Present Day

The body of Sol fell to the ground, blood pooling around his head.

Sol, quickly covered the distance to the stunned Three.

“Hot fucking damn! You! You’re a fucking Levi too!?” Threes’ voice was hissed through gritted teeth barely able to contain it. His eyes flickering wildly between the corpse on the ground and the man now standing next to him.

“No.” I bit back at him “I am no Levi. My name is Sol”

Watching for the tensed muscles, a cue Three would try something, anything. I would if I was in his position. However I was hoping the shock of seeing……

Six Years Ago

The scar on my face pulled at my eye but it was a reminder of the price I had paid. I considered it a small price to pay for the knowledge.

The other price was worse. The memory of pounding a man’s head into the pavement until it was no longer recognisable. The memories of the copies I had absorbed were so fresh in my mind. There was no escape. I had not found a way to tell my brain that what was done was not me, it had been someone else’s nightmare.

It felt like a movie being played……

Present Day

3Ball turned away from the large window looking out over the Old Town and back to the reports of this weeks takings, the figures from the Finches were down and he made a mental note to send Joey Locks to have a quiet word with them. Nothing permanent. Going over the columns he knew he was just avoiding the report from Tommy.

Sol. That name, so familiar yet so distant. The man was the bane of him. 3ball, he had been calling himself that for so long now that he no longer thought of himself by his other name, knew……

Six Years Ago

Sensei had cleaned and bandaged the wound as well as he could but Yuudai knew from the the sounds that he made just how bad it was. He was still not sure how he made it back into the hills and the temple, how he found himself banging on the temples front door, of collapsing into his Sensei’s arms.

He lay on his futon, the pain had changed from all consuming to just a spike drilled into his brain. An improvement.

What had he tried to achieve? Why had he done it? Just because he felt a connection to an……

Six Years Ago

I had been spending more and more time wandering through the city and away from the temple. Ever since I had gained these new found powers, now that I had become the thing I had hated for so long I struggled to understand where I fit.

I had gained a Super, to become a Prime because I had accepted finally that I was not a copy, that I was my own man. Now I had become an even more perfect replication. Just what did that mean?

No longer afraid to head into the city, I did not care if I……

Present Day

I made my way to the Loaded Run and lurked out the back like a fat kid stealing sweets, sweating and looking forward to the good stuff.

I knew when Tommy got off and was waiting for him. The back door opened into the disturbingly familiar smelling alley, light and noise spilling out hungrily into the night air. Tommy stood there a moment, framed by the light, talking to someone inside. The door snapped shut, the night huffing back into place like a disturbed cat.

As he made his way towards me I spoke softly into the night air, trying to……

Eight Years Ago

Sitting on the laughably called ‘bed’ in my room, it was just a futon on the wooden floor. I thought about what had happened with Valkyr. I was alone in my room again, the faint scent of Valkyr still lingering in the air as if to mock me. My cheeks burning with humiliation and guilt from the tongue lashing I had gotten from whom I considered my closest friend.

At first we had both avoided talking of old times. Too afraid to pick that scab and start the bleeding again. He told me about his modelling jobs, about how……

Present Day

I was slowly roused out of a dream that I was being burnt alive but for some reason I was treating it more as an annoyance than death. I slowly came to as I head the sound of someone trying to navigate the minefield of old plates of food and dirty clothes piles that were strewn around the floor of my generously labelled “Office”.

I tried to crack an encrusted eye but it wouldn’t……