Visiting the family grave 2/2
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When the Zeppelin floated in the air, Leuco could hear a knock on his bedroom door, so he turned his head.
“Come in, please.”
The door to the room opened, and a waiter with a serving cart entered.
The waiter placed the plates of food, the ice bucket, the whiskey, a glass, an ashtray and the cigarettes on the table in the room, which had a lighter on them.
“If you need anything else, do not hesitate to call the service area. We will be ready to help you.”
After this, the waiter left the room and left Leuco alone, who sighed and stretched his hand towards the table.
From where he took the pack of cigarettes and the lighter, taking out a cigarette, he placed it over his mouth and used the lighter to light it.
With the smoke coming out of the cigarette, he began to smoke while he leaned back in the chair. While he saw the beautiful sky, a tear came out of his eyes.
Being able to remember that fateful day.
“Mr. Leuco, I am the legal representative of the downtown railway company.
We are saddened to tell you that your wife and children have died in an accident on one of our transports.
The accident occurred on one of our bridges, but as a legal representative, I am here to compensate you for the death of your family. “
Leuco watched in horror and disbelief as the man raised his hand and pulled out a check that had an absurd amount of money written on it.
“You only need to sign this letter of voluntary resignation to the investigation.”
Leuco, who stabs in a state of shock, was no longer paying attention so he unconsciously signed while the man handed him a check.
“The railroad company in the center is proud of its decision. I leave it not without first offering my condolences.”
Leuco, at that moment, fell to the ground with his knees and began to cry like a child, small because only then could he process the information.
Leuco, who was crying bitterly on that chair, used his hand to wipe his tears.
Before putting out the cigarette in the ashtray, it was about to run out.
Stretching out his hand, he took the bottle of whiskey and ignored the glass or ice, just uncapping it and starting to drink from it.
As he did so, he remembered how he was shown the bodies of his family or what was left of them.
The grotesque image only made him cry harder. For a few hours, he drank from the whiskey bottle and smoked cigarettes.
He was not thinking of stopping as he had a pain that was difficult to overcome. When his bottle of whiskey ran out, he got up from his seat and asked for another bottle using the phone in the room.
When the other bottle of whiskey arrived, the waiter looked at him with a look of compassion because, by his red eyes, he knew that Leuco was not well.
But company policies prevented him from intervening, so he could only do his job.
Leuco, on receiving the bottle, began to drink from it until he got drunk to a point where he simply lay on the wall and fell asleep while crying.
When he woke up, he realized that it was early morning and that he reeked of alcohol, so he just sighed.
The first thing he did was get up and take off his clothes to take a bath. When he entered the shower, he let the hot water wash away all the dirt.
When he finished bathing, he ate the food he had ordered the day before and decided to wait for the arrival at his destination while reading a book on overcoming the loss.
When the Zeppelin reached the docking port, a porter came to his room to help him with his suitcases as he got off the Zepelin.
He began to walk towards the taxi stand where, making a sign, he got on one of them.
“To the Trabáu hotel if you are so kind.”
The taxi driver nodded and began to drive through the busy streets of the city of Lutetia. After a few kilometers they encountered traffic so the taxi driver only sighed.
“At this time, there is always traffic as trucks with dirt enter and leave the construction area of the city’s metro.
I hope they finish soon because the traffic is too much in this place, but excuse me for asking, but you look like a military man. “
Leuco smiled “I am a lieutenant belonging to the human liberation army. How did you know I was a military man?”
The taxi driver showed a face full of pride “My son is called Rémi he is an air force pilot. He has a face like yours.
It’s just that he shows more passion for airplanes. Since he was a child, he was always on the test flights of the first airplanes.
Well, my brother is an important member of the aviation club of the Republic of Gallus, so he could see how these aircraft were created.
I don’t understand much of that, but I know it will become a weapon of defense against the elves.
Although if you ask me, I am afraid for the fate of my son because we do not know anything about elves ... “
Leuco kept listening to the man’s words as he looked out the window at the landscape.
When he arrived at the hotel, he left his things in his room and went to the cemetery, where once he arrived, he took a bucket of water and a cloth.
After walking through the different tombs, he came to two beautiful marble tombs which were together.
“I know it took too long to come this time, but the training sessions were difficult. Maybe I can also come in less and less time.
Because it is the last straight of training, mainly because the year of protection of the goddess will end and we will have to launch the war.
Although I cannot assure you that I will be able to return once the war begins, I will hire service in the cemetery so that their graves are always clean. “
Using the water, he wet the cloth and began to clean the tombstone of his wife and son.
As he did so, he remembered all the good times he had spent with them and continued talking to his family.
He told them all the things that had happened and how he had improved in the process with the constant training.
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