Twenty thousand years in the shadows. Twenty thousand years of being nobodies, he rubs his eyelids with his fingers. I thought I could do it myself, and the world said no. So I brought them on and things moved. But now it’s them who are trying to ruin me. Well, luckily no one knows who I really am. Being this old has its little perks. No marriage, child, child of a child, father and father of a father’s father really knows who I am, where I’ve been or what I am. And if all this goes down, I’ll take Perses with me and let them all burn down and turn to ash. All just so I can rebuild again. Twenty thousand years and it all feels like it started yesterday. He takes a deep breath. It doesn’t matter. Nothing is going to change. It didn’t change back then, it didn’t change ten years ago, it wont’ change twenty thousand years into the future. Time is on my side because I have purpose. I have my place in this world and I’ll have my rightful place in history. I’ll give them all the privilege of living a fulfilling life. He slams his hands on the table in front of him as he takes another deep breath. Now, let’s go to work, he says with a smile as he looks at his uniform.

Ten people, he says. It’s going to be easy, he says. We should be discrete, he says. There are ten billion people on this god forsaken planet. How are we supposed to find someone unloved, unhappy and without any sort of company? Asks Hyperion. Don’t you worry to much, says Thea. The rest of 28 starts talking one over the other. Dione screams over them as they slowly go silent. It is fairly easy, says Lelantos. We the outcasts. The bad guys. The scum of the scum. They all look confused. And where do you find them? Asks Metis. Under what rock did you guys live until now? Asks Lelantos. Listen, dear. We don’t all care much for what happens in this world. It is irrelevant, it’s plain, boring and nothing short of insufferable, says Eos. She’s right. Our focus has been on this. To gather our funds. To strengthen our bonds. Especially after what happened ten years ago, says Astraeus. Lelantos sighs. Well then… About a hundred thousand years ago, there was a law passed regarding all criminal activity. Fifty thousand years ago, it was amended to include solutions for those crimes and how to change the behavior of those criminals. And ten thousand years ago, it had its definite version passed into law. A law we still abide by today because we can’t change the fundamentals of our DNA and our personalities…

The twenty nine now are all a murmur as they discuss trying to figure out what Lelantos was talking about. Okay, but what is exactly your plan? And what is this law you are speaking of? Asks Crius. Lelantos starts smiling from ear to ear. It’s the literal law of equivalency. Why do you think the police, be it secret or not, even still exist? Why do you think we still have something so ridiculous as armies or borders? We can’t fundamentally change who we are. This law proves the need for all those services. Why? Because that means that no matter how many times you smash the brains of a man, woman or child, they’ll still grow up to be the same type of being. That’s what I am suggesting, to go after those criminals, those that give us the need for this law. The pedophiles, the rapists, the murderers and the psychopaths of this world. Sure, they can look like they live normal lives, but you can never know what they hide inside their sick minds.. Those are the people abandoned by friends, by family, by any sort of hope. How do we find them? Easy. There’s a public registry with each and every single one of their names and addresses. Now, each choose one. Follow them. See what they do. Who they work with. And if it’s safe. We’ll snatch them.

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