Year 536 of the Cesar Calendary.
Alessandro Rivera wakes up in the middle of the night to the clock ticking, he seems to had a nightmare as he is sweating, but he composes himself quickly and goes to sleep once again, for he has an important day tomorrow.
Morning comes around and the clock shoots out a little mechanical whistle, awakening Alessandro. The time goes by as he does his usual routine, making himself a little toast with magic and heating up his tea, well, if you can call a bunch of leaves found on the ground tea leaves.
As he sits down, he can't stop from cursing his own magic powers, for him, that was the reason of his misfortune, the reason of why he only lives as a glorified slave to the Umitans and treated less than garbage.
While engrossed in his thoughts, he finish his breakfast and leaves quickly his makeshift residence, going down the tree and comuting to his daily assignated task by the human in charge this time around. As the tasks are given, he get's the worst one, corpse cleaning. Making his way to the local laboratory, he is stopped in an alleyway by a young elf, he was covered in a brownish coat that covered his face, but a little of his golden hair can be seen, betraying his stealth efforts. The young elf calls out to Alessandro "Officer!" He exclaims "i have been looking for you ages ago, come with me, we need you" he says with a sense of urgency and relief. Alessandro analising the situation, he replies "I am not an Officer any longer boy, nor i am interested of anything you can say, now scram, i have to do my task if i want to eat", as he is about to leave the young elf grabs his hand "Officer Rivera Please!" He begs "There is flame already burning beneath the Empire, we need you Officer, we need a little bit more fuel for the fire to engulf the Lion", already more annoyed, Alessandro starts walking away dismising the young elf as he is already late for his task. "We know where your daughter might be" as the young elf proclaims, Alessandro quickly turns around and pushes the young elf into a wall, already annoyed at his constant blabber, this last line has made him furious "You bastard, all of you send her away to die as a pretext to 'appease' the Empire, so don't even try bargaining for my help after all you have done, you-" as he is about to let more of his flow out, the young elf hands him a letter from an old friend, as the startled and confused Alessandro reads the letter, he starts to laugh, the throw the paper to the ground, and says to the elf "Meet me here past midnight, i will go along with 'his' plan" as he is already leaving the elf looks down at the paper, the curiosity overwhelming for what thing could've make his officer laugh after being enraged?
The letter read,
For my dear Friend.
I have found her, and it seems your revenge against the Roya-
Suddendly, the letter began to catch on fire, leaving it unreadable.