lifeless to reach

one sided truth

"That kid!

“Oh, brunette...they’re like two peas in a pod!

"Similar?

“Yes, just a stunning similarity, if you hadn’t told me about him, I would have thought that he dyed his hair.

"Then most likely they are twins...
...
“Sorry for disturbing you, have you seen my brother? Where? I haven’t been able to find him for 2 days...
"First...what's your name?

"You can call me Fab and my brother's Ian.

“How did you get to the capital? Were you forcibly dragged here? Or did you come voluntarily?

"If I answer your questions...can you save my brother?

"Save? from what..? more precisely, from whom..?

Frowning and lowering his head, he began to tell them his story.

“When our parents died... our relatives sent us to an orphanage... we worked there and lived a free life, although the director used violence, we didn’t complain as long as we could have a roof over our heads and didn’t die from hunger.

When we turned 15, we had to leave the orphanage, but we were never able to adapt to street life.
One day a woman came to us and offered to help her, we helped her, for which we were generously rewarded.
But she turned out to be a runaway, which is why we were put behind bars.
There they fed us again, even though the nights were cold in the dungeon.
A month later we were released, and... we again found ourselves on the street, we lived like tramps, and wandered from one street to another.
One day, a gentleman came to us, he looked decent, it was immediately obvious that he was an aristocrat.
He asked us if we would like to become servants in his house, to which we furiously agreed.
He brought us to his home and ordered the butler to give us instructions.
Time passed, and Ian began to suspect something was wrong with the estate, but... I told him not to meddle in the affairs of the aristocrats and just do the work for which we are paid.
But nothing could stop his curiosity.
One night he followed the gentleman and saw something he shouldn’t have.
He was able to escape suspicion, but the fear of being caught made was obvious.
He started having nightmares and hallucinating.
I didn’t know what he saw there, but I couldn’t look at his suffering anymore.
Even though it was risky, I somehow climbed through that damned fence and went into that  dungeon.  The smell was brutal, and from a distance one could see the peeling paint on the walls.
A dark corridor led to unknown cages in which people were sitting, from their appearance one could understand that they were being treated like cattle.
While I was walking, I heard the sound of a creaking door.
'Someone is coming, I need to hide.
One cage was open and I entered it.
The butler came, but he didn’t seem to see me.
He went to another cell and took the little girl.
I don’t know how long I sat there, but when it was all over, it was morning.
As soon as everyone left, I immediately ran out and vomited; what was happening there certainly could not be called humanity.
Seeing me, Ian immediately knew where I had been last night.
We had nowhere to go, and if we suddenly decided to go somewhere, the gentleman would have suspected that something was off.
Therefore, we decided to lie low and just do ordinary things.
Two weeks passed, no action was taken, we breathed a sigh of relief.
But,...
On the night of the full moon, a noise began at night, someone escaped from the estate and made his way into the city, but his life did not last long outside of this place.
As soon as he escaped, he was found dead the next day.
Since we saw and heard everything that happened, we couldn't escape the butler’s gaze.
He offered us a deal: in exchange for our lives, we would have to spread rumors about those who were leaving this estate, and under no circumstances open our mouths about anything else.
That's what we did... after that servant was killed, an investigation began, and the Minister of Defense intervened in the matter.
By coincidence, he had to be removed, and for this purpose one of the master’s captives was used.
She lured the Archduke into a trap where predators attacked him, the girl died with him, which is why no evidence was found and everything was written off as an accident.
Ian could no longer stand the way they treated people and decided to stage a coup.
His task was very simple: go to the tavern and spread various rumors so that people would be confused.
We were supposed to meet in the alley as soon as everyone had done their part, but the only thing he told me when we met was “I gave them the truth, so don’t look for me for a while.”
And he immediately ran away, the end"