#trying to scale down some skin detail files so I want to make everyone more cohesive?yeah

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updated some of my ocs!!!!

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Holding Hands

Synopsis: Essek tours the tower for the first time and he and Caleb have some honest talks. A little bit of angst and a little bit of fluff. Just how I like my wizards. 

It had been a long day in Eiselcross. The Mighty Nein were all weary on their feet, many of them hurt from their various encounters along the way and everyone could probably use the rapport boost of a warm bed and good food. Still Caleb was leary of using the tower when Lucien had proven he could easily dispel it.

“But Caleb” Jester pleaded while grabbing onto his arm with her charming little mittens. “If Lucien’s not nearby yet then we wasted a night of good, safe rest. Wouldn’t it be better to fight him with a good night of sleep before? And besides, the tower is harder to find than the dome.” and she blinked up at him with that particular Jester pout that Caleb found particularly difficult to resist.

“Ja… we could…” He left room for Fjord or Beau to interject with a discussion of the best tactical decision, but they were surprisingly quiet. He glanced at them and saw that Beau was leaning hard against the wall, favouring the leg that hadn’t been hurt in their last run in and trying to play it off. Fjord’s face was etched with exhaustion. That settled it for Caleb. It was worth the boost in moral that an evening in the tower would provide… even if it served to be only a temporary situation. “Ja. We could” He repeated more firmly and began his preparations for the tower.

It was a challenging spell and Caleb had plenty of experience tuning out his companions when doing this work, but Beau and Caduceus couldn’t help but notice the almost imperceptible pause and tensing of Caleb’s shoulders that accompanied Jester grabbing Essek and delightedly declaring:

“Oh, Essek you are going to love the tower! And not just because it’s all wizardy and stuff but Caleb made it so nice. There are lots of cats, and everyone has a special nice room - I bet he’ll make one special for you” she pumped her eyebrows “- and the cats make like WHATEVER food you want! It’s amazing!”

Essek responded in the slightly shaken way he did whenever he encountered the full force of Jester’s jovial attentions:

“I-I-’m certain that it is. I wouldn’t expect anything less from a talented wizard.” and Essek looked hard at Caleb’s back for a moment and then looked away with a perceptible sadness in his eyes but Jester pushed on as was her way:

“Pro-tip: call all of the cats to come snuggle you. You will never. Sleep. Better.”

“I’ll have to remember that.” Essek said nodding at her and trying to extricate himself from where she had her arms wrapped around his. He floated over to the wall to drift near Beau where he expected he would be left to sit in sullen silence, which was what he wanted. He wanted to observe everything about how Caleb cast this spell. This was the kind of magic he wasn’t particularly familiar with and it was endlessly fascinating. To his surprise he was interrupted by Beau leaning close to him and whispering savagely under her breath:

“If you talk shit about Caleb’s tower, I will fucking kill you. I know you’re a supposed to be amazing and all but it’s clear your opinion matters to him, so you better play nice got it?” Essek visibly deflated in response but whispered back with a surprising intensity.

“I understand that I have not given you much to trust Beauregard, but if there is one thing you can, please trust in my respect for all of your abilities. Even if you believe me to be arrogant, foolish or any other of the myriad of likely accurate and unflattering descriptions you may have in your mind, please know that you have each earned my respect time and time again and Caleb more so than anyone. If anything, I wish to prove my capabilities as an ally to you... not judge yours.” Before Beau could respond, Caduceus (who hears just about everything) put an arm around Essek and spoke.

“That’s nice.” and looked at Essek with a natural sense of hope that Essek couldn’t tolerate so he stared hard into the ground.

“Ready” Caleb said to the group. Those who knew him well picked up on the slight nerves in his voice. It would have been easy to attribute it to the long day of difficult travel, but they were all inclined to think that it was more likely to do with the wizard floating a few feet behind the rest of the group with a curious light filling his eyes. They began to file in and Jester paused at the back of the group to whisper to Caleb conspiratorially:

“Don’t worry. He’s going to like it.” and as she stepped inside, she threw her voice out to obviously and loudly proclaim:

“Oh, Caleb it is as beautiful as always! You are so talented! So amazing! So…” as she paused to look for the next description Veth cut in:

“Truly powerful. One might say a prodigy” She said making eye contact with Essek in a less than kind way before beginning to float upwards.

“Yes!” Jester began as she too started drifting upwards “an absolute prodigy! The best ever!” she feigned swooning and Beau cut her off.

“Yeah, yeah Caleb’s great. We get it. What’s for supper?”

“Uh ja” Caleb started, and he summoned a cat nearby “please prepare a good-sized roast and several -uh- vegetable dishes for our pink friend here and also some black moss cupcakes please.”

“Thank you” Caduceus said and began drifting upwards following the rest of the group. Essek looked like he was about to say something until Fjord shouted:

“UP!” right next to him and nearly caused him to leap out of his skin though he quickly recovered his unflappable mask. Everyone drifted up whilst chatting until it was just Caleb and Essek left on the platform.

“Ah I see.” Essek said as he began drifting up off the platform. “A clever design.”

“I thought that scaling many staircases seemed less than enjoyable after a day of adventuring.” Caleb put in, clearly trying to keep the pleasure at the compliment out of his voice.

“Actually, I was rather inspired by a time we found ourselves in the astral sea briefly.”

“Indeed” Essek said having some experience with the nature of that space. “I don’t believe I have heard that story yet.” He continued.

“Probably you will, some day” Caleb said and Essek could sense that this meant the tale of that particular adventure contained sensitive information, information that Caleb did not trust Essek with and he looked at his floating feet once more, unable to make eye contact with the closest friend he had had in years who was saying in no uncertain terms that he was still not to be trusted completely.

“Ah I see… someday then”.

Caleb didn’t want to leave the mood too low for too long. Afterall, he wanted to tell Essek every detail about those halls and their experiences there, but the happy fun ball seemed like it would probably be more of a temptation than was necessarily a good idea, especially if the two of them could work on it together. So, he began floating on ahead and offered Essek his hand.

“Would you like the tour then?” Essek briefly looked up at Caleb floating above him, stretching his hand down to carry him up to his level and couldn’t help but feel the weight of the visual representation of their situation. Caleb looking down, wreathed in light from above while Essek looked up at him and reached for his hand. It was almost like an art piece and he hated to give in to the symbolism.

Still, he grabbed Caleb’s hand and thought “up” to himself until they were level. Much to his surprise Caleb kept their hands intertwined as they floated up to the first floor and it was almost enough to distract Essek from the beautiful library they found themselves in next. Almost. He was a wizard after all. He couldn’t resist the sight of any good collection of books. Essek quickly moved over to the nearest shelf and began scanning title after title and slowly came to a realization.

“You create this space anew every time, correct? It’s not permanently established?”

“Ja, I create it new every time, though I try to keep it close to the same for the most part.”

“So, all of these… these only exist here meaning that these are simply books that you have memorized?” He said with audible admiration.

“Ja. I have a good mind for storing facts.” and he watched as Essek pulled a book from the shelves and began thumbing through pages and couldn’t help but feel to a certain degree as if he was being tested. Essek saw that these books were not just visual representations or the spines of Caleb’s favourite books but complete volumes, written exactly as they were. He found himself feeling that odd mix of jealousy, admiration and something else that he hadn’t quite pinned down that often-accompanied Caleb’s displays of mental prowess. He looked back at Caleb, and though he had had trouble meeting the fellow wizard’s eyes for days - he did not want to see Caleb’s disappointment - he felt compelled to make strong eye contact now to drive home his point.

“I am considered excellent at what I do. I have a keen mind. But this… this is astounding even to me.” Caleb felt the weight of his eyes on him and felt himself flushing somewhat.  

“Well… this is available to you if you wish to read, though I must let you know that many of them are in my original tongue and plenty of these are repeated. Though I have a great love of reading, I have found that I cannot fill an entire library with only my own knowledge just yet.” Essek waved his hand dismissively and Caleb saw just a small hint of the old, confident Essek peek thorough.

“I have arcane means at my disposal to translate. That is not a problem. I thank you.” He bowed his head slightly and stashed a book under his arm.

“But this is only the first floor? Though I would be happy to remain here in the library if that were your wish, I would gladly see more if you would show me?” Though he masked it well from his voice, Caleb could sense the hunger, the eagerness to see more that was familiar to him. Not for the first time, Caleb longed for simpler times in the other wizard’s tower when there was no betrayal hanging between them, simply peers enjoying the pursuit of knowledge and each other's company. Now even the memory of their victory that day felt tainted with the cost of how Essek had acquired much of his knowledge. Caleb pulled himself out of the spiral and offered:

“There is more to seen to be sure. Come. I’ll show you” and he proffered his hand once again. He knew Essek was perfectly capable of following but there was a small part of Caleb that couldn’t resist the small bit of pleasant contact between them that felt safe and distant enough, at least until he could make up his mind about what to do about Essek. Essek for his part noted the texture of Caleb’s hand, memorizing it and studying his internal reaction for future reference- when he had time to unpack all that was causing him to feel. He also noticed the scars just visible at the bottom of the arm of Caleb’s coat but chose not to interrupt this small precious moment of goodwill with a question that may bring up pain for Caleb.

And so, Caleb showed him the majority of the lower levels, going from place-to-place hand in hand, to a point where both hands were clammy and almost asleep but neither wizard was willing to give up their tenuous bond just yet. Essek thought the summoning space in the hall was “quite a brilliant solution” and Caleb informed Essek that he had had to install tiny locking doors on his cat travel system after Jester’s first polymorph escapade and thank goodness he had for Jester decided to provide Lucien with that little tidbit of advice upon first arriving. This caused Essek to actually laugh out loud which took Caleb by surprise.

“Yes, I am unsurprised by this. Jester is a talented person in her own right, but I would not describe her as pragmatic in any sense of the word.” Essek chuckled again. Caleb stopped and looked down at their joined hands a moment.

“Herr Theylyss, may I ask you something? It may be personal” Essek felt a pit of concern begin turning in his stomach but responded:

“Uh- why yes. I thought you were aware that I have made the decision to be fully -uh honest with you ever since… yes you may.” Caleb noted that Essek was fidgeting with his other hand.

“I had wondered why you seem more comfortable around Jester when it is clear that you still struggle to be at ease around … the rest of us at times? I understand that Jester is very talented at - uh-bringing out the best in people shall we say but… I had wondered…” Essek thought for a moment.

“I believe the answer is twofold. Firstly, Jester was the voice of your group to me for many months. It was through her that I was first annoyed with you all, then simply exasperated and then, I will admit, excited to hear from you. In my perspective she was the voice of my...my first friends. I believe to some degree I still expect her intrusions” He looked away at this “Secondly, I know I disappointed her as I disappointed each of you when I… when my decisions came to light but I can tell that Jester wants to forgive me and believes in the good she sees in me, just as Caduceus has hoped for me but I suppose, with the rest of you, in many ways I know that the damage is done and that the days of eating and drinking in that ridiculous hot tub are well over and I-” he paused to collect his thoughts “though I know I deserve it, it can be difficult to face that our bonds will never be what I was hoping they would be.” Essek hadn’t met Caleb’s eyes through this whole speech but a visible dark purple flush was creeping across his features.

“Ah I see.” Caleb began, “yes Jester’s capacity for seeing the positives in life is an admirable quality but” Caleb touched Essek’s chin feather light and turned his face towards him. “You do us a disservice if you think that each of us does not hold hope that you will redeem yourself or see the best in you. You would not be here if we didn’t but I have already told you… it takes time.” Both of them thought back to the moment of his discovery when Caleb managed to stop an oncoming panic attack in its tracks with a kiss on the forehead and his stalwart belief in Essek’s capacity to redeem himself. Looking into his eyes now, Essek saw something almost worse than his worst fear and the reason he been avoiding Caleb’s gaze. He had expected to see disappointment, sadness or even derision in Caleb’s eyes but instead he saw a warmth and a genuine affection that he felt undeserving of. It was never something he had seen before from anyone else; not in the eyes of his parents or siblings, the bright queen, or even his students that viewed him with adoration. Caleb had looked at him that way a few times before but Essek had not dared to hope that look remained after his deceptions were revealed. He felt a wetness swelling in his eyes, but he couldn't pull his gaze away, desperately catching every last second of affection that he could. Caleb was glad to see behind Essek’s carefully laid mask to know that he was being heard and heard truly. He ran his thumb over the soft purple skin along Essek’s jaw.

“Time.” He reiterated. Then he pulled his gaze away and broke them both out of the moment. He dropped Essek’s hand, afraid he’d clench too tightly if he didn’t, taken by a swarm of his own emotions of hurt, betrayal, and still warm caring and concern “I better leave you a little time before supper to clean up ja? Come. I will show you your room.” Essek didn’t say anything but simply nodded, hoping to clamber his mask of semi-indifference back into place.

They got to the landing with all of the doors to the individual bedrooms and both caught a glance into Yasha’s bedroom where Jester could be seen to be braiding Yasha’s hair in a particularly spectacular updo.

“Do you think Beau will like it?” Yasha wondered while looking in the mirror.

“Oh Yasha! She will love it!” Jester started a whole torrent of compliments before Caleb opened the door to the guest bedroom and both of them were distracted by the reveal.

Caleb had a tense knot in his stomach as Essek cautiously stepped, or floated rather, forward. He had hoped that this room could act as a small kind of gift, to show Essek that he still held space for him.

It was a chamber much like the rest of the bedrooms with its bathtub and fireplace, but Caleb had modified the architecture to be more reminiscent of Xhorhos, more specifically the design Caleb had seen in Essek’s tower. The furniture was inspired by that as well, though in different arrangements to accommodate the layout. Fine silver instruments laid upon the desk. Wall hangings precisely as they had appeared in Essek’s tower. There was space for mucking about and chalkboards for scribbling out theories. There was a small library space that was empty save for the books Caleb placed in every room and the large comfortable reading chair in the deep blue velvet that Caleb remembered, with the important distinction that this reading nook had two reading chairs as opposed to the one in Essek’s original study. Caleb watched as Essek floated from place to place taking in the details.

“Uh-ja” he interjected as Essek moved toward the desk. “I only included instruments I could recall from the limited view of your tower I had but if you require more, I have a study and lab that I share with Veth that you are welcome to share with us if you should have anything you wish to work on.” Essek moved over to touch one of the velvet chairs and Caleb cut in again:

“I have – that is- I know what it is like to be far from a patriot but to still miss home so I thought I could include a few familiar touches” Essek nodded silently, and Caleb worried he may have missed the mark.  Essek finally spoke near the bed:

“I haven’t used a bed in many years. I typically just trance at the desk in my study.”

“I was worried you’d say that” Caleb said rushing forward in a fervor that he only acquired when he’d had a particularly exciting idea “thus I have innovated something for wizards everywhere. This will save our necks and shoulders” He tugged on a cord by the bed and revealed on the roof of the four poster was a chalkboard with a floating bit of chalk. He laid down excitedly and pointed up and continued “it works much like transit throughout the space. Simply think what you wish, and the chalk will begin to draw” and the chalk began drawing the figures related to fortunes favor from Caleb’s notes. “This way you may think and rest your body at the same time.” Essek was craning to look up at the chalk board with a small look of amusement glowing in his eyes. It truly was a good idea but far better was the excitement in his friend that accompanied it.

“Truly inspired” he affirmed and began peering around the rest of the space when his eyes landed on the stained glass above the fireplace. Essek floated over to peer at it and Caleb sat up to watch him. The stained glass depicted the Xorhaus as the nein affectionately called the home Essek’s Den had gifted them during their time in Xorhos, with the tree growing up out of it with it’s glittering branches. And in the house could be seen 8 colourful figures sitting around a hot tub. All of the mighty nein were silhouetted in their signature colours and in the very centre were two male silhouettes looking at one another. One purple and one orange. They seemed to be laughing in their pose. Below this there was a scroll that read “Welcome to the Mighty Nein!”.

Essek’s feet hit the floor with a loud thud as he stared at this stained-glass piece. Caleb had never seen Essek lose concentration in his levitating outside of a fight before and instinctually stood up. Essek looked over and then down at his feet somewhat embarrassed.

“My apologies, uh, I just didn’t expect…” and he moved to begin the spell again.

“You have nothing to prove to me Essek.” Caleb cut him off and essek let the spell die, looking back up to the stained glass.

“I had hoped to provide you a sense of home here, but I apologize if I misjudged or over stepped. I had already designed that stained glass before our discussion earlier and I see now that it may be more harmful than helpful. Tomorrow night I can-

“It is perfect.” Essek said quietly as he stepped, actually stepped, towards Caleb, looking as if he was searching for the right thing to say before landing on:

“Thank you. I am humbled by your insight and your skill.” Caleb looked uncomfortable at such high praise and stood, uncertain what to do with himself for several moments before he began moving toward the door.

“Supper in the dining room in fifteen minutes” he said, fleeing all of the feelings that Essek’s presence had caused.

Essek spent the next fifteen minutes in quiet contemplation about the feeling of one hand in another until he heard Caleb shouting as he descended from his room:

“Supper is ready. Please come down everyone.”

Essek opened his door as the other’s spilled onto the landing as well. He heard a massive noise from upstairs roughly the direction Caleb had specified for the lab and everyone paused to look up until Veth leaned out the door with ash covering her face and said:

“I’ll be down in 5 minutes!”

“Is everything alright?” Fjord asked semi-suspiciously.

“Absolutely! Everything is fine. Perfectly and absolutely fine.” smoke was billowing out of the door and dissipating. “I just need five minutes for um...lady stuff. BE RIGHT DOWN!” she shouted as she slammed the door closed again. The rest of the mighty nein seemed to shrug somewhat to Essek’s dismay:

“Should we help her?” he enquired.

“She’s more likely to bite than accept help she hasn’t asked for” Fjord chuckled. “She does this from time to time. I’m sure it’s fine. Besides, I’m starving”. Fjord wrapped an arm around Jester and hopped off the landing and said “Down!” and they began descending. Essek could hear Jester going:

“Oh Oskar! You are so strong” and the beginnings of Fjord’s protest at the jibe.

Meanwhile Beau and Yasha were squaring off and Essek wasn’t certain if they were likely to kiss or fight or both.

“You look...really good Yasha.”

“You like it? I had never tried this style in my hair before.”

“Essek, tell Caleb we’re skipping dinner.” Beau said with some fervor

“What-” Essek began before his question was answered by Beau pulling Yasha into her room and slamming the door. “Ah… I see”. A sudden thud could be heard from the otherside of the door and Essek did not wish to question what had caused it. Suddenly a large hand was patting him on the shoulder.

“You get used to it” Caduceus said.

“What is that?”

“Being a part of something.” Caduceus finished with another pat on the shoulder, then he began to descend for supper as if he hadn’t said something that hit Essek at his very core.

They had a pleasant supper all together and planned some tactics for the next day before everyone adjourned to their various places of rest for the night. Essek went over to the library and collected an armful of books. Frumkin appeared through a little gap in the wall and Essek leaned down to him.

“Do you have a message from your master?” he said hopefully. Frumkin just butted up against him looking to be pet.

“Do you require something?” Frumkin flopped at Essek’s feet. In this moment alone, he smiled a small smile for the cat that contained none of his usual bravado. He crouched down to pet Frumkin exceedingly gently. After a few moments Frumkin was purring loudly.

“I’m glad we are still good friends at least” Essek sighed. “Do you wish to enjoy some reading with me?” Frumkin gave a slight meow that seemed like a yes and Essek picked him up and placed him on his shoulder giving him a little nuzzle on the way. They began to ascend to Essek’s room and Caleb watched them go. He felt somewhat disappointed in himself for this scheme, particularly after seeing Essek’s sweet nature with his cat, but he would not be fooled twice.

Once safely in his room Caleb watched Essek through frumkin’s eyes. He watched and waited and expected some sort of betrayal though he did not hope for one. He waited until everyone else had gone to bed and Essek was the only one remaining awake. He had expected Essek may message someone, scry or even perhaps begin taking notes of the tower. In that whole time Essek had done nothing but read and cast comprehend languages. Eventually Caleb realized he wasn’t going to do anything else. He wasn’t going to betray them. He then spent the better part of an hour wrestling with himself and doing a good amount of internal reflection before coming to a decision. He went down to knock quietly on Essek’s door.

“Yes?” Essek asked, coming to the door in the least precisely put together look Caleb had ever seen from the wizard. His hair was amuck in places, his robe was gone and the shirt beneath was half untucked and he had the slight dark purple imprint on his cheek where he had been leaning his hand. It made him look more approachable than his typical visage as the “Shadowhand”. Perhaps more endearing too.Caleb also noted he wasn’t floating and wondered if that was to do with his earlier comment.

“Have you happened to have seen my cat?” Caleb enquired. Essek was not fooled by the pretense, knowing that Caleb could summon Frumkin at will, but played along.

“Ah my apologies, I have been detaining him to keep me company while I read.” At this Frumkin ran out of the door and began weaving between Caleb’s legs.

“So, this is where you were?” Caleb enquired of him in mock surprise.

“Yes, well it seemed fitting to have him around while reading my first empire fairy tales about such a one.” Essek said brandishing the book.

“You read der katzenprinz?” Caleb asked, legitimately surprised. He had assumed that Essek would have immediately gravitated towards the arcane books.

“I started with another regarding transmutation but this one seemed a bit of an odd one out in the collection so I assumed it must be of some importance to you…” Essek paused getting slightly embarrassed and then noticing how long they had been standing in the doorway.

“Would you like to come in?”

“Actually, I had a thought, if you are too tired, we don’t have to but,” he looked almost pained and rubbed his hand across his mouth and he seemed to make a decision or resolve himself “but we had not quite finished our tour I think.”

“Oh” Essek was somewhat surprised but still eager. “Yes absolutely. Lead the way.” He placed the book on a nearby table while Frumkin ran to his exit in a hole in the wall. As they began to ascend. Essek spoke up softly:

“Is there a reason that Fjord always declares his direction?”

“Other than showmanship? Absolutely not.” Caleb replied.  At this Essek grinned while Caleb opened up the next level.

“I ask that you never come up here without me please Herr Theylyss. Please” he repeated while making pointed eye contact.

“Of course. Whatever it is your wish.” Essek responded genuinely but somewhat surprised as they came to a room full of doors. “What is this place?”

Caleb did not reply but instead said:

“I have only shown the others of the mighty nein this place.” and he opened the door labelled 1. Caleb closed the door behind them as Essek stepped into the humble space and began looking around.

“What is the significance of this house?” He asked before noting the far off look in Caleb’s face.

“Well, I wanted you to know why I found your choices so challenging to ignore. I wanted you to know why it is that I seem to understand so deeply the challenges you face in learning to forgive yourself for what you have done for it is still something I struggle with myself. Deeply.” Essek could sense the gravity of the space for Caleb and came closer.

“I wish you  for to know, as I know your greatest transgression, but you do not know mine and it seems there is an unfair imbalance between us  of late that I  hope to dispel.” Essek was surprised that Caleb thought there was anything comparable to his “transgression” as he put it but thought back to some of the sadness in Caleb and some of the truth in his eyes whenever he talked about the path ahead of Essek and knew there must be something  substantial coming.

“This was my home. I am sure it may be challenging for you to imagine ,coming from such a high-ranking family, but we were happy here.”

“Wealth does not inherently create happy families. In fact, I think it is likely the opposite” Essek put in softly. Caleb nodded and pointed to the small kitchen counter:

“My mother used to make bread here. She used to allow me to take small portions of the dough while she was kneading it and I would make little figures. I would -uh- use them as puppets and tell her stories of magnificent wizards who saved all of the empire from the evil creatures that threatened it. She would turn them into small buns when I was finished and told me that if I ate them, it was like making a wish, and that one day I might become that powerful wizard.” Caleb touched the surface of the table and closed his eyes for a long moment. Essek tentatively put a hand on his shoulder which remained until Caleb went over to the hearth.

“This is where I learned to love fire. My father would feed the flames and show me how to keep it well. He’d tell me that fire could hurt and burn but it could also sustain life. Once I became old enough to manage without harming myself, he let me create the fire every night to practice. Later I practiced control flames here, the first spell I ever learned from a spell book.” Caleb turned to Essek and held his gaze. Essek saw the shame and pain that was written in Caleb’s features.

“You have killed many good people in your thirst for knowledge and power. I … I am no different. I killed good, loving people who only wished that I could have been the powerful wizard who saved the empire… “Caleb swallowed and realization sunk in for Essek. “I killed my family and destroyed this home as a result of Trent Ikathon’s teaching methods. It was seen as a ‘required step in becoming the capable wizards we needed to be to protect our nation’. Still to this day he attests that it is what my family would have wanted though I don’t think our stories in the kitchen could have ever prepared them for their end.” Caleb paused attempting to collect himself. His hands were shaking a great deal, but he pushed forward “I have only just begun the journey to forgiving myself. I keep this room here, not to torture myself but to ensure that this happy home is never forgotten, never lost. Each room on this floor is a moment to be captured and preserved. I will show you another.” A few tears had fallen on Caleb’s face, but he did not seem to notice. Essek didn’t have feel he had an adequate response, but he did not want to leave this space without saying anything.

“You have performed your own dunemancy here. You fixed this in time. It is beautiful. Thank you for showing it to me.” Essek said, hoping he did not say the wrong thing. He had very limited experience with people he would consider loved ones and he had never lost one. Caleb didn’t say anything, but he nodded a thank you and pulled Essek across the hall to another room. It was Caleb’s bedroom in the xorhaus. Essek recognized it immediately by the charming cat figurines on the shelf.

“This was the space where you first entrusted me with dunamancy but I did not preserve it for this reason… I did so because it was the first time we worked together, and I realized you were very much someone I wished to know more. I saw a like mind in you...Essek, I understand exactly what the cost of knowledge and power can be and the folly of chasing them, you have seen this now, but I also understand that draw, that pull of power in a way almost no one else will. I know how easy it is to slip off the path and become a tool for destruction once more, and this is why I find it difficult to fully trust you as you have proven to me that we are too similar, and I do not trust myself even with that.” He had finally said it out loud. Essek had been hanging on the word trust ever since Caleb had said he was more trusted than Trent Ikathon, but here it was. More did not mean much at all. And how could Essek blame him when he was correct? They were very much alike, that was one of the things that had drawn Essek in and convinced Essek to teach Caleb dunamancy against his better judgement. Essek looked and stared at a cat figurine, willing his breath to slow, his eyes to focus. He did not understand what it was particularly that hurt him so much about Caleb having a perfectly, reasonably low opinion of him.

Caleb saw Essek beginning to have difficulty containing his emotions and he closed the space between them to once again place a small kiss on Essek’s forehead before placing his own against it. He put a hand around Essek’s neck gently pulling them together.  

“I have said it takes time and I believe that. My path out of the pit did not move straight forward and I had many setbacks, but I have begun the journey. I did so by taking small steps -and sometimes large ones - every day to leave the world slightly better than I found it.  I will never expunge my past crimes, but I can hope to maybe outweigh them in my overall impact on this world. I see you at the beginning of this journey and I know that one of the most important things in the path to redemption was having companions who walked alongside me on my way to finding it. Having the mighty nein who cared for me and loved me unconditionally, despite these terrible pieces of my past was so...essential… in my ability to begin to overcome them.” His whole body seemed to be sagging with the weight of the world and he pulled away to look in into his eyes “Essek, I know it is easy to see only our faults and everything we have done wrong, but I also know that I am still worthy of forgiveness by some, I am still worthy of friendship and chances to redeem myself and even still worthy of love. And I do not believe this myself many days but Veth and the rest of the nein refuse to allow me to forget it and on days when my belief is not enough, theirs is. And that makes me wish to strive to continue to be worthy of their belief in me. You see?”

Essek was nodding but Caleb could see he was drowning in all of his thoughts.

“Come. I have one more room to show you.” He said gently and walked out of this room. Essek blinked and felt the suddenly jarring distance between them and followed Caleb out of the room. His mind was a swarm.

Caleb placed his hands out for Essek who looked at him somewhat quizzically but took them, nonetheless. They floated up while facing one another to the final floor and Caleb revealed it to him. The floor inspired by dunamancy. Essek’s jaw dropped, and his head swivelled as he took in the room.

“It is no secret that I have a great interest in your craft, but I bring you up here not to remind you of all the power to be gained or lost but to show you of what you already have. You have unlocked so many secrets of the world, but you were never given the chance to study the most important lesson. One that also eluded me for many years. All of this “Caleb gestured out” feels so important, the stretching endless expanse of time and the motes of possibility that we can affect. But” he said firmly “It is not nearly as important as the moment we are living right now, and the people that we share that with.” Essek peeled his eyes off the expanse around them and turned his attention back to Caleb who was looking at him with an expression that he had only seen once before as they unlocked the key to the transmogrification spell. It was a mix of adrenaline, elation, apprehension and excitement. Caleb was building up to something and all Essek could do was be shocked that he was floating in this space of utter beauty and being looked at like that, as if he were the most important thing in the room, as if he was a great spell Caleb was trying to learn the inner workings of.

He began to understand the lesson Caleb was trying to impart as he could not pull his eyes away, despite being surrounded by a veritable playground for his mind, his focus was solely affixed to Caleb and what he would say next. He understood what Caleb meant to say with this room about what really mattered in a way that surprised even Essek himself. Caleb tightened his grasp on Essek’s hands and continued.

“If you will allow me to, herr Theylyss, I wish to do for you what has been done for me. I wish to be the person that reminds you that you can and will find your way back to the light. I wish to be the person who believes in you when you cannot believe in yourself, though I suspect I already have Jester’s help with that.” he quirked a small smile “ I wish to be the one who keeps you in the moment and moving forward. I wish to hold your hand” and he looked down at their joined hands “through your journey to finding yourself.” He squeezed their hands together tightly and then he looked back up with nerves clattering “Essek, you are important to me and I have felt a bond with you since the first time we studied together.  That has not gone or broken the way you seem to believe. You have hurt me, yes, but I am still here to hold your hand and hoping that you will prove that my forgiveness is not for nothing. Hoping that you will find a way to be prove that all of this love that I feel for you is not unjustified... for I do not wish for it go to waste.” He searched Essek’s expression and found it unreadable.

Years of practice freezing his face in moments of panic had caused Essek to almost completely shut down while he attempted to process a response. He pulled away from Caleb slightly and sought to pull his hands into a robe he realized he wasn’t wearing. He wished he could hide how his hands were inclined to fidget.

“I uh-” He began “This is much to process.” Essek stammered out. Caleb was already feeling disappointment seep in. He knew that he had thrown a lot of uncomfortable feelings at Essek in a short amount of time, but he had hoped that there would be at least a degree of enthusiasm for his final declaration. Still, he did not want to pressure Essek.

“Of course.” Caleb said failing to hide his disappointment. “I will leave you to your thoughts Herr Theylyss” he said nodding in a formal way.

Essek was still simply busy processing the word love. He was turning it over in his mind and examining it as it was a fully novel concept to him. He tested out how it felt as a description of that odd feeling of warmth in his chest and stomach when he saw Caleb get excited, or smile, or that small tug at an invisible rope in his chest that could be felt when he saw Caleb being good at, well, almost anything. He considered if that had been why Caleb’s opinion had mattered so much more than most. And here he was, standing before Essek and telling him that he could have that love returned. That he felt that way about him. That he was somehow deserving despite all of the things that he had done.

He thought then how he had felt nothing but sympathy and sorrow for Caleb as he heard of what he had done to his parents. He did not blame him for his foolishness in trusting and believing in the things Trent Ikathon had said. Could Essek really be given the same grace?

Around the time that Caleb was just beginning to descend out of the room, Essek’s mind finally caught up with what he had said.

“No!” Essek shouted. “No. No. I did not mean it this way. I just-“ Essek took a breath and felt the mask slipping away and for once he allowed himself to be laid bare in front of someone. Caleb rose back up to his level. “I don’t know if I have ever been loved in the way that you have described. It simply took me a moment to understand. You spoke of loving parents, but I have never been more than a means to end for my family. I was a product of incredible amounts of pressure but never loving care or attention. I was to be useful. Then I became the shadowhand and I had to be distant from the rest. It was my duty to be useful to the bright queen, but it only alienated me further from my peers. It made it easy to betray them when the chance was offered because I had never been close with any of them. I regret so much of what I have done, all the pain that I have caused” Essek grabbed at his own hair and Caleb was surprised to see him allowing himself to be this expressive “but it is made far worse now knowing what friendship and love can be like. To think that I caused people to go off and fight in a war that did not matter and worse that both sides felt losses comparable to what I would feel if you were to be harmed. It feels almost unbearable to know that I could have caused that much pain” Essek began sputtering, tears streaming down his face. “And still, you stand before me and say that I am worthy of redemption and that I am worthy of love?” Essek was ranting now but it was as if so many of the feelings he had always held down couldn’t help but burst forth now that they were given a small bit of freedom. Caleb wrapped his arms around him and held him close, with one hand stroking his hair. Essek rambled on “you had it right when you said I had missed an essential lesson along the way. How could I have been so blinded by my research and studies to never see that the people they would benefit were the point, not knowledge for knowledge’s own sake? And still, you hold me as if I am something precious rather than wretched. It is a kindness greater than I deserve for truthfully, I can tell that you know the weight of what you have done, but until today, until now, I still had never comprehended the depths of the pain my actions caused… to so many.”

