My City, My Master

Now she realized how much absurd these Laws were. Because she didn’t make anything and… But she couldn’t imagine other better Laws and other better world.

"A man must treat with refinement, respect and politeness any part of a building". The First Law of the Buildings said that.

A door hit by the wind… Refinement and respect…

That’s it. Now she realized why was she declared as "pariah". The Building hadn’t any "heart" when It punished her. It treated her like a robot. For It did matter just the result, without analyzing the cause. The Building was disturbed by the wind, which had hit a… door.

Angel prayed when she caressed David’s forehead. She prayed for the men’s life. She started to care about him more and more. She prayed. But… she didn’t know to whom. Because the Masters stopped to deserve that in her mind, even they were the Creators. It must have been Someone or Something which can hear her! Maybe, those which seemed with the Masters, the phantoms beyond the Walls. Or maybe the faith.

Later, the Undefined Someone or Something listened her wish. David opened his eyes.

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- We must escape babe…

He was still very weaken. But the wish of the Escape was stronger and stronger.

David raised unsafe.

- I didn’t have a lot of volts in me. I don’t think It wanted to kill me. Let’s go to my shelter. I have something there.

Angel was overwhelmed by this man’s strength. No moans, no cries… Anyway, David still seemed very strange.

- So you live in a… tree? You live in something natural, alive? Don’t you realize you don’t respect the 4th Law?

- I piss on it! Screamed David, very angry. Do you think you must believe all these bullshits? Forget’em! We will escape and you’ll see what real life is…

- To see what? Asked the woman with an uncertain voice.

- You’ll see babe. All the things at their time. Now wait for me, ok?

David didn’t seem too convinced by his words.

The man entered into the cave, without many efforts. Angel grimaced disgusted.

Angel hardly succeeded to hear Dave’s voice. He flinged to her a huge cloth. And then she heard from the cave some metallic sounds. Sweated, the man came out with some steel sticks and some cables in his hands.

- Look! That’s it! Our salvation!

The woman started to believe that David went mad because of the electric shock.

The man became very nervous. As a consequence, the woman followed him. But for a "pariah", the way to downtown was a very unpleasant experience. They passed near some drain openings. One of them almost succeeded to catch David’s leg. All the victims of these damned openings would suffer a very fast disintegration. On each street, from the upper side of the buildings, a lot of steel-balls started to fall. Without any doubt, Dave and Angel realized that they were the targets. The bitumen became extremely hot, even they had put around their shoes a lot of cotton. Near the terminus point - the Zero kilometer of the City, which was the Headquarter of the Grand Master, that in the ancient times had a very strange name, "The House of the People" – a steel-ball almost touched David’s bag, put in his back.