The north calls me, without my knowing why. It's been some time now that I'm more thoughtful decisions. I'm heading towards the bombs simply in search of the battlefield where important things happen.
The sword and scared, I advance inexorably towards the Seine in search of a meaning to my actions. Nothing of what I experienced so far has managed to get on track or even on any route.
I'm an unemployed person who Fuck you. I am a voter who never vote for whoever gets elected. I take credit over thirty years, and hopefully a better world without erecting barricades. The army of losers is made up of infantry and clumsy unconvinced. Finally
shit, when do we get there? I am no more anxious than another, but it starts to do well. It should perhaps be doing something with our lives.
smoke invaded the town, and I hide the sky. The fires around me do not produce more than darkness, because everything has already burned. I tell myself that if I reach the Seine I see a little clearer.
I went up the Boulevard, ignoring the protests of the buildings, and sections of walls collapsing. I'm not back for sightseeing. I have a son of a bitch down, and I'll come through even if it's the only thing that I have accomplished in my life.
My fault?
The city trembles as after a long winter. The smoke is suffocating, and I am relying on the sidewalk as I go along to take me to better days. I put my sword in its sheath, for not having air which darkens the bastard swords, without thinking.
Maybe this is the moment when I am concerned about how I do things rather than why I do, I am more writer than I've ever been. Or maybe not.
I finally opens on the Seine, and get a view a little clearer. Planes crisscross the altitude as harpies, too high for us not hear them. They drop here and there fireworks n'émerveillent that person. A helicopter regiment arrived from the west, along the river and the smoke dissipates.
They seem to rule out the low clouds that dot the roofs of buildings, and come spit on the Pont Royal hordes of soldiers. Lianas gush of gear, along which men let slip. No sooner did they touched the ground that everyone will have to ask the kinds of small transistors across the bridge.
then abandoned by the angels of steel that would have returned from wherever they came, the little party deserted the deck in a hurry, taking refuge on the other side of the shore. I perceive a silhouette vaguely in the distance which displays a small suitcase, and presses a button so big that I can be distinguished despite the distance.
I whisper "No" stifled. The Pont Royal
explodes from side to side, throwing debris stone so high in the sky they seem to stay suspended. Then a shower of stone falls into the Seine, and a bit on the side too. Columns of water rise to collapse immediately.
Soldiers have already returned to the Jardin des Tuileries. I start running along the platform, to join the footpath a few hundred yards away. Frankly, if we are not stupid, given the number of bridges that are in Paris, to make a single jump.
I begin to hear gunfire from the other side. I rush on the bridge at full speed, his hand on the hilt of the sword, thinking like a moron that's my time.
In the Tuileries the battle rages. Most of the revolutionaries who face the army hooded or masked because of the smoke surrounding. Molotov cocktails meet military grenades, and they measure their shotguns to machine guns.
I do not care who wins the battle. Me sneaking behind a hedge, I scan the field of vision, looking for Irving Rutherford. I seek to slay the dragon that will make me a true knight.
Neither side is gaining ground. This battle is nothing mythical or grandiose. It is as old as the world, and will continue even millennia. It's never field that wars are played.
Sancho I see that loads at the head of a column. His followers shouting man with a frightening confidence, and swell the ranks of the guerrillas of fortune. The soldiers are given a grim and cede casually a few inches of ground. It does not take over for the final battle looks for undisciplined.
I leave my hiding place, and unsheathed my sword. I cut the smoke to go out to meet the brother of Irving Rutherford. I push people out of my way, reluctant to give their swords, but preferring to reserve it for Sancho.
When I come up to him, without me noticed, I wield my blade was about to shoot him on his head. A burst of ball comes to mow the abdomen before I had time to hit, and he falls without a sound.
The air is too opaque, and the situation too crazy for his compatriot does have noticed. I kneel beside him, and it sticks great slap to make him focus on me rather than the rivers of blood that escape him.
"What do you do there, Irving? wonder does it with a disapproving smile.
"I'm not Irving. Where is he?
Irving is Irving. It is like this. You're the writer missed? You like him.
"It is he who looks like me.
Where is Irving?
"That's what I want to know.
He raises a gun to my face, but if his hand is trembling, and his arms so soft, I'm missing twenty centimeters good when pulled. The noise of the detonation deafens me a few moments, and Sancho took the opportunity to tell me where lies Irving Rutherford.
Recently, the writer warrior can read lips, but I do not really believe what I read. I understand I forget as an insult, fast, and a place: La Maison de la Radio. When I ask why the revolutionary Irving does not charge alongside his troops, he has a look of disgust.
"It is an underling, he informs me. He did what I asked.
-The history will remember his name. I know for sure.
-I 'm the head, dying there.
- anymore.
I see his eyes covered with a veil colorless and yet charged with a profusion of images. I try to convince me that if I messed up his last moments, he deserved it. The sounds of gunfire are suddenly more scarce, and the army seems to rout the rebels face. Yet another martyr of the revolution my balls.
I get up to get a better perspective. I then noticed that the military are not the only ones to flee. The revolutionaries, I had taken for their pursuers, are also scared and anxious to escape from the Tuileries.
I turned with apprehension, and see take shape in the mist of fighting the silhouette of a giant reptile that glides silently on the floor yet. His tongue hisses like a knife being sharpened. Worse than the anaconda ten meters I've seen in a horror movie: Snake World. "I'm
Jörmungand! he yells. I eat you!
I have other things to do than to listen bullshit. I'm not even sure it really is happening. Taking my momentum, I rush headlong upon him, the tip of my sword scraping the ground.
He pushes a whistling sound that almost makes me let go. In a sudden ripple, it projects its fangs toward me, ready to close. But I did not come all this way to make me eat like a field mouse.
I report my sword suddenly, without ceasing to run. I rushed to open his mouth and planted my blade. The sword begins to glow and smoke in contact with the giant snake, writhing in pain. My weapon is the magic sound of a pressure cooker forgotten on the heat and cover the screams of the reptile.
Finally, the sword explodes and his head. A huge squirt of spray smelly and greenish m'asperge whole. The decapitated body of Jörmungand collapses, inert.
And obviously, nobody saw that. I
nine paces before collapsing. I curl up on myself, steeped in anguish and regret, and quite incredulous. I feel like I can not compress to exist. To stay there and not to insist, as I always do.
A hand landed on my shoulder. I reject the first, then a familiar voice forces me to look up:
-You need my help.
Xavier is standing beside me. It is encased in a conducting cosmonaut, and hope for a moment he came to tell me impersonating death to go conduct a secret mission in space.
But it is not, and I even feel that I'm going to start complaining. My friend tells me died with the utmost seriousness that comes from the future, a future where I became a great writer, and he came to help me get rid of Irving Rutherford.
I burst into tears literally. I curl up again, flowing torrents of tears raging against myself and against the bloody future that moves away, gets closer, making round trips, and I file the shower.
Xavier watching me carefully, and politely asks me why I cry. I answered the quavering voice that reminds me of someone, before I return to my sobs.
Sadness grips me who has no background, it's a free fall without a parachute, which takes hours, years. I cry like never before, and I never cry like that. I'm miserable as can be someone with real problems.
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