At this Essek dissolved into sobs and Caleb held him through them. He kept stroking Essek’s hair and gave him small soft kisses on the top of his hair and waited for the sobbing to peter out. He did everything he wished someone could have done for him when he was going through this. Eventually it seemed Essek had cried himself out. He was still shaking and there were tear lines stained into his purple skin, but he pulled himself back a little to look at Caleb. Before Essek could apologize again Caleb said again:

“It takes time.” Essek nodded sadly and put his hand out for Caleb who clasped it and kissed it his knuckles lightly. “But.” Caleb continued “that does not mean you must spend it alone. I meant what I said. If you wish to be loved and reminded of all the things you are worth and what makes the moment worth living in, I am happy to offer that to you. And perhaps together we can work to make the world a little bit better than when we found it ja? So no other young people go unloved or get led astray?”

Essek was still feeling a whole spectrum of emotions but was able to centre himself enough to unabashedly meet Caleb’s eyes and spoke.

“Yes, I think I would very much like to do that, but with one stipulation.” Caleb smiled at the return of some of Essek’s former, confident demeanor “I know you have many in your life with more experience in affection than I, but I would like to offer my love, as … untested as it imay be, in trade. Together we can hypothesize,experiment and test its bounds until you believe it is up to your standards? Do these conditions seem fair to you?” Caleb was smiling in a way that made Essek pleased, and caused him to consider being reckless once more.

“Ja I think that is accepta-” and before Caleb could finish, Essek pulled him into a kiss. He wrapped his arms around Caleb’s waist and Caleb’s hands found their way into Essek’s hair. They kissed deeply and with the release of the many conflicting emotions both of them had felt over the past weeks.

Essek found the texture of Caleb’s lips and stubble to be a bit surprising but planned on savouring every bit of the feeling. He approached this kiss almost like learning a new spell from Caleb, and followed his lead through the unfamiliar, for though Essek had kissed before, never with much feeling behind it, and this was an entirely different experience. His heart was pounding in his ears, his chest felt full of fireworks and there was something that felt hooked inside of both of them, drawing them closer. It was a startling powerful sensation.

Caleb was surprised not only by the kiss but by the intensity it quickly developed. He felt Essek’s hands pushing into his back and keeping him close, and the soft strands of essek’s hair moving beneath his fingers and the warmth of Essek’s lips and was intoxicated, drinking in every last bit of the experience that he could.

Finally, they broke apart, both flushed and breathing heavily. Essek found himself smoothing down the front of Caleb’s shirt for something to do and pulling a few pieces of cat hair off of it as he asked:

“May I ask something of your path to redemption?” He continued to try to compose his features but couldn’t resist the smile that kept making itself known on his face. It was a broader smile than Caleb had ever seen on Essek and it made his chest squeeze. He thought it would be a new mission of his to procure that smile more often.

“Yes Essek?”

“If we do not have to be alone, are we also allowed happiness? For I must admit that I think this is the happiest I have been in… sometime, perhaps ever.” Caleb thought and looked serious.

“I think so yes. I have to believe that is so.”

“In that case, I think we should kiss more often.” And at that Caleb laughed a full and genuine laugh and kissed Essek on the cheek following by cupping his face in his hands, allowing his thumb draw over the spot that was just kissed.

“Ja. That can certainly be arranged.” and he pulled Essek’s face down for another kiss on the forehead. “But for tonight I think it best if we both get some rest.” He grabbed Essek’s hand once more and descended into the tower, closing doorways behind them until they stopped at Essek’s room.

“I think I may need some time to wind down after all of that” Essek admitted.

“I think I shall be similar.” Caleb agreed.

“In that case, do you wish to read a while with me? Only I had noticed someone had placed 2 chairs in my reading nook.” Essek said with a conspiratorial smile. Caleb seemed to debate with himself a moment before coming in.

“But if I do not recover my spells, I will have to blame you Theylyss.”

“These terms are acceptable to me” Essek replied with a smile that belied his serious tone. And they each took an armchair and began reading, with their hands held between them.

Eventually Essek awoke from a trance he hadn’t even noticed he’d fallen into. His book had fallen into his lap and his hand had drifted out of Caleb’s somewhere in the night. He only required a short trance to be rested but Caleb would need more sleep and was currently snoring lightly from his armchair. Essek cautiously placed both of their books aside and used his levitation spell to float Caleb gently over to the bed. He tucked Caleb in and gave him the gentlest kiss on the forehead and then used the chalkboard above the bed to scrawl I was worried about your neck and shoulders which he felt had just the right amount of cheeky touch.

Essek pondered getting into the bed as well but felt it may be too presumptuous, so instead he sat at the desk at his study and began writing out the events of the night, hoping to capture it’s every detail. Though he had a good memory, he hoped to preserve this turning point for himself the way Caleb preserved history in his rooms upstairs. So, he wrote while Caleb slept.

When the hustle and bustle of the others moving about the tower finally awoke Caleb, he had the moment of concern that arises when waking in a different spot than where you fell asleep, until he saw the message above the bed and smiled to himself.

“The world better watch out if one kiss is all it takes to get Essek Theylyss to start writing jokes” Caleb called out to the room.

Essek came over, looking somehow more perfect than ever this morning (Caleb being unaware that Essek had fussed by the mirror for 20 minutes for the perfectly tousled look…) and handed Caleb a coffee that he had summoned via the cat system. Caleb took it gratefully as he sat up in bed and Essek came to sit next to him on the edge of the bed.

“Imagine what will happen after 2,3 or even 100 kisses?” Caleb continued his jibe. Essek simply raised an eyebrow at him:

“I suppose we will have to test it to find out.”  

“I suppose we will” Caleb replied with a grin.

[writeintrees]

Carter Part 3 of 4

Summary: This is it, Carter is going to die here. His torturers are relentless and no one is coming for him. At least that is what he thinks until a mysterious stranger busts into the building searching for their sister. Carter is brought to the rebels, who surprise him, keeping him on his toes and helping him to work through a few things. This group is so happy and kind and better than he could ever dream of.

Found family, trans mc, chronic pain mc, trauma, hurt/comfort

Content warnings: opioids, concussion, torture (simple physical injury and neglect), blood, low self esteem, negative self talk, history of physical and mental abuse from family and a partner, self harm scars, panic attack, getting triggered, derealization, dissociation

5256 of 15060 words total

part 1, part 2, part 4

He wakes again with pain clawing at his back. It is a slow and rude awakening of tossing and turning and not being able to keep his legs still. At least it is light outside. He can tell by the diffuse glow coming in through the shuttered windows. He decides it is no use trying to sleep longer and rolls out of bed. 

He smiles at the sleepy morning feel to it all. Light is slanting in, soft and warm down the hallway. When he rounds the corner he sees Emille sipping coffee on the couch. Their hair is pulled into a messy bun on the top of their head and they are wearing reading glasses. 

When they see him their eyebrows furrow. “You alright? Thought you’d be sleeping in.”

“Yeah just… pain.” He shrugs.

They set down their coffee. “You want me to get Joao to take a look at it?” 

“No. It’s not an injury.” He doesn’t elaborate and is grateful that they do not ask any further. He keeps his eyes down so he does not see the puzzled look on their face, gears tuning behind their eyes.

He goes into the kitchen and pauses, not knowing if he has free range of the space. The last thing he wants is to overstep some boundary. He glances back at Emille but they are typing a text on their phone. Hesitant every step of the way he goes to make himself tea. “Hey, is it alright if I use a peppermint tea bag.”

“Yeah totally. I doubt Naji would mind.”

That gives Carter pause. Naji was very... to the point yesterday. He is not sure if she likes or trusts him and he is afraid to do anything to jeopardize his chances. There is a considerable pile of peppermint tea bags though so he chances using one. He settles near Emille at a right angle between the couches. He pulls his knees up to his chest and bites his thumbnail as he looks around the room. There are some maps with colored push pins embedded into the wall. At least he knows he is still in the city. Those assholes knocked him out when he was kidnapped so he had no idea how far they had taken him. 

Naji emerges next. She stops to stifle a yawn before rolling into the kitchen. With practiced ease she takes a travel mug out of the lower cupboard and fills it to the brim with coffee from the pot. She takes her place beside Emille’s couch, staring into the middle distance as she sips her drink and lets the caffeine diffuse into her veins. 

Her newly sharpened eyes lock onto Carter. “You able to tell us now how you’re caught up in all this shit?”

“Yeah- um, I guess?”

“Great.” She leans forward, her cup cradled between her hands. “You really don’t know who it was that took you?” He shakes his head and she sighs. “But you saw the Sweitzer Vase?”

Emille stiffens. “Wait, you did?”

“Why does everyone care so fuckin’ much about some vase?”

“The coalition hired someone to steal it in Botswana.” Emille says. “They had made a deal with a billionaire that he would join them in exchange for the vase. But now it’s gone missing and everyone’s clambering for it. UPM to keep it out of the coalition’s hands.”

“What is the UPM anyway? And this coalition thing? I still don’t know what is going on.”

“Alright. I’ll try to give you the elevator pitch. UPM stands for the united protection movement. We try to give everyone a chance no matter their employment, ability, etcetera. Think mutual aid but more large scale. Basically everything the coalition is against. Shit where do I start with the coalition? They are kind of an alliance between some of the higher powers in the city. CEOs, billionaires, the police chief, you name it and they have their fingers in that pie. People who just want to compound their power and who get away with whatever they want. They have these hitmen on call to do their dirty work who hole up at that building where we first met. If anyone dares to disobey these powerful people, they sic those thugs on them. If renters dare start to rise up, if there’s another shipment in the human trafficking trade, those are their go-to guys. So yeah, the coalition is an extremely corrupt power that pulls the strings in this city, but their influence reaches far past state lines.” They conclude when they see the stunned expression on Carter’s face as he tries to let that all sink in.

“So, the Sweitzer Vase?” Naji asks, turning toward Carter with an impatient expression.

“Yeah, shit- okay. Well, my bosses were being all hush-hush about this one shipment. They get that way about higher up clients though so I didn’t think much of it. Then I saw the garish thing and thought it was an art dealer or something, you know? I packed it up and brought it to the korean district. A man met me outside the address and he fit the profile: he had this expensive vibe about him, you know? So he signed off and had a lackey pull the crate out of the van. Didn’t let me even touch it. Then two nights later some guys come into my apartment and chloroform me. And I wake up tied to a chair and they want to know the whereabouts of that stupid vase I’d basically forgotten about by then, we do so many shipments a day after all.”

“And did you tell them?”

“No, I didn’t give them shit. I don’t think I even confirmed I was the one who delivered it. They were assholes.”

Emille is grinning. “Hell yeah.” They lean over to fist bump him.

“The man, what did he look like?” Naji is rubbing her chin. 

“A little shorter than me. Nice navy suit with gold filigrees. He had dark skin. Gold eyeliner. Light eyes, maybe hazel? He wore black leather gloves and had his guys show him the vase before he signed.” 

“Did you catch his name? Maybe you could read his signature?” Her attitude is less accusatory than before and has changed into something more relaxed. She seems almost curious. 

“No, sorry. My bosses would have the actual paper.”

“That’s alright. I’m almost certain that it was Mister Gareth Kodua.” She motions and Emille hands her one of the folders scattered on the table. “The korean district is basically coalition free. We’ve made a deal with the people there. So the address you went to is almost certainly planted by somebody else. I suspect Mister Kodua intercepted, maybe bribed your bosses. But now we know the vase wasn’t switched out somewhere along the way. Someone got to it first.” She starts reading through the file.

“There are other people who want the vase but want nothing to do with the coalition. Don’t like what they stand for.” Emille adds between typing away on their phone. The room falls back into silence, this time the kind of silence that falls during study halls, full of purpose. 

Except Carter is not included in that purpose. He feels strange sitting and watching the two work. He misses having his phone if only for something to do with his hands. He gnaws at his thumbnail to stop himself from picking at the bandaids.

Joao shuffles into the common space. He runs his hand through his bedhead. “Mornin’”

“Another art dealer has the vase.” Naji says without preamble.

His eyes widen. “No shit.” He comes over and sits between Emille and Naji, leaning over her to see what she is looking at. He lets out a low whistle.

Emille looks up from their phone. “Orion has confirmation. Mister Kodua was on 3rd ave eleven days ago. Then seen bringing something up to his penthouse.”

“His security is good. I’m worried about who his buyer might be though. The coalition has too much to lose with such a major donor.”

“I’ll go make breakfast.” Joao stands. From how he casually excuses himself, Carter gets the impression that this type of high-pressure conversation is a regular occurrence here. “Any allergies?” He asks Carter, who shakes his head. Joao stretches his arms above his head, showing off how much of a bean pole he is. Carter laughs at himself for being frightened of him yesterday. 

“We need to have a word with Mister Kodua. Make sure that the vase won’t be intercepted again.” Naji says half to herself and half to Emille.

They go back and forth between the two of them, Carter barely understanding half of what they are saying. They keep reaching for more papers and spreading them out between them, pointing at different points. 

The sizzle of butter and smell of pancakes emanates from the stove. Carter stands and leaves without either of them noticing, the two too engrossed in their planning. Joao is humming as he ladles more batter onto the pan. 

Carter refills his mug with hot water. He uses one hand to idly bob the teabag up and down. “They always like this?”

He looks over his shoulder. Emille and Naji are quibbling over some details, their voices slightly raised. “Yeah. But they get shit done. I just leave them to it.” He smiles and goes back to flip the pancake with a satisfying flick of his wrist. “How are you?”

“Good. You?”

Joao turns his gaze onto him. He puts one hand on his hip. It would look more intimidating if not for the floral apron he is wearing. “You are so not alright, are you kidding me? This isn’t some empty question. I actually want to know -- as your nurse -- what is happening in your mind and body. How’s your pain?”

“It’s okay.” He is met with a glare but there is not much heat behind it. “Yeah it hurts but it’s fine if I don’t do the wrong thing with my abs. Or move my neck wrong.”

Joao shifts the plate of pancakes towards him. “Here. The meds are better when there’s something in your stomach. You haven’t already taken one this morning have you?”

“No. I still have the extra from last night anyway.”

“Shit. And you were able to sleep through the night?”

“I’m fine, really.” He mumbles. “I don’t like how they make me feel. Do you have any celecoxib or something though? My prescription is at my apartment.”

“Sure I can get something similar. I need to give you another once-over though to make sure you don’t have too much internal bleeding.” He cocks his head. “Why were you on that?”

“Costochondritis. So the rib pain is fine. I'm used to it already.” He says with a smile. He has a dark sense of humor around all this. He has to or else he would drown in it.

Joao does not seem to find the humor though. “I’m sorry to hear that. Sounds rough.”

Carter quickly backpedals. “No it’s alright, really. I’m not complaining. Sorry, I didn’t mean to dump all that on you.”

“Dude you’re fine. If you’re gonna stay with us I should probably get a full medical history from you anyway.” Stay with them? Carter feels his eyes grow wide. “Don’t sweat it. Really.”

Carter nods numbly. He watches another pancake get set onto the plate’s growing pile.

“Do me a favor and take another pain med with breakfast? Even if you can cope, a lot of pain can make you tense up and move abnormally and can slow down the healing process. At least take them today?” Carter stares down at his cooling tea. He has yet to drink any of it. “Okay I think that should be enough. Bring the plate out to the table?”

The dining table is low and has three chairs around it. Carter hovers awkwardly, wondering if he should step away. Emille has disappeared, presumably to get their sister. Naji rolls over to the dining table and only then does the height of the table make sense. It has been well used with various stains and coffee rings across its surface.

Joao comes over with five plates then drags over a folding chair for Carter. “Sit. And take as much as you want to eat, I can always make more.”

Carter obeys. Getting down to the seat still hurts, but he has found a way to move that does not make his vision spot with the pain of using his abs. When Naji glances at him from across the table, it no longer feels accusing and like he is unwelcome here. Her attention slips off of him and onto fixing her plate, not waiting for the others to be seated. Carter hesitantly reaches across and begins loading his own plate up as well. Tasha and Emille emerge from one of the other bedrooms, bumping into each other as they walk.

It has the informal atmosphere of a daily household, or at least what one is supposed to be like anyway, although Carter does not have the best basis for that. Emille pops into the kitchen to get themself a glass of water then plops back into their seat. They kick their legs up onto Tasha’s lap, who squawks and playfully shoves the socked feet off. Joao stifles a laugh which ends up coming out as more of a snort. These four are clearly family. 

Carter cannot help but smile as he takes it all in. He eats his pancakes quietly, then slips out to grab his last pill and washes it down with the stale half-glass of water. The haze sets in unpleasantly and he has to focus to walk straight when he goes back towards the common space. 

The table has been cleared and is once again covered in papers. Naji is moving things around to set up. Carter hovers at the end of the hall, wondering if he should stay out of earshot of their secret organization meeting. He has no sense of where to be or what to do in this place. No one has told him what they expect of him yet so he defaults into staying out of sight and out of mind as much as possible. Joao makes that difficult. And Emille now, apparently.

“Carter, you comin? You’re a part of this too.” Emille calls, waving him over.

He hesitates, glancing around the table. He fidgets with his shirt sleeve.

“At least for now.” They say, meaning ‘for as long as you want’ but Carter interprets it as ‘until we are done with you.’ He sits anyway.

Tasha seems mostly alright. She is a little slow when asked a question, but that is something Carter knows intimately. Between medication and pain and brain fog it can be difficult to pull thoughts out from the muck. Turns out that she does have a few broken foot bones and one of her fingers. Joao has them splinted and wants her to keep off them but she insists she is fine. Joao throws his hands up with a huff while exclaiming how “no one listens to me here so what’s the point in even keeping me around?” Tasha wraps him in a hug until he relents that he is a valuable part of the team. 

Naji has Carter, Tasha, and Emille update the schematics of the coalition building. It only needs a few tweaks. Carter has to close his eyes and backtrack through those hazy walks through the building. Tasha seems similarly iffy on the details. They get it down more-or-less where they slept and were tortured. Tasha remembers a few rooms that she passed by. Carter is impressed, he barely remembers even being dragged up a half-flight of stairs. He was not expecting to get out of there so there was no reason to remember it.

Turns out they had known about that building for a while. It is the coalition headquarters. It took a year to find a flaw in their security: a shift change that left fewer guards and gave them an opening. They had gotten one of their own people in there to distract and to give Emille the passcode.

Carter feels responsible for them burning their opportunity at getting into the building. He has to remind himself that they were not there for him. Emille went there for Tasha, that is it. It is a lucky break that they broke him out at all. He would still be slowly dying of blood loss and infection if not for them. 

A fiercely protective feeling surges through him. He does not want to lose these people. They do not feel the same but he will soak up every moment he can get with them before he has to go back to being all alone again.

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His back is aching something awful and he cannot stop wringing his hands or bouncing his leg, both of which hurt his injured skin and muscles. Even with the tips of his fingernail-less fingers covered, every bump brings those injuries back to the forefront of his mind. He is worried he is distracting the others, jostling Emille who is sharing the couch with him. “Does anyone have a heat pack?” 

“Yeah, I got you.” Tasha sets down her water glass then half-jogs down the hall. There is the sound of her splint hitting the ground every other step as she comes bounding back. She stops in front of the couch and holds the rolled up heat pad towards him.

He plugs it into the wall and settles it against his lower back. It quickly works to ease his muscle pain. Tasha plops down between him and Emille, who grumbles and bats their hand at her distractedly. 

“Hey.” She says. She smiles more with her eyes than her mouth. There is blood caked along her lower lip and her cheekbone is swollen and splotched purple.

“Hey. How are you doing?”

“I’m worse for wear but Joao says I should heal nicely.”

“That’s good.” Silence falls over them. Carter does not know how to talk to Tasha. He is pretty sure this is the first time they have spoken one-on-one.

“Okay, real talk, I need to interact with someone who won’t avoid all that coalition torture shit.”

He smiles. “Yeah. I totally get that.”

“Not the best vacation I’ve ever had.”

Carter snorts. “Oh my gosh. That’s right, it was surprise time off from work for me too.”

“Guess I must be a workaholic then because I kind of missed this place.”

“How’d they nab you?”

“I was staking out the delivery address -- the actual delivery address -- and when the shipment didn’t show up they got kind of… angry.”

“Shit.”

“Yeah. The person who tortured me wouldn’t stop asking me questions even though I didn’t know shit. And they wouldn’t shut up!”

“God, her monologuing was more torture than when she used her instruments.”

“I know right! My person was so annoying. Are there comment cards? We should go back just to give them constructive criticism.”

“Oh my god.” Emille says.

“Hey, we’re the traumatized ones here, we get to say what’s alright to joke about.”

As they continue talking, Carter finds he has met his match in terms of dark humor. She is able to joke with him about all the fucked up shit that happened to them. He thinks that she would react well if he ever slips and jokes about his other issues.

They keep each other company as Joao gives them each a once over. Tasha clenches her teeth as he has her move her hands and feet. She then goes on to tell embarrassing stories about the others while Joao presses against Carter’s belly and Carter fights the urge to throw up or cry out. Laughing helps to distract him. At least until he laughs so hard that he is doubled over in both delight and pain. She eases back on the humor at that point. 

His chest feels lighter after that. Dinner goes by with less anxiety. The feeling that Naji hates him has since faded. As soon as he revealed his information she welcomed him into their operation without question. It helps that their enemy tortured him for a week without him breaking. Enemy of my enemy and all that.

In the middle of the night Carter wakes in pain. He gives in and takes another pain pill. It is easier to sleep after that.

He wakes slowly on the second morning. As much as he hates the feeling of being drugged, it is nice to get rest for once. It has been long before he was kidnapped since he got a full night’s sleep. He takes his time to rouse and lazily rolls out of bed.

When he looks back, his heart drops. Spots of blood have seeped into the white sheets. His face flushes with dread and fear. He forgets everything else and leaves, watching himself walk down the hall from a little behind himself and to the left. 

Emille is at the sink dealing with dishes. Carter must have missed breakfast. He walks in and stops awkwardly to the side, refusing to make eye contact with them. He attempts to psych himself up and still the pounding of his heart. The faucet turns off and he can feel their eyes on him. Panic flutters in his chest and his hands are sweaty as he wrings them. 

He can barely get the words out as he stares at the floor. “Sorry, I think- I got blood on your sheets.” He cringes then quickly adds on, stumbling over himself. “I can buy you replacement ones though. Shit I’m so sorry I really didn’t mean to!”

“Pfft. Apologizing for bleeding on shit? Are you kidding? You’re fine, that’s what bleach is for.” They give him an easy smile that tells him honestly that it is alright. He is relieved. “Here, help me dry.” They hand him a dish towel and a wet plate. 

He takes them and tries to return the smile but it is fragile. He busies himself with drying and lets the motion soothe him. He puts the plate into the open cabinet.

They have another ready when he looks back. But instead of letting go when he takes it, they resist and it forces him to look at them. Their eyes are searching and they cock their head at him. “Who taught you that you don’t have the right to take up space?”

He laughs, delightfully surprised by the directness of the question. No one has ever given a shit about these things before. Everyone has just edged around the trauma, pretended it was not there. Emille gives him a confused smile to go along with his laughter. He is breathless when he replies. “My mom mostly. She was a real asshole.”

“Was?”

“Probably still is. I moved cities and blocked her on all social media. Cut myself off from my whole family. Guess I’m the black sheep of that family but fuck if I care because I’m not part of it anymore.”

“That sounds like a hard but really good decision. I’m proud of you.”

They say it so nonchalantly, like they have not just sucked the air out of Carter’s lungs. He gapes at them but they continue scrubbing at a dish. He does not know if they are averting their eyes purposefully but he appreciates it. “Thank you.” He says, his voice small.

Emille hands him another plate to dry. “You’re the one who did the work. Seems to me like you should be thanking yourself.”

Once they finish clearing the pile of dirty dishes from the sink, Carter rifles through the refrigerator. He finds some frozen sausage and combines it with the tupperwared scrambled eggs to make a breakfast burrito for himself. Not long after he starts in on a book he has borrowed from Tasha does Joao insist on doing another physical exam.

A whole ass exam, walking up and down the hall on his heels and tiptoes and everything. 

“How am I looking, nurse Joao?” He asks as his eyes follow said man’s finger.

“No signs of a concussion anymore.” He clicks off his pen light. “Lie down so I can palpate your abdomen.”

Carter does so and tries not to flinch too hard when fingers press into his bruised ribs.

“Sorry. Just a little more.”

He tilts his head back and tries hard to focus on the ceiling. It is painted black and has metal buttresses along it. Much more pleasant to look at than that of the torture room, for several reasons.

“Okay. All done.” He pulls down his shirt and sits up. Joao is looking at a clipboard. “Have you had any surgeries?”

“Yeah, why?”

“I’m making a chart for you. I can’t go making medical decisions for you without all the information now can I?”

“You don’t want to deal with my complicated medical history. Believe me.” Carter gives a self-deprecating smile. “I’ll be out of your hair soon enough so I’ll save you the trouble.”

“If you insist.” He says, clearly not convinced. He caps his pen and sets the papers down. “Then if I’m not going to be your nurse right now I might as well be your friend. How do you spend your time?”

“Huh?”

“I find it to be a kinder question than what you do for work, especially because so many people are unemployed or have incredible hobbies on the side.”

“Um. Not much. Work kind of takes everything I’ve got. Then I watch Netflix until I can sleep. I cook a little, I guess, does that count as a hobby?”

“Yes, definitely! Do you have long hours?”

“No, just…” How does he explain this without divulging all his health shit. Dealing with the pain and fatigue takes up so much time that he can barely keep up. He shrugs. “How do you spend your time?”

“When I’m not patching up this lot, I run errands for UPM or I offer medical services to the community. We have connections all over the city so I’ll coordinate with a couple others in UPM and we book up a weekend.”

“Wow that’s good on you. I wish I volunteered.”

“It’s not in everyone’s capacity though. And there’s no shame if you aren’t up for it. You shouldn’t give up more of yourself than you have.”

Plans start coming together. It is much more complex than Carter would have thought to organize all this. They have contacts who will help to cover their tracks: clearing video feeds and giving them loaner cars. They have to switch out Emille’s license plate which goes by with practiced ease. Then the more mundane things like shipments coming through for the cooperative. UPM deals mostly with mutual aid in the community, it seems, bail funds and food and clothing. Fighting in the small ways consistently and in the big ways whenever the opportunity reveals itself. Like intercepting a vase that could seal the fate of fascism in the area.

Carter is sorting files into alphabetical order, hoping that could help with how often someone sifts through them, frustrated that they cannot find the one they are searching for. He has taken up one of the couches to himself while the others rifle through the storage room or scribble at the dining table turned work table. Joao and Emille are out doing some errand. Carter has lost track of the plan so many times that he has given up on knowing what is going on. 

Sorting the papers is kind of relaxing, and it helps to soothe the feeling of uselessness as he eats their food and uses their medical supplies without paying them back. He sighs and picks up another crinkled pile.

“Oh, I almost forgot.” Naji says as she rolls into the room. She reaches into a pouch on her chair and pulls something out with a rattle. “Joao told me to give you these.” She hands him an orange pill bottle. 

It is the anti-inflammatory he had requested. He gapes at the bottle. He had thought he would not get this prescription without going back to his apartment. “How do you all get your medications? With you being off the grid, it’s not like you can get a prescription without being found right? Or are you anonymous enough that it’s fine?”

“Joao has a hook up for medical supplies. There are doctors around the city that are part of the cause. It’s their contribution to UPM. Also gets me some top notch doctors for my health issues.”

Carter nods. Previously he had thought it would be impossible for him to stay here, just the stuff of daydreams, what with his appointments and medications and having to earn money to support himself. But these people seem to manage being off the grid just fine.

It takes a few hours of phone calls, but Emille says they are good to go full steam ahead with meeting Mister Gareth Kodua. They take that and run with it, making plans and coordinating while Carter feels useless on the couch. He tries to read a book but he is on his third attempt at this paragraph when Joao’s voice pulls him from his own head.

“So, what’s for dinner?”

“Huh?”

“You said you can cook. Want to show us your skills?”

“I said I cook ‘a little.’ I don’t think I’m good enough to make food for other people.”

“Can’t be worse than when Tasha set the kitchen on fire that one time.” He says, purposefully loud.

A voice comes from one of the bedrooms. “Hey! That was one time! And it was just some stray oil.”

He smirks. “So, you up to the task?”

“I’ll give it a shot.” He surveys the random ingredients in the kitchen and an hour later has some taco makings laid out. 

“Sorry it’s not much.”

“Are you kidding? This is really good!” Tasha exclaims, mouth full of her third taco.

The others join in to give him praise unanimously. He is a little overwhelmed, but smiles secretly to himself, proud to have contributed to the light and happy atmosphere.

Naji puts a map down, weighted by her water glass and the napkin holder. “Here is where Mister Kodua lives. His security is tight so we will notify him of our approach and people will come down to greet us and give us access to the penthouse through the elevator.”

They start quibbling about who should go. Emille of course, since they are the one who set this all up. Without them to vouch for the group, their meeting would be on shaky foundations. Tasha wants to contribute to the conversation but everyone agrees they do not want her on the first mission since the last one went south. They each settle who is and is not going until only Carter is left. He is surprised they turn to him, or even remember he is here at all.

“I can come with.” He manages. “Just in the car, I mean. And you guys can drop me off near my apartment. I live on the west end.”

“Okay.” Emille says. Their voice sounds almost disappointed. 

He must be imagining it though. There is so much he does not understand around here. Why would they want him to stay?

next chapter

[meganshinsou-tm]

Sugarcoated. (m)

↳ chapter fifteen: extraordinary

❧ genre: pro-hero hitoshi, adoptive siblings, happy ending

❧ chapter warnings: none

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"Okay, so," you spoke with a mouthful of pancakes looking at Hitoshi who sat next to you on his laptop, "You're going to be an art teacher at UA? I thought it was a hero school?"

Hitoshi rose a brow, turning his sight from the screen and looking at you, he chuckled when he saw you had a small dab of syrup on your cheek. Leaning over he placed a hand to cup your neck and pull you closer as the tip of his tongue licked your skin clean. You smiled and thanked him by giving him a sticky sweet kiss. He licked his own lips clean as he pulled away and shook his head as his thumb dried his lip.

"It is, but once the second half of the year starts in a few weeks they are implementing more laid back extra-curricular courses. Those kids work their asses off with all their hero courses and the school faculty wants to try and give them courses that aren't so intense and fun, like de-stressers. They are still teenagers, growing into young adults and need to relax every now and then. Even when they're adults and pros they need to remember they're still human and deserve some down-time to indulge in their hobbies."

It made since to give the kids a somewhat normal high-school experience with such courses. Hitoshi told you besides his photography/art course there would be music, cooking, tech, sports and other language courses. He would teach a class for each year. Everyone would start at the same level this year and as the kids moved up in grades they would pick up from where they left off the year before and step up their subject matter and difficulties the older they got, he'd start new with each first year and just make it a cycle. As he talked about his plans for his class and students you couldn't help but smile and feel so happy and proud for him. This was something he was extremely passionate about and you loved how he never seemed satisfied in life, always striving to try different things and reach for bigger goals.

"So, what does that mean for your hero career? You're gonna have a lot on your hands with that teaching job."

"Well having the quirk I have and being the type of hero I am gives me the freedom to pick and choose my jobs for the majority of it. You see, I'm not really a combat type of hero, meaning I'm not who you want to call in during big fights and attacks. I can fight but it's not really my forte. I'm more low-key and undercover, the less you see of me the better I can do my job. I get called out for missions that involve infiltration groups, interrogations, uh –" Hitoshi struggled for another example.

"Like a spy pretty much?" You offered up and took another bite of your food.

Hitoshi nodded and shrugged his shoulders. "Yeah I guess you can look at it that way. Keeping the details of my quirk hidden is really a must, if the target or villain knows my quirk then I'm really out of luck because they can just choose to not talk to me. That's also why when I do go on missions or take jobs, they're away from here where no one knows me. The work I do here is mostly just research and intel for a few people, gathering information on certain wanted villains and making up profiles for them, I study them pretty much."

