Benjamin went to the garage, among hundreds of junk items and dust, took out a bicycle.
It was a very old model of bicycle, the frame of the bicycle was blue, very opaque with the passage of time and in fact it had small rusted parts. It didn't have a front tire brake and the tires looked a bit flat.
"And mine?" Aaron asked.
Ben looked at him ridiculously: "We are too poor to have a bike each." He rode the bike, while Aaron on the other hand, rode on the back, holding onto Ben's shoulders.
A few seconds after they left, the door to his house opened and David's little face peeked out, he narrowed his eyes and smiled.
The day was very cool, the sun's rays fell less intensely, while a gentle breeze stirred both Aaron's and Ben's hair.
Aaron took a deep breath through his nose, closed his eyes, and smiled in delight.
He felt so alive !!
He no longer remembered when was the last time he was able to do such an activity, which brought him an intimate feeling of nostalgia and peace.
On top of that, the view was just wonderful, with majestic blue trees all around.
Every time they passed other properties, they could see many boys alone, laughing and having fun.
Some even held parties at home.
Without adult supervision, they were free to do whatever they wanted.
The shelter was downhill from their home, so they arrived relatively easily and quickly.
Ben propped the bike up against a tree and began to unpack.
"Your job will be to infiltrate the shelter, when no one is paying attention."
"That easy?" Aaron asked.
"Easy?" Ben raised his head, then shook it slightly. "All the adults in the city are in that place, with the only heavily guarded entrance. They verify the identity of the person on numerous occasions before letting him in, and that entrance is never, but seriously, never stopped Add to that the surveillance cameras and the 15-foot walls around it. " Ben smiled. "If you consider that easy, I feel confident about your participation in this plan."
Aaron just smiled wryly, but then got excited.
He felt like in a mission impossible movie.
Of course he was Tom Cruise.
"That I have to do?" Aaron asked.
To which Ben raised a questioning eyebrow.
"Specifically." Aaron complemented.
Ben nodded and showed him what he had in his bag with a smile.
It was pyrotechnics!
"When he lights these toys and they start to explode, it will be your signal to infiltrate." Ben smiled. "The entrance will not stop being watched, but their attention will inevitably be attracted. For that I gave you the hook and the rope, you have to climb the outer wall with it and once inside, you will have to memorize absolutely everything you see and leave quickly You don't have much time. One minute maximum. "
Aaron nodded, took the bag from him and took a long detour from the shelter to avoid being seen.
A minute later Aaron was at the back of the shelter, hook and rope in hand, staring at the wall.
BOOOOOOMMMMMM !!
Aaron looked up at the sky when even in the middle of the day he could easily see large red sparks in the sky.
Not wanting to miss a single second, he threw the hook at the wall, but it didn't hook until the third try.
In his previous life he had gone through his mandatory military service, so he had a very vague idea of how to climb.
It didn't take him many seconds to reach the top of the wall and to his fortune, on the other side he had a shed to help him down. Which he did without much effort.
He looked around for anyone, but finding no one he relaxed a bit.
He looked around him and quickly found a window, which he jumped out on with one hand.
What greeted him inside was very strange, not to say incongruous.
Hundreds of seats were carefully arranged, looking in the direction of a large podium, which had a giant screen transmitting fanciful images, from beautiful mountains, to beautiful and exotic animals.
The walls were deep black with occasionally gold colored curtains. On the great podium a golden lion could be seen ruling the heavens etched into the ground. On top of that there were a lot of flickword city flags, which were a sky blue color with a wall in the center, and a sword running through it.
He couldn't make any sense of what he saw.
What are adults doing here?
Cruum cruum
Aaron stiffened as he listened to the haunting sound of record players. His body trembled, when an almost conditioned manner turned around.
There in the middle of the darkness that the black walls offered him, a figure was totally hunched over, biting something with great excitement and madness.
Aaron paled and trying to be as quiet as possible, he backed away. But just at that moment the figure raised its head.
"Aaron? !!"
"Dad?!" Aaron's eyes widened in disbelief, the voice he heard was his father's in this world.
Wall or rather Walter Carter.
Hearing Aaron's voice the shadow in the corner stepped forward and with that Aaron could clearly identify him.
It was his father.
But the wall in front of him was dressed in a large black raincoat, which hid his entire body. In his hands he was holding a large package of chocolates and his mouth was totally dirty from you.
"What are you doing here?"
"What are you doing?"
They both asked at the same time.
Wall looked seriously at Aaron for a long time and with a very serious look he said, "I won't say anything, if you say anything."
Aaron was surprised.
"Don't you mind that I'm here?"
Pffffff
Walter laughed.
"I have wanted to bring you here for a long time, but the other citizens disagreed." Wall only glanced briefly at Aaron and settled down to continue eating his chocolates.
According to what he had heard from Ben, he had a serious addiction problem to these and if his mother found out that she was eating some she would go crazy.
With a settlement of mutual understanding, the two of them parted as if they did not know each other.
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