Prologue
The huffing and puffing of the train sped across a misty pallor of light blue and cerulean, the velvet omnipresent in a carriage tinted of the same blue colors as the outside. Blue was the color of tranquility and peace, of calmness and ease. The train huffed and puffed, running along...
Prologue
Noblesse Oblige. Nobility Obliges.
Silk, satin sheets, golden embroidery, pearls and jewels all cast glints of various forms and shapes in the creeping darkness of the night, interrupted only by the flicker of candles that briefly swatted the dark away in order to allow a young girl...
Prologue
On judgment day, fire will reveal the work each builder has done, and their foundation shall be made manifest to all.
Pray then, pray thus.
Hope that the builder did not build on straw and wood, but steel and rock.
For if he hasn't...
...you will burn.
Shinji Ikari was not...
Pontegana, Ticino, Switzerland – 1525 AD
Ezio ran. He ran and ran and ran as fast as he possibly could, hoping his pursuers would lose him.
The chances for that were slim, unluckily. Ezio was not as fast as he used to be in his youth.
"STOP THAT MAN!" someone yelled behind him.
Ezio couldn't...