Goal of the day: 1203 words. Written: 1210.
Ruth poked her head with her finger. Then, just like Elm, he immediately added:
- By the way, Elm's weapon is that cannon behind her. She only shoots paper rolls. Brilliant, isn't it? she grinned.
“Aha… Okay.. Brilliant. Um Not really.”
"Vytautas, take over," Plikius turned and waved his hand to the black-haired man, probably trying to leave himself last or he doesn't know what. Maybe not wanting to introduce myself at all.
- I am Vytautas, - he said gloomily, looking at me with his bright red eyes, - I take care of health, treatment and that everyone is calm, healthy and able to move their limbs a little and oppose our fucking enemies.
- Jeez! A sheep with a wolf's voice and words! Naoki interjected.
"Who are the sheep and who are the wolves?"
"It's none of your business what my weapon is." he growled. "I don't know if you can be trusted yet, miss."
- His weapon is a large patch. Don't hide from him... - Rūta immediately interjected, intending to spoil Vytautas' plans.
- Sha! - he interrupted her. However, it is not clear that it was successful - it has already become clear to me what his weapon is.
“A big patch. I will not lose sight of him. …Pala, just a question, how do I even imagine a big patch? What is that patch anyway?”
I must have snorted a little from stress, but I didn't seem to attract anyone's attention.
"And you can call me," Antonio said, suddenly speaking behind me in a mysterious voice, and I heard a few chords of his guitar that I had already heard. Turning around suddenly, I saw that this finger, which had turned the guitar sideways, was still holding the strings. - ...Antonio. Because that's my name.
I looked at him like a little child. Glancing at Ruth with Elm, they weren't impressed with Antonio either.
- Well, well, well. - he laughed and shook his hands comically, as if defending himself from invisible criticism, - I'm Antonio, I'm a spy and I know how to persuade people. Well, maybe I'm not very good at it, but my crystal gives it. Good rock, dammit.
"Um..."
Antonio's hands touched the stone again and it glowed a little.
"Antonio, please don't use it against Giles." - Plikis said instructively, folding his hands in front of him. "Acorns may work for you, but not for me." I can see.
Fear crossed Antonio's face. He immediately grabbed the crystal and it glowed white.
- How does he see? – Naoki squeezed a pointed question into a short pause after Plikis' words.
"I'm so sorry," he said sadly, his face drawn.
"And again!? I give up."
"Go, you shit," I said, giving up.
- And then it's me. said the bald man leaning back. As soon as he moved, his cloak all creaked and stretched. The bald man was seriously blackened by it, like some kind of sausage. - Bruce Willis. The leader of this mule team.
"Bruce Willis?" A surprised Naoki immediately interjected.
„?”
- You know, as they say, like the subordinates, like the commander, - interjected together with Naoki and Rūta.
Bruce immediately laughed at Ruth's joke. It did not impress others, especially Vytautas.
"Somehow I can't imagine Vytautas laughing. Oh my God, he would look awful!”
- It's like that movie actor! Naoki continued.
I didn't understand Naoki's remark, but I didn't want to take it and now ask out loud what he meant and appear crazy to everyone. Because I still saw him alone.
Instead, I just carved a question mark on Naoki with my finger and tapped, placing a dot under the question mark.
"That..." Naoki began, as if he understood my sign, but immediately gave way to another, and stopped before he could finish his sentence.
"And you," Naoki tapped me, interrupting Bruce, "you're Acorn." And you were a member of our, or rather mine, family. My YYY families.
“He's the commander!?”
- And yes, I know, my appearance can be deceiving and I may not look like what the citizens of my City talk about me, - as if reading my mind, he continued, - but I am the commander of everything here and everyone obeys me.
The members of the group sitting around nodded their heads almost in sync and after a short pause raised them again, thus nodding once and almost confirming his words.
- The King of Babkii is my commander, - said Vytautas.
"The King of Babkii is my commander," Rūta repeated.
