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I'M SORRY, CASSIUS

ANDREE:

One of my ability is to let someone hear the story or information that was told me firsthand by the person who owns it, words and events were exactly what I knew based on how and what the owner exactly told me. I usually do this in dreams to persuade my target.

Let us allow Cassius Aka, Cesar to tell us his story. He told me this story on my 21st birthday.

CASSIUS:

I was 15, It was my younger sister’s birthday, we were a family of a fisherman, we never had a land of our own. We celebrated my sister’s birthday by fishing so we could go to the land and sell them in the market once done or in the morning depending on what time we would be done with the mass fishing.

In the middle of the celebration, we encountered two fishing boats. We were told to leave the area and stop the fishing activities that we were doing. 

My father answered back, “My friends we are all subjects of this country, we’re countrymen. You can join us in fishing here. This area is not part of the prohibited area. “

My older brother went up to our father and told him, “Father those boats are from Alkanta we need to go.”

Father replied in a soft voice, “I see,  Mr. Alon?” 

“Mother is on it” brother whispered.

Father addressed the Alkantan boat Captains, “Captains my apologies, we will be resting now, we will leave the area now. Thank you, my friends.”

We left the area and plotted our course heading back to the docks since the safer place is somewhere without the Alkantas. One of my brothers and I were assigned to navigate so father and the rest can have their rest. 

My sister who was staying at the stern ran to the bridge and told us that she spotted a small boat, we did not believe her at first because we had not seen any lights. 

When my sister mentioned Alkanta, we were alarmed. We tried to move faster, but then we saw a commercial fishing vessel 500 meters before us, we gradually slowed down to avoid any collision, we radioed to them that we would be taking the left side so they could stay where they were. 

We informed the other members of the family that we were having a situation again with the Alkantas. We received a response, and we were told that we need to stop. I told my brother not to stop since it was Alkantas, they have a reputation to be ruthless.

My brother told me that not reducing speed may be perceived as an aggression. We slowed down and signaled them that we are taking the north route.

They insisted that we stop, because if we take any route, we may collide to one of their boats.

My father told us to stop. Then my father went to the Bow and spoke with the Alkantans. 

“Sirs please let us go through which way we shall take that could avoid any collision with your boats.?

 While on the bridge, I saw my mother put down her phone, she was talking to someone earlier. She was crying while saying my father’s name. 

We have not received any response, 3 of the tugboats directed their spotlight on our boat, It was too bright that we can hardly see the surrounding waters,

Until we heard several tugging sounds within our boat, it was as if something landed on our boat. 

I went to my father to make sure someone was with him, he needed someone watching his back if we were talking about Alkantas.

All I can see were boats with Alkantas logo on them. A guy boarded our boat and ordered 2 tugboats to veer away the spotlight because it was hurting his eyes.

He was telling my father,

“You know we Alkantas will not just let anyone leave without giving anything as an offering. What do you have to offer an old man?

“You can take our harvest, all of them.” my father answered.

“Sure! Men take all of them!” he ordered.

I was so furious that time, but my father held my fist to cover them and told me something I could not accept because it means letting this mad man do whatever they want without fighting back.

They took all our harvests, then one of his men came up to him and whispered something, he handed him one of my sisters’ comb.

“Where are the ladies, hm? Captain?” he said while holding up the comb.

My father was quiet, I am too, I have a feeling that they were hidden at the bridge so kept my eyes away from it. My brothers were in the bridge with them, including mother.

The captain walked towards me, asked me, “boy do you know where the ladies went?”

I just kept quiet. He raised his head and said, “has someone checked the bridge?”

“No” his men answered, He asked two of his men to come with him. “Let’s go to the bridge, I just want to see their equipment and other things.”

“Sir Marco, I’ll go first,” one of the guys said. 

He went straight up to the bridge and shouted, “Marco! I found the girls!”

“I don’t need the equipment, bring down the girls!

I shouted “NO!” I tried to run towards the bridge and just saw the guy pull his knife and stabbed one of my brothers because the two of them struggled to protect my sisters and our mother.

I saw my brother holding his bleeding chest and drew out his small knife and slit the guy’s throat. 

There was too much blood.

Marco shouted, shoot him, I heard a gunshot and saw my brother fall from the bridge.  They killed him.

One guy went up to the bridge with a gun, pointing at them, if in any case anyone of them would do anything they did not like they could shoot them. There was another Alkantan man who sneaked behind my other brother, he held his neck and pointed the gun on his head. I know what they were going to do with them, I kept praying.

I kept struggling. As I saw them tying my 2 sisters on a pole. I was having my small knife cut through the rope around my wrists all along. My father was struggling too and begging for Marco to spare them.

Marco was already starting to touch my sister's body when I had my rope cut off.

I heard a thug, my other brother managed to take the gun from the Alkantan guy and shoot him, 

Marco was shouting, “Take him! Take him!”

I heard gunshots and saw my brother trying to shoot back at those men. He took down 3 of them then I saw him drop dead on the bridge floor.

Again, there were tugging noises and there were spotlights, I put my goggles on, I didn't know why I did that, but it lessened the bright light. 

I saw men in black bulletproof vests fighting with Marco’s men in our boat, there were gunshots everywhere, my father was shouting at me, “Go! Go!” 

I went to get my sisters; I was planning to get back at Marco, but he ran faster towards their boats and fled. 

My sisters were crying, one of them was stabbed as well, she was bleeding as I untied them, we went to get mother, we saw her hugging my brother’s dead body. 

I went back to get my father, I saw him running towards us, but one of the Alkntans that was fleeing away shot him, my father got him and tried to strangle him, without a second thought. I ran to them and slit this Alkantan’s throat, when I turned to father, I saw him bleeding and the last word he spoke was, “son”.

Cassius took it hard; they trusted the Alkantan’s captain that if they will leave, they can leave in peace. That trust costs him his two brothers, a sister, and a father.

He told me before that even trusting my real grandfather was not easy. The person who taught him to trust was my father, who cost his life because he trusted that there was still hope in humanity.