The Wizard

Chapter 4 Part 1

"Humanly there is no being that is happy without the other being as well."

René Descartes.

The place had a stunning beauty. The virgin beach looked like a Pacific island, or even more beautiful, where the sea with small waves and warm water was an invitation to a swim. The reddish sun was already close to the horizon, but none of those who had fun in that idyllic place thought about leaving, since the temperature was a perfect twenty-four degrees. In the water, Igor had fun in a war of wizards, started by his parents. Together, they created a wall of water that hit their son hard and made him fall. Laughing, the young man got up and made a serious face, shouting:

"Do you dare to challenge Neptune, the God of the seas, miserable mortals?" he raised his hand, which began to glow, while his parents created a strong protection barrier. "Feel now the power of my wrath."

The last words were uttered with the help of his gifts, which is why they sounded more like messages of the apocalypse, while the wizard seemed to become a giant and raised a curtain of water. Still laughing, the parents increased the intensity of the protection barriers, but the water began to spin very fast, while expanding in their direction. In a few seconds they were engulfed by the aerial whirlpool and thrown into its center, floating in the air while the water spun around and splashed on the couple who, unable to take it anymore, asked for mercy and declared their son the winner.

Igor extended his hand and the water ran towards him, enveloping him from the waist down and lifting the young man, who turned to the side and said:

"So, sweet Caroline, do you turn off that camera and come here or do I need to catch you?"

The image trembled with the operator's laughter and, suddenly, the screen went dark.

Full of tears, the young wizard turned off the video equipment and left the office, thinking about that week of end of vacation when he, his childhood friend and his parents spent in an idyllic world, the favorite planet of his sweet Caroline whose end was the same as his parents.

Igor looked at the time and decided to do something with his life because, that week of pure depression could not continue. The first thing he did was report to the police, claiming that his parents disappeared without a trace.

Interrogated by the investigators, he said he had returned from Europe and they did not pick him up at the airport or find him at home. A month later, he became the main target of the police investigations who began to suspect that the son was eyeing the family fortune. Despite all the suspicions, they found nothing and had to give up at the end of another month, closing the case without a solution.

Igor also felt the need to do something useful to not succumb to depression and, although he did not need it because he was wealthy, he went looking for a job. He prepared his resume, using his powers to materialize one already ready and went looking for an occupation. By his knowledge he would have no difficulty in finding work and, therefore, he preferred to choose the most reputable companies in the field of electrical engineering, giving preference to those that developed research, which was one of his passions.

Already on the first attempt, a very reputable engineering group that he liked a lot, saw that things would not be so simple. Luckily, he got an interview on the same act because they were looking for a specialist and the first thing they did was a written test. Then, he was submitted to some interviews with sector chiefs.

Sitting in the not very comfortable chair in the university style for more than two hours, they told him to wait for one last person to interview him. Igor felt that there must be something wrong with that, but he remained calm and quiet. Faster than he expected, the door was opened by a man who took a similar chair and sat in front of him, observing him, focused.