You raised your brows and nodded, somewhat smiling. You've never really gotten details before on what Hitoshi does as a hero. You knew he wasn't very well known and liked to keep it that way. He had told you before that he did intense training on learning how to read people, he didn't need you to talk to him in order for him to pin down what kind of person you were. Hitoshi was extremely intelligent and calculated. It made sense that he was used for more undercover and hushed jobs, his quirk was definitely more suited for that type of work.

"So when you say groups, you mean like big villain groups or even terrorists?"

Hitoshi nodded and looked back at his laptop continuing what he was doing.

"Yeah, pretty dangerous people who intend to do large scale attacks that could put a large amount of people at risk. It's my job to help stop them before they can fulfill those plans."

"Wow, you're really amazing Toshi."

Chuckling, your boyfriend made a face as he clicked and leaned more towards his screen, "I mean I don't really do as much as the other heroes so –"

"What are you talking about? Hitoshi, with what you do, you don't save just a couple of people, you save hundreds. You're able to stop things before they even happen, meaning that no one has to get hurt or know fear and distress from what could've happened all because of you. They are able to just go on about their lives and live, because of you. You do just as much as the other heroes, if not more. So yeah, you are amazing and an amazing hero."

Hitoshi was now looking at you, totally silent and taken back. He never really put much thought into what he does and how much it benefits society. His small group of fans didn't know the full extent of what he does besides that he's always called to help interrogate really stubborn big-name villains and always gets them to crack. So besides you, no one has ever made him realize just how important he is - period. Coming from you made it that much better though, you were beaming with pride, all over him. It made him smile so big it hurt.

You smiled back and he reached out for you, his hand cupping your neck again and pulling you closer to him as he kissed your lips sweetly. You smiled as he kissed you with so much gratitude and happiness, pecking your lips continuously. When he gave you one last kiss his forehead rested on yours and he sighed. "Thank you (Y/N), that really means so much to me."

"No problem hero, I'll always be here to shower you with all the admiration you deserve. All those people who don't know you saved them, I'll be the one who thanks you each time for them."

Shinsou smiled and kissed your cheek, letting you finish eating as he went back to his laptop, holding your free hand on the counter surface. After you finished you looked over to see what he was doing, he had a picture pulled up of you from Disneyland with Pooh and Piglet as they kissed your cheek.

"What are you doing Toshi?" You asked, hopping off of your seat and taking your dishes to the sink to wash them.

"I'm editing the pictures from yesterday," he replied with a smile.

You hurried to finish washing your dishes then dried your hands and skipped over to Hitoshi. He chuckled and held his arm up, inviting you to sit on his lap. You stepped on the bottom bar of the stool and lifted yourself up to sit comfortably on his thighs. His free hand wrapped around your waist as he kissed your arm and worked on the editing software.

"The lighting wasn't too bad but it could've been better, and I'm making it look a little sharper, making the colors stand out more."

"That's it?"

"Well yeah, everything else is perfect, especially you. You're genuinely beautiful (Y/N), in every angle and light. I'll never need to edit you if that's what you're wondering."

"Actually that is exactly what I was wondering, thank you for clearing it up!" You laughed and watched as Hitoshi continued. "So what do you plan on doing with these if I may ask?"

"Well I'll print them up and put them in my book with all my other pictures, but this one for sure is going to be printed up on a big canvas and hung in the bedroom, it's my favorite one of you so far. I also may get a smaller size printed too to hang up in my classroom."

Your cheeks blushed and you couldn't help but feel flattered again.

"Don't you think those kids will get sick of seeing and hearing about me and Eri?"

Hitoshi scoffed and shrugged his shoulders as he saved his file and closed the program out. He kissed your arm and pressed his cheek to it, looking up at you. "Maybe but they can get over it. It's my class and I can do whatever I want."

You laughed and wrapped your arm around Hitoshi's back, looking down at him.

"Just don't get too power hungry Toshi. I don't want to have to put you in your place if you come home one day cockier than usual."

Hitoshi chuckled and squeezed your side, "Oh I'd love to see you try!"

"I'm sure you would you perv!"

"Who's the one that offered a blow job just to see a notebook earlier? I think you just wanted an excuse to suck me off!" He replied with a smirk and squeezed your thigh.

You stuck your tongue out at him and removed your arm, leaned forward and placed your elbows on the counter. You grabbed your phone from the spot you sat at and started to scroll through it mindlessly. "So what if I did!"

Hitoshi smiled and kissed your cheek before he checked the time on the microwave clock. "Now, ready to go get our temporary kid?"

"If I can drive the jeep!"

Hitoshi laughed and pinched your cheek, "Only if you can reach the pedals halfling!"

You pulled up outside of a very modern and nice looking home. Putting the jeep in park you looked at it and awed. Hitoshi placed a finger under your chin to help close your mouth and your eyes finally looked at him and you smirked. He smiled back and leaned over to kiss you and asked if you were ready.

"I guess, I'm kind of nervous. Deku and Shouto are like a big deal!"

"Thanks!" Hitoshi replied with a laugh.

"I didn't mean it like that Toshi, it's just I've never met any of the other pro heroes before. Some of the older ones would come into the café but not the new generation."

"I know what you mean sweetheart, I was joking. You'll be fine, Deku is extremely friendly and Shouto is very kind, he may be kind of serious looking but that's just how he is. Now come on, let's go get our kid and go get some food, I'm shocked you aren't trying to eat my arm or something, it's been like an hour or two since you ate."

You rolled your eyes and shoved Hitoshi's face away as he laughed. He got out of the vehicle first and ran around to your side and opened the door to help you down. He pulled your beanie down to cover your ears and tugged the collar of your coat up closer to your face. You giggled as he wrapped an arm around your shoulder and walked with you up the walkway to the front door and kissed your head. Hitoshi lightly knocked on the door and you both waited for it to be answered.

Only a few seconds later the door knob turned and the barrier opened, a man with red and white hair split down the middle opened it and gave a friendly smile.

"Hello Hitoshi," his grey and turquoise eyes looked at you and he smiled again, "you must be (Y/N), it's nice to meet you."

He extended his hand and you froze for a bit staring at him, Hitoshi squeezed your shoulder making you blink and blush from embarrassment. Quickly you took Todoroki's hand and shook it rather fast and eagerly.

"Uh – it's nice to meet you too. I'm sorry you're just – you're really pretty!"

Hitoshi turned his face away and started to snicker, Shouto chuckled himself and slightly blushed.

"Well thank you, you're very stunning yourself."

Your eyes widened and you blushed violently and tried to bury your face further into your coat. Hitoshi smiled and pulled you closer. Shouto ushered you both inside and out of the cold, once you stepped through the door and walked into the living room a familiar voice was heard coming straight for you.

"(Y/N)!"

You turned to see an excited Eri smiling big and running towards you with open arms, you bent down in enough time to catch her as she leapt into your arms. Smiling, you held her close and tight as she hugged your neck. When she pulled away you kissed her cheek and she giggled. Hitoshi popped his head out from over your shoulder and she smiled and greeted him. He ruffled her hair and kissed her forehead.

"Hey kid, were you good?" Hitoshi asked.

"Yes, I helped take care of baby Aito!"

Shouto chuckled and let Hitoshi know that Eri was indeed good for them and was a big help with their five month old baby boy. Hitoshi asked him how parenthood was going for him and his husband while Eri talked you ear off about how cute and chunky the baby was. Soon she gasped as if she suddenly remembered something and she grabbed your face. Your eyes widened as her little fingers dug into your cheeks and you tried hard not to laugh.

"(Y/N) did Sou-Sou take you on a date? Did you make him your boyfriend?"

You nodded with a smile.

"He did, he took me to Disneyland and it was so much fun, I really missed you though and Toshi promised to take us both one weekend."

Eri smiled and looked at you, expecting more information.

"And yes, I did make him my boyfriend, he was practically begging me!"

"Hey, I heard that!" Hitoshi interjected from behind you.

You and Eri giggled until a cheery squeal came from behind Shouto. You looked to see a green eyed and green-haired freckled man. He was decently buff and extremely handsome, a adorable baby bundled in his arms. Your lips pouted and awed at its bright green eyes and curly white hair. It squealed and smiled a messy and slobbery smile and your heart melted.

"Hi there Hitoshi," the man looked at you next and walked over excitedly with a smile, "You're (Y/N) right, I'm Izuku!"

Smiling, you looked at Eri and she giggled, you put her down and she ran to Hitoshi who picked her up as he continued talking to Shouto. Greeting Izuku, you shook hands while looking at the baby in his arms. It bounced and made spit bubbles, making you verbally awe and waved at the child while cooing. Izuku chuckled and pet his sons hair.

"He's so adorable and so happy!"

"You should see him when he's hungry, he turns into a monster!" Izuku chuckled.

"I know someone who acts the same way!" Hitoshi smiled and looked at you.

Your eyes narrowed at the purple hero before they looked back at Aito. "I know this is weird but ... can I hold him? He's the same age as my nephew and he hates being held."

Nodding, Izuku handed you the baby, "It's not weird at all, Aito never meets a stranger he doesn't like. I need to make him a bottle anyway so please be my guest!"

You took the baby with a smile and brushed noses with him. Holding him in your arms you cooed and baby talked with him. You were completely lost in his sparkling green eyes and sweet laugh. Eri scurried out of Hitoshi's arms and ran to you, she tugged you over to the couch and you sat down with her and Aito, playing with them both. Shouto and Hitoshi smiled at the three of you and snuck off into the kitchen with Izuku.

"Thank you guys again for taking Eri for the night on short notice, I really appreciate it."

"It's no problem Hitoshi, we enjoy keeping her and like I said she really was a big help with the baby. Did you have a good time on your date?" Shouto asked and offered Hitoshi some tea.

Shinsou declined and smiled, "Yeah it was great. We barely missed the rain."

"Well I'm glad you had a good time. She seems really nice and Eri seems to really like her, she wouldn't stop talking about how excited she is to have her around." Deku replied as he mixed together a bottle.

"Yeah they really connected instantly, I'm extremely lucky she didn't turn down the job, in more ways than one." Hitoshi spoke with a soft smile and blush.

The sound of Aito crying suddenly filled the living room, making all three men jump and look. They all went to help but stopped as you stood to your feet and started to rock and bounce the baby in your arms, shushing him quietly before softly singing to him.

"Come with me and you'll be in a world of pure imagination. Take a look and you'll see into your imagination."

Deku, Shouto and Hitoshi watched in awe as your voice soothed the crying baby, making him coo and reach his hand out to you. You let his little fingers wrap around yours and smiled. Eri herself seemed entranced by your lullaby as you sat back down and she melted to your side, holding your arm and staring at you with her ruby eyes. You looked at her and smiled, then poked her nose as you sang.

"We'll begin with a spin, traveling in the world of my creation. What we'll see will defy explanation."

Izuku and Shouto both sighed in unison and smiled at each other as their son was enamored and captured by your voice. Hitoshi was also just as amazed, he had only ever heard you singing along to poppy songs, mostly fooling around. He could tell you had a nice voice and could keep a tune but he never actually heard you really sing. Your voice was still as soft and sweet as ever but now as you lulled the kids it was melodic and angelic. You were so amazed by all the things he could do and said that you weren't as talented but he quickly learned you were being extremely modest.

"We may need to get a recording of that. Usually he only cries when he's hungry or tired and he doesn't just cry, he screams. You can't get him to stop unless you stick a bottle in his mouth or just let him cry it out, so this is really extraordinary." Shouto finally commented and broke the silence between the three of them.

Hitoshi smiled and nodded as he ran a hand through his hair, "Yeah, she is."

[danielcooperrp]

Good Trouble

It’s hard being the new kid.

It’s hard being the new kid with a twin brother whose nose is always in a book.

It’s hard being the new kid with a big sister who has super-cool superpowers.

It’s hard being the new with parents who are basically the it couple of the superhero world. 

It’s hard being the new kid who the direct descendant of the guy who literally saved the universe. 

People don’t know what to do with Aidan, and Aidan doesn’t know what to do with them.

There aren’t a lot of younger kids at Xavier’s, because most mutants don’t develop their powers until sometime in early puberty, but there are a few exceptions. A lot of their classmates look...different. In fact, Aidan and Drew stand out because of how not-different they look. Three of their classmates have some kind of scale situation going on, and two have tails. There’s the boy who wouldn’t look out of place in their school back in Boston, except for the bubble gum pink skin, and the girl with the cute little horns sticking out of her blonde pigtails. Everyone is different, unique, special. 

Aidan is just...Aidan.

But Drew is also just Drew, so they stick together throughout the school day. It’s good, though, because Drew is incredibly shy; their teacher, Ms. Buxbaum, an empath, has to give him a little artificial courage to coax answers out of him, even though he’s basically the smartest kid in the lower grades. Even smarter than Aidan. Sometimes. 

Drew probably doesn’t notice, because more often than not his eyes are glued to the pages of some fantasy novel, but the other kids whisper about them behind their backs. They’re not very sneaky about it, or maybe they just don’t care if Aidan hears them. Which she does. She hears them say that they don’t belong, that they’re only here because of their sister, their parents, their grandfather. That there’s nothing special about them. That they should go to the normie school down the hill. 

Aidan grits her teeth and juts her chin out. Like hell she’s going to let anyone else make her feel small. She takes it all on her shoulders, putting herself between the others and her mousy brother. She’ll take the rolled eyes and the annoyed murmurs and the judgmental stares, because he shouldn’t have to. He’s got enough going on in that big brain of his.

But on a windy Tuesday, when the class is lining up for recess, Ms. Buxbaum calls her back for just a minute as the other file out of the building. She compliments Aidan on the book report she gave earlier in the the day, and Aidan glows with pride. She worked on it for hours over the weekend, made sure every detail was perfect. When she presented in front of the class, she could tell the other kids didn’t want to be, but they were impressed. Aidan skips out to the playground, floating on a cloud. Her wide eyes scan the field for her brother. Sometimes they go to a tall tree way in the back that Aidan climbs while Drew sits at the base, reading. Other times they’ll sneak over to the upper school and peek into the windows of the chemistry lab to make funny faces at their annoyed sister. Some days, when the stress of things have just gotten a bit too much, Aidan will take Drew by the hand and lead him back to their dorm room, where she’ll read aloud to him from a random chapter of Harry Potter. 

She wonders if he went there without her today, because she can’t find him anywhere. She walks around for a bit, eyes searching the jungle gym, where some kids glare ominously at her. He’s not up there, though, so she moves on, curving around toward the back of the lower school. She doesn’t see him, but rather a circle of their classmates, all different colors and textures and sizes, forming a rough circle, and she knows exactly where her brother is. 

As she stomps over, she hears what’s happening before she sees it. “What’re you always reading, huh? Nothing to say? Maybe that’s what your superpower is, Cooper. Silence.”

Aidan elbows her way through the circle of mutant kids, stumbling into a horrific scene. Her brother, kneeling on the ground, staring red-faced at the grass, while Hunter Cline, an enormous fifth-grader with terrifyingly sharp teeth and opalescent green scales, curls over him, sneering. Drew’s book, an Anne McCaffrey borrowed from their father’s collection, is in his taloned hand. He doesn’t look away from Drew’s trembling face when Aidan appears, seething. 

Aidan does not have superpowers. She’s not even big. Everyone can tell that Anna is going to be tall, like Pops, but Aidan is tiny and probably always will be. She doesn’t have claws or sharp teeth or strong muscles or anything. But she does have a quivering rage and her mother’s sense of justice. So she balls her hands into fists, takes one step closer to Hunter, and swings her leg up. When her foot connects with his groin, he lets out a pitiful howl, collapsing to his knees. His circle of friends alternately leap back and jump forward, but no one tries to stop her as she cocks her fist back and connects it with the side of his face. She thinks it actually hurts her more than it hurts him, because ow, but she lifts her knee once to smash into his nose. Hunter flops over onto his back, sobbing. 

Aidan leans down, her face hovering just above his. “Pick on someone your own grossness.” Then she turns to face her brother, who’s looking at her like she’s the one with literal scales. “Come on.” She extends her hand, and he takes it, but as he stands he scoops the book up from the ground. Shaking, she leads him away, through the circle of astonished jerkwads, toward their dorm room. Once inside, she drops his hand and walks over to the sink just outside their tiny bathroom. In the mirror, she sees her wild eyes and flushed skin.

Oh man. She is in so much trouble. 

Drew sits on the bed quietly. Aidan tosses a few handfuls of water over her face, and eventually her heart stops trying to beat out of her chest. She spins around to face him.

“Are you okay?”

His eyes widen. “Me? Aid, you just beat the crap out of that guy!”

“He was being mean to you!”

“What else is new?!”

She lets out a strangled groan. “You can’t—they can’t just get away with it, D. If you let them torment you, they will keep tormenting you.” 

“All you did was teach them that my sister has to fight my battles for me.”

She throws her hands up. “Well someone has to, because you’re clearly not fighting them for yourself!”

“I know that!” he snaps. He flops back onto his bed. “Mom and Dad are going to kill you.”

“Maybe if I’m expelled they won’t be able to catch me.” Drew lifts his head, and they share a grin. 

Just then, there’s a knock at the door, and the grins slide off of their faces. Aidan takes one, two deep breaths, and then walks over to open it.

It’s their dad. She can’t possibly begin to read all the expressions on his face. He’s clearly just come quickly from whatever class he was teaching, because he’s slightly out of breath and his hair is extra messy. He looks at her for a long time, and Aidan gets more and more uncomfortable, before his eyes move to Drew on the bed. “Are you okay?”

Drew nods.

Their dad looks back at Aidan. “Are you okay?”

She nods too. “Dad, I—”

“Good, because in order for you to be in all the trouble you are in, you need to be okay first. Let’s go.” 

Aidan swallows thickly, and sends a sorrowful pout back to her brother. He offers a not-too-convincing smile of encouragement before the door shuts behind her. 

She walks side-by-side with her dad, trying to keep up with his hurried stride. He’s not looking at her. Aidan hates disappointing him. When she does, he looks at her like he’s a kicked puppy. It’s the worst feeling, all twisty and hot in her guts. They leave the lower dormitory and head toward the administrative building, when her fate awaits her. As they cross the grounds, he says, “I know why you did it.”

“What?”

Her dad sighs and comes to a stop, turning to face her. “You and I both know that your brother is...he needs help, sometimes. With other people. It can be hard for him, especially in a place where he’s new, especially in a place where he’s different. It’s why we fought for you two to have a dorm together. We knew you could handle it, the separation, but Drew is...softer.” He smiles. “He reminds me a lot of me when I was his age.” He looks away, squinting at the sun. “Look, it’s not fair and it’s not right, that you’ve taken on this role of his...I don’t know. It shouldn’t be your job to make sure he’s safe.” He looks back at her, the disappointment gone from his face. “But you do, and I think that makes you very, very brave.”

Tears spring to her eyes. “I didn’t want to hurt him, Daddy, honest.”

“I know, honey.” He kneels down and pulls her in for a hug. “You’re a very good sister. Maybe a little too much like your mother, but a very good sister nonetheless. And even though you are definitely about to get into a whole lot of trouble, I want you to know that I’m proud of you, and that sometimes, protecting the people we love is worth a whole lot of trouble.”

She nods into his neck, understanding. She doesn’t know what’s waiting for her inside, but she knows that whatever is, it’s worth making sure that no one messes with her twin brother again. 

Her dad presses a kiss to her forehead and stands up. “Come on. Time to face the gallows.” He opens up his hand by his side, and she slides her into it. As they continuing walking, he says, “You know, your sister heard about what you did.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah.” He tries to hide the grin, but she can see it clearly. “She wants to you to know she’s annoyed that you’ve decided to compete for the family’s biggest badass title.”

Aidan beams from ear to ear as she marches toward her fate. 

[drunkdragondoes]

Qrowin Prompt

@theresivy

According to my copy-paste notes, this is the prompt:

Ships: Qrowin, Iceberg, BlackSun, Rosegarden

5 Words: Vampire, Tease (sexual and fluff for qrowin and not sexual for the rest), Pets, Babysitting, Slow Burn

In hindsight, I realize that I got too focused on the vampire part (and I guess the smut lol) and forgot the rest. On the other hand, this sort of took on a whole monster of its own that I think you’ll like! But let me know how it is in the end.

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Politics were, to put it nicely, weird. In a world where people were so different - scaled, multi-limbed, feathered, blood-drinking, lunar-phasing, water-breathing, or covered head to toe in fur - there were so many things to keep track of.

For example, livestock cows. When they came of age and it was time for the slaughter, they really had to make sure that all protocols are followed. First, blood is drained and kept in a separate storage for vampires, quickly frozen and transported because otherwise they coagulate, resulting in a poorer quality. But they couldn’t drain too much blood because then that ruined the meat quality and then not enough nutrients would be in it for the werewolves. Then the organs had to be separated by type so that other people with special dietary needs could all be satiated.

None of that was Qrow Branwen’s job. It was similar, but not the same. He was not in charge of making sure that all represented parties were satisfied on how a cow should be divided. He was not in charge of which persons gets preference in the carpool lane when the sun was almost setting. In fact, his main job was managing union certificates.

This was usually a far, far easier job. He just had to sign documents and check pedigrees to try and figure out what type of offspring they’d probably have. The last bit was what took the longest, but important because the government needed to be ready to help accommodate unusual living circumstances that might arise. After all, a werewolf and mermaid might not be too hard to support, but factor in that one of their kids might take after their great-great eldritch grandfather and it can get kinda difficult.

Genetics were weird. But no one cared because everyone was a little bit of everything. Hell, his grandmother’s grandmother from his mother’s side was the only human in their family line in the past four generations, and somehow he and his sister was just that - human.

But today was one of the more stressful times at his workplace. With the recent effects of the full moon (and not just any moon but the Spring Equinox moon, which drives many into a mating frenzy), there was a massive influx of both planned and spur-of-the-moment unions to sort through. And while he didn’t always handle the standard grunt work, the influx was also forcing him to do other tasks. For one, he had to handle witnesses and then also ensure that the union rites were fully legitimate. Then he had to check if the ones handling the rites were actually officials or if they were simply impromptu officiates. And finally he checked if the union was the monogamous, polyandrous, or if the unknown box was checked.

Any and all variations of any kind were accepted and legally binding, of course. It just that it was important to keep count.

“If we can keep count, then that means we can predict how to best chart our future.”

Annoying words from his boss. Very correct words, but very annoying words that were keeping him away from coming home at a decent hour. But it paid well and he had a good set of benefits, so there wasn’t much use in complaining.

His eyes turned to the last three on his desk.

Union File Y82J3Q: Ruby Rose and Oscar Pine

Union File U17L6R: Neptune Vasilias and Weiss Schnee

Union File B94T0Z: Blake Belladonna and Sun Wukong

It was awkward at first to see family members on the files, but by the time he had seen Raven’s union certificate he had long grown callous to it. Still, Qrow decided to skip to the third one and take care of that first. Officiators were Kali Belladonna, witness was Ilia Amitola, monogamous box was checked. Blake was from a long line of felines, while Sun’s pedigree was a little less known. Parents were part monkey, but that was the only instance of recurring traits in the last five generations. So if they had kids, there was a seventy-eight percent chance they were probably going to have cat ears or other cat bits.

Signed, stamped, done. He went to the first one next. His niece Ruby was a werewolf, so as expected the file was marked for monogamy. Oscar, on the other hand, was quite plain. Grew up on his selkie aunt’s oyster farm so he had to have some of that in him, but otherwise he was a bit like Qrow - a human among the mass of genetics behind him. 

It was a little harder to predict what type of kids they’d have, but no matter the outcome they would probably like headpats. All in all, nothing unusual. Signed, stamped, done.

There was just one left, and he picked it up. As both Neptune and Weiss came from rich families, as expected their pedigrees were more detailed. Neptune had a mix of everything - merfolk, fae, moth, kirin, and surprisingly some siren in him. Weiss’ side, however, had a line that was predominantly from the nocturnae tree - humans that were more night-based. She had a string of grandparents that were at least some part vampire, including a full-blooded one. So given the genetics, their kids would probably be a vampire that liked swimming. Maybe.

What was most interesting was that the relationship was marked as polyandrous. As Qrow thought about it more, though, it made sense. Neptune’s siren influences meant that he might attract a partner on the side somewhere. And when he thought about it for even longer, he realized it shouldn’t have even been a question. Somewhere in the Schnee family history, someone had a union with a-

“Uh, Mr. Branwen?” a voice crackled through his desk phone. “Your wife is... well-”

Whoosh

“She’s probably in your office already.”

He supposed that this was to be expected. Stamped, signed, done. He put the three files into his completed section and closed his laptop. And when he looked up, there was Winter, leaning against his door. Her white hair was up in its usual bun, and she had donned what Qrow could only define as barely acceptable office attire. Across her hips was an all-black mini pencil skirt, along with matching stockings and heels. And for her top she had chosen a pure white button-up that was perhaps a size too small, pressing hard against her breasts. And this time there was something completely unusual upon her face - red, thin-rimmed glasses.

All purely cosmetic, of course. Winter had perfect vision, and she her job was nowhere near office-related at all. It wasn’t hard for him to figure out that she was impatient. Her tail, a thin long cord that ended in the shape of a spade, swished from side to side. Her leathery black wings may have been folded against her back, but fidgeted constantly, never staying still. And her arms were folded right above her stomach, pushing up her chest even more.

Besides, the Spring Equinox moon was still hanging in the evening sky. Winter Schnee might be a vampire, but like her sister she inherited the same qualities from that one ancestor long ago. Even if the pale light wasn’t hitting her directly, it was still accentuating the aspects.

Hell, even he could feel the moon’s pull. Those with human traits were often the least impacted by it, but add onto the fact that he was looking at list after list of people who were all fucking each other and it was a ball of frustration that only grew larger and larger. More than once did Qrow find himself staring into the distance, thinking about Winter in all of the wild ways they’ve had each other. And now that she was here-

Her eyes scanned the four walls, absorbing the lack of decorations before settling on him in his seat. “You know, I’ve always wanted to have sex in your office.”

Qrow leaned back in his chair with a deep breath before he pushed himself up and strode to her side. When she looked into his eyes, he moved into kiss her, reaching out and let his hands rest upon her shoulders before drifting low to her hips to pull her tight against him, against his hot and hardened flesh.

Right before she could pull him past the point of no return for the night, though, he pushed away. When he looked at her face, it was easy to see that this only fanned the flames within her.

It was exactly what he wanted. Winter arms wrapped around his shoulder as she leaned into his neck, lips parting to expose sharp, vampiric canines.

“Teasing your wife, a half-succubus? And on this moon?” She clicked her tongue. “For shame, Qrow.”

She bit down. The pain was momentary - repeated instances meant he had built up a tolerance to the sensation. But the way her tongue dragged across the shallow wound, licking and suckling away at his skin, that was always something else. It almost always drove him to madness, one that made him aware of every press of her body against him, of her hands dragging up and down his sides, of her loins pressed against his.

One of his hands squeezed her hips and she gave a soft, contented moan. “Trust me, Winter, the only thing that’s keeping me back is the sexual harassment policy we have. So let’s get out of here and-”

Her tail deftly coiled around his thigh. Her leather wings snapped around him and they were gone.

[thralls-for-alls]

Something A Little Lighter...

Torque stood in the doorway, resting his shoulder against the thick, Jennerit fashioned frame as he watched the clone work.  Hunched over, TZ’s scar splashed fingers danced along the keys of his laptop plugged into the heart of he Stryx Striker.  For now, peace reigned in the silent, empty ship and for the focused Mike.  Trouble awaited him in the morning, when his medic would discover that he had broken curfew despite her many stern warnings. FU worried that his most recent, ill-advised stunt of firing himself over the mouth of a volcano might have been a cry for help; he needed to stay in the Kingdom for a while to ensure that he would not hurt himself again.

Clearing his throat, Torque turned his head and scratched under his chin to announce his presence.  

Caught red-handed outside of the Kingdom.  TZ’s body tensed, his hand having to shoot out to keep the laptop from going flying from his gasp.  His head snapped in Torque’s direction, all three golden eyes bright in shock.  “I can explain...”  He pointed to the many, constantly filling and flickering bars as more and more files downloaded from the Imperium network onto the massive hard drive plugged into his laptop.  “We need these files and it won’t be safe to get them with someone else in charge.”

Holding up his hands, Torque shrugged.  “You’re sayin’ that like I’d take you back, mate.”  Shaking his head, he lowered himself to sit behind TZ.  “I just wanted to make sure you’re okay and Ric was busy.”  Torque could not hide the grimace as he uttered the other thrall’s name, years of insults and slurs making it feel strange on his tongue.  Scooping TZ up in his arms, he pulled him up onto his stomach to keep working.  “But, no promises ‘bout when we go back tomorrow, all right.  But I’ll still keep you company.”

Life outside of the Striker was... complicated.  Since TZ had found out about Rictus’ nightmarish warning for Torque, he had pulled everyone together for a simple talk between the three to air out their issues safely.  Neither trusted the other and the piles of abuse and a lifetime of abuse created a sticky problem that made the clone realize he was in over his head.  Therapy was working for him and they needed to talk, so enrolling them both into therapy with his medic, FU seemed natural.  It was rough going and awkward, but forcing the two thrall to live together to force them to get used to each other brought small wins almost every day.  

On a day when Torque’s curse got the better of him, their Rictus verbally tore him a new one, detailing every grievance and abuse suffered at the hands of the bonecrusher.  All of the names, all of the slurs, the constant destruction of the Sinful Bat, the harassment of Vocatia, turning Vocatia in and almost getting her murdered poured from Rictus’s overly fanged mouth.  By the time his was finished, his entire body shook with fury, threatening to knock the spindly thrall off his hooves.  And as the beast, all Torque could do was listen.

Torque had been called names too, slurs of all kinds as well.  His brothers and sisters would wreck his small, stolen collection of containers filled with the prettiest pests he had found; nothing on the scale of the Bat, but just as important to a young thrall who had little else to his name.  As Rictus dumped accusation after accusation, all the liontaur could do was hang his head and lower his ears in shame.  He could never forgive his brothers, even as they had passed in battle and on tours over the years; it was natural the void-touched one did not trust him.  

But TZ did, for some reason.  And so did the other Mikes.  The heat of the overworked laptop propped up against his thighs pleasantly burned his skin through the soft flannel of his new pajama pants, thanks to tailor Mike.  TZ’s bare feet pressed against his stomach as he uncomfortably hunched over to balance the machine across his splayed knees.  With the smooth top of one of the leaf-like protrusions on his knuckle, Torque rubbed TZ’s back.  Torque smiled, letting his eyes rest on the scrolling filenames on the bright screen for a while.

Every so often, a serial number or project name would pass that the old thrall recognized.  From his uninformed perspective, it seemed the Mike was mass downloading literally everything from the Imperium servers and databases across the system.  Payroll sheets, work schedules, greyhorn modification plans, broodhall records... Torque chuffed and gently poked TZ’s back with his knuckle when he saw his number come up.  “’Ey, can you open that one?  ‘T’s about me.”

TZ flinched.  Blinking several times, he stared up to Torque before his brain really processed what he had said.  “Oh!  Yeah, sure bro.”  

The file flashed onto the screen.  Torque squinted to try to read the small dark text across the stark white of the spreadsheet program.  Scrolling down, he scanned for his serial number among the list.  Males paired with females, the resulting litter tacked at the end; a simple broodhall record keeping track of who was paired with who to prevent inbreeding and to keep the army’s genes healthy.

“There,” Torque pointed out, nudging TZ again.  The entry hung in the middle of the screen as followed:

Female:  Q.79q-c.359 Male:   K.24-c.236 Litter Size: 1 Pup: Q.45-c.131

Q.45-c.131, that was... “That’s that rebel... Vo’s pup...”

“Wait, he’s Vo’s son?”  TZ laid back to stare up at the underside of Torque’s thick neck, his eyes thankful for the rest.  “I didn’t know you two...”

“It was a long time ago and under permit, mate.”  Torque tilted his head to glance down to TZ.  Despite the calm explanation, the thrall’s hearts thumped hard in his chest.  Not just once, but twice he had attempted to capture his own son.  He had almost killed Mortus.  “But yeah, we had a litter once.  Neither of us knew who was ours though...”

TZ reached up to affectionately scratch the lowest curve of Torque’s horn.  He knew it would register as the lightest touch for him, but he hoped it would still comfort him.  Despite Torque’s efforts, tension still poured from the bonecrusher.  “So, who are they?”

“... remember that young thrall I attacked on the street?”  

