely man whose eyes carried the night inside highlighting only in them a brightness that drew a group of stars.
- yes! In my dream it was the same but it wasn't the marker it was my boss who had his eyes that way.
-your dream? your boss?, have you seen something like this yet?  Let's do one thing I finish telling what I know and then if you feel like it tell me what happened to you. Are we still where we left off?
- yes! Sorry I will not interrupt you again.
- because as I was telling you, he had the night in his eyes only with that brightness, my great-grandfather said that such an individual looked for everyone who did evil in the world, to make pay for all his misdeeds by paying with his soul those acts, more than a gift for that man was a punishment since such a gift or power was inherited from parents to children. For generations many markers have been known, although most do not come to light for the reason that they are persecuted, tortured even killed by those they are looking for, I only know that if one of them is killed his own soul seeks a noble heart to continue with his work, that is why it is so difficult to know where the next marker  will be. has it been of help to you?
- yes! Cloti, the truth is that you have helped  me more than I expected. Now with your permission I am going to start my way, for today I have already lost too much time. thank you for everything and have a good day.
-also that you have a good day. by the way, what was that dream that you told me about a few minutes ago? That one you have commented on to your boss.
-I feel it in my heart Cloti but right now I do not have time at another time I will go to see her and I tell her.
The boy sets out on his way again this time to his job. Already in the car think about the
story that the librarian has told him, what does his dream have to do with his boss?, why is he the one who has had that dream?, he had more and more questions and fewer answers which made him more and more lost with that subject. Now the question that hovered around his head the most was to talk to his boss and tell him what had happened that night or to be silent until the moment of knowing well what was happening and what was happening was coming. For now, he makes a few calls to hire more staff and protect his employer more.
He parks on the street when the usual thing is to park inside where he has his private parking, but he wants to start his work from scratch and goes around the surroundings of the large building where the company was located, which gave so much money to its leader and which was also the residence of such. A building of more than fifty silvers being in the first security offices. once he has already walked around all the surroundings and warns that all the staff is in his workplace , a man every twenty meters on the street and a person every five silvers on some balconies that made a kind of checkpoint. seemed too safe for a man,  but being one of the most important men in the world and housing inside a company and home, thinking that he had already been attacked on several occasions was not so far-fetched either, to think of such a purpose to get his job to be what it had to be.
He enters his office, sits down dropping his body as if it weighed on him, as if he had been exercising for hours, he felt exhausted that day it was going to get longer than usual, but he still could not get that issue out of his head.
You can hear them knocking on the door several times.
-go ahead, the door is open.
- hello, Jorge, I have not realized that you had arrived, we can already talk about what we have to do today, we should plan the movements ofthe day well.
-yes, let me two minutes to get a little savvy, you could ask them to bring me a coffee only well loaded.
-Okay, you look tired, are you okay? You have a bad face, and in you that is not something usual.
-the truth is that it is not past a great night and what I take during the day is not that month this
helping a lot to be, better.
At that moment a young girl of about twenty-five years old enters with coffee in her hand.
-good morning, Mr. Jorge here I bring you your coffee, I bring you the sugar apart so you put what you
like it as I'm not used to bringing you coffee.
- thank you very much, Lorena, you can withdraw, that we have to talk about work.
Okay Ricardo, let's go to ours, I have called several more men to join our safety from now on, we are going to be more, I want a person twenty-four hours near the skipper day and night, two more man the driver in the cars that move him, we have to investigate again all the staff that works with us,  from the cooks and cleaning staff to our security men driver etc ... I hope you have understood it and that you get to it as soon as you can please.
-very well so I will do in story let's finish what we have for today. Remember that at four o'clock you have the meeting, with the owner of the nuclear power plant.
-okay, I will be the one who accompanies you today, I want Pedro as a driver who I trust the most at this time, a savior to accompany me and you will stay here apart from what I have told you.
Once he drinks the coffee he says goodbye to his partner looks for the sale towards the street in which only his car and the security personnel are seen in their workplaces. He listens to the phone in his office is his boss who asks him to come and see him to know what they should do that same afternoon.
He takes the elevator to go up to the last silver, sees how the numbers of the floors pass quickly while thinking about what to do about it if to tell his boss or shut up until he knows more about it.
The doors of the elevator open and you can see a large living room all glazed which leaves drawn in the crystals a great landscape of the whole city. in the background near a burning fireplace of white marble is a robust man with a large cigar extinguished between the fingers which is taken to the mouth to turn it on giving a cove a man of about forty-five years with little hair and Gray hair was the businessman for whom the boy worked
"Good morning, Mr Arturo, I am already here, you will say.
-good morning, Jorge, How are you going the day?, it seems that you have a bad face, I hope it does not affect your work and I expect from you the always impeccable work . I think you will have already been informed of today's changes, I just hope I don't have to do anyone's work, and have to repeat how it is plannedto the day.
-yes sir, do not worry about everything as it should be, we should only give a few last touches as you want everything to be. On the other hand sir, I have taken the liberty of amplifying security I think it would not hurt, after today's management will become more enemies than you have absorbing the electric.
-as you are always in everything Jorge, I think it is good. And now sit down and let's talk about today.
The boy sits in a black leather armchair, in front of the burning fireplace. While his boss approaches a minibar, from which he takes a carved bottle full of brandy serving two glasses. He goes to the other leather armchair in front of the boy and they begin their conversation to order the day as they did each day.