Alyd in Tantra's Fairy Tales by ADALBERTO ATONDO SAINZ - HTML preview

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Hansel, although a little kid, advanced for his age, heard the news with worryness while his evil stepmother searched for something inside the refrigerator. His younger sister was always by his side helping him to work in the workbench.

“Wel , we gotta remember Light City is the closest to the Eastern front, se we better be afraid”

Said newscaster #1

“Remember citizens, if sirens are off tonight, go to your nearest bunker, or if you’ve got one at home better sleep in it tonight” Said newscaster #2.

Evil stepmother and father made their money with minor repairings for smal electronics devices such as E-Eyes but Hansel was more capable and ventured into smal droids no bigger than himself.

“Did you hear that sister?” Asked Hansel “We need to get out of here before they drop the Emperor Bomb!”

They were making their work in the living room, or what should be the living room in a ruinous house outside Light City’s Wal .

“What are you doing you little boys?” Asked the evil stepmother while she approached. Each step was a little heart attack for the two little boys” “I don’t see you working on those E-Eyes, i want them finished by the time the sun sets or else, i won’t give you any food”

“Yes, stepmother,” Said Hansel back to work.

“Yes, evil stepmother,” said Alyd . Hansel’s blood froze in fear as her sister always defied her.

“Shut up sister! you wil make us sleep outside again!” Hansel said working.

“Yes you little bitch, listen to you brother and shut up” Said the evil stepmother while she walked back to the kitchen.

“I hate living here brother we should escape” Said Alyd angrily Hours later they were eating the awful food the evil stepmother cooked. First she had her meal, then she let the kids eat, then she always waited for her husband to arrive from work.

“Baby do you know these flying buildings they are building around Tantra?” Asked the husband.

“Wel , they are making a new one here in Light City and they say i wil be in charge for magnetometry”

“What the fuck does that mean?” She asked not giving a fuck. Husband always comes back every once in a while describing to her some new beautiful new jobs that would make their situation better, which they rarely did.

“Wel , it is important, they work with magnets, I mean … “ Dear reader, I wil admit, husband is a little dumb. What he meant by magnetometrist actual y consists in an uneducated man reading 125

a little energy chart screaming the numbers as the actual magnet scientist expert works in the field. The construction contractors would hire hundreds of random people and tel them they wil have a new job under a catchy title such as - magnetometrist - and that way they would always have lots of wil ing candidates for smal s amounts of money.

“Yeah right” she said as she started washing the dishes.

“What are these two doing here? Shouldn’t they be sleeping outside tonight?”

“There is an Emperor Bomb Warning, military drones wil be al over the neighborhood with their cameras and I do not want child services making any questions because a military drone saw them outside so they sleep inside tonight..”

Stepmother took off her emerald earrings and keep them in a box along with al the other emerald earrings in the kitchen bar, then proceeded to sleep in the mattress, also, in the kitchen because the main room was invaded by big rats and they didn’t have money to pay for an exterminator. Little brother and sister slept in the living room on the couch next to the workbench.

As the night passed, military jets flew over as they approached the front where they would land in the base preparing for any attack. There isn’t gonna be any attack in some decades from now but our characters won't know it tonight, so they wil have a hard time trying to sleep.

Hansel remained awake looking through the window. There was a ful moon where he could see a werewolf looking into the trash cans and jumping through the roofs. I need to take my sister out of here, Hansel thought. “Then why don’t you open the door and leave?” heard a voice inside his head. looked again for the werewolf was looking right at him from the neighbor’s roof communicating with him.

“Wow, can we speak?” - kid

“We are, aren’t we?” - werewolf

“Wow! cool!” - kid

“Meh… you get used to it, besides, your thoughts can be heard blocks away from here” -

werewolf

“oh …” - kid

“Do you want me to kil them?” - werewolf

“No thank you, i just need a plan to leave, the doors and windows are blocked with steel because we have escaped before” - kid

“Alright, as you wish, tomorrow i wil be human again and won’t remember a word we shared, but good luck boy” - werewolf.

“You always forget?” - kid