“Yeah, Morty?  Wait!”  TZ set the laptop on the ground next to Torque and flipped over to lay stomach to stomach on him.  “You’re his dad!  That’s great!  I’m surprised I didn’t notice the resemblance sooner.”

The answer was a small nod.  Shame burned between Torque’s horns, silencing his answer.  This was massive news, but he had already ruined any chance of doing anything with it, right?  

Running his palm across Torque’s sternum, TZ let his smile fade, but did not let it dim his hope.  “Well, I know it didn’t turn out good at all last time...”  TZ knew it was an understatement, but how else could he describe the mauling that ended with Torque getting his furry butt handed to him?  “But, maybe if you tell him about his mom and explain the situation, maybe things will be different?”

A purr rolled through his chest as the small hand did its work.  “... I dunno.  He has every reason to hate me and she hates me too... It won’t end up good.”

“Maybe.  But you’ll do something good for both of them.  Even if it doesn’t make them like you, you still would have done something nice.”  TZ gave Torque a hopeful grin, reaching up to grab his chin to lower his head.  Flashing a bright grin, TZ gazed into Torque’s eyes.  “That’s enough of a reason to do it.  I’ll even print up the page and everything.”

Torque let him pull his head down, but he averted his eyes.  “Yeah, you’re right.  I just... I just always wanted to know what our pup was like... and I tried to bring him in to the masters to get culled.”  He rested his hand across TZ’s back.  “Seems like I missed my chance for that.”

The warmth and weight of the huge palm against his back calmed TZ further.  “Yeah, you might’ve,” he admitted; there was no reason to soften the blow.  “But, it’s still worth a try.”

Glancing over to the computer, still churning along on its mass collection of important and not-so-important Imperium data, Torque thrummed.  “I’ll.. do it.  Just got to find the kid first.”  Scooting forward, the thrall lowered his body more so the clone could get more comfortable.  His hard plates jammed uncomfortably against the floor, but it was tolerable for now.  “Maybe I’ll look after I escort you back to the Kingdom.”

“All right,” TZ sighed as he looked around at the room deep within the Striker.  “I’m probably getting put in the tub for this...”

Torque nodded.  “But you’re doin’ somethin’ good, yeah?”

“Exactly,” TZ yawned, a chuckle on his breath.  “It’ll be a good present for the Battleborn, definitely.”

[kreetthekobold]

8 - Guiding Bolt

Kreet lay awake in her cell for a long time that morning before finally succumbing to nervous exhaustion. Becoming an officially recognized Acolyte was reason enough. Knowing the Abbot supported that decision was even more inspiring. But for all that her mind kept straying back to that kiss. She realized that, as much as she had learned from Ka'Plo and her time here in the Monastery about humans, she knew shockingly little about their social life outside of the Cloister. Being raised in what was essentially an all-male institution certainly didn't help. There were certainly other boys here besides Brand and Karl, but she didn't spend much time with them. There was a sort of bonding between the three of them since they'd all been outsiders. But they were all too young to really care much. Their lives were essentially tied up around avoiding getting punished and unbridled play when they could get away.

But now she realized just how much of an outsider she really was. She looked down at herself. She'd never given much thought to just how different she really was from everyone around her. She'd seen pictures of kobolds and knew her body would start changing soon. Her hips would widen to the ridiculous proportions she had seen of the female kobold shape. Her tail would lengthen. Her horns would continue growing. She would lose the inherent cuteness of her youth. Standing only 3 feet tall, at best she might grow another foot. The boys were already much bigger than she was, and that difference would only increase.

Why had he kissed her? The hug was clear enough. It was a comforting touch, meant to reassure her that she was important to him. But she had never been kissed before, by anyone! Sure it was just a peck. Insignificant really. Just an expansion of the hug, she felt sure. It wasn't even a gesture that was universal. Only humans and others with similar facial structures kissed. Her kind certainly didn't! But she had read enough to know it was a significant action for them. It both bothered and delighted her in ways that she couldn't understand. But she did understand one thing, the Cleric and the Abbot were going well beyond their Rule in allowing her to become an Acolyte. They saw potential in her, potential worth breaking that Rule for. She swore to Pelor that she would do her utmost to see that the potential would not be wasted. She would do her very best to become a true Cleric.

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The days after that were hectic. She didn't spend much time with Karl and Brand, though she did go with Brand to visit Karl as he was recovering. But she poured herself into her studies. During her formal class time with the Cleric she remained focused and only rarely did she find herself looking at his eyes and beard rather than the topic at hand. She also learned that being a Cleric was more than healing spells and magical wards. The purpose of a Cleric was to go out into the world and assist Pelor in bringing Light. She understood now that Light was a euphemism for Good, and that she could support wholeheartedly. But the Cleric also pointed out that she had another goal as a Cleric. She would also be an ambassador for her race. Her diminutive size would never inspire fear, but if she kept herself on the right path and did Pelor's will, she could show the world above that the kobold was not necessarily a creature of evil.

As part of the training to be a Cleric, she must also become proficient in Martial Arts though. Experience with blunt weapons was assumed of a true Cleric, but she found the training difficult. Her mind was keen, but her body just didn't fit the regimens that were ascribed to the human cleric. In this area both her and her tutor were treading new ground. Weeks went by, but try as she might she simply could not muster the power or finesse of wielding a weapon more complex than a solid shaft.

The scaled skin of a kobold did not reveal brusing like human skin did, but she certainly felt them anyway as she trudged to the training area where the Cleric awaited after breakfast one morning. This was the day dedicated to physical training and she was not looking forward to it. She felt sore in a dozen places since the last training. Worse yet, she still was only training against a straw dummy. She had not dared to spar with Brand yet, and Karl was still limping from his fall. As she passed within the low stone wall that defined the training ground, she saw the Cleric sitting and meditating within. She headed to the weapon rack and took down her shortened stave, sighed, and began stretching exercises.

"Kreet, I've been thinking..." her Master said through closed eyes.

She halted her exercises and walked over to him. "Sir?"

"Do you know why we practice in the Martial Arts, Kreet?" he asked, opening his eyes.

"To defend ourselves and others when we begin our Apostlate," she said, practically quoting from one of the handbooks.

"That's right. We could do little good in the world if we got ourselves killed the minute something attacked us. And things will attack us. Besides the minions of Darkness, simple wild beasts, marauders and bandits are everywhere out there in the wider world."

"And they would kill me on sight," she muttered, looking down at her clawed feet.

"Kreet, I'm not going to lie to you. They would. You will always be well-advised to stay with a group out there. You need to know how to handle some weapons anyway. But I think maybe we've been going about this all wrong. I've been trying to teach you human tactics which work well for humans. But they are perhaps not the best for a kobold like yourself. Perhaps we should try to learn kobold tactics instead. What do you know about kobold fighting?"

Kreet had brightened up until that last question. "I'm sorry, Sir, but I was very young when I was taken out of the caverns. I never learned anything about fighting. I've read all I could find about kobolds in the library, and Master Ka'Plo's books of course. But they don't say much about actual fighting. They go into great detail about some of the kobold traps, but it seems like when it got down to actual fighting, kobolds are just berserkers."

The Cleric nodded agreement. "Which isn't a very good tactic when your biggest fighters are only four feet tall. Nevertheless, Kreet, your Creator gave you some pretty impressive weapons given your size. Those teeth are not just for chewing up potatoes and beef. I notice you've been filing down your claws too. Stop doing that. You're not a human and those are superior weapons you should keep honed. I've seen how nimble you are with them, and I notice they are partially retractable too. I've no fear you'll accidentally hurt someone with them."

"No Sir. I just... I didn't want to stand out too much I guess," Kreet explained sheepishly.

The Cleric put a hand on her shoulder, "Sorry Kreet. But... you will stand out whether or not your claws are filed.  And then there's your foot-claws. Kreet, those are deadly if you learn to use them."

Kreet, who had been sitting before her Master, lifted a foot and looked at it. The modified sandal had been cut away to make room for her claws. "My feet?" she said, contemplating the massive claws there.

"Obviously. Let those claws grow back out again too. Kreet, those are your best weapons. With them and your massive legs behind them, you could eviscerate the most powerful wild animal. They won't pierce armor, but there's always a weakness somewhere you can exploit if you need to get physical with an opponent. Primarily you should avoid that, but you won't always be able to. Today we're going to work on ways you can best use those weapons. And I'm going to armor myself because once you've gotten good at their use, and let the grow back to their normal size, you could really cause damage."

Kreet looked back at her foot and wiggled her massive 'toes'. She smiled, just a little.

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From that day on, she no longer dreaded the Martial Arts training. After a few months her claws on her hands and feet had recovered their natural shape and sharpness. For his part the Cleric took his knowledge of the hand-to-hand Martial Arts techniques and tried to expand it to accommodate both the benefit of a strong tail and the detriment of short stature. He also implemented some moves the Dwarves had perfected, which turned shortness into a benefit. The training was still tough, but now Kreet felt it was a type she was comfortable with. Her legs and tail grew ever stronger.

However, her friend Karl had not grown stronger. As days became months it became clear that the limp that he had gained since the fall was not going away. The other boys had begun to call him Karl the Gimp behind his back and, on occasion, to his face. Not Brand of course, but neither Brand nor Kreet could be around to defend their friend at all times of course, and boys can be hurtful at that age.

"Why didn't you just let me die?" Karl confessed one day when they were alone in their secret treehouse. Brand had been unable to join them that day so it was just Karl and Kreet this day.

"Karl, they're just saying that to bug you. You know that, don't you?"

Karl turned to her, tears in his eyes. "I know it, but it works damn it."

Kreet scooted closer to her friend and wrapped an arm around him. "They call me Gator you know," she said, trying to comfort him.

Karl snorted and looked down at his friend. "Kreet, We call you Gator too!"

"I know. But you are my friends. It's different."

"I don't think I'm going to be a Cleric, Gator," Karl said, laying back against the wooden floor. "I'll never pass the Physicals now."

"Of course you will Kay," Kreet responded, using their nickname for him. "You're the best Acolyte of us all!"

"Except for the Martial Arts. I saw you the other day in the Training Ground. Kreet, you're incredible!"

"Aww, you're just saying that because you love me," Kreet teased.

"No, really. That high kick you did with your tail. That was really something!"

"Well, thank you Kay. But I hear you can do the Guilding Bolt already!"

Karl wiped the tears out of his eyes, which suddenly sparkled with Mischief. "I can! Wanna see?"

"Really! You really can?"

Karl nodded triumphantly.

"Prove it!" she challenged him and he stood up and walked to the door. Kreet crawled beside him, head between his legs and looking out to see the fabled Guiding Bolt spell. Outside the only thing visible was the leaves and branches of the trees around them. Their treehouse was very well placed, deep in the woods that grew beside the Monastery and as of yet had not been discovered by anyone besides the three who built it.

"What should I hit?" he asked, looking down at the snout poking out between his legs.

"See that black tree towards the left? Hit that!"

"You got something against that tree Gator?" he snickered.

"Sure, it's a Guiding Bolt magnet! I hate that tree. Kill it Kay!"

The boy closed his eyes and concentrated, then he opened them again, serenity on his face.

Nothing happened.

"Wait, wait... I gotta get my head straight. Gator, could you move your head. You’re distracting me.”

Kreet moved to his right and poked her head out between his knee and the door edge.

“Now, let me try again."

He repeated the ritual, hands outstretched towards the tree. When he opened them, a blinding flash of light leapt instantly from him to the tree, breaking the trunk with it's force halfway up it's length and parallel to their treehouse.

"WHOA! Did you see that?" Karl asked, impressed by his own magic.

But Kreet did not see it. Kreet was completely blind.

"Kreet! Are you alright?"

"Karl, I can't see! Are my glasses still on?"

"No, they came off when you fell back. Here," the boy said, putting her glasses in her hands, his beginning to shake. She put the dark glasses back on, but she was still completely blind.

"Oh shit," she said.

"Oh shit is right! Maybe it will come back after a while."

"Sure it will. Let's just... wait here a while."

They waited as the afternoon wore on.

"No, it's alright, I'm not really a girl anyway. Not like you mean." Kreet was saying. She was keeping her eyes closed, hoping that would help them recover. It also let her forget about her blindness for a while and not panic.

"Yeah, I guess that's true. Anyway I was taking my clothes to the laundry and she was in that side room - you know, the one with the bath?"

Kreet nodded. Of course they all knew every inch of the Monastery and it's grounds by now.

"Anyway, she was in the bath with the door wide open!"

"Oh wow! Did she see you?"

"I think so, Gator. I think she left it open on purpose!"

"So..." Kreet led him on, "...go on! What did you see?"

Karl held his hands under his breasts, but then realized Kreet couldn't see him.

"Her jugs! I'm telling you those things were as big as melons, all bouncy and stuff!"

"Wow! Did you see the nipples!?" Kreet asked, every bit as interested as the boy.

He nodded, but again remembered she couldn't see him. "Yeah! One anyway. Pink as your tongue!"

Kreet sighed. "I'll never have nipples. I wonder what it's like?"

"You'll never have a dick either," he said.

She estimated where he was and slapped him hard with her tail. "Guess what you’ll never have?" she snickered.

"OW!" he cried.

"It's getting late. They're going to start wondering where we are," she said.

"Want to try it again?" Karl asked hesitantly.

She nodded and put the sunglasses on. This time she also covered her eyes with her hands. Then she slowly opened her eyes.

She saw nothing.

She looked up at Karl, or at least where she thought he probably was. "Nothing. Karl, I'm scared," she admitted.

"Me too, Kreet. I'm so, so sorry! I didn't think about your eyes!" he cried.

"I didn't either," she cried along with him.

They hugged and cried together, Karl repeating "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" while Kreet tried to comfort him, but it was hard to comfort someone else when you’re panicking yourself.

Finally, though, they had to get down. Karl guided her and held her hand as they found their way back to the Monastery.

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[ellana-ravenwood]

Stress Relief part 2 - Wolverine x Reader (Erotica)

So many people asked for more Wolverine smut...So, here we go. Really. Shameless smut. Because self-control is for weak people...wait...hum...Whatever. 

Summary : Last time, you helped your Wolverine relax...this time, he helps YOU. And you couldn’t be happier. 

PART 1 

IMPORTANT WARNING : THIS IS EROTICA ! THIS IS NOT FOR YOU IF YOU ARE UNDERAGED, I GODDAMN MEAN IT. Like there’s cute and sweet feelings in the mix, but also...smut, so if you’re not 18 or more, or if you’re not comfortable with that sort of things etc etc, this story ain’t for you. I have tons of other very SFW story, for averyone to read, and if you wanna check those out instead, it’s right here, on My masterlist blog : @ella-ravenwood-archives.

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It had been a while since you had a week as bad as the one you just had. 

Your students, maybe because they felt like the summer vacations were very close, were just being so difficult, so much that at each end of the class you were just exhausted both mentally and physically. 

If that wasn’t enough, you had tons of paperworks to take care of because you promised Storm you’d help her with it. You probably made at least 100 new student files, as the school really started to grow and more kids came in every day. You fucking hated paperworks...You cursed yourself for even asking Ororo if she needed help. She was your best friend, and was co-headmaster with Logan...You saw what being headmaster did to Logan, how it took a toll on his mind, mood etc etc, and just had to try to help them. Still. Fuck paperworks. 

You also were in charge of recruiting new teachers, and that was another pain in the ass, because damn some of them were perfect idiots. You had to throw some out of the school once you realized they were just journalists, looking for a new scandal article to make about a “school full of dangerous mutants”. Assholes. 

Oh, and of course, you also asked Kurt and Hank if they needed help, and of course...They did. 

You were starting to slowly realize that maybe, by wanting to help your friends so much, wanting to make things easier for them, you made your already busy life an impossible schedule to manage. Needless to say, you were overdosing on work, and you felt like you were very close from having a burn out. 

Making everything worst, Logan had been gone all week, having important things to do in Japan. He wanted you to come, but you stupidly refused, because you didn’t want to leave your students alone, as they often came to you to talk and such...and how did the brats repaid you ? By being impossible. Erf. 

So here you were, a bit depressed, stressed, and exhausted, laying in your bed, wishing your boyfriend would be with you. You guys weren’t really clingy, but sometimes, you just needed each other. Like now, in your case.  Your only confort was his smell lingering in your shared bedroom. 

Wearing only one of his flannel shirt, you started to feel your thoughts drifting away as you slowly fell in a well deserved slumber. You just wanted Logan to come home, but he wouldn’t until another week...

*************

Surprise, Logan came home early. His business took less time than anticipated. You didn’t notice at all though...When he entered your shared bedroom, he found you lying across the bed, clinging to his pillow, your face buried in it. You didn’t react at all at his entrance or when he threw his heavy travelling bag on the floor. And when he softly caressed your cheek, you didn’t move, a sure sign you were very tired. Usually, the slightest shift in the bed, the smallest touch or noise, would wake you up in an instant. You were a light sleeper...

You always moved a lot in your sleep (you kicked him more than he could count), and the blanket you were initially under was now pooling at your feet. The flannel shirt you stole from Logan was up to your waist, and he couldn’t help but give an appreciative look to your bare ass.  He ran a calloused hand from your neck to your lower back, gently...You didn’t stir at all and he decided not to wake you up. Planting a loving kiss on your forehead, he went to the bathroom to take a shower. 

After a few minutes the sound of the water finally woke you up. You sat up immediately, who was taking a shower in your bathroom ?! And then you saw Logan’s bag. He was home. He. Was. Home ! 

You stood up so fast that you felt a bit dizzy, and were running to the bathroom door when he opened it and you slammed into him violently. His indestructible adamantium laced bones almost knocked you out. Running into the Wolverine was like running into a concrete wall. He caught you before you fell on the floor, and the towel he had around his waist fell off.

-Wow (Y/N), careful sweetheart. 

Your mind was a bit hazed and you almost didn’t feel him lift you up to carry you to the bed. It took you a few minutes to regain your senses. You wrapped your arms around his torso, and rested your head on his strong pecs. He tangled a hand in your hair, caressing them tenderly, the other hand going to the small of your back. 

-Are you ok ? I’m sorry babe I didn’t...

He froze. You were crying. Did he hurt you that much ? He saw you cry only once or twice before, and you didn’t really had the easiest life ever...You pulled him closer to you, nuzzling his chest, and he realized that you weren’t crying because you bumped into him...

-What is it love ?

It took you another few minutes to hold your tears and answer. 

-I’m just so done with this week...

-What happened  ? Who’s ass do I have to kick ? 

He felt you smile on his naked chest, and his arms tightened a bit more around you. 

-So many people Logan, so many people. It has just been kind of a shitty week...I should have gone with you to Japan. Everyone was so annoying and...

His hand were running up and down your back in soothing gestures. He let you rant for almost an hour, and you realized it was exactly what you needed, just complaining. You rarely did. And you really, REALLY needed it...So much that, even after a week apart, you didn’t take notice that Logan was completely naked in front of you. Usually, you’d have jump on each other instantly...That and the fact that you were sleeping like a log made him understand that you really weren’t alright. 

So he let you talk, and listened, because he knew how important mental health was, how sometimes you could go crazy if you didn’t let your emotions out...when you finished ranting, you pulled away from him. 

You realized you might have bored him with your petty problems, but when you looked up at him, all you saw in his eyes was love and empathy. It made your heart beat faster. Thanks to his enhanced senses, he could hear your heart running wild, and he smiled to you. Of that smile that made you wanna melt  in his arms. 

-You know what’s the problem (Y/N) ? 

-No, but something’s telling me you’re gonna tell me ? 

-You help others too much. Don’t get me wrong, it’s great, you’re great. That’s why we all ask for your help, we know you get our backs...but the thing is, we don’t have yours that much. We always assume your fine because you’re just...You. Bubbly, smiley, nice. Hiding yourself behind witty and sarcastic comments when you’re not alright, so we’re distracted by that and don’t press on asking how you are...

Damn that man. He knew you too well. You smiled weakly at him, and he bent down. At first you thought he was going to kiss you, and you closed your eyes, but he went to your ear and sensually whispered : 

-Let me make it up to you sweetheart. Show you how much I appreciate what you do for all of us, show you how much I fucking love you. 

As he said that, one of his hand sneakily crept under the shirt you were wearing...

He ran his fingers on your thigh, and you felt a wave of fire swarming your sex. 

-Logan...

-I’m here. For you. Always. 

You pulled him down for the most erotic and heated make-out session you two ever had. And you were usually already pretty good on the “erotic and heated make-out session”’s scale...

With his free hand, Logan took your shirt off, and started to plant kisses, to bite, lick and suck on every single inch of your skin, making sure to leave marks for his personal enjoyment later. He loved looking at his handy work...His other hand was running up and down your slit, rubbing your sex gently. 

One of your hand tangled in his hair while the other one bring his face back to you, and kissed him some more. You licked his bottom lips and he understood, letting his tongue invade your mouth. He was massaging your tongue with his, and you swallowed each other’s moans. He bit a bit harshly on your lower lip, and you answered by pulling his hair. 

Logan’s motto was “a little foreplay goes a long way”, and no matter how much he wanted to be inside you, he always took his time. Like right now, if it was only up to him, after a week of only touching himself thinking of you, he’d just take you right away, without thinking much about it...but tonight was about you.

And so he left your mouth, and you groaned in disapproval. How dare he go away...you quickly changed your mind though, as he left a hot and wet trail with his mouth from your jaw, stopping at your breast because he just fucking loved to play with them (you loved it even more), and slowly but surely, getting down to where you wanted him to be. 

After a few kisses to your inner thighs, and without any other preamble, he nuzzled your now very wet cunt. He hungrily lapped at hit, and didn’t waste a second before delving his tongue in it, playing with your inner thing. The damn man knew you too well. Knew every little details of what you liked, how and where you liked it...and he found your G-Spot rapidly as he slipped a hand under one of your thigh to raise it on his shoulder, the other hand drawing soft circle around your clit. He flicked his tongue expertly, and you bucked into his face. You wanted to apologize, but he made you cry out by burying his face even deeper in your sex. You felt his nose rub against your clit, as his fingers still teased it. 

It didn’t take long for you to come, hard. Into his mouth. A shattering orgasm shaking your entire body. He didn’t stop licking and sucking on you until you were almost still again, and he crept back up, towering over you, his elbows on each side of your face. 

You could feel his hard cock on your thigh, and you made a move to grab it, to turn Logan around and give back to him...But he stopped you. 

-No, it’s all about you tonight. 

-But...

-No. Only you baby girl, I have to insist. 

And on that note, he went down to kiss you some more. You felt his body being softer than usual...Usually, he’d be all strong muscles and controlling, but tonight...You decided to test your hypothesis. You were right. You pushed him off of you, and, without resisting one bit, he let you climb on him. 

-Oh, so I can do whatever I want eh ? 

-I told you (Y/N), it’s all for you. You decide. 

With a wicked smile that made him harder than ever, you made him sit with his back against the headboard, and climb sexily on him. 

-And what if pleasuring you is something I want ? 

He sighed. You were such a stubborn woman. But before he could say anything, you kept going...

-Listen, it’s also about me if I give you a blowjob you know. 

You could feel his cock twitch on your inner thigh. 

-Giving me pleasure gives you pleasure too right ? 

-Right..

-Well then...

And just like he did, you slowly went down his body. Logan gripped the headboard with force, he decided he wasn’t going to put a hand in your hair, as he was afraid to be tempted to guide you. He was adamant on letting you take the lead tonight...

And the lead you took. You grabbed his shaft with deft fingers, and slightly brushed your thumb on the head, spreading the small beads of pre-cum that were on it. 

Making eye contact, which you knew he loved, you licked tentatively on his tip, and went all the way to his balls. He was holding his breath, swallowing down a particularly loud groan. Pulling his foreskin, you wrapped your lips around the head of his cock and sucked hardly. 

Hollowing your cheek, you took him in as far as you could, and swirled your tongue around his cock. What you couldn’t fit in, you stroked, putting the perfect pressure to make Logan squirmed under your touch. You thought the way he was trying not to buck into you, and to fuck your mouth mercilessly was...kinda cute. The man was trying with all his will, and it made you all warm and fuzzy. Your boyfriend wasn’t really a gentle man, but with you...with you it was just different. He showed a side he never showed to anyone before. 

His head hit back the headboard with a loud thud as you started playing with his balls, engulfing him in the warm heat of your mouth. 

He tried to pull you away as he felt he was going to cum, but you shoved his hands away, caressing his abs with love...and you swallowed everything, your plump and swollen red lips not letting a drop escape you. The sound he made while you wear sucking him definitely pleased you. Only you could make him whimper desperately like that, and only you could make him see stars and come that hard, a mix of curse words and your name on his lips. 

His eyes were closed, and his head was still tilted back on the headboard, as he dragged you up his body again. He was breathing heavily, and you gave him time to come back from the shockwave of his orgasm. As he felt you kiss his neck however, he opened his eyes, and the sight of you, naked, straddling him, was enough to make him hard again. 

You raised your hips, and he gave you a sloppy kiss as you simply sunk down onto him. The familiar sting of his cock stretching you made you wince a bit. He was biting your earlobe when you started to move, and he gasped loudly, putting instinctively his hands on your ass, caressing your back on the way.

He squeezed your butt cheek a bit harshly as you slammed down on him, and took a lazy slow pace, just appreciating his skin on yours. His hand went to your hips, helping you go up and down on him, and, imperceptibly, speeding the cadence a bit. You bit your lower lips as your tits bounce in front of his face, and gripped the headboard behind him. He grabbed a nipple in his mouth, and sucked on it as you were riding him, both of your thighs’ muscles working hard to pound in each others. 

-Oh God, yes, so fucking good (Y/N), so..aaah...mmm...

He started to meet your hips and thrust into you with expert movement. Burying himself inside you more and more each time. His hand caressed your back with all the love he could, digging his fingers in your side, not enough to inflict too much pain, but enough to leave marks of his fingers on your skin. 

-I want to feel your name burning in my skin for days. 

Your words drove him wild, and he flipped you on your back, not loosing the connection, pounding relentlessly inside you. His pace slowed a little however, to take your face in. As your legs wrapped around his waste, your feet pushing on his ass so he could sink himself all the way to the hilt in you, he couldn’t help but smile stupidly. You smiled back at him, and the room filled up with your mutual moans and groans, and words of praise for one another. 

He loved taking you like this, because he could just see your face expression. Your foreheads were touching tenderly, and you were swallowing each others’ breath in. He kissed you with love and awe, and you responded with an equal amount of worshipping. 

You always loved those moments when he made love to you...It was often like this. First, amazing foreplay, then, grinding into each other, snapping hips on hips, taking each other hard. Then slow, tender moments before...

-Harder. Please. 

And with one hard movement, he started to snap into you with passion. 

And you became a hot mess. Your fingers dug in his shoulders, nails scraping his back, mouth biting his collar bones, as he was shoving himself in you with vigor. He got on his knees, took your legs and put it on his shoulder, his hands on your waist, as he started to slam so hard inside you that the sound of skin slapping skin was becoming absolutely obscene, and almost as loud as your moans, groans, and dirty talk. The room was filled with “Jesus, don’t stop”, “You feel so good, OH MY GOD YOU’RE SO DAMN GOOD”, and other loving “if you stop I’ll kill you”. 

The Wolverine had the stamina of a horse, and always took you in as much position as he could. He flipped you around, and got you on your hands and knees, bending your head down into the mattress. He took a pillow to put under your belly so that you’d be steady, and again, pounded into you, this new angle hitting places he couldn’t reach before, and making you cry out even louder. Expertly, you rolled your hips back into his, and made him groan with force. 

At some point, the pleasure was so intense, that it became too much and you almost couldn’t register anymore what was going on. You faintly remember him standing up and pinning you against a wall, proceeding then to fuck you, or rather, to make love to you, on every single piece of furniture in your room. Sometimes it was slow and loving, others it was rough...and still loving. 

You reached a point where you couldn’t take it anymore, and he knew it. He took you back to your shared bed, and jackrabbited into you, making you scream his name at the top of your lungs. He wasn’t in a better position, he was very close too, and was starting to feel weak as he slid in and out of you repeatedly. One hand was in your hair, the other went down to your clit to rub it furiously. Your eyes rolled back in your skull, he was killing you. And soon enough...

Your orgasm racked threw you so violently that you dig your nails in his back so hard that you drew blood, his healing factor making everything disappear in an instant. Shame. 

You screamed in pleasure, and you were pretty sure you heard someone say : “Hey, Logan’s back” from the corridor outside your room...

He thrust into you threw your orgasm, and the way your tight heat clenched around him, and his hot seed soon filled you. He fell back on you, not pulling out, letting his weight on your body, knowing you liked the feeling of him on your body. You were caressing soothingly his hair and back, planting kisses at the top of his head as his face was resting in the valley of your tits, kissing weakly the skin there. 

You stayed like this for a long time, in a conformable silence, that he broke. 

-So...? 

-So what ? 

You asked mischievously as he raised his head. He gave you his trademark “I’m not amused” look, and you smiled. You kinda loved his gruff and broody side, and to his annoyance, you thought it was very cute when he got a bit like that with you. It was an entire part of his personality, and you loved all of him. 

-Did I...Help ? 

You looked away, acting as if you were embarrassed, and you felt him stiffen...But only for a seconds as your laugh made your chest vibrate, and resonated threw him. 

-Yes you idiot, you helped. Couldn’t you hear how much you helped ? I’m pretty sure I was...very loud. 

He smiled and was about to pull out of you, knowing that if he didn’t, he was soon going to get hard again, but you stopped it. 

-What ? Done helping already ? 

He looked at you, stunned. He was so sure you were exhausted. 

-Well, I mean...I thought you...

-Oh honey, I was just getting started. 

And with the sexiest wink you could make, you squeezed the muscle of your cunt, and the feeling made him gasp in pleasure. 

-Unless you can’t keep up...

He smiled slyly, oh he could keep up, he could keep aaaaaall night. 

-Darlin’, if that’s a challenge, you’re in for a treat. 

And indeed you were. That night, he definitely removed any remnant traces of stress from your being as he fucked you until the sun rose. 

You slept threw the next day, and he helped you some more the next night. You were so glad it was the week-end and you could just take two days for yourself and your Wolverine...If anyone could see you two, his reputation would be ruined, as it was all cheesy love declaration and fluff...You loved it. Not always, because if he was telling you “I love you” all the time, then the words would lost all meaning. But right now, you needed it, so much. And he knew. 

The damn man knew you too well...And it was great. 

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On Monday, you felt so much better. Your students were suddenly nice again (thanks to Logan’s intervention...but that, you’ll never know). There was no more paperworks, finally. And everything felt back into places again...Your boyfriend was definitely a good stress relief. 

Fin, hope you liked it, sorry it was so long, I got carried away...

[btsmutimagines]

Hell's Angels (M)

*because I’m extra*

Request: #36 Namjoon Drabble 

Word Count: 8.1k

A pitch black darkness that preceded after a spatter of red clouded in his vision. The world around him felt cold and heavy. His limbs lost its feeling as if he had phantom limb syndrome. The smell of gunpowder dusted itself over his noses and the loud bang of a bomb going off jolted him awake, his eyes opening.

“It took you long enough.”

“W–Where am I?” It looked like an abandoned mall, glass storefronts broken, the escalator stopped working and there were small patches of fire in some places. There was a boy, maybe three years younger than he was, firing from this range and shooting down people.

If he didn't know any better, he would have thought he was trapped in a video game.

“The dead zone.”

“Dead zone?”

“For a new recruit, you sure do ask a lot of questions but do little action.”

“I don't even know what this place is or why am I here?”

“Listen, dude. I don't have your answers but you won't get any if you don't fight.”

“I don't fight.”

“Yeah, I can clearly tell.”

“What are you even fighting against?”

“Them.” He fired a shot right after, hitting a foot soldier in the chest and he reloaded his rifle. They looked no older than he was, the only difference being they were suited up in midnight green.

“How do we get out?”

“Until we get that flag.”

“Cover me.” It was futile, simply shooting the enemy without any real offensive power to back it up. If he's learned anything from watching war films for his history class, winning means more than protecting the line.

“What the hell are you doing?” He hopped down the escalator, a man with a knife ready to attack him but he gunned down. Maybe he does have my back. He ran towards the flag, the boy shooting anyone that threatened to stop him.

“I–I got it!”

“Dude, watch out!” He felt a bullet pierce through his skin, his abdomen having a new hole in the middle of it and he touched his shirt. His own blood covered his hand and he fell forwards, collapsing from his gunshot wound.

“Why isn't he waking up?”

“The adrenaline from his victory knocked him out?”

“He got shot, V.”

“So? I got shot plenty of times.”

“He doesn't even know where we were or what we were doing. Shit. Can't you heal him any faster?”