Elm and Antonio soon repeated the same thing one after the other. And I wanted to repeat it after them. It just sounded so good! For a moment, I was ready to say the letter B, but I caught myself.
- The King of Babkies... - continued Naoki sarcastically, - ...Bruce Willis, the movie star... That's where I recognized his face. He was a famous movie star in The City That Made Me... I wonder how many years ago that was? He looked much younger. And not so bald. But I didn't like his voice.
"What?" Seriously??”
When I looked up, I looked at the Stone and rolled my eyes at him involuntarily.
"About a week ago you were…v- Bruce continued and stopped," Gil, are you listening?
- Ah... - I immediately turned to him, - yes, I'm listening! - I nodded energetically.
However, I didn't get Naoki's words out of my head easily and they were still lying somewhere in the corner and causing intrigue.
"How could Bruce the movie star become Bruce, as they said, the leader of the biggest gang in Lithuania and maybe in the whole world?" Is Naoki talking maybe??
"That's good, because I won't do it again."
He pulled out a second cigarette from some impossible pocket and lit it in the air. It will show that the maceration is enough to ignite it. I wonder how it didn't catch fire in my pocket... And how can crystals catch fire like that anyway? Is it really a crystal cigarette?
- About a week ago, you, as our special operations wizard, you've been up to some mischief in the City Council Citadel. Market information.
“…Some devil. It sounds very interesting. Doesn't he himself know what to do?"
- And then you start. For five days. …Until you found yourself in the City Arena and Ruth was told about it by a local resident of the City. - Bruce looked at Ruth, - I'm not sure, but why did the resident tell you this in the first place? He didn't know who she was?
Ruth looked at Bruce inquisitively for a moment.
"Knew, unfortunately, knew," she shook her head, closing her eyes and rubbing her left temple, as if trying to remember something, "during her performance, the Arena announcer told everything about her." And our contact had good ideas that this could be useful for our Gang.
Bruce turned to me. Then Antonio.
“He looks… Confused and surprised!?”
- What did you tell Gil? What does she know? he asked him.
Antonio immediately touched his amulet, which glowed blue again.
"Well, I… I told her what you told her." The same, - he rushed as if to justify or explain.
"Pala, something here..." I started, but stopped in the middle of the sentence. Something was wrong here, but that's all, I didn't want to go into it at all.
- Šiška, I suspect something is wrong, remember Antonio's amulet? You have become quite believable! Naoki interjected.
"What is that Stone talking about nonsense, everything is fine here..."
But I didn't want to listen to his ramblings at all. Antonio and Bruce's words were more interesting.
"Did you know anything about yourself before you met Antonio?" Bruce turned to me.
He probably thought I wouldn't notice, or maybe he wasn't even trying to hide it, but Atonio gave a faint sign with his finger. He took hold of the amulet again and at the same time re-irradiated it.
I tried to remember.
"No, I don't remember anything."
"No, I didn't know anything," I shook my head.
- Shishka! Giles! Aww! Naoki reprimanded me again annoyingly. I wanted to drop it somewhere or I don't know where to put it.
"Alright then," Bruce nodded. Then, turning back to Ruth, he continued his conversation with her:
- What about the contact? Awarded?
After a short pause, Rūta looked up from her armpits and answered:
- Yes, the best gift of all that we have. Well, except for some golden toilet, she laughed.
Bruce nodded his bald mace in approval. As he moved it, the light from the invisibly installed lights in the ceiling shone differently and all kinds of old scars, cuts and dents were visible on his head.
- My God. Well, look, Naoki whispered with a sigh of disappointment as soon as Ruth finished speaking, - do what you think is better. Because I'm not sure myself yet. But I have a suspicion…
"I probably also have a lot of dents in my head. Especially after these few days… Oh my God, it's all happening so fast!”
- And using Ruth's other contacts, - Bruce continued to explain, waving his hand at her, - we found out that someone peeled your memory. Someone from the City Council. And don't know why.
Bruce fell dramatically silent.