“I did what I could, Jungkook.”

“Hey, buddy. Oi, wake up.”

“Like that will work.” He felt a hand slap his face a little, making him turn his head away and attempt to open his eyes.

“It worked?”

“Dude?”

“Quit calling me dude, my name is Namjoon.”

“Okay, Namjoon. You wiped out pretty bad out there.”

“Jeez thanks. I feel like shit.”

“It's not everyday you die and wake up rejuvenated.”

“Die?”

“Yeah, you died. Happens to the best of us.”

“You guys are so insensitive.”

“Well, Mirae, why don't you explain to him what's going on sensitively?”

“Why don't you get out, you jerk?”

“Ooh~”

“You too, Jungkook. I’ll deal with you two later.”

“I can't be associated with you anymore, you always get me into shit.” The boy named Jungkook grumbled on his way out and the other boy latched onto him, his head resting on his shoulder.

“Kookie~ You don't mean that, do you?”

“Get off me–” They took their bickering outside and the woman, Mirae was her name, sighed.

“Sorry about those idiots, they're very blatant in their speech.”

“I see.”

“Well, Namjoon, was it?”

“Yes.”

“As you know, you died. You actually died twice. Once here, once on earth. Currently, we are in Ex Pura, where no one truly dies–”

“Wait, slow down. I died before I came here? As in there was a funeral and I was buried dead?”

“Some of us didn't get that luxury on earth but yes. Everyone here died on earth.”

“What happened to heaven and hell?”

“We don't belong to either.”

“So, purgatory.”

“Like purgatory, we are the in between.”

“Then how come there's fighting? Shouldn't we band together?”

“Some people believe in a collar system, people's cause of death determines how cushy your life will be. Suicide are cowardice, dying while trying to kill someone else is weak, gang deaths are valuable, murder–suicide is the lowest of the low. I think the most valuable deaths are ones that result in another's life being in tact.”

“But why?”

“This world is limited. With the amount of people that die every day growing constantly, food and supplies are scarce. Mirror, the bad guys, wants to limit us, letting some be reduced to nothing.”

“Is there truly no way to die?”

“I don't know, Namjoon.”

“Why do you two idiots always have nothing to do but goof off?” He heard a female voice barked in the hallway, she was probably yelling at the two boys he said earlier.

“Noona, don't be so angry all the time. Loosen up.”

“Excuse me, Kim Taehyung.”

“Hyung, are you crazy? Do you have a death wish?”

“You know what, I do need to loosen up. How about I loosen up on your rations? Half the amount for a week. While I’m at it, I’ll loosen up your joints too. Three extra hours of training for a week as well.”

“Noona.”

“Make that two weeks.”

“This isn't–”

“Would you like to make it three?"

“No, ma’am! I'm sorry, Noona.”

“We have a meeting in 3 minutes, gather everyone.”

“Mirae!”

“Yes, Unnie.”

“If the new recruit is well, bring him with you.” Her voice was authoritative, leaving no room for protest and he listened to her footstep trail down the hall. He didn’t know it was possible to simply find a voice attractive, but there was something about how commanding she sounded that made his dick jerk.

Maybe it was because he was used to be in charge, taking his little sister often as his parents were the type to forget they have kids. His mom would come home, expecting his little sister to have dinner cooked and her homework done as well as his. She would smoke her cigarette, using whatever cup Namjoon was drinking out of as her ashtray before going to her office for hours. Their father was a doctor, often on call and working odd shifts. He simply would ask Namjoon about his rank before reading some medical textbooks, ignoring Namjoon for the time being and passing out the couch later.

Namjoon hoped he wouldn’t grow up to be like that, he would love his wife and care about every detail in his children’s lives. No matter how tired he was, he would make love to his wife, tuck his kids to bed and work as hard as he could. Now that he couldn’t live that kind of life, it feel like his dreams were ripped away from him as well as his life.

He doesn’t even know how he died. Was it valiant? Was it pathetic? Did he just die averagely? Was it a mistake? His head filled itself to the brim with unanswered questions, Mirae pulling him along and he merely followed. He entered the room after her, seeing the two boys from earlier and five new faces. You sat on the ledge of a worn oak desk, similar to the one in his mother’s study but he could only focus on you.

“Are you listening, newbie?”

“Sorry, what was that?”

“I asked you for your name and cause of death.”

“My name’s Namjoon and I uh don't really remember.”

“You don't remember how you died.”

“Why is that important?”

“It's how I do things, Nathan–”

“It's Namjoon.”

“Whatever, Nate. Next order of business, strategy.” You turned to one of the unfamiliar faces, seeing the boy smile which was heart shaped. He reached into his pocket, grabbing a snickers.

“This is ridiculous–”

“Ssh! Just wait for it, Joonbug.” He looked at the boy with a mischievous look on his face, he knew that one was going to cause him trouble.

“Joonbug?” He raised his eyebrow in confusion but the man began to speak.

“After thoroughly studying the attack patterns, we can now weaken their forces. What the newbie over here did, although reckless, was the first time we pull a victory over Mirror.”

“Nonetheless reckless.”

“Get on with it, Hobi.”

“We need to have a set of snipers to handle the foot soldiers but that will only get us into the building. A team of three needs to reroute the security system so we can get past the second floor. How many silencers do we have?”

“More than enough.”

“If there’s about 30 people on each level…”

“Isn’t there a way to scale the building to reach the top floor and end it?” He blurted out, he knew he spoke out of turn when he had 7 eyes on him and an eyebrow raised.

“Listen, newbie. You don't even know what you’ve gotten into. Be a good little patient for Mirae and shut it.” The icy tone that cut into him has just as cold eyes on him for his outburst. He was much taller than the man who spoke but his stance made Namjoon wanted to shrink.

“Yoongi, you don't have to be so harsh.”

“Continue, Hoseok.” He went on, his plan was overly detailed in Namjoon’s opinion but Yoongi's rather cold eyes threatened him.

“Any comments now?” You turned your eyes on him, Namjoon opting for silence and the meeting adjourned.

“Don't look so glum, Joonbug! You didn't know better.”

“Yoongi hyung just has a stick up his–”

“You gonna finish the sentence, kid?”

“Hyung~”

“Get off me, brat.”

“OH, we should introduce ourselves!”

“Not now–”

“Kim Taehyung, sniper extraordinaire! You next, hyung.”

“Yoongi, weapons expert.”

“Hoseok, best damn strategist you’ll ever meet.”

“Don't get ahead of yourself, Hoseok.” Yoongi said to which Hoseok pouted and the man next to Yoongi cleared his throat.

“Kim Seokjin, residential beauty and food expert.” He was comfortable enough with his sexuality to admit when a guy was handsome and Kim Seokjin was just that. Although he seemed a bit full of himself, he couldn't see why not.

“It doesn't take much intellect to know I’m the commander, James.”

“Now you’re not even saying the right syllables–”

“Meeting adjourned.” Everyone except you filed out the room, Mirae and Taehyung dragging him out and he sighed. He wish he caught your name.

“Y/N–noona is so cold.” He blushed at the sound of your name. The syllables rolled off the tongue nicely, your name was perfect for you.   

“Come on! Let's have some fun.”

“Not so fast, mister. A little birdie tells me you two have extra training for the next two weeks.” Jin stopped Taehyung and Jungkook, the two of them sighing as they seemed to have hoped they would be free from their punishment for now

“Birds can't talk?”

“It's an idiom, idiot. Now, come along.” Yoongi interjected, the boys following the man and Jin going his own way.

“I guess you're stuck with me, Namjoon.”

He followed Mirae around, her spending most of her time healing people.

“Do you have to heal people?”

“It's not that much, I mean they get better faster with my help but everyone eventually heals.”

“Oh, so the bandages are just decorative.”

“You still bleed, Namjoon. We're still human somehow.”

“I thought a part of being human was the uncertainty of death, the fact you die once and will never rise again…”

“What choice do we have, Namjoon? Living in this endless loop is all we have.”

“I don't want to…”

“But you have to.” He didn't say much more than that, the rest of his thoughts would have been futile against her cold hard fact. He had no choice but to die only to wake up again. His future deaths are his living nightmares and his nightmares alone.

He watched Mirae cut open the shirt of a boy they rush in moments ago. His heart was still beating, his blood soaked shirt clung to his body as the stain grew larger. He was slain, his chest having a large slash and she grabbed cotton to stop the bleeding. The boy’s breathing was uneven, Mirae trying her best to disinfect and suture the slash.

“Hold on for me, please.” She skillfully stitched up the wound, cleaning up any excess blood and the boy's eyes were droopy.

“Please, please keep your eyes open. I need you to stay awake for me, look at me.”

“Mirae…”

“M–Mirae?” The boy croaked out, wincing a bit when her hand grazed his chest.

“Yes?”

“That's a...pretty name.”

“What's yours?”

“G–Grayson.”

“Don't sleep on me, Grayson.”

“I can't...keep…” He closed his eyes, Mirae sighing and Namjoon got up to pat her back.

“He wasn't going to die.”

“It just feels like it. It always feels like that ever since– I’m going to need a moment.” He watched her walk out the room, the boy, Grayson with his eyes closed shut and you walked in.

“Grayson, that brave bastard. Taking the fall for one of his members.”

“What are you doing here?”

“Awfully rude for someone who doesn't know their place in this organization. I should just hand you over to one of those idiots but I personally decided to give you a tour.”

“A tour?”

“The last thing we need is for you to be wandering off into somewhere you shouldn't be. You strike me as the curious type.”

“The only thing I’m curious about is you.”

“Trust me when I say I’m the last thing you should be curious about. Now, listen well, Newbie. I don't like repeating myself.” You walked out the infirmary, him having to keep up with you.

“You need training. You can barely keep up, long legs.”

“Look, you’re basically jogging around everything.”

“And you’re whining.”

“Ah, noona!” Namjoon was about to retort when a blonde haired boy came running towards them with a huge stack of papers.

“Minnie. I always tell you no running.”

“I know but I have new tactics to discuss.”

“Go to my room, okay? I’ll be right there.” He did as he was told, Namjoon feeling a pang of jealousy for the smile you were giving the man. He didn't even know his name and he was already jealous.

“Our last stop, newbie. Your room, I figured you and Jungkook wouldn't mind sharing. He's taken a liking to you, which is rare.”

“I’m honoured…”

“Make yourself comfortable for now. Training starts tomorrow.”

“I was just wondering–”

“Hyung! You're a hyung, right?” Taehyung with Jungkook in tow over to you and Namjoon. You took the opportunity to go and deal with that blonde haired boy.

“Hyung, get off me–”

“Don't be so cold to me, Kookie~”

“I need to go to bed.”

“The bottom bunk is yours.” Jungkook said as he fights off Taehyung's arms and Namjoon retired to the bottom bunk.

This was his path now.

“Oppa! Oppa!”

“What is it, Eun Ji?”

“I got 98 on my math test.”

“I knew it was in you.” He ruffled her hair and she punched him. She whined and pouted, Namjoon hugging his younger sister.

“Hey, girl! Where the hell is my dinner?” The front door opened just as quick as it was shut and his mother shrieked as she entered the kitchen.

“Mother.”

“What were your scores on the mock exam?”

“Almost perfect.”

“Apply yourself. I want perfect scores, no less.” She grabbed her plate, huffing up the stairs and he looked at his sister. Their mother acted as if she was her personal chef rather than her daughter.

“You won't leave me, right?”

“Who else will protect you, baby sis?”

“Then why did you die on me, oppa? HOW COULD YOU LEAVE ME–” He woke up in a sweat, hitting his head on the wooden frame and Jungkook rolled over.

“Ow…”

“Go back to sleep, hyung.”

“How do you know I’m older than you?”

“Mirae scanned you…”

“She what?” He half yelled, it was unintentional but Jungkook groaned at the loud sound nonetheless.

“Everyone gets scanned, hyung. It's just for identification.”

“Oh.”

“Sleep before it starts.”

“Before what starts?”

His curiosity will be the death of him, the sound of a trumpet playing right into his ears and he shot up. This was the second time he hit the frame that held up Jungkook's bed.

“Up and ‘em, sunshines. It's time for morning training.” He groaned, covering himself as the trumpet sounded in his ears. Jungkook walked along with him, holding onto the older man for support and Namjoon hoisted him up. They made it to the brig where everyone else was gathering and Taehyung was rubbing his eyes and yawning.

“What the hell–”

“This routine shouldn't be new to most of you, why the hell do you look so tired?” Yoongi was the one speaking as if he were commanding his troops.

“It's because you woke us up 10 minutes early!”

“Who said that?”

“He did, sir.” Everyone glances at the boy who said it, most looks of horror and other smirks.

“Those extra 10 minutes will be spent running laps, understood?”

“Y–Yes, sir.”

“Complain about something as irrelevant as minutes again and I will make sure you’ll run so much laps you’ll start goddamn sleep running.”

“Anyways, off to your designated schedules!” Hoseok said with his hand on Yoongi's shoulder. Everyone left, leaving Namjoon alone with Hoseok and Yoongi.

“What do I do?”

“Since you're new, you’ll be introduced to your instructors. Starting with me. Come along.”

“I’ll see you later, Namjoon!” He gulped as Yoongi gestured for him to follow, obliging and he entered the weapons room. Yoongi eyed him, making him feel insecure. He pulled a few weapons, a dagger, a sword, a pistol, just to make a few.

“Is that a spear?”

“Yeah, she's my favourite. You won't believe how many people meet the other end of this baby.”

“She?”

“Some people name their cars, others their gps, I got my weapons. What, are you judging me, Newbie?” He raised an eyebrow, Namjoon quickly denying it. The last thing he wants to do on his first day of training is get stabbed with a spear.

Especially when Yoongi looked so tempted to do so. He handed him a machine gun, Namjoon barely managing to hold it up and he shook his head.

“You got no upper body strength.”

“Hold this.” He handed him a halberd, the large weapon slightly intimidating. He vaguely remembers his world history teacher talking about this weapon and how it killed the Duke of Burgundy with a single stroke.

“Hey, Ex Pura to Newbie!”

“Huh?”

“You would be dead by now on the field.”

“Yoongi–”

“I’m pretty sure I’m older than you.”

“Yoongi hyung.” He grit his teeth, the older man getting on his nerves. He had to remind himself that one wrong move meant he’d join that kid for mouthing Yoongi.

“Yes?”

“Let me pick one, please.”

“Just one more shot. I know my weapons, Namjoon.” He handed him a magnum revolver, the handgun perfectly moulded for Namjoon's hand and he held it up like he's seen in gangster movies.

“Slow your roll, Al Capone. I haven't even taught you how to use it yet.” yoongi abruptly moved into the connecting room, the large space empty and he followed. Yoongi grabbed a similar gun, showing him the stance before he mimicked.

“Put hands on the gun, dumbass. You’ll fall on your ass if you think you can handle shooting with one hand.” He quickly rolled his eyes, listening to his instructions. Yoongi tossed him a pair of muffs and he had a stupidly cocky grin on his face.

“You think you’re ready, kid?”

“Bring it on.” Yoongi placed a few pop cans on a table and walked over.

“Start.” He shot, the sudden impact too momentous for his expectant and he lost his balance.

“It’s like watching a baby giraffe walking for the first time.”

“Hey!”

“Up. Again.” In the hour he spent with Yoongi, he learned two things. Yoongi was an authoritative asshole and his aim was impeccable. In a matter of 5 minutes, Yoongi hit six times the amount of targets Namjoon hit with less bullets.

“It only takes one bullet, Namjoon. Make it count. You’re dismissed.” He tossed Namjoon a towel, leaving him to dry his sweat as Hoseok happily marched into the room.

“You’re horrendously sweating.”

“Thanks for stating the obvious.”

“Oh, a revolver? You do kinda look like a gangster at first glance.”

“What the hell is that supposed to mean?”

“Nothing~ Now, get up. It’s my turn to school your ass.” Another thing he learned, Hoseok is definitely more terrifying than Yoongi. Namjoon followed him in a room where the walls was plastered with whiteboards. Numerous plans were scribbled on the boards, minimal amounts of actual blank space almost non–existent.

“I was thinking about what you said yesterday, maybe I overestimate my strategies.”

“I mean, how many victories do you guys have?”

“Uh.”

“That doesn’t sound promising.”

“What do you have, Mr. Genius?”

“Do you have a map?”

“Who do you think I am?”  He took a notepad that was lying around and Hoseok raised his eyebrow. He studied the entryways, the marked blind spots and questioned Hoseok. The two of them spent their time piecing together a plan. A new strategy that was shelled out from their previous attempts to gain control of Mirrors Headquarters.

“The left side is weak, Joon.”

“No, look. We need to put the average on the left, taking out the stronger side leaves us a path straight to victory.”

“We can’t put all our manpower on one side!”

“I’m not, we need the brain power to crack the security system, fighters to tackle the manpower and commander to grab the flag.”  

“You two look so cute arguing together. Do you need some time alone?” You had your hair tied by in a ponytail, dressed up in a black tank and leggings. Namjoon’s voice was caught in his throat, swallowing his protests along with him. You were a bit sweaty, the droplets made your skin beautifully glisten in the dimly lit room.

“He’s not my type. Plus, I’m way out of his league.”

“Oh contraire, you wished you could get some.”

“I wish I didn’t have to hear that sentence. Come along, Nate.”

“My name is Namjoon–” You turned your heel, walking out the room and he sighed. He caught up to you, seeing you taking a sip of water.

“Aim at me.”

“What?”

“Do you find listening to instructions difficult, newbie? I said point your gun at me.” Maybe he needed to re–evaluate his crush on you. He did as you said, pointing his gun at you and you looked at him expectantly.

“Shoot.”

“But you’ll…”

“That’s an order.” He aimed his best, shooting at you and the bullet not even grazing you. His temporary moment of confusion was your advantage, you flipping the gun out of his hands.He ducked your next kick, hoping that you would eventually slow down or go easy on him. How naive.

“Are you going to fight me or keep ducking like a little bitch?”

“Name calling, really?”

“Fight me, you pussy.” He fought back, his attempts to swing at you failing and he was still on defensive. You smirked, the cocky action driving him to find your weakness and he found it in your legs. He knocked you down swiftly, you lying down on the ground and wincing.

“Shit, Are you okay–” You pushed your feet up, his abdomen against the soles of your feet as you flipped him over on his back. He landed with a groan, his spine taking most of the impact and you flipped yourself up.

“Get up, you wimp. I’m not done with you.”

“Remember this, they don’t call me the ‘hydra’ for nothing.”

His muscles were sore, you really weren’t called the hydra for no reason. Each time he managed to pin you, you came back at him three times stronger. You handed him in his ass on a silver platter before tiredly dismissing him for lunch.

“FOOD!” Taehyung and Jungkook rushed to the lunch line, brushing past Namjoon which made him wince when Jungkook’s arm brushed against his.  

“God, why do I hang out with these neanderthals?”

“Come on, Yoongi hyung~ You love us.”

“I’d love some goddamn peace and quiet.” He muttered as hoseok put his arms around Yoongi’s shoulder. The kid from before patted his shoulder, looking at him with a bit of concern and Hoseok hopped over to him.

“Oh, Namjoon. Did you get a can of commander’s whoop–ass?” Everyone laughed, Namjoon sarcastically laughing with them as he joined the line.  

“The hydra strikes again!”

“I think Mirae will give you an ice pack if you get through Jungkook first.”

“Shut up, Tae–”

“This is for you making googly eyes at her while I tried to eat my granola bars–”

“I wasn’t, you dick. At least, I don’t need to regulate my fucking bowel movements.’

“Don’t talk about my schedule like that!”

“Couple problems, you two?”

“Stay out of this, hyung!” They both said to Jin before glaring at each other, everyone else rolling their eyes at their antics. It must be typical for the two to argue like 5 year olds and he heard the lunchroom open, you walking through. You swapped out of your previous outfit and slipped into a black shirt, a red plaid shirt over top and blue jeans. It was simple, but you made it look red carpet worthy.

You paid Namjoon no glance, cutting in front of everyone and going straight to Jin. He smiled at you, you returning the gesture and he felt a pang of jealousy. He didn’t even know your name and he couldn’t help hating seeing you smile at other guys.

“Thanks, Jinnie.”

“Any time.” You left the lunchroom, your tray in tow and he looked back at the swinging doors.

“What the hell was that?”

“Commander gets served first. It’s an unspoken rule. Better get used to it, lover boy.” Yoongi said matter–of–factly, grabbing a tray in the process. The line began moving, people being served and Namjoon following suit in grabbing a tray.

“Not that.”

“Oh, the friendly smiles.” Taehyung offered, Namjoon scoffing at him.

“It didn’t look just friendly.”

“Jealousy looks ugly on you, Namjoon.” Hoseok said distastefully, everyone moved to a table. He sat with them, the other tables already full. He looked at the small portion size, used to the amount of food his sister used to make for him. She would always say that he had to be big and strong so he can lift the both of them out of their home.  

“Jin just always had that kind of ability.”

“Bet he would kill to have that ability.”

“Shut up, Tae. Eat your goddamn granola bars.” Jungkook hissed, Namjoon cracking a smile at their silly bickering.

“It wasn’t like you had a chance, anyways,” Yoongi took a hearty bite of his mashed potatoes before pointing his spoon at Namjoon.

“Her and Jin are inseparable.”

“Yoongi hyung, you never know.”

“Trust me over that energized monkey.”

“Don’t listen to him, he’s just a grumpy old man.”

“What was that, Taehyung?”

“You know, I love you, hyung~”

“Piss off, you brat.”

He trains for about a week now, his body adjusting to your attacks now and he was excited about the operation. Hoseok clued him in about going over the final positions with you before springing their plan into action.

Jungkook woke him up, saying that the meeting started in 5 minutes and he rushed over to the meeting room.

“Just on time.”

“Hope I didn’t miss much.”

“Jungkook, Tae and Yoongi will be on site. Jin and Hobi will defend the base while Mirae treats our wounded.”

“Where does that leave me?”

“Back up.”

“As in?”

“Be a good boy and protect your bed from the monsters. What do you think it means? You’re staying here.”

“That’s not how I planned–”

“Are you forgetting who I am? I’m your damn commander and my command is for your ass to stay here, got it?”

“Y/N, you don’t have to be that hard on him.”

“I’m sick of you questioning every goddamn order I give you. If it takes me tearing apart of your soul to get you to fucking listen to me, you should know I sure as hell will.” You spat, Namjoon shocked into silence. The room was similar, no one saying a word and you reaffirmed everyone’s position.

“Hyung.” You ended the meeting, everyone leaving the room but the guys surrounded him.

“Kick their ass.” Words no longer cut into him anymore, his parents’ harsh words making him numb to the cruelest of words. He knew why you said it, he was probably the only one that questions your authority, not out of disrespect but a sheer curiosity that needed to be ripped apart. He knew where he was, a world where the dead aren’t dead and living isn’t truly living. The last thing he needs to be is curious.

“She’s not usually like this. I promise.”Jin’s attempt to reassure him just made him pissed off. Even though they were both stuck at the base, Jin still held a better position than him.

“We’re moving out.” You said, the boys following you as Jin and Hobi went their separate ways. Namjoon found himself in his room, kicking the black tiled floor and heard a knock on the door.

“Hoseok?”

“Do you want to go?”

“What– Yes.”

He thought Hoseok was just trying to comfort him, starting with why you were harsh on your orders but he tossed a black outfit in his lap and he changed. Namjoon snuck into one of the units, perfectly blending in the recruits and Taehyung sat next to him.

“You’re terrible at being discreet.”

“How did you know?”

“You’re the only one brave enough to dare to disobey commander’s orders.”

“I thought you would say ‘stupid enough’.”

“Yeah, that too.” He nudged Taehyung’s arm, him returning the favour and it turned into a nudging war where Taehyung went as low as digging his finger into Namjoon’s stomach.

“You’re a cheater.”

“Aren’t we all?” The van stopped, the recruits hastily leaving out the vehicle and they followed.

“You know where she’ll be, right?”

“Yeah.”

“Hyung?”

“What?”

“Good luck.” He smiled at him before they both entered the building, Namjoon rushing to the left and Taehyung to the right. Namjoon watched how skilled everyone else was, seeing the small group that he set up handling a large squadron with ease and he slipped past them. He memorized the route you would be taking, the sketches his mind made of you fighting bad guys like a human Wonder Woman and him taking any unexpected blows for you. Of course his rampant imagination expected you to want to celebrate with him after this…

“Look at what we found here, boys?” He froze, knowing he was seen and now royally screwed.

“How about we pretend we never saw each other?” Namjoon offered, the looks of the men making him realize that he has to stick to his first plan: run. He sprinted, hoping he could at least defer the men from where you were. His dreams didn’t come true, you seeing him being chased and you shot everyone behind.

“What the fuck are you doing here?”  

“I–” A man came towards you, a knife in hand and a crazed look on his face. He pushed you out the way, allowing the man to stab him in the heart and he gasped at the pain.

Never leave me– Namjoon – Dare

“Namjoon!”

Dying is his worst habit, the familiar white room reminding him of the knife that pierced through his heart. His body ghosted the pain and he tried to move his arm.

“What fuck–” You were resting on his arm, your hand resting on his forearm. Was this a sick dream? If it had been one of his fantasies, you would be dressed up in a nurse outfit and ready to give him a thorough bath.

He opted for poking your head until you sprang up, dazed and confused. It was kinda cute since you tiredly rub your eyes before you looked at him.

“You’re a fucking idiot.”

“Morning to you, too.”

“I clearly told you to stay here and you decide you want to be some fucking male lead in a drama?”

“I’d make a pretty good male lead. Although, you’re the best main girl.”

“Not the time for jokes, you disobedient asshole.”

“I know. I disobeyed you and question your authority. You had to tear me down and I get that. But I took the knife for you because I wanted to. Always willing to risk myself for a member.” You looked away from him, taking your hand off his arm and walking out the room. He caught you muttering under your breath, him affected by your soft words.

“I don’t need anyone to save me, Namjoon.”

He wasn’t surprised when you reprimanded him in front of the team, giving him double the hours in his workout schedule and he took it. For him, it meant two hours watching you work up a sweat. Maybe he would like it better if you were kissing his ass, not kicking it.

“Willing to put your body on the line?”

“I guess.”

“You don’t sound so sure now.”

“I have a pretty great body.” You rolled your eyes, charging at him and he deflected your attacks. He figured you had a pattern, a certain amount of punches before you would kick him. You changed things up today, sheathing out a knife and he reacted too late to one of your roundhouse kicks. His body hit the floor with a thud, you taking the opportunity to straddle him with the knife close to his throat.

“Do I still look like I need saving, Namjoon?”

“Y/N– I can’t...” The cold blade touched his neck, the flesh of his neck breaking at the knife’s will and you tossed the knife into the wall. You were shaking, getting off him and running out the room. He chased you, catching you in a dead end and you avoided his gaze.

“I’m sorry..”

“I’m fine. Everyone gets their neck sliced like ham once in awhile.”

“God, don’t even joke about it.”

“I was hoping it would make you smile, did it work?”

“You’re such an idiot.” He turned you around, his fingers intertwined with yours and he pulled into his chest.

“W–What are you doing?”

“Being the male lead.”

“You’re the worst.” You shoved him away, walking off and he bit his lip while following you. You two return to the combat room, continuing his training and he was more focused on his progress today.

“What are you smiling about?” He was happily tapping his fingers against the corners of his tray as he waited for your arrival.

“Has he finally lost his mind?” Hoseok ‘whispered’ to Yoongi, the older man simply responding with a firm nod.

“Did Noona hit his head too hard?” Taehyung said.

“I don’t think brain damage is reversible.” Jungkook replied and Namjoon looked at you passing by him, a sweet smile on your face as you collect food from Jin once again. He winked at you, you giggling a little and he was shocked back from his happy phrase.

“He’s back.”

“Her laugh is really cute. So is her smile.”

“Okay, Romeo, I want to eat my lunch without vomiting it back up.”

“Oh quit being a grumpy pants, Jungkook. How's Mirae?”

“Choke on a dick.”

“Will yours be available?”

“Hobi hyung!”

“I get it, Mirae is the only one you want to do.”

“It's not like that– I want to do other things that aren't dirty.”

“Why did you have to corrupt the poor boy, Hobi? He just has pure love.”

“I–It's not love!”

“Whatever you say, Kookie.” He dropped his utensils, leaving the lunchroom in a huff and Namjoon followed him out.

“Are you going to tease me too?”

“Nope.”

“Then why are you here?”

“Would you like me to leave?”

“No…” He wasn't great at expressing himself, no wonder Mirae doesn't get the message.

“You know you're going to have be more obvious with her.”

“She likes her independence, gives her control of who gets to be close to her. I don't think she’ll want anything with me.”

“Show her what you have to offer.”

“I got nothing.”

“Bullshit. You’re loyal, blunt, fiery and willing to do anything for her.”

“What about you?”

“What about me?”

“You aren't making more progress than I am. How about you take your own advice, hyung?”

He let Jungkook's words float in his head for awhile. The time to act finally arriving: free day. You knew only working out or supplying for the next attack would make one go mad. Once a week, groups were allowed to leave the base and enter the city.

Namjoon wasn't allowed to have free days under his punishment, his punishment officially over as of the previous day.

Jungkook was still asleep, also having a free day like him. It was nice and quiet but Taehyung soon interrupted that.

“PARTY UNTIL SUNDOWN!” Jungkook threw a pillow at Taehyung, the soft object smacking his face and he pouted.

“Kookie~ Wake up.” Taehyung said, pulling on the younger boy's arm.

“It's the middle of the night.”

“It's 11am.”

“Exactly.” He retorted, pulling his arm away and turning over.

“Mirae is coming~” Jungkook hopped out his bed, going directly to his closet and slipping on jeans as he hopped into the bathroom.

“How about you, hyung?”

“I’m going to spend it with Y/N…”

“Oh, what a statement. Good luck with that, hyung!”

“You remember your end, don't you Jungkook?”

“I–I got it, alright? Gosh.”

“You're so flustered, how cute.”

“Did Taehyung rub off on you too, hyung? I thought you were cool.”

“Hey.”

“How can Namjoon hyung be cool when he falls down all the time?”

“You're such a brat.” He put Taehyung in a headlock, ruffling his hair and he whined for him to stop,

“Ah, good luck with Noona, hyung.” The two of them leave him, Namjoon taking his time to get dressed. He wore a striped shirt with black ripped jeans and a pair of brown boots.

He talked to himself on the way to your office, seeing Yoongi leaning against the dour when he got there.

“She's teaching a class.”

“But she has her free day too?”

“One of the instructors was sick and she stepped in.”

“Shit.”

“You were going to try and swoon her today. That's cute.”

“I didn't know you could find anything cute, hyung.”

“I can. I'm not a robot, Joon. Now, come on. Tae’s waiting.”

“But he just took Jungkook?”

“He figured if Y/N was busy, I should drag you with me to where he is.”

“Drag me?”

“Your head against the dusty floor with my hands wrapped around your ankles, yeah literally drag you.” He surrendered, knowing Yoongi would fully be dragging him if he refused. They exited the building, the street deserted. Yoongi just led silently as usual, taking Namjoon to a train station.

“Hyung!”

“It's too early for that shit.” Taehyung grinned, pulling them both along and joined the group.

“What are we doing?”

“Have you played Subway surfers?”

“It's a knockoff of Temple Run but why do you ask?”

“Hehe.”

He was atop of a subway car, ducking when it went under a tunnel. The large rush of air held him back as he tried to catch up to the others. Taehyung jumped from car to car as if he was playing hopscotch.

Namjoon was never more relieved when the train stopped, hopping off and the others had as well.

“Was that fun?” Taehyung asked him as he tried to calm down his heart.

“Do you just play with your life because you can't die?” Namjoon spat, Taehyung chuckling.

“It's all for fun. Come on, let's go to the grocery store next.” They stole a few carts, an angry old woman chasing them and they sprinted.

“Cart race?”

“You're on! Namjoon hyung, we got this.”

“I didn't agree to-”

“Ready. Set,” Taehyung looked at everyone's starting position with each cart having a person sitting in it.

“Go.” Namjoon tried to run with Jungkook in his cart. The keyword being tried, the kid was mostly muscle. He tripped over a pebble, letting go of the cart and Jungkook rolling down the street in his own.

He passed the finish line, the lamp post and Namjoon dusted himself off.

“The one time Namjoon's clumsiness comes in handy.”

“We are the champions, my friends!” Jungkook began belting out a song, Mirae laughing at his silliness and he blushed.

They roamed the streets more, spending time doing parkour which Namjoon happens to suck at. He got his pants caught in the fence, giving the group something to chuckle about.

“A tattoo parlour?”

“Why not?”

“If you're going to suggest that shitty idea of getting the same tattoos, you can earn my disapproval in advance.”

“Yoongi hyung is no fun.”

“And you’re a pouty brat. We all have our problems.”

“I’m getting a tattoo.”

“Me too.”

“Namjoon should get one too.”

“I like my body to be tabula rasa.”

“What does that mean?” Jungkook inquired, Namjoon quickly answering his question.

“It's Latin for blank slate.”

“God, Namjoon you’re such a nerd.”

“I learned it in Psychology…”

“You know we're dead, knowledge means nothing to us now.” Hoseok stated, Namjoon huffing at his response.

“I rather be a smart dead person.”

“Do you hear yourselves?” Yoongi said, shutting them both up. They entered the parlour, Taehyung greeting the artist. She had an array of tattoos on her arms, the most striking being the rose on her left arm.

“Hey, Nini~”

“Back again for more, Taehyung?”

“I want one of my left shoulder this time.”

“Anyone else here, want anything?”

“We’re emotional support.”

“We'll help yourselves to some seats, I’ll be done with Taehyung before you know it.” They sat, waiting for Taehyung to come back out and Namjoon bounced his knee. He spent most of his day with his friends, almost forgetting about you and he quickly spit out an excuse before going back to the base.

He barged in your office, seeing you in mid sip of a glass of wine and you almost choked as you made eye contact with him.

“Don't you knock?”

“I was hoping to catch you.”

“Well you definitely caught me. I never thought white wine could hurt my throat until now.”

“I’m glad.”

“That my throat hurts?”

“That I get to see you like this.” He stepped closer, you leaning against the desk as per usual and he towered over you. He found your short height adorable but he wouldn't dare to say it to you aloud. You’d probably flip him.

“Must be lonely, isn't it? Calling all the shots. Not being able to relax as much everyone else.”

“Namjoon–”

“I’m more than happy to help you, Y/N. That's what teammates do.” He whispered against your lips before kissing you. The bittersweet taste of wine was dull in comparison to the sweet taste of your puckered lips. He has wanted this for so long, his hands gripping your hips as your hands fist the fabric of his shirt.

“N-Namjoon.” He pulled away, kissing along your neck as you ran your fingers through his hair.

“Jin’s o-outside.”

“So what?”

“You need to stop.” You said as sternly as you could, Namjoon taking a step back. He left the room before you could touch him, the blur of Jin entering the room after him was unforgettable but he couldn't do anything.

You weren't his.

He dreaded for when he had to train with you, you playing nervously with your sweatshirt. You made anything look hot, the loose sweatshirt exposing a bit of your collarbone and he fought every urge to mark the delicate skin.

“Namjoon.”

“Let's just start.”

“We need to talk about last night.”

“What is there to say? I kissed you and you rejected me.”

“It wasn't like that–” He put his words into his fists, taking swings at you and you dodged his movements. You kicked him, this time not knocking him down and he charged at you. He slammed you against the wall, his arms trapping you.

“Give up.”

“Make me.” He kissed you, letting the taste of you make him inebriated and his legs give out. He grabbed your ass, hoisting you up as you wrapped your arms around him. You pulled away, your lips roughly against his neck as you marked him.

He didn't know he had a sweet spot until your teeth broke into the succulent flesh. You moaned as he snaked his hand under your shirt, clasping your breast and groaning in your ear. He returned the favour, marking your collarbone in devilishly purple bruises and he let you down. You pushed him away, dropping to your knees and taking off his sweatpants.

He didn't wear underwear, you smirking at how hard was already becoming.

“So hard for me. Do you think about me when you touch yourself?”

“Thinking about me bending over for you and destroying my little pussy, don't you?”

“Or am I sucking for your thick cock until you shoot your cum down my throat?”

“Am I riding you until you let out your hot cum into me, your semen pouring down my thighs?” You pumped his cock, your sinful words easily making him hard. He bit his lip as you licked his cock teasingly. The predominant vine bulging out as you continue to run your tongue along his shaft.

You returned to the tip, sucking the precome that was dripping from the head. He nestled his hands in your hair as you slowly took him in your mouth.

“Fuck, baby.” You slowly bobbed your head, teasing him with your pace and he cursed under his breath. He wanted to thrust his cock down your throat, making it so your voice was so hoarse that you could barely scream out his name when he fucked you.

“Baby, please. Don't be such a fucking tease.” You answered him, picking up the pace and he felt himself getting closer to coming down your throat. He pulled out of your mouth, spit collecting on your chin and he wiped the excess.

“Turn around.” You did as he said, him pushing you against the wall and stripping off your leggings.

“Such a little tease.” He smacked your ass.

“What are you going to do about it?”

“So fucking mouthy, baby.” You bit your lip as he smacked your ass again, him getting down on his knees and grabbing your ass cheeks. He pressed a kiss to your left cheek before pulling your panties to the side.

“Oh fuck–” You whined when he took a slow swipe along your cunt. He teased your clit, you moaning as he continued.

“Right there– Fuck, Namjoon–” He sucked on your clit, his fingers teasing your opening and you whined for him to shove his fingers in your cunt.

“Stretch me out–yes. Just like–ngh–that.” He relished your whiny moans, the incoherence of your words as you mindlessly spoke. His fingers gave you a nice stretch, clenching around every pump of his fingers into you. You grew wetter, his fingers drenched in your juices and you trembled as he pulled his fingers out.

“Such a tight little pussy you have, baby.”

“Jesus fuck–”

“You like the way my cock fill up your little pussy, huh? It's begging me to smash it.”

“Then, fucking do it.” You breathed out, him pounding you into the wall. His arms gripped your waist to hold you in place while he thrusts into you.

“Take my fucking cock like a good girl.”

“Ah–fuck–Namjoon.”

“Scream my fucking name. Let Jin know who fucks you like this, baby.” He groaned when you tightened around him, fucking into your harder and you screamed his name.

He nibbled at your ear, leaving little kisses behind your ear while you came. You felt an euphoric rush as he pounded you through your high, overstimulation being something that you seemed to love judging by your whimpers.

“Oh fuck–” His sloppy thrusts brought him to his orgasm, shooting his cum into you and pulling out to watch it dribble down your thighs.

You adjusted your panties, not letting any more cum dribble down and pulled up your leggings.

“It's time for lunch.”

“We still have thirty minutes.”

“You'll need energy for round two, idiot.”

~Admin Blake 

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4.6 - Knowledge

He felt her pulling at his mind again, tugging gently as she called out to him. This time he relented to her invitation. Leaving the nervous prophet behind, he went in search of Ancharia, the woman he had once called Mother. Much like the way he had discovered the Iroquois in her secret place, he allowed the power that surrounded and surged through him to be his guide to who he wanted to find. Simply willing the desire, he was led in one direction and then another.

He assumed he had seen most of Heaven, but as he walked, he realized that was a foolish assumption indeed. There were likely no limits to the stretches of this place, even though it had boundaries, the contents within seemed to give away to more and more space.

Eventually he came upon a sprawling urban area that seemed more or less modern, though he knew it was at least a few decades behind the current time on Earth. Masking himself with his human facade, he walked the concrete sidewalk and watched the people around him. They were different here. They were far more lively and … at first it was hard for him to put his finger on it, but as he got closer to the source of the pull, he realized the people here were much less peaceful, or rather, much less restrained.

Whisper in tongues

Hit me with your hands

Double knot my throat, mother

In words I lose

Don't be mad

Advocating every second, every minute

To my mind it's so sweet

And I wish you could see it

I'll be home soon

They screamed, they laughed, they kissed. They even fondled each other in the streets and he was reminded of cities that he’d visited in the past that were filled with similar debauchery, specifically the seedy nightlife of Rome. That dark and often whispered societal underground to which he was both guest as well as slave to.

The farther he walked into the center of whatever this place was, the darker the sky grew until it was finally as black as night. He breathed a sigh of relief as he’d been in months and months of nothing but daylight and a distant part of him had longed to be a creature of dark again.

As the buildings became taller and taller, the music became louder and the density of people all around him became thicker. Turning down one of the busier streets, he was reminded of the Southern United States that he had visited in the earlier 20th century at the behest of the Ancients.

Specifically, this street was like the city of New Orleans and very specifically Market Street. As he looked around, he slowly realized that this was actually exactly what that was, although it was a bit more modern than the last time he had been privy to see it.

People were packed solid in the street and the festivities were in full swing. Pushing himself through the dense crowd, the people were far too preoccupied with their own joy that they never took note of him wedging himself between them and forcefully navigating through the crowd. He felt like he was almost at his destination when a familiar chill ran along his spine and he looked up quickly, into the top balcony of the three story building to his right.

He found familiar amber eyes glaring down at him. The gargantuan angel was seated at a small table with a handful of other figures. He had been laughing loudly until his eyes locked with Quintus’, and his smile faded instantly. Standing quickly, he approached the railing, grabbing it with tight fists as he continued to staring down at the dhampir with eyes of flame, his nostrils flaring slightly as he breathed.

Quintus froze, trying to determine whether he should proceed, but both men shifted their attention to the mocha hand that calmly graced the massive archangel’s shoulder and as Gabriel turned to face his shorter purple-eyed sibling, Raphael locked onto Quintus’ eyes, simply nodding to him and smiling warmly, attempting to make the dhampir feel perfectly welcome.

It was far too loud for him to decipher what exactly was uttered between the two brothers, but Gabriel furrowed his nose menacingly before growling in his direction and finally returning to his seat at the table. Raphael smiled one last time before rejoining his brother at the table. Breathing heavily, Quintus continued on with his journey.

Soon, he found himself almost two blocks away from the brothers as he entered a bright, neon lit building, which he could only assume was a brothel of some kind. He doubted his assumption for a moment. A brothel in Heaven? He shrugged as he remembered:

"Everyone is entitled to their own version of Paradise."

There was a brief moment of hesitation as he reached for the handle of the entrance, doubting where he was going. Why would Ancharia be here of all places?

His inner compass directed him inside and he complied. As he walked in he found people lining the hallways and the insides were a maze of corridors and rooms. A right here, a left there, he passed room after room and heard various noises abound from within them. While he was all too familiar with this type of establishment, he was again shocked to see something so seedy in Heaven of all places. He felt the tug bring him to a closed door at the end of a long hallway lit with dark green light.

Dropping his human guise and listening for a moment at the door, he heard voices within and when he raised his hand to knock the door suddenly flew open. He found himself standing face to face staring down at an overly attractive man … no … boy … no, more likely man. Hmm. Perhaps both? There was a brief look of surprise on the handsome face, but the man-boy smiled and stepped out and to the side, waving Quintus within.

"Pardon me. She is all yours." All his? He cringed at that thought. She was … his mother. Now he regretted surrendering to her call, but he had come this far and as he stepped in, he cringed again when the reality of the situation fully sank in.

It was a darkly lit bedroom, and the woman seated at the make-up desk across the room, even if he could not see her young and striking face yet through the mirror as she stared down at her array of hair utensils, he knew it was Ancharia. The tattoo on her back was completely visible through the all too-sheer robe pulled loosely around her young and slender body.

He remembered this mark inked on her withered and old skin from all those many years ago and he recollected the explanation she had given him when he inquired about it all that time ago. But now that explanation seemed too simple.

"It was required by my employer at the time."

Though the mark was sharper and far more distinct now that it was on this vibrant and taut skin, it was still in the exact same location it had been before, stretching from shoulder blade to blade. The mark itself, nearly rectangular, reminded Quintus of those he saw in the Lumen, but he knew it was not one that he’d seen on the Sun Pages. This, he would have remembered. Now that it was far more detailed, he could see the swirls and geometric shapes more clearly.

At the very center of this beautiful and looping shape, a serpent, arched in a perfect circle consuming its own tail. He didn’t remember seeing distinctive colors in it before, but now he could make out hues of amber, chartreuse, violet, and cyan fade out from the scales of the snake.

Ouroboros.

Raphael’s words rattled around in his mind. The archangel had spoken them to Quintus in the carriage to the trial:

"We’re all serpents here, Quintus."

Indeed. Everyone was a snake, it seemed. Full of secrets and conspiracy. And yet something else seemed out of place suddenly, or else … something actually seemed in place. He felt the puzzle that drove his confusion shifting but he still didn’t grasp the gravity of it yet, but he filed away all of the details for use later.

"While I am quite flattered, I will not be taking anyone else for the time being, I am sorry." She said as she picked up one of the silver brushes, finally looking through the mirror and seeing that it was him. “Quintus!” Jumping up, she turned quickly as she rushed to embrace him. Her obvious nudity through the sheer fabric caused him to wince at the contact and she pulled away, feeling his immediate discomfort. “I was not expecting you. I do apologize. Please make yourself comfortable while I put on something more …” She looked down at her body sheepishly. “Appropriate.”

As she shuffled off into an adjoining room, most likely a closet of some kind, he looked around for a place to sit. He didn’t wish to sit on the bed and the only other chair available was the one at her dresser, so he opted to just stand instead, his back entirely erect as he clasp his hands behind him in his standard soldierly fashion.

When she didn’t return immediately, he found himself fidgeting slightly with nervousness and he walked to the dresser, starting to poke at the hair instruments on its surface. Pulling back the chair, he considered sitting down but instead picked up a sheer scarf which hung lazily off the back of it. He stretched it out with his hands to regard the embroidered pattern on the outside of it stitched in metallic bronze thread.

It was a symbol language of some kind but it was one with which he was unfamiliar. As his eyes traced the glyphs stitched into the fabric, the symbols circled another ouroboros and he heard her respond from behind as she finally exited the wardrobe, clothed properly now.

"Still so very curious, aren’t you?" The suddenness of her voice caused him to drop the scarf back onto its original resting place on the chair as he turned to her, smiling fakely. “You always were. That’s what made you such a good student, Quintus. That’s what made you the best student.”

Stepping back from her, he took his soldier’s stance again, but this time clasping his hands in front as he looked at her thicker attire, appreciating the discretion that it was affording the … awkward reunion. He watched her step forward and pick up the scarf as she smiled at him. "The Order of the Argaman Sun." She explained.

"I do not recognize that language." He stated plainly, flicking his eyes down to the material before he brought them back up to lock onto her gaze sternly.

"Nor should you. This language died far before your time, my boy." It was an odd sensation to hear her speak now as her words and speech were remarkably familiar to him and incredibly calming. In this perfect moment, he remembered missing her again. The time he had spent with her were some of the happiest moments of his life and he had pushed them so far away when she had died. It was difficult for him to be reminded that he had ever been that innocent.

"Yet, you are not that much older than I." He pointed out. In relation to both of their overall ages, the difference was unimpressive, was it not?

"Oh my boy." She seemed amused by his statement. “I am far older than you have ever realized.”

There was an air of arrogance about her and how she was addressing him. Though she had released him from his chains, taught him language and knowledge, encouraged freedom of thought and gave him purpose, the Quintus that she had known had been before the Master had fundamentally changed him. The child she knew was before he was a general. Before he was a husband or a father. Before he was a lover and before he was loved deeply in return. And … before he was the saviour of mankind.

While he did feel some amount of gratitude towards her, she was not solely responsible for who he had become and as such, he kept his distance from her eager affection. Reading his rigid stance, Ancharia spoke frankly. "I am surprised to see you, honestly. I have been calling you for months now."

"Yes." He replied simply as he shrugged it off. “I have felt it.”

"Then …" She squinted at him, seeming to be unprepared, or perhaps unappreciative, of his careful nature. “What brings you now then?”

Quintus found himself smirking slightly as his hands dropped to his sides. "I seek answers, mother." The last word was meant to sound somewhat affectionate, but its ultimate execution was far more of a sneer and he found her considering him carefully. He needed to shelf his emotions better if he wished to remain in control. Ancharia had always been good at manipulation.

"So be it." She gestured to the bed in an attempt to get him to take a seat and he waved off her offer. “Please. At least make yourself comfortable then.”

"I prefer to stand." He did not wish to sit on that bed and he remembered Ancharia as always being his superior, but now, as he felt the tension rising, he knew this was no longer the case. He realized, this had never been the case. “So, this is what you do now?” He relaxed as he began to walk around the room, turning on his more judgemental side.

"This is what I’ve always done, Quintus." She shrugged. “You simply knew me when I was much … older.”

Turning his back, he regarded the various paintings on the walls while he spoke to her. This particular art was another snake, but this one was also part man. He stared at its yellow eyes for a moment before he asked for clarification. "You were always a lady of the night?" He asked disappointingly.

"You think me a whore?" She scoffed. “Hardly, my child.” She turned away from his snide words, picking up her brush as she began to comb through her thick and perfectly wavy auburn hair. “I … am a Priestess of Argaman.”

The emphasis she placed on that title was supposed to mean something, but he wasn’t sure what. "Should this title mean something to me?" He walked to the next piece. It was a gryphon.

"I was born a crystal child." She continued to brush her hair as she explained matter of factly. “Adoption into the Order was necessary for one such as me to survive.”

"And …" He turned to look at her with a raised eyebrow. “This Order required you to sell your body?”

"Don’t be ridiculous. I do not deal in trading flesh for coin, nor have I ever, Quintus. I deal in pleasure. I deal in …" As her eyes matched his through the reflection, she smiled. “Intimacy.”

That word. Did she understand its meaning to him? No. Not possible. Stay focused.

"Intimacy?" He snidely balked at the word. “And …” He waved a hand towards the bed as she laughed at his scrutiny. “You chose to define this as intimacy?”

"Of course not. This is pleasure." Putting the comb down, she began to make a careful braid in her hair as she watched him through the mirror. “Intimacy is what I provided to you, my child. Was it not?”

Hmmm. That was … uncomfortably true. He walked to the next piece and looked at the six-winged serpent rising out of intense blue flames on the canvas, studying it carefully before speaking again. "But you are beyond life now … why conform to such … obligations?" He pushed, still finding her unpleasant and she giggled at him.

"So judgemental, aren’t you?" She finished the braid and began to pull back her bangs, clipping them into place with intricate and beautiful metal barrettes. “This is the afterlife … this is bliss. Paradise … “

He scoffed loudly at her statement and she ignored him, continuing with her words. "And as such … I chose to enjoy myself any and every way that I see fit. Perhaps you should try the same? You might learn how not to be so … uptight."

"I should try the same?" He moved on to the fireplace mantle, peering down at all the tiny things it was covered in. They were of varying sizes, but they were all the same type of spiny shells, ranging from the size of his fingertip to the size of his entire fist. Picking one up, he examined it closely, recognizing it immediately. It was from a type of rock snail he had seen many times in Italy. “Are you referring to intimacy or pleasure, mother?”

"Either … “ She shrugged. “Or perhaps even both?" She waved a hand towards the closed door and the hallway beyond it. “There are others here who would be honored to share pleasures with something as unique as you.”

Her suggestion rubbed him the wrong way, as he was distinctly reminded of the "pleasures" his uniqueness granted him in Ancient Rome. “I am not interested in these things. It is not why I have come here.”

"No. I did not suppose so. But I am hoping that you have come here to do more than judge how I … and many, many others … chose to spend our eternity in Paradise?" He was finally hitting a nerve and he turned from the shells though he kept one in his palm as he spun the small shell in his fingers.

"No. It is not." He confirmed.

"Then be frank with me." She began to powder her face with makeup. “And be quick about it, my next company will be here soon.”

Next company. Quintus found himself twitch suddenly and the shock of the gesture was hard to mask. He hadn’t twitched in quite some time and Ancharia snickered at it.

"Come, Quintus." She spun from her makeup station to face him fully. “I will speak no more of pleasures, if you will just be frank with me. Stop attempting these childish mind games with me. I am the one who taught them to you.”

Very well. She might not be his equal, but she was still incredibly intelligent at the very least. She had always been. "Why did you seek me out?" He asked.

"Pardon?" Was her confusion honest? Did she not understand his questions? Unlikely. “Because I wished to speak with you again. To see how you are adjusting to life here.”

"No." He sighed dramatically at her misunderstanding of his question. “I mean when you found me that day ... caged and alone. When you found me as a child.” Finally, he lowered himself onto the edge of the bed as he regarded her strikingly beautiful face.

"Ah. That." She said as she finished with powder, setting it back down on the surface of the table.

There was a moment of silence as she stared at him and he looked down at the shell in his fingers, rolling it around and without warning, all of his questions flooded out at once. "You spoke of a prophecy. Tell me of it. How did you come by it? Who sent you to find me? Was it this Order? And how did you find me? The Master called you Huntress in the cave. Did he know you before that time? If you are older than I assume, how old are you and how is that even possible? What is the meaning of the Ouroboros? Is the purpose of my existence finally over? Am I to have no further importance?"

"Oh my." She smiled, cocking her head to the right as she regarded him fully. “Always so curious, aren’t you? How long have you been holding all of this in, my boy?”

Unamused by her lack of concise answer, he simply stared at her while he continued to roll the small shell between his fingers. He found the act incredibly calming as he realized he used to do the exact same with Tasa’s locket when he was restless. The shell that he had unconsciously picked up was exactly the same size as the locket as well.

"Very well. Which one should I start with?" He continued to express his lack of amusement and she sighed again, standing from the dresser and taking a seat next to him on the soft mattress. “There was a prophecy many, many millennia before either you or I were born. It was from this prophecy that the Order of Argaman arose.” She paused and he nodded once, accepting her information.

"Proceed." He encouraged. “What was this prophecy specifically?”

"I have told it to you many times, have I not? The Ancients, I am certain, had also conveyed it to you. That there would be an unnatural union with a daughter of man and that the resulting child would be a unique being destined for greatness. It would bear the mark of their maker but not be bound by the same limitations and that this creature would lead to their undoing."

He had heard it somewhat different from the Ancients, and while the overall meanings were similar, the words Ancharia uttered were far more abstract and … encompassing of other possibilities. Of … other unique beings he knew.

"And where did this prophecy originate?" He asked.

"It is not entirely certain, as it was around before many of the celestial beings were even born." She shrugged. “It is speculated that the first prophet who witnessed it was Lilith herself. Other’s say it was the Wheel within the Wheel.”

"Wheel within the Wheel?" He asked for clarification of the odd name indeed.

"Sandalphon." She said. “The Tall One. But … it matters not. Regardless of where it started, many lines of prophets recanted the same vision for centuries afterwards.”

"Go on." He encouraged.

"As far as how we found you … that is simple and quite obvious. There had been whispers of your birth for years. The Master was in search of a child and then hushed tales of humans drained of blood during daylight hours spread across the lands. It is how we came across your possible existence."

"Fair enough."

"He called me Huntress … “ She paused briefly. “The Master knew me, yes. In my younger years, I worked for him. I worked for them."

"Them?" He gripped the shell in his fist as he looked at her carefully. “The Ancients?”

"In a way … yes. I was trained as a Sun Hunter long before I was your mother."

"A … Sun Hunter?" He smiled. “I thought you said you were born into this Order?”

"I said the only way to survive was the Order, but … do not assume that the two are mutually exclusive, Quintus. The Order had been watching the Ancients for some time. It was necessary to keep an eye on them. The best way to observe them was from within."

"They sent you to accomplish that task?" He squinted at her carefully as he smiled further. “You are saying you were a double agent?”

"A spy. Indeed." She was pleased with his intuition. “When it was disclosed that the Seventh had misstepped, I discretely exited their employ. We needed to find you before they did. It took years … We were vigilant and patient.”

She seemed to be finished and he pressed with the still unanswered bits. "And your age?"

"My boy, you are old enough to know it is quite rude to ask a woman’s age, yes?"

Unamused, he stared at her, trying to gauge if she actually thought he would be deterred by the remark and when it was obvious he would not, she cleared her throat. "Will you not allow me some amount of privacy?"

No. Not today. "How it is possible?" He demanded.

"I am sure you know this answer. Hunters have been extending their lives for years, have they not?"

"You are implying the use of The White?" Even so, using the white would only extend a lifespan by decades, not by whatever she had implied earlier. How much older was she?

"The White … “ She repeated. “Divine Blood itself." She chuckled. “In a way … yes.”

It was a non-answer and reading her clear defiance at the prodding, he opted to move on. "Ouroboros."

"Should I give you a history lesson?" She quipped.

"I know of the symbol, but why is it of importance to you?"

"It is the Infinite Cycle. The endlessness between life and death." She said simply. “It is our reminder …”

"A reminder? Of what?"

"Of why the Order exists. Of why we chose to do what we do."

"To continue the cycle?" He asked and she looked up sharply into his eyes with growing fire.

"No." Her word was forceful. “Actually quite the opposite in fact, my boy.”

"I do not follow." Tilting his head to the right, he matched the fierceness of her gaze. “You wish to end the cycle of life and death? You will forgive me but … that sounds as if you wish for the apocalypse, mother.”

"No." Another forceful word. “You misunderstand again. We don’t seek to end life or death. We fight to destroy the cycle of it all. We fight …” She stood now as he heard passion rise timidly in her voice. “We fight for change. The serpent …” She waved to one of the paintings on her wall and she smirked. “The serpent is forever consuming his own tail … not allowed to cease. Never allowed to evolve. If the serpent is allowed to keep eating itself, there will be no room left for the rest of us.”

"And … We are all serpents here, yes?" He said and her eyes grew wide.

"Indeed." She looked at him peacefully again. “And I can sense that you desire change as well. I can tell you are unhappy here, Quintus.”

"Perhaps I am not." He admitted, rubbing the shell with his fingers again as he stared down to it. “Unfortunately, neither one of us have the power nor influence to enact change on a system such as this.”

"Have you learned nothing of your accomplishments yet? Never underestimate what you are capable of, Quintus Densus." As he looked up, he found her beaming at him and he was reminded of how good she was at encouraging him and he bit back the smile that nearly escaped. He wished to at least give the impression of retaining control over the conversation. Of being unaffected by her words.

"And, as for your final questions … Is the purpose of you existence finally over?" She walked to him, taking his hands in hers as she pulled him to his feet. “Personally, I doubt that very much. And finally … Are you of no further importance? What does your heart tell you?”

His heart? What a strange question to ask, as his heart reminded him, in every single agonizing waking instant in this place that his purpose was still on Earth.

"My heart …" He hesitated. “Has a history of getting me into trouble.”

"Yes." She touched his chest with the palm of her right hand. “The most passionate ones have that tendency. But … do not shy away from what drives you, Quintus. Your defiance has always been as important as your strength.”

Defiance? He looked down at her hand as he unconsciously put the shell into his pocket, right where he had kept the locket, before placing his hand over hers and she smiled at the gesture.

"I am told to just accept things as they are." He said lowly, closing his eyes with disappointment. “I am told there is nothing I can do now.”

"I would be quite disappointed in you if you succumbed to that mentality." She tapped the skin over his rib cage as she stared up into his saddened eyes. “You would truly be a poor agent of change if you just … gave in … so easily.”

As she reached up to touch his face, he found himself grabbing her hand before it could make contact with his skin. No. Whatever intimacy they had shared before, too much time had passed and he was not comfortable with this action. Dropping his hold on her fingers, he turned and began to walk towards the door.

All of his questions were answered and he did not wish to stay in this place any longer. He could hear and even smell everything that was occurring in the rooms around them. Now he wished to just return to the more quiet parts of the realm. Making no movement and giving no argument to stop him, she silently watched him until he reached for the handle.

"You are welcome to return at any time, Quintus. I am here if you need someone to speak with …" He turned to look at her a final time as she whispered. “Or, to confide in. We are more alike than you realize.”

"Thank you for the answers. They are appreciated." She nodded and as he walked through the door he heard her chortle one last thing from behind.

"And … please tell Sempronius he is also welcome to visit me anytime." There was a giggle in her voice and Quintus cringed.

Ha! He laughed to himself. THAT was never going to happen.

He had be gone for hours and Hathų sat at her kitchen table, spinning her cup anxiously as she normally did when she waited from him to return from Earth. The dog, Thunder, approached the door and scratched seconds before her husband entered the safe place. As he did, the normally hidden glyphs on the walls burned with golden intensity before fading back into obscurity.

They could speak freely now.

The look on his face was one she had never seen, but she spoke before he could. "There was a … problem." She said lowly.

"Great." Michael stopped and sighed. “What is it now?”

"He …" She spun the cup again and again. “He found the meadow. He found … Michael.”

"What?!" Michael coughed as he lunged forward to the table. “How’s that possible?! It’s sealed!!”

"I don’t know … he said …" Spinning the cup again, she explained. “He claimed that he just walked there.”

"Only Hayyoth can ..." His voice trailed off as the reality of the situation sank in and he remembered his own words at the trial. It was impossible to know what he would be capable of. He’d underestimated the half breed’s power. “... find that place …” Michael melted with defeat into the chair, his hands coming up to his forehead as he closed his eyes as tightly as he could.

"It is my fault." She choked. “This is my fault. He was ... looking for me.” She blamed herself. “I thought it was alright to visit him … Quintus was in his cell … I thought it would be alright … I thought--”

"Who allowed him out?" Michael asked, but from the tone of the question, he already knew the answer. “Raphael?” She nodded and he sighed again, placing his hand palm down on the table as his wife nervously spun her cup around again and again.

"I should not have gone there. I should not have--"

Reaching out and grabbing her hand tightly, Michael smiled meekly. "Enough blame. Enough. It’s not your fault. It’s alright. I think it’ll be fine. He doesn’t know what I look like. I doubt he can make any connection out of it." He cringed internally at this, as he knew the boy was not a fool.

"Your visage isn’t private, Michael."

"It doesn’t matter. Besides, there are more pressing matters right now."

"How did your … visit go?" She gulped as she mentioned it. Going to see Barqan had ravaged his soul and she could see it. It was either the child or something else was lingering behind his anxiety. “Will he comply?”

"Yes." Michael nodded sadly. “He will.”

"This is a dangerous game you play …" She offered and he waved a hand towards her, attempting to dismiss her words.

"I’m aware. But … I know my brother, I know--"

"Just as you knew Quintus? And just as you knew Lu--"

"Don’t utter that name." He stared at her intently. Even though they were safe to speak in this place, he didn’t even wish to hear the name. “So, you doubt me now? After all of these years, you’re now starting to doubt me as well?” He asked, less in anger and more in growing worry.

"No … It is not that … it is just …" She reached for his hand and he allowed her to take it, interlacing their fingers. “People change, Michael. You cannot always know what someone will do.”

"Ha!" He laughed loudly. “No. Trust me. Gabriel will never change. He’s incapable of it.” He scoffed and Hathų glared at her husband with the disappointed eyes that only a wife can wield against her husband. “I still have faith in my brother.”

"And you will risk the child’s existence on that?" Hathų was less worried about the life of a random Djinn child than she was about the lingering effects that such an act would have on Michael’s soul.

We float on the breeze

We are held to a ransom

We are bones on the riffs

Waiting for the waves, the waves

"Risk this child’s life? For you?" He pushed her mug aside and found her other free hand, interlacing his fingers with hers. “For our son?” Reaching across the table with both of their hands interlaced, he smiled warmly to her for the first time in months. “For Dawn?” Hathų could read his intentions and she had missed them. “For all those who existed between them?” Since the Seventh had started its siege on the Earth, Michael had been preoccupied and distant. She felt her need for him begin to smoulder within. “Yes.” He pulled her up to her feet as he stood, never releasing her hands as he walked them passed the edge of the table. “I would risk many things for all of you.”

"And if you are wrong about him?" She pressed as he bent to kiss her. His lips were soft but there was something behind his action that concerned her. His body trembled slightly. He was keeping something from her.

Pulling back from his mouth, she touched the scar across his cheek, "What is wrong?"

"Many things." He said, looking down and losing himself into her brown expressive irises. “So many things are wrong … but … right now …” Reaching down, he picked her up with enough sudden force that she gasped, slipping his grip under her left arm and cradling her legs with his right. “If everything must crumble, I want to remember why …”

"Why what?" She asked as he kissed her again.

"I want to remember why it was all worth it."

There were no further words spoken as he carried her into the next room. She could feel something was terribly wrong and she had no doubts he would tell her, but right now, she allowed them to lose themselves.

The moment the door shut behind Quintus, Ancharia watched as the walls around her burned with white glyphs and a dark figure stepped forward from the shadows of the corner. Its voice echoing only in the depths of her mind.

"You provided answers, but sought none yourself." It complained. “You were supposed to press him …”

"He is not ready to share with me yet." She turned and smiled, bowing her head to the entity slightly. “He will. I am sure of it. I know my own son.”

"He is not your son, Priestess." It countered calmly but firmly. “Nor is he the same boy you once knew.”

"Yes, he is the same boy. I can see it still." She sighed. “And just as we did with him before, trust must be built and earned. You gave me this task once before, and I was quite successful at it, was I not?”

"And how long do you think this will take? It has already taken him months to answer your calls just this once."

"Such impatience is quite unlike you, Argaman" She raised a brow and the figure shifted, gliding across the ground like an apparition as it inched closer to her. “You have never had doubts in my abilities before …”

"There are ripples. Something is off." It said and she watched silently as the shadow began to fade. Its voice was a distant whisper now and the instant before it vanished entirely, it ordered her rudely. “Work faster.”

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ALL FIAT COLLAPSING!! BITCOIN $288000 in 12 Months Argentina Stock To Flow BTC BULLISH MODEL

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And we’re alive. Yes. Well, it comes as another episode of Good Morning Group down here on Ivan Ontake. We are, of course, broadcasting live straight out of Stockholm, Sweden. And we do this show each and every day at 8:00 p.m. Central Time. Yes, I come to like an atomic clock Asian every day. Today, we will be discussing some big, significant events. Number one, fiat currencies across the world are collapsing as we speak, literally as we speak. It’s not some kind of exaggeration. We’re seeing the Lebanon collapse. We discussed it last week. Today, we’re going to focus on the urgency them and what happens there. And, you know, Argentina has a tradition. The government has a tradition of stealing people’s money. We’re going to discuss the court a little effect the court, a little event which happened 20 years ago, approximately. I will explain to you how the government stole 75 percent of people’s wealth in Argentina and why you should really keep it in mind, because the same thing will happen again, not only in Argentina, but in many other countries. Most probably we will see similar events like Court A and you should really know it. It’s when the government can really take your money. Also, you know that Bitcoin is up against old Fiat this year. Already it against all Fiat. We are up. So really remember that Bitcoin is the refuge, the global refuge for wealth, financial refuge for everyone, no matter the skin color, the religion, the language, you speak, your sexuality, you are welcome. We have a radical, absolutely radical inclusion in Bitcoin. So that is going to be number one. Number two, we actually have a crazy two hundred and twenty eight thousand dollar prediction from plan B, from stock to flow model. Now, the thing he has done is that he modeled Bitcoin in terms of clusters, in terms of stock to flow clusters. So basically, you know, in Bitcoin, we have all kinds of different narratives. We’ve had through the years, like each cash, like censorship resistant gold, like cheap payments network, like programmable shared database and so on, so forth, reserve currency for crypto. And we see how these different narratives have changed through the years. And the reason why they change is because the Bitcoin mechanics change. Bitcoin today is not the same Bitcoin before the last hubbing, because the mathematical properties and the financial properties change of this currency. So it’s very important to disguise that really whenever we have a hubbing bitcoin completely shifts, shifts, its form is shift shape. It’s really shapeshifting each and every time. And we move from one use case to another to another. And in the next tubbing, we’re going to see a completely different Bitcoin with way stronger fundamentals. And this is how this model predicts that the next cluster of stocks will flow. You see these different clusters. If you extrapolate, the next cluster will take us to two hundred thousand dollars, two hundred twenty eight thousand dollars. All in all, we will be discussing this a lot today as well. And this is a very important topic, very key topic to understand. We’re going to discuss about the job market in crypto because cracking is hiring like crazy. Three hundred and fifty people, they are adding this year to the company and so many other things as well. Guys, welcome, welcome. Welcome. Everyone who is watching when. I want to. Com slash Leive. How are you all doing? As I told guys in the chat. Before we do have some helicopter actions here in Stockholm, we have soldiers dropping from helicopters, some kind of exercise they have. We’re gonna see what happens. But literally before we went live, I saw helicopters and then soldiers dropping down and helicopters flying very, very low. Basically, it was like five, 10 meters above the rooftops. It’s it’s insane. We’re gonna see what happens. But welcome, everyone, on to the concept live. Let me know exactly how we were doing. Exactly. Animal in this helicopter money. We’re getting helicopter money. Welcome, everyone. I see the first donation from crypto fruit. I like your unicorn picture. Thank you so much for the nation. And let me know where you turn from a secret to your back. Sebastian. George cryptid tax fixer atomic clock. Gabriella. My topper. Great. The crypt of Farzat Izak. So many people. So many people. Global commune. So amazing to see. Let me know exactly where you are chugging from. And by the way, we have another donation from Harold. Exactly. Exactly. Thank you so much. And also, I have some good news as well from our company. Our company has success successfully. We have successfully completed a tax audit. And it’s it’s amazing. So if you want help with taxes in Sweden, just reach out contact at. I don’t think that’s. Com because, look, we have successfully passed all our tax audits because we have been controlled by the government. You know, they checked our books. All is fine. All this fantastic. Why? Because we work with the best people in Sweden when it comes to crypto and when it comes to accounting. So if you’re not in Sweden, I can not help you. But if you are in Sweden, you are tax liable in Sweden. Contact at. I don’t think that. Com is your email. If you have any issues or whatever, because, look, we managed it with perfect score. I can tell you that. Now, moving on to the markets before we do that, we have some some identified flying object. You know, that they basically released now this footage. The Pentagon has declassified this and it’s basically you have files that have basically been confirmed, I guess I guess it is this UFO. So I guess we do have UFO confirmation or just some kind of anomaly, maybe some issue with the camera, really. I don’t really know too much details about exactly what we’re seeing, but it is unexplained aerial phenomenon. So they they cannot explain it. And people start to speculate, hey, maybe Satoshi was some kind of, you know, being from another planet with higher intelligence. He gave us Bitcoin and then kind of disappeared. People in crypto, they go wild mentally sometimes when when they see something like this. And the bitcoin is really the gift to humanity in many ways. But look, we’re going to see what the hell this is. Let me know what you think and whether it is a UFO. Now, we don’t know when it happened. Maybe this happened like 10 years ago. Maybe it was recent. We don’t know that. So let me know in the chat exactly what you think. What’s your view on this is right now? Now we have Bitcoin at the Plaza, zero point sixteen percent web ethe at the mine is Groupon two percent. All in all, quite stable market to date. This fantastic this fantastic Tuesday morning. Choose the morning we’re having right now together. Looking at the big winners Web Aive DEFAT Project amazing 13 percent start stellar, 12 percent digital futures, 10 percent still futures. I wonder when we will have digital Expressen when they actually have their project in in check Lisk at eight percent, Web synthetics at eight percent. Really time for synthetics to recover. So it’s good to see to see this. Now, looking at the biggest winners, we losers more correctly, we have Hive completely collapsing, by the way, 30 percent down and the same time, let’s be honest, they pump crazy. They pump like crazy during the past few few days and weeks. So 30 percent down doesn’t really matter if you look at the insane growth they’ve been having. Did you buy minus 20 by digits, but did you buy tools? 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Basically, you can then short, you can long. You can trade Bitcoin markets, you can trade the theater markets, you or some SRP. You can use leverage up to 100 bucks only if you know what you’re doing. Because to be honest, leverage only makes sense if you are good enough. Otherwise, you’re going to lose is just it’s just a matter of how these markets work. If you don’t know what you’re doing, you’re going to lose. But if you are interested and if you are chasing all reds into. Want to try. Go to the con slash live. Use this link right here. Also our femoris and crypt dot com links. So it’s all for our communities to go and use them right now. Look, we are witnessing something that we’ve never really witnessed before. To the scale on this scale, the fact that fiat currencies across the world right now, as we’re speaking, as you and I are communicating through the inshore webs, as I’m sensing this waves on the Internet to you, we’re seeing all of this fiat mass collapse. And just like I tweeted yesterday and this tweet went absolutely berserk, I tweeted that fiat currencies across the world are collapsing as we speak. Last week, the Lebanese pound lost 50 percent. And you already know that if you’ve if you’ve seen my streams, you know that they lost 50 percent. Absolutely insane. Argentina now close to hyperinflation. Two central banks worldwide are literally printing people into starvation. Time for Plan B. And it’s absolutely correct. Look at Argentina on local bitcoin, the day volume on local Bitcoin in Argentina on Bessel, Argentine Bessel. You see, it is skyrocketing because, number one, they are worried people in Argentina are worried what will happen with their money and what will happen with their savings, with their wealth. Number two, also, we need to recognize that a lot of this increase is due to inflation. We do see crazy inflation. In fact, if we switch to BTC instead, if we switch and we measure a volume in BTC instead of Bessel, you see that is basically the levels we’ve had in 2019. But but in terms of Basle, it’s absolutely wild. And this is the real tragedy. This is how people are losing money by the second. It’s insane. That’s still cele. We have. A situation where your money is being gambled with central banks, gambling with your money and printing, trying to stimulate, trying to do this. It’s all a big experiment experiment for them while people literally are losing the hard earned hard work money each and every second. It’s it blows my mind that this is still a problem in 2020. And what’s worse, not enough with inflation. What’s worse is that the government can literally take your money and do whatever they want. You know, we had this episode on Italy. We discussed that, hey, maybe Italy in the near future, they might withdraw from the euro. And there I speculated in that we do that. If you have euro in Italian banks, what probably will happen is that they will simply convert your euro to the new Italian currency, whatever that will be. And that it might be bad for you because look who once knew Italian currency, which is created really to to manage the debt, to pay off the debt, really, because now they can print it. So you would rather have the euro than the newly created Italian or indeed can be added. Maybe Spain, maybe Portugal. Really, it’s not only about Italy, just in general. I told on the stream that it wouldn’t surprise me that if you have euro in Italian, Spain, Portugal, whatever a bank account and and they decide to withdraw, it will mean that you’re probably going to be automatically converted. And I got so much so much heat for that. I get so much shit in the comment section, say, hey, Ivan, this will never happen. They cannot take my euro and convert it without my consent. Hey, Ivan, this is completely, completely impossible because it’s gonna be illegal for them to take my euro and convert to this new new Italian currency. Guys, they can do whatever they want. This has been done before. It will be done again. Your money in the bank account is not your money. Guys, they can literally do whatever they want. If they want to convert it, they will convert it. And you will not be consenting to the exchange rate. They will not even ask you about the exchange rate. And it’s so horrible because it has happened before. Read about the court little effect from Argentina because the court Alito effect illustrates this perfectly. What I am telling you. In 2001, 20 years ago, the Argentine government stole seventy five percent of Argentinians USD deposits to save the banks and the peso. So let me tell you exactly what happened. What they did was that they took your dollars. Let’s say you had a dollar in your bank account. They converted to Besso because one Pessl was equal to one dollar, according to the official exchange rate. So they forced you to convert your dollars for one bessel you had ten dollars. You get done Paiser right after they did so. Right after they did so they said OK. One, Pessl is no longer one dollar. We are not backing it. We’re not guaranteeing that one pessaries, one dollar, which meant that overnight they converted your dollars to one bessel, one dollar, one Bessel. Then they said, Okay guys, we’re not we’re as far as the government, we’re no longer guaranteeing the one two unpeg. So you’re on your own now. Which meant that one peso was only sorry, one dollar was now for pestles. It wasn’t one dollar, one Pessl. It was not one dollar for Pessl. So you lost basically seventy five percent of your money. Why? Because you were forced to convert. The government can do whatever they want with your money. You’re not owning it. You’re not controlling it. And this will happen again. This was 20 years ago in Argentina. Might happen in Italy, might happen in Spain, might happen in all kinds of conscious, maybe even in Sweden. Who knows? Really, it doesn’t matter. All fiat currencies go to zero. And also, there is no need to be super nationalistic about it. I know I said that about Italy in the last Veja. I got many Italians racing. Hey, Ivan, you know, Italy, we it’s not that bad trying to defend. But look, why are you defending it? They’re not even on your team. Central bankers are not on your team, even if it’s the central bank in your country ahead. They’re not on your team, guys. So no need to be super nationalistic. It may happen in Sweden, may happen everywhere in the world. Just note that the only thing that you should be carrying about is you and your wealth and you shouldn’t be thinking about. Okay. This is really something that I need to be thinking about. We need to support the Bessel because they really wanted to support and protect the Bessler against capital flight. That’s why they converted everyone dollars. But are you really willing to pay such a price for it to bail out your government and to to bail out the bank? The bankers, are you or are you not? Answer honestly, because I don’t see any reason why you would. To be honest. And and therefore protect yourself, protect your wealth and protect your family. Is the only thing that matters. So look. Caught a little. If he is coming back, I can tell a little is not over. It’s not finished. It’s coming back worldwide. And. And Bitcoin is the only protection is the only antidote against DeCaro. Little effect. So please be aware. Don’t take it lightly. And remember, already this year, Bitcoin is outperforming all Fiat or Fiat is right now being outperformed by Bitcoin and. Steel and yet steel, if you ask your financial adviser, he will tell you, oh, man, you need to be careful, you need to be careful with Bitcoin, you to be careful with cryptocurrency sky, some kind of scam. Very volatile, very volatile. You better be in cash. Maybe the stock market will collapse. You can use your cash in the stock market. But look, tell that to people in Brazil. Forty four percent lost against Bitcoin. Tell that to people in there. What is this? Is that done with the flag, please, guys? Is it the Colombia? Sorry, my geography teacher wouldn’t be proud. I don’t recognize the flag, but it’s 28 percent nonetheless. Argentina, 16 percent. We have China. Even China, six percent. So all in all, Colombia. Exactly. Colombia. I thought I was told also Colombia. What is this? Indonesia. Right. Eleven. Web check. Rubab. But check. Is this anyway anyway. Don’t test my my geography skills. You understand that bitcoin is outperforming most of us. It’s outperforming most of the all of the fiat currencies in the world. So that’s that’s why it’s so important. Look, moving on, moving on. Not only is Bitcoin a true reliever, true reliever of the financial burden that many of us have because we do not really decide what we’re doing with our money. We don’t really decide how we’re gonna spend our money and how we can really manage our funds. By the way. I see. Or Lexing revenge on the krona is wrecked. I know. I know. It’s it’s a sad story. What happened to your vision, Krona? No vision economy is highly connected to the oil. You know that we’ve been. Oh, the helicopters are gone. Are gone. So we did not guess what. They’re gone. So you see, the Norwegian krone is so connected to the oil. That’s why we in Sweden, we always sell Norwegians that your days are numbered, guys. Oil is either gonna run out or it’s gonna collapse in Sweden, at least we have industry, we have global companies. We have global production. So we usually joke, you know, that, hey, individuals are richer, they’re richer right now. But but your oil gonna run out or it’s gonna go too negative. Well, exactly what happened. But anyway, it’s a strategy strategy that you had a Norwegian kroner and you lost thirty three percent against Bitcoin. Absolutely tragic. The same in Sweden, 50 percent. I mean, we’re not some kind of role model either. Swedish krona has also lost significantly, significantly, significantly. So that’s that’s why you need to understand the only financial global refuge you have. It is crypto. It’s global, doesn’t discriminate, radically inclusive. It’s radically inclusive. And that’s why it’s so key. Now, I want to also show to you this the fact that we are not only breaking ourselves free on the personal level, on the personal freedom level, but also when it comes to building new businesses and building new ideas. And they want to share with you this video from Jack Dorsey basically explaining why Bitcoin is so important for them as a company, as a financial company, because they cannot do their business, they cannot do their business without begging the bankers to let them do their business. And that’s not how it should be. That’s not how it should be. So let me know if the sound works. I think it should work. And let’s listen to our friend, to our friend straight from the U.S. broadcasting, Jack Dorsey. So let’s hear what he says. I believe that the Internet deserves and requires a native currency and a notary. I’m such a huge believer in Bitcoin because it is our biggest problem as a company right now is we cannot act like an Internet company to open a new market. We have to have a partnership with a local bank. We have to pay attention to different regulatory onboarding environments. And a digital currency like Bitcoin takes on a bunch of that away where we can potentially launch a product in every single market around the world. Because they’re all using the same currency. There you go. There is no need to beg some kind of bank to please let us collaborate with you. Please, please, please. Begging, begging the cartel, please open up. Please let me do something in finance. Please, please, please. You know, why is it so? Why? Because it’s a walled garden. That. That’s why. That’s why it’s so. And that’s also why you see that there is no way for us to break the walled garden that you remember yesterday with the Scotts. There is no way for us to break the walled garden. And by the way, big shout out to Alex Freedman. It is his podcast that we are taking this video from. I hope it’s okay, but be shout out to him. Go follow him. Leks Friedman, artificial intelligence spot. Guess one of the greatest podcasts right now on the planet. Absolutely. Planet. So I’m sharing it in the description, the Twitter. But look, you understand that we are breaking free on on a personal level, on the corporate level as well, because just like Jack Jackdaw says, why should we? Why should we beg? Why should we beg? But what’s important is that we will never break the. The walled garden. We will never get into the banking cartel. They will not allow us. Obviously. Why would they. Why would they invite us? While the. But you know, the crypto community. Do you think they will invite us? Absolutely not. So that is why we should not fight the old. Let them have the walled garden. Let them have the moat, like we discussed yesterday. Remember, when you are a business, you tried to build a multi around your business so nobody can attack. Nobody can start building a similar idea like you. So you build up a bunch of of moat, a bunch of walls. So you have regulation, you lobby for more regulation. So it’s more difficult for someone else to start. So this means that we need to walk around, just like Jack Dorsey says, when it’s a new system. We cannot buy the old. They are just too fortified with Justin to walk around their system, just like Facebook did not invent the better newspaper. Like it better. I don’t know how people socialize before Facebook. You know, you understand how to compare it. But Netflix did not build a better TV station and an urban B did not build a better hotel. It’s all about walking around the moat, walking around the problem and and innovating. Now, shifting gears quickly, shifting gears quickly. We’re moving to Bitcoin stocks to flow. And while why we’re going to two hundred eighty eight K very soon. We’re actually at 228. I think this I think I messed up the numbers, but truly, whether it’s 88 or 20, it does not really matter. Let me just quickly double check. It’s 88 to 288. But what’s important to note here is that we are shapeshifting. Bitcoin right now is not the Bitcoin you knew from a few years ago. And it’s completely fine. And you see many people sometimes mocking, mocking Bitcoin that we’re shifting our narrative. You know, we went from digital cash. We went from that to cheap payments network. And you see here on the chart that in 2009, this blue area was the biggest. So it was a cash proof of concept, the biggest use case for Bitcoin that the community was discussing. And then you had the bit of cheap payments. I mean, people discuss that as well. And then a bit of the yellow one, which is censorship resistant, E. Gold here as well in the beginning. And then as we move, as we move to the right, you see how it’s changing. So digital cash is cash proof of concept. It basically went to zero. We’re not talking about cash anymore. And we haven’t since 2015, really, because here’s where the blue the blue portion went to zero superrich at desks. Amazing. Horst, you sent Bitcoin. We always send Bikash. Anyway, I think Bikash as well. Thanks so much. Cheap Payments Network. It also declined. And right now you see that digital gold is number one. I mean, that’s the fattest portion. Does the fattest portion the yellow one too, does the number one narrative we have as well, the green one, which is reserve currency for crypto here. And then we have the pink one, which is uncorrelated to financial assets. So you see narratives are always shifting, narratives are always shifting. Why is it so? Because Bitcoin is changing. Bitcoin today is not the bitcoin. 10 years ago or five years ago. Why? Because this toxic flow is changing. The scarcity is changing. Everything is changing. You know, 10 years ago, it would take one year of inflation to replace the full supply 10 years ago when Bitcoin really started. You see that we were about one in stocks with flow ratio. Now, for all of you who don’t know what stocks the flow is. Quick reminder, stock to flow is how many years it takes for new inflation to basically produce that much new money. So it is exactly the same as you have right now in circulation. So we have Circo things supply. And then you ask yourself, OK. Looking at the inflation, how much years, how many years, how much time will it take to replace the current circulating supply? Basically, to produce as much debt is currently circulating. And 10 years ago, it was one year in one year we printed as much as was already in circulation. And then we have been moving towards higher and higher numbers here and stocks of flow. And right now we are at between 10 and the hundred. So we are somewhere here in between. And obviously, that is a completely different beast than when it was at one or when it was at 10. And we are moving to 100 very soon. Basically, that will take 100 years to replace the current circulation supply only from new inflation. It will soon take 100 years. And so obviously, it’s a completely different asset with completely different mechanics, with completely different supply and demand and scarcity dynamics. So that’s why the narrative is changing, because the whole asset is changing. So basically, he combined the different stocks to flow clusters. And he tried to map them to different narratives. So, for example, Biscayan cluster number one of stock to flow was was it payments, proof of concept? Then you had the gold being here, Kluster, number three. And now we’re moving towards financial asset class number four, global macro uncorrelated financial asset. That is a bigger narrative right now. And you see that the next cluster, the next cluster will be somewhere here. And he also put gold and silver. But the next LASWELL probably will be somewhere here around gold that the stock to flow will go even further towards the right. And of course, the price will follow upwards if this model holds, because you see that as stock to flow increases, so does the price and the price. Exponential. We’re basically increasing in orders of magnitude on the price as the stock to flow goes up on the x axis and the price exponential goes on the Y axis. So when we will soon jump to yet another level of stock to flow and we will be even closer to 100 years to replace full, full supply, we’re going to build a new cluster around here of of Bitcoin’s stock to flow. And we’re going to have probably a whole other narrative. And if you try to extrapolate that, OK, first class, there were some was somewhere here and we had the total market cap of a million. When the stock to flow was about one, then we jumped to total market cap of one hundred million and stock to float jumped as well. Then stock to float jumped again. We went to 10 billion, then stock to float jumped again and we went to 100 billion. So now when stock to float jumps again, where will we be? Is the question in terms of total market cap. And if you do the simple calculation, you’ll see that we are going to two hundred eighty eight thousand for one bitcoin, two hundred and eighty thousand for one Bitcoin. And that is some ways to calculate the future price and have some kind of model of the future price. It’s not bulletproof, obviously, because it’s not even been peer reviewed yet. As he says, please be aware that this is only the first step and has not been replicated or reviewed. But this is an issue in theory. And the most important takeaway from here is that Bitcoin is a shapeshifting, just like water going from solid liquid gas ionized or like the US dollar going going from gold, basically backed by gold to paper bag by gold or actually more correctly, dollars going from being actual gold to bagged by gold to bag by nothing. It’s still called the dollar, but it’s a completely different beast. It’s completely different mechanics and completely different fundamentals. So is Bitcoin Bitcoin in stocks, a flow of one is not the same as Bitcoin. Stop to flow of five or ten or a hundred completely different concepts. So in terms of the timeline, I see people asking in the chat. What about the timeline? We are looking at twenty twenty to twenty, twenty four. It’s impossible to say. Could happen in 12 months. Could happen in twenty, twenty four months but 12 months. Completely probable. It is probable but also twenty is probable as well. So it’s basically timeline is always the most difficult. And that’s why bitcoin is more for holding long term. The timeline is impossible to say whether there’s going to be this year or next month or 2024 is basically the whole cycle that in this cycle that we are right now in the cycle of Hobbins before. Right now and the next halving that is when this will happen. And just like here as well. All of this timeline is somewhere between the halving. So that’s what we’re talking about, because then the next halving is going to happen and then we’re going to see a whole other beast. Bitcoin is going to be something entirely different yet again. So that’s very important. And once again, not financial advice. Just how I’m thinking. Do whatever you want with this with this information. But it is interesting. It is interesting nonetheless. Let me know what you think. If you agree or disagree with this amazing, amazing model done by stocks, you flow by Plan B, we’re going to see what’s happening. But but. But but now, whenever you hear some kind of Bikash phonetic or BSB Phanatic complain that Bitcoin is changing narratives explain to them that Bitcoin is changing itself. It’s changed itself. The fundamentals are completely different. So that’s why it is also changing its narrative, because it’s being used for different things, because it’s different. Oh Horst, we have some Bikash. Thank you so much. BTC will probably soon be unusable for paying for Supercharges when lightning. No, no. BTC is usable. You can do instant with instant zero. Com. Supercharged because we’re not shipping anything. We’re not. And we’re not shipping anything. So you can do BTC if you want. You don’t need to wait for conformations and then we check whether the transaction got confirmed or not. So look, we don’t even need the lightning for this, to be honest. We don’t even need lightning hakes fanatic’s exactly when Hecks finance gone. Then you go and they say you’re going to explain what Bitcoin is horse anyway. It is a shelter two. Thank you so much. Obviously if you send Bikash we’ll take because that’s. You could even send. No, you cannot, son. That’s impossible. That’s impossible. And look, zero come for us. Works fantastically well. So please try. If you haven’t, you can. You can do superjet with Bitcoin. It will be instant. It will be instant. And for us, it works fine because we’re not shipping physical products. If you’re shipping physical products, you need to be careful, obviously, because that transaction is not fully confirmed. OK. Moving on, guys. We have a boom in the blocks in industry right now because as everything is collapsing, this is the time. So I guess this is the time to go all in. You guys need to go all in. Mentally, physically, professionally, with all your time, you need to go into crypto with your mental time, with your energy. And you see that we are expanding like crazy. For instance, our company hired 18 new people this year for academy. So, for example, if you are in the academy, you know that you get personalized that plan. You get the personalized personalized assistant that will help you to complete your study plan. You can reach out, take your time to them. We have staffed up like crazy because we are going all in in this bull market. 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And guess if you want to please write in the chat how old you are, because that would be fun to read. You know, it’s actually something we’ve been noticing in our academy as well. We have a lot of. Yes. 50, 60. It’s amazing to see it and it’s not something that you hear a lot. Usually you hear that crypto is mating, you know, mainly millennials. It’s not it’s not the older people, but some youth. The statistics speak for themselves. As you can see, web of so many different age groups. It’s insane. It’s insane. And I saw I thought this was interesting because the equity market cap also noticed it. They noticed that, look, we have a lot we have a lot of age groups and them and 65 plus are overrepresented in many cases. It’s amazing. And I’ve been thinking, why is this so? Why is it so that that age group is somehow overrepresented? And in many cases, I think that older people just are a bit wiser. They’re a bit wiser when it comes to money. Maybe they’ve been through a few of the collapses and they understand that you cannot trust money while millennials, they eat the avocado. They don’t really care about what’s going on. They just want to have a fun time. They just want to have a fun time. And they relaxing and they haven’t been experiencing things. For example, they haven’t seen the court a little common bite them. You know, somewhere they they get really bitten. If you survives court lethal, you got bitten real time, I can tell you that. And it takes a bit of knowledge and a bit of wisdom to experience it. And it takes a bit of a bit of losing, a bit of losing money due to the fact how the monetary system is structured. Truly understand the issues, because I think most millennials, they don’t even care that much about how money works at all. At all. At all. So I thought that was very interesting. So let me know what you think, whether you agree or disagree. But that being said, I want to welcome our magnificent our respect, the Buhle Worldwide Superjet to the discussion. It’s my pleasure to remove this headphones because you know that we had a police helicopter wildness going on. Absolutely wild. It was. And actually, I want to show you. Let me see it because I have a recording. I recorded it on my phone. I just need to transport it somehow to my computer quickly so I can show it to her. It was absolutely insane. Basically, helicopters and I even Soss, you know, soldiers dropping from. But now they flew away and then they read quickly in the newspaper. It was a a some kind of, you know, practice. They are they they were doing Praksis. But anyway, let me guess how you are doing. And let’s do some Q&A. Let’s do some Q&A. The powerful chat. Exactly. The magnificence. Respectable and powerful. All mighty chat. Let’s see. Can I download this or not? Can I download this yet? So, look, let me let me quickly show you how can I do it without exposing some sensitive info? Let’s see. Can I do like this? OK. Yes. OK, let’s see. Ocelots it. So see, I’m using my private messenger, so I’m really taking a big risk showing you this, exposing my private messages potentially. But you see, it was basically here, the helicopter absolutely insane. So there you go, guys. There you go. There you go. I don’t know what the hell they were doing. Yeah. Yeah, insane. I really want to show this. So there you go. OK, moving on. What was going on with with the chat? Where were questions, guys? Where our questions told you to prepare questions. We have prepared questions, haven’t you? Can you explain a liquidity trap. Well, a liquidity trap and the crunch would. It’s kind of what we’re seeing right now. I mean, more correctly, it listicle the liquidity crunch. And that is the fact that everyone has loans denominated in USD. All right. But when everything is collapsing and when USD becomes stronger, it’s difficult to pay back the loan. So everyone wants to get the USD to pay back their loan. And they’re getting margin calls. You know that the stocks are falling. Stocks have been falling. All kinds of assets are falling. So a lot a lot of speculation in the global markets have been backed by margin. You know, people use margin all the time. And in global markets, the same. The same, the same. So when the value of the collateral falls, when you have, for example, margin, but you have some kind of stocks as collateral, if you have some other assets and they fall in value, you know what you have to do? You will be liquidated. If you don’t if you don’t fill up your collateral or if you don’t just close your loan. Don’t close your. If you just close your margin position, that’s also fine. But for that, you need dollars. So everyone needs dollars. Very quickly, in the global market, this is what happened in Lebanon. We discussed it. We discussed how Lebanon, their currency lost 50 percent of its value basically overnight. Why is it so? Well, because the government had a lot of obligations in the USD and the central bank. Really? What what can you do? Get that done today? What can you do? You can print money. That’s what you can do. So that is why the global finance system is collapsing as dollar becomes stronger. And it is becoming stronger against other fiat, against other Fiat. There is simply no no choice for many of the governments to simply hyper inflate, to success, to success. So that’s why that’s why. Guys, be careful, be careful. If it is the case that your country will be close to hyperinflation, what will happen? Your assets will probably be taken away from you, just like we saw with Court A. They will try to protect your national garbage currency if it’s close to hyperinflation. And when I say your garbage national currency don’t get old Patriots economy because these guys are not on your team. This your central bank is not on your team, guys. They’re not. They’re not just like the court. Alito even. Do you think the central bank of urgency and then the government of Argentina was on the side of the people when they took 75 percent? So, look, I know when I say, you know, you’re a national garbage currency. There’s always someone who gets upset. But you said, what about my national currency? You’re saying something about my national mike, my pride currency, my national pride. Guys, look, if they’re not on your team, we’re all crypto. We’re all we’re all in the same boat. And you understand that. When you see this code a little, you’re losing 75 percent. These guys are not on your team. All right. Anyway, moving on. So, yeah. So what would they want to say? Basically, when it is the case that a country’s is crumbling in terms of financials, they will not allow you to buy a dollar. They will simply take your dollar convert to garbage. Fiat currency. National currency. They will probably take your gold. They will probably take your assets. They cannot take your bitcoin. That’s what I want to tell you. Why are you not afraid of double spend the tax on your super chat’s? Well, because we’re not. Look, if somebody double spends or reverses the transaction, I will we will just blacklist them and we will not accept supercharges anymore. And I don’t think people will do it. Look at your. Voluntarily. You’re voluntarily doing a supercharged because you like the show. So why would you. So see you. Since you said that you could reverse it if you want. But but then we’ll just keep keep track of that then. Yeah. When you are shipping something physical, obviously I would not ship you like a computer if you bought from me with a one zero coins, but for us it’s just digital messages. It’s fine. What is your take on the Kleptocrat Fund Lagarde is talking about? Will it destroyed the EU union? Actually, I don’t know about the Kleptocrat Fund. I will I will note that Kleptocrat Fund, the interesting kleptocrat fund. So she is talking about it. Thank you so much for educating me. VLF. And that is why we do Superjet. And why would do this chat together that you guys can educate me as well and we can educate together. Thank you for this daily valuable show. Thank you. Thank you. Up NC. Also Bitcoin donation. Bitcoin donation, instant instant bitcoin the nation. So look, it’s all about the use case. We’ve made bitcoin work for us. Our use case. Instant transaction is fine. It’s fine. Yeah. With instant send. That’s you. Yeah. Get man horse. There there are many like Bikash also is my way more instant. And the eath is way more instant. So it’s not about finding better technologies. Just I want people to use bitcoin. People have bitcoin. They want to spend bitcoin. So that’s why we support zero conflict bitcoin. And for our use case, it’s OK. It’s fine. It’s fine. Solid crypto coming with solid five dollar donation. That’s amazing. That’s amazing. That’s amazing. Let’s see. Let’s see. Oh, he’s onboarding a bunch of people to crypto. Got it. Group to one link, man. What is one link? One link. Me big. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. One link is like to shorten. But be careful anyway. We can be careful when clicking links in this chat. All right. Thought you taught us to spend the fifth and never the Bitcoin. If you want to spend the Bitcoin, you can do that. But I’m just saying that most people want. Most people don’t want to. They want to huddle. They want to huddle. And that’s why the merchant adoption is is low, because nobody knew, because nobody is willing to spend bitcoin for other things, like for for buying food and groceries. But we as a group to crypto livestream, obviously, we will support Bitcoin donations. Of course. Of course. Of course. Fiat is like chain for dogs more. You have further you go. Interesting. The more you have, the further. Yeah. I mean, it’s one way of thinking. It’s one way of thinking about it. But what’s important what’s important is that when you spend when you spend it, whether it’s bitcoin or if replenish replenish it. Can you explain me why I have three hundred K limit of buying crypto? I have no clue. Jared, you reach out to their support. Reach out to their support. Probably because of regulation. But I have no clue for support. Reach out to their supports him. I’m not really their support. I just like their products. But each and every detail and the rule of what. How it works. Take it with their support. Yeah. What is the best script exchange to earn interest on your trip. The welder menu. I mean, cryptochrome is one. That’s absolutely one. You have Celsius. You have block fire. You have next. So I am I’m really look, I’m I really wouldn’t be betting the farm on any of them. On any of them. Why? Because you never know. You need to be very rational in how you do this. So be careful. But those are the ones you can try. Answer the one you absolutely can try. If you even even get if you ever get the chance, Ivan, make sure you broadcast from the serving surface. I think we’ll all be on the surface of the moon probably at the end of this year. At least that’s that’s what I’m hoping for. That will be on the surface of this moon. OK, Andreas. When are you launching the central streaming many alternative media news would need to take to Andreas? Yes, we’re working on that. We’re working, working, but we need our core features. So next core feature is a super shot for mobile. So we have Superjet from Mobile, but not Krypto. So that’s our next thing. And what’s good to see, as I see people also writing. We have London real London real getting pissed off on YouTube. One hundred percent. He really got a major, absolutely major issue further with YouTube now. So he has collected he has collected like almost half a million bucks. London real dot com slash freedom, I think it’s called. So let let me just show it to man. What is it like? London real. That old TV slash freedom. Right. Freedom lets you. Yes. So they are collecting these funds and they’re going to build a blocking platform as well. But most importantly, they’re going to take you up to court and. Yeah. So go go and support them if you want, because, look, it’s freedom of speech and it’s not okay. Look, it’s not okay. Where are you basically? Because right now. Your audience can be taken away from you at any moment. So London rule, if you get really fed up. So he started this campaign and he is really working a lot on this. He’s basically establishing a whole trust, a whole trust where people can donate for freedom and and they will basically either either build their own so they have all the funds to build their own. That’s good because they have collected so much. But the next thing is really to to reach a point where platforms are being more like utility. So, you know, for example, electricity companies. Yes, there are they are private companies. Many of them are private companies. There is no way they can tell you you don’t get electricity because we don’t like what you said. Why is it so? Well, you could argue. Well, what they are private companies. They can do whatever they want with their private company. Electricity. Electricity. But some things are just utilities. It’s just that a utility. So when we’re speaking about freedom of speech, the way we speak nowadays, it’s through online. It’s is through through the online mediums. So, look, there are arguments to be made on both sides. I do understand like you to be speaking for all infrastructure, and that’s obvious. So to comment to say, hey, we demand that all content you have is there for it’s also not. That doesn’t make sense either. But there needs to be something that needs to be something in the middle. We’re going to see anywhere. I’m very interested how it is going to go. So that’s why I’m supporting it. Should we no longer be worried about bank bail ins? Now, governments have learned that they can use money printer. So Balan’s absolutely can happen. Depends on which bank and which country. And it also depends on whether your country is sovereign when it comes to the Fiat printing. Because Cyprus, they weren’t sovereign. So they had to beg the EU to do something. And then you said, OK, we will save you. You know that Cyprus, they don’t have their own currency. They have the euro. So they could they couldn’t just print their way out of the out of the situation. So they basically to beg Germany and Germany said, hey, you need to take money from depositors. You’re a big chunk. So you basically have to do a bailout. Yesterday, you were talking about how government has two choices, default or print. Can you describe what will happen if they would actually default? Why do they prefer to avoid that route? Well, look, when you print, everyone stays in power. Every every everything is the same. Nobody changes roles. Nothing is changing. It’s just that the population loses funds. When you default, then you need structural change. I mean, then you really need to go out, undergo a lot of destruction, both economically but also politically. Nobody wants to do that. Why would you, if you are a politician, better to stay in power better? And look, right now, you also can blame the virus. So that’s that’s perfect for it for these guys, too. They know nothing will change, really. It’s only cryptid that will change things. Krypto is the only real thing that can move this world forward, because even if the economy collapses, they will say, oh, it was because of the virus. Who would have predicted that man? Who would have predicted this situation? I mean, we definitely couldn’t predict it. And the economy was fantastic. But, man, the coronis, you know, who would have thought? Who would have thought? So let us stay in power. And because it wasn’t our fault. So that’s what they will they will say, Ivan, the field goes to zero and BTC is at all time highs in what are going to convert, as you see. In what way are we going to convert BTC? Would you short the market? How to act? In case you can’t trust your banks and your BTC is at all time high. And you. So look. So number one question is, if all goes to zero, what do we measure? BTC and probably in commodities, probably in gold or something similar. Because I agree with you that measuring and fiat is meaningless long term. Would you short the market right now? Look, it’s all about how what your talents are. I mean, is your talents to play the market? Then you can short it. My talent is in education and building our educational reach. So that is what I am doing now. If you’re more spending time in the markets and you can and you see that, OK, you want to take a risk and short then. But for me, I’m just long, long term shorting the markets. It’s a bit too short term for me. So it really depends on who you are and what your performances. But for me, I rather put time and building out there Kazimi doing new courses because long term, long term, that will have more impact for me and for anyone. Everyone else. All our students than me trying to time the market in shorts. And yet because the tight look what the thing why is because it’s so difficult to get the timeline to predict the timeline. Now, if you think you can do that, then be good. But timing the markets is not a good idea generally. How? Because while we might be in agreement that the markets must go down the timeline, man, how will you get the timeline? It might happen today or in the month or in the year. How to act in case you can’t trust your banks and your BTC is all time high? Man, I don’t really sure what you mean. You mean that you want to transfer your BTC to fear when you sell. When you sell. Oh, so you have Bitcoin and you want to invest in real estate? Well, when you are investing in real estate and you can cash the whole thing, you don’t need to trust the banks, really. But you’re still trusting our government because the government can take your real estate away from you at a moment’s notice, at a moment’s notice when you need to defend the national currency or whatever they might tell you. Hey, guys. You know, we give. Give us the real estate. We give you this currency huddle with us, please. We need more hurdlers. We have more hurdlers. Otherwise we’re gonna hyper inflate or something. Look, they can take it. They can take it. It’s physical, is there. They know where it is. They can physically take it might sound insane. Some people might not believe it. But look at history. It has happened before. Your money in your bank account is not your real estate. It’s more yours, especially if you don’t have a mortgage. It is yours. But it’s just physically, they could take it. We might. Who knows what kind of political power will be in your country if it really becomes ugly. Just like Ray Dalio says, we need to be worried about populistic movements both to the right and to the left. Imagine that, because we’re closing the long term debt cycle. And usually that means a lot of agony. And when agony comes, you see that the strong leaders take the positions of power that happened in Russia in the 20s. You remember you all remember that happened in Nazi Germany. So, look, it doesn’t matter which which shoe, right or left. If you have real estate, the political powers might take it. Maybe they will explain that is for the best of society. All in all. Why would you sell your Bitcoin at the end of the day? Look, I think your best understanding would come when you see that you don’t have to sell. But if you want to sell it, you could sell and just buy real estate. You’re not depending on the bank. If you if because if you if you don’t have a mortgage, you’re not connected to them. You just own it. And that’s that’s fantastic. That’s fantastic. So that’s a good as well. Now, obviously, if you have a mortgage, then you’re still exposed to interest rates, you’re still exposed to central banks are still exposed to the financial perspective of your real estate. But if you’re fully cash it, then it’s it’s yours. It’s yours. But it still might be taken away from you. Unfortunately, unfortunately, property is largely flawed, in essence due to proprietary loss. All right. Right. What happened to BTC Times traveler? Well, his predictions did not really play out. So I think people just forgot him actually figure around. The timeline isn’t hard. Moving average cross at the same intervals pretty much. Well, timeline is I think it is hard. Maybe you think it���s easy. I generally think that guessing the timeline is part of it. I mean, even the rate that you couldn’t even you know, we discussed a lot that keep Schibetta. He bet against the market in November. But to my knowledge, she did not stick to that because if he would stuck to that, he would be in big, big, great position in the amazing, amazingly great position. So it’s very difficult. But anyway, if you think it’s easy. That’s amazing. Guys, I’ll see you all tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. Central European Summertime. We’re going to see if we see another helicopter helicopter going wild tomorrow. Let me know if you think so or not or not. But I think we’ll manage as long as my adjusting to be more focused when I see it, when I hear the sound outside. And to be more focused. Anyway, see you all tomorrow, 8:00 a.m. Central European Time. And good bye, guys. Oh, somebody’s asking. What are you writing? Look, I’m writing. Number one, I have the topics. I have the topics. But also when I’m speaking, I need to write some important concepts because my my thoughts are sometimes before what I say. So I need to write it down. And sometimes I know that I said something and then I continue speaking and then I want to say something else in regardless. I just this is just mental thing. Mental thing to structure it. OK. See you all tomorrow. And goodbye. Yes. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Go to our webinar right now. Completely free smash the smash the link right now. Go and sign up for by bit. 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ALL FIAT COLLAPSING!! BITCOIN $288,000 in 12 Months – Argentina, Stock To Flow, BTC BULLISH MODEL

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And we’re alive. Yes. Well, it comes as another episode of Good Morning Group down here on Ivan Ontake. We are, of course, broadcasting live straight out of Stockholm, Sweden. And we do this show each and every day at 8:00 p.m. Central Time. Yes, I come to like an atomic clock Asian every day. Today, we will be discussing some big, significant events. Number one, fiat currencies across the world are collapsing as we speak, literally as we speak. It’s not some kind of exaggeration. We’re seeing the Lebanon collapse. We discussed it last week. Today, we’re going to focus on the urgency them and what happens there. And, you know, Argentina has a tradition. The government has a tradition of stealing people’s money. We’re going to discuss the court a little effect the court, a little event which happened 20 years ago, approximately. I will explain to you how the government stole 75 percent of people’s wealth in Argentina and why you should really keep it in mind, because the same thing will happen again, not only in Argentina, but in many other countries. Most probably we will see similar events like Court A and you should really know it. It’s when the government can really take your money. Also, you know that Bitcoin is up against old Fiat this year. Already it against all Fiat. We are up. So really remember that Bitcoin is the refuge, the global refuge for wealth, financial refuge for everyone, no matter the skin color, the religion, the language, you speak, your sexuality, you are welcome. We have a radical, absolutely radical inclusion in Bitcoin. So that is going to be number one. Number two, we actually have a crazy two hundred and twenty eight thousand dollar prediction from plan B, from stock to flow model. Now, the thing he has done is that he modeled Bitcoin in terms of clusters, in terms of stock to flow clusters. So basically, you know, in Bitcoin, we have all kinds of different narratives. We’ve had through the years, like each cash, like censorship resistant gold, like cheap payments network, like programmable shared database and so on, so forth, reserve currency for crypto. And we see how these different narratives have changed through the years. And the reason why they change is because the Bitcoin mechanics change. Bitcoin today is not the same Bitcoin before the last hubbing, because the mathematical properties and the financial properties change of this currency. So it’s very important to disguise that really whenever we have a hubbing bitcoin completely shifts, shifts, its form is shift shape. It’s really shapeshifting each and every time. And we move from one use case to another to another. And in the next tubbing, we’re going to see a completely different Bitcoin with way stronger fundamentals. And this is how this model predicts that the next cluster of stocks will flow. You see these different clusters. If you extrapolate, the next cluster will take us to two hundred thousand dollars, two hundred twenty eight thousand dollars. All in all, we will be discussing this a lot today as well. And this is a very important topic, very key topic to understand. We’re going to discuss about the job market in crypto because cracking is hiring like crazy. Three hundred and fifty people, they are adding this year to the company and so many other things as well. Guys, welcome, welcome. Welcome. Everyone who is watching when. I want to. Com slash Leive. How are you all doing? As I told guys in the chat. Before we do have some helicopter actions here in Stockholm, we have soldiers dropping from helicopters, some kind of exercise they have. We’re gonna see what happens. But literally before we went live, I saw helicopters and then soldiers dropping down and helicopters flying very, very low. Basically, it was like five, 10 meters above the rooftops. It’s it’s insane. We’re gonna see what happens. But welcome, everyone, on to the concept live. Let me know exactly how we were doing. Exactly. Animal in this helicopter money. We’re getting helicopter money. Welcome, everyone. I see the first donation from crypto fruit. I like your unicorn picture. Thank you so much for the nation. And let me know where you turn from a secret to your back. Sebastian. George cryptid tax fixer atomic clock. Gabriella. My topper. Great. The crypt of Farzat Izak. So many people. So many people. Global commune. So amazing to see. Let me know exactly where you are chugging from. And by the way, we have another donation from Harold. Exactly. Exactly. Thank you so much. And also, I have some good news as well from our company. Our company has success successfully. We have successfully completed a tax audit. And it’s it’s amazing. So if you want help with taxes in Sweden, just reach out contact at. I don’t think that’s. Com because, look, we have successfully passed all our tax audits because we have been controlled by the government. You know, they checked our books. All is fine. All this fantastic. Why? Because we work with the best people in Sweden when it comes to crypto and when it comes to accounting. So if you’re not in Sweden, I can not help you. But if you are in Sweden, you are tax liable in Sweden. Contact at. I don’t think that. Com is your email. If you have any issues or whatever, because, look, we managed it with perfect score. I can tell you that. Now, moving on to the markets before we do that, we have some some identified flying object. You know, that they basically released now this footage. The Pentagon has declassified this and it’s basically you have files that have basically been confirmed, I guess I guess it is this UFO. So I guess we do have UFO confirmation or just some kind of anomaly, maybe some issue with the camera, really. I don’t really know too much details about exactly what we’re seeing, but it is unexplained aerial phenomenon. So they they cannot explain it. And people start to speculate, hey, maybe Satoshi was some kind of, you know, being from another planet with higher intelligence. He gave us Bitcoin and then kind of disappeared. People in crypto, they go wild mentally sometimes when when they see something like this. And the bitcoin is really the gift to humanity in many ways. But look, we’re going to see what the hell this is. Let me know what you think and whether it is a UFO. Now, we don’t know when it happened. Maybe this happened like 10 years ago. Maybe it was recent. We don’t know that. So let me know in the chat exactly what you think. What’s your view on this is right now? Now we have Bitcoin at the Plaza, zero point sixteen percent web ethe at the mine is Groupon two percent. All in all, quite stable market to date. This fantastic this fantastic Tuesday morning. Choose the morning we’re having right now together. Looking at the big winners Web Aive DEFAT Project amazing 13 percent start stellar, 12 percent digital futures, 10 percent still futures. I wonder when we will have digital Expressen when they actually have their project in in check Lisk at eight percent, Web synthetics at eight percent. Really time for synthetics to recover. So it’s good to see to see this. Now, looking at the biggest winners, we losers more correctly, we have Hive completely collapsing, by the way, 30 percent down and the same time, let’s be honest, they pump crazy. They pump like crazy during the past few few days and weeks. So 30 percent down doesn’t really matter if you look at the insane growth they’ve been having. Did you buy minus 20 by digits, but did you buy tools? Has been pumping? Whatever comes up needs to come down, at least for a bit. We have engine minus six percent. So those are the big losers now. Yes. Please remember just a few days left until our completely free webinar, a completely free webinar, which will happen on April the twenty ninth. We’re discussing how to stack massive, absolutely colossal, ginormous amounts of Satz in this bull market. If you want to know that and how you do it without taking risks. Go and click the link below for our completely free webinar for our completely free webinar. I see we’re breaking a record. More than 600 people watching live on our Web site. Guys, you’re amazing. Big shout out to you. It’s a record. It’s a record. It’s a record indeed. And to celebrate that, if you haven’t been in the free webinar, go and check it out. Also, as you know, we do have our collaboration with by bit. If you go to I went to the com slash live. You see this link right here. You can get nine dollars. Basically, you can then short, you can long. You can trade Bitcoin markets, you can trade the theater markets, you or some SRP. You can use leverage up to 100 bucks only if you know what you’re doing. Because to be honest, leverage only makes sense if you are good enough. Otherwise, you’re going to lose is just it’s just a matter of how these markets work. If you don’t know what you’re doing, you’re going to lose. But if you are interested and if you are chasing all reds into. Want to try. Go to the con slash live. Use this link right here. Also our femoris and crypt dot com links. So it’s all for our communities to go and use them right now. Look, we are witnessing something that we’ve never really witnessed before. To the scale on this scale, the fact that fiat currencies across the world right now, as we’re speaking, as you and I are communicating through the inshore webs, as I’m sensing this waves on the Internet to you, we’re seeing all of this fiat mass collapse. And just like I tweeted yesterday and this tweet went absolutely berserk, I tweeted that fiat currencies across the world are collapsing as we speak. Last week, the Lebanese pound lost 50 percent. And you already know that if you’ve if you’ve seen my streams, you know that they lost 50 percent. Absolutely insane. Argentina now close to hyperinflation. Two central banks worldwide are literally printing people into starvation. Time for Plan B. And it’s absolutely correct. Look at Argentina on local bitcoin, the day volume on local Bitcoin in Argentina on Bessel, Argentine Bessel. You see, it is skyrocketing because, number one, they are worried people in Argentina are worried what will happen with their money and what will happen with their savings, with their wealth. Number two, also, we need to recognize that a lot of this increase is due to inflation. We do see crazy inflation. In fact, if we switch to BTC instead, if we switch and we measure a volume in BTC instead of Bessel, you see that is basically the levels we’ve had in 2019. But but in terms of Basle, it’s absolutely wild. And this is the real tragedy. This is how people are losing money by the second. It’s insane. That’s still cele. We have. A situation where your money is being gambled with central banks, gambling with your money and printing, trying to stimulate, trying to do this. It’s all a big experiment experiment for them while people literally are losing the hard earned hard work money each and every second. It’s it blows my mind that this is still a problem in 2020. And what’s worse, not enough with inflation. What’s worse is that the government can literally take your money and do whatever they want. You know, we had this episode on Italy. We discussed that, hey, maybe Italy in the near future, they might withdraw from the euro. And there I speculated in that we do that. If you have euro in Italian banks, what probably will happen is that they will simply convert your euro to the new Italian currency, whatever that will be. And that it might be bad for you because look who once knew Italian currency, which is created really to to manage the debt, to pay off the debt, really, because now they can print it. So you would rather have the euro than the newly created Italian or indeed can be added. Maybe Spain, maybe Portugal. Really, it’s not only about Italy, just in general. I told on the stream that it wouldn’t surprise me that if you have euro in Italian, Spain, Portugal, whatever a bank account and and they decide to withdraw, it will mean that you’re probably going to be automatically converted. And I got so much so much heat for that. I get so much shit in the comment section, say, hey, Ivan, this will never happen. They cannot take my euro and convert it without my consent. Hey, Ivan, this is completely, completely impossible because it’s gonna be illegal for them to take my euro and convert to this new new Italian currency. Guys, they can do whatever they want. This has been done before. It will be done again. Your money in the bank account is not your money. Guys, they can literally do whatever they want. If they want to convert it, they will convert it. And you will not be consenting to the exchange rate. They will not even ask you about the exchange rate. And it’s so horrible because it has happened before. Read about the court little effect from Argentina because the court Alito effect illustrates this perfectly. What I am telling you. In 2001, 20 years ago, the Argentine government stole seventy five percent of Argentinians USD deposits to save the banks and the peso. So let me tell you exactly what happened. What they did was that they took your dollars. Let’s say you had a dollar in your bank account. They converted to Besso because one Pessl was equal to one dollar, according to the official exchange rate. So they forced you to convert your dollars for one bessel you had ten dollars. You get done Paiser right after they did so. Right after they did so they said OK. One, Pessl is no longer one dollar. We are not backing it. We’re not guaranteeing that one pessaries, one dollar, which meant that overnight they converted your dollars to one bessel, one dollar, one Bessel. Then they said, Okay guys, we’re not we’re as far as the government, we’re no longer guaranteeing the one two unpeg. So you’re on your own now. Which meant that one peso was only sorry, one dollar was now for pestles. It wasn’t one dollar, one Pessl. It was not one dollar for Pessl. So you lost basically seventy five percent of your money. Why? Because you were forced to convert. The government can do whatever they want with your money. You’re not owning it. You’re not controlling it. And this will happen again. This was 20 years ago in Argentina. Might happen in Italy, might happen in Spain, might happen in all kinds of conscious, maybe even in Sweden. Who knows? Really, it doesn’t matter. All fiat currencies go to zero. And also, there is no need to be super nationalistic about it. I know I said that about Italy in the last Veja. I got many Italians racing. Hey, Ivan, you know, Italy, we it’s not that bad trying to defend. But look, why are you defending it? They’re not even on your team. Central bankers are not on your team, even if it’s the central bank in your country ahead. They’re not on your team, guys. So no need to be super nationalistic. It may happen in Sweden, may happen everywhere in the world. Just note that the only thing that you should be carrying about is you and your wealth and you shouldn’t be thinking about. Okay. This is really something that I need to be thinking about. We need to support the Bessel because they really wanted to support and protect the Bessler against capital flight. That’s why they converted everyone dollars. But are you really willing to pay such a price for it to bail out your government and to to bail out the bank? The bankers, are you or are you not? Answer honestly, because I don’t see any reason why you would. To be honest. And and therefore protect yourself, protect your wealth and protect your family. Is the only thing that matters. So look. Caught a little. If he is coming back, I can tell a little is not over. It’s not finished. It’s coming back worldwide. And. And Bitcoin is the only protection is the only antidote against DeCaro. Little effect. So please be aware. Don’t take it lightly. And remember, already this year, Bitcoin is outperforming all Fiat or Fiat is right now being outperformed by Bitcoin and. Steel and yet steel, if you ask your financial adviser, he will tell you, oh, man, you need to be careful, you need to be careful with Bitcoin, you to be careful with cryptocurrency sky, some kind of scam. Very volatile, very volatile. You better be in cash. Maybe the stock market will collapse. You can use your cash in the stock market. But look, tell that to people in Brazil. Forty four percent lost against Bitcoin. Tell that to people in there. What is this? Is that done with the flag, please, guys? Is it the Colombia? Sorry, my geography teacher wouldn’t be proud. I don’t recognize the flag, but it’s 28 percent nonetheless. Argentina, 16 percent. We have China. Even China, six percent. So all in all, Colombia. Exactly. Colombia. I thought I was told also Colombia. What is this? Indonesia. Right. Eleven. Web check. Rubab. But check. Is this anyway anyway. Don’t test my my geography skills. You understand that bitcoin is outperforming most of us. It’s outperforming most of the all of the fiat currencies in the world. So that’s that’s why it’s so important. Look, moving on, moving on. Not only is Bitcoin a true reliever, true reliever of the financial burden that many of us have because we do not really decide what we’re doing with our money. We don’t really decide how we’re gonna spend our money and how we can really manage our funds. By the way. I see. Or Lexing revenge on the krona is wrecked. I know. I know. It’s it’s a sad story. What happened to your vision, Krona? No vision economy is highly connected to the oil. You know that we’ve been. Oh, the helicopters are gone. Are gone. So we did not guess what. They’re gone. So you see, the Norwegian krone is so connected to the oil. That’s why we in Sweden, we always sell Norwegians that your days are numbered, guys. Oil is either gonna run out or it’s gonna collapse in Sweden, at least we have industry, we have global companies. We have global production. So we usually joke, you know, that, hey, individuals are richer, they’re richer right now. But but your oil gonna run out or it’s gonna go too negative. Well, exactly what happened. But anyway, it’s a strategy strategy that you had a Norwegian kroner and you lost thirty three percent against Bitcoin. Absolutely tragic. The same in Sweden, 50 percent. I mean, we’re not some kind of role model either. Swedish krona has also lost significantly, significantly, significantly. So that’s that’s why you need to understand the only financial global refuge you have. It is crypto. It’s global, doesn’t discriminate, radically inclusive. It’s radically inclusive. And that’s why it’s so key. Now, I want to also show to you this the fact that we are not only breaking ourselves free on the personal level, on the personal freedom level, but also when it comes to building new businesses and building new ideas. And they want to share with you this video from Jack Dorsey basically explaining why Bitcoin is so important for them as a company, as a financial company, because they cannot do their business, they cannot do their business without begging the bankers to let them do their business. And that’s not how it should be. That’s not how it should be. So let me know if the sound works. I think it should work. And let’s listen to our friend, to our friend straight from the U.S. broadcasting, Jack Dorsey. So let’s hear what he says. I believe that the Internet deserves and requires a native currency and a notary. I’m such a huge believer in Bitcoin because it is our biggest problem as a company right now is we cannot act like an Internet company to open a new market. We have to have a partnership with a local bank. We have to pay attention to different regulatory onboarding environments. And a digital currency like Bitcoin takes on a bunch of that away where we can potentially launch a product in every single market around the world. Because they’re all using the same currency. There you go. There is no need to beg some kind of bank to please let us collaborate with you. Please, please, please. Begging, begging the cartel, please open up. Please let me do something in finance. Please, please, please. You know, why is it so? Why? Because it’s a walled garden. That. That’s why. That’s why it’s so. And that’s also why you see that there is no way for us to break the walled garden that you remember yesterday with the Scotts. There is no way for us to break the walled garden. And by the way, big shout out to Alex Freedman. It is his podcast that we are taking this video from. I hope it’s okay, but be shout out to him. Go follow him. Leks Friedman, artificial intelligence spot. Guess one of the greatest podcasts right now on the planet. Absolutely. Planet. So I’m sharing it in the description, the Twitter. But look, you understand that we are breaking free on on a personal level, on the corporate level as well, because just like Jack Jackdaw says, why should we? Why should we beg? Why should we beg? But what’s important is that we will never break the. The walled garden. We will never get into the banking cartel. They will not allow us. Obviously. Why would they. Why would they invite us? While the. But you know, the crypto community. Do you think they will invite us? Absolutely not. So that is why we should not fight the old. Let them have the walled garden. Let them have the moat, like we discussed yesterday. Remember, when you are a business, you tried to build a multi around your business so nobody can attack. Nobody can start building a similar idea like you. So you build up a bunch of of moat, a bunch of walls. So you have regulation, you lobby for more regulation. So it’s more difficult for someone else to start. So this means that we need to walk around, just like Jack Dorsey says, when it’s a new system. We cannot buy the old. They are just too fortified with Justin to walk around their system, just like Facebook did not invent the better newspaper. Like it better. I don’t know how people socialize before Facebook. You know, you understand how to compare it. But Netflix did not build a better TV station and an urban B did not build a better hotel. It’s all about walking around the moat, walking around the problem and and innovating. Now, shifting gears quickly, shifting gears quickly. We’re moving to Bitcoin stocks to flow. And while why we’re going to two hundred eighty eight K very soon. We’re actually at 228. I think this I think I messed up the numbers, but truly, whether it’s 88 or 20, it does not really matter. Let me just quickly double check. It’s 88 to 288. But what’s important to note here is that we are shapeshifting. Bitcoin right now is not the Bitcoin you knew from a few years ago. And it’s completely fine. And you see many people sometimes mocking, mocking Bitcoin that we’re shifting our narrative. You know, we went from digital cash. We went from that to cheap payments network. And you see here on the chart that in 2009, this blue area was the biggest. So it was a cash proof of concept, the biggest use case for Bitcoin that the community was discussing. And then you had the bit of cheap payments. I mean, people discuss that as well. And then a bit of the yellow one, which is censorship resistant, E. Gold here as well in the beginning. And then as we move, as we move to the right, you see how it’s changing. So digital cash is cash proof of concept. It basically went to zero. We’re not talking about cash anymore. And we haven’t since 2015, really, because here’s where the blue the blue portion went to zero superrich at desks. Amazing. Horst, you sent Bitcoin. We always send Bikash. Anyway, I think Bikash as well. Thanks so much. Cheap Payments Network. It also declined. And right now you see that digital gold is number one. I mean, that’s the fattest portion. Does the fattest portion the yellow one too, does the number one narrative we have as well, the green one, which is reserve currency for crypto here. And then we have the pink one, which is uncorrelated to financial assets. So you see narratives are always shifting, narratives are always shifting. Why is it so? Because Bitcoin is changing. Bitcoin today is not the bitcoin. 10 years ago or five years ago. Why? Because this toxic flow is changing. The scarcity is changing. Everything is changing. You know, 10 years ago, it would take one year of inflation to replace the full supply 10 years ago when Bitcoin really started. You see that we were about one in stocks with flow ratio. Now, for all of you who don’t know what stocks the flow is. Quick reminder, stock to flow is how many years it takes for new inflation to basically produce that much new money. So it is exactly the same as you have right now in circulation. So we have Circo things supply. And then you ask yourself, OK. Looking at the inflation, how much years, how many years, how much time will it take to replace the current circulating supply? Basically, to produce as much debt is currently circulating. And 10 years ago, it was one year in one year we printed as much as was already in circulation. And then we have been moving towards higher and higher numbers here and stocks of flow. And right now we are at between 10 and the hundred. So we are somewhere here in between. And obviously, that is a completely different beast than when it was at one or when it was at 10. And we are moving to 100 very soon. Basically, that will take 100 years to replace the current circulation supply only from new inflation. It will soon take 100 years. And so obviously, it’s a completely different asset with completely different mechanics, with completely different supply and demand and scarcity dynamics. So that’s why the narrative is changing, because the whole asset is changing. So basically, he combined the different stocks to flow clusters. And he tried to map them to different narratives. So, for example, Biscayan cluster number one of stock to flow was was it payments, proof of concept? Then you had the gold being here, Kluster, number three. And now we’re moving towards financial asset class number four, global macro uncorrelated financial asset. That is a bigger narrative right now. And you see that the next cluster, the next cluster will be somewhere here. And he also put gold and silver. But the next LASWELL probably will be somewhere here around gold that the stock to flow will go even further towards the right. And of course, the price will follow upwards if this model holds, because you see that as stock to flow increases, so does the price and the price. Exponential. We’re basically increasing in orders of magnitude on the price as the stock to flow goes up on the x axis and the price exponential goes on the Y axis. So when we will soon jump to yet another level of stock to flow and we will be even closer to 100 years to replace full, full supply, we’re going to build a new cluster around here of of Bitcoin’s stock to flow. And we’re going to have probably a whole other narrative. And if you try to extrapolate that, OK, first class, there were some was somewhere here and we had the total market cap of a million. When the stock to flow was about one, then we jumped to total market cap of one hundred million and stock to float jumped as well. Then stock to float jumped again. We went to 10 billion, then stock to float jumped again and we went to 100 billion. So now when stock to float jumps again, where will we be? Is the question in terms of total market cap. And if you do the simple calculation, you’ll see that we are going to two hundred eighty eight thousand for one bitcoin, two hundred and eighty thousand for one Bitcoin. And that is some ways to calculate the future price and have some kind of model of the future price. It’s not bulletproof, obviously, because it’s not even been peer reviewed yet. As he says, please be aware that this is only the first step and has not been replicated or reviewed. But this is an issue in theory. And the most important takeaway from here is that Bitcoin is a shapeshifting, just like water going from solid liquid gas ionized or like the US dollar going going from gold, basically backed by gold to paper bag by gold or actually more correctly, dollars going from being actual gold to bagged by gold to bag by nothing. It’s still called the dollar, but it’s a completely different beast. It’s completely different mechanics and completely different fundamentals. So is Bitcoin Bitcoin in stocks, a flow of one is not the same as Bitcoin. Stop to flow of five or ten or a hundred completely different concepts. So in terms of the timeline, I see people asking in the chat. What about the timeline? We are looking at twenty twenty to twenty, twenty four. It’s impossible to say. Could happen in 12 months. Could happen in twenty, twenty four months but 12 months. Completely probable. It is probable but also twenty is probable as well. So it’s basically timeline is always the most difficult. And that’s why bitcoin is more for holding long term. The timeline is impossible to say whether there’s going to be this year or next month or 2024 is basically the whole cycle that in this cycle that we are right now in the cycle of Hobbins before. Right now and the next halving that is when this will happen. And just like here as well. All of this timeline is somewhere between the halving. So that’s what we’re talking about, because then the next halving is going to happen and then we’re going to see a whole other beast. Bitcoin is going to be something entirely different yet again. So that’s very important. And once again, not financial advice. Just how I’m thinking. Do whatever you want with this with this information. But it is interesting. It is interesting nonetheless. Let me know what you think. If you agree or disagree with this amazing, amazing model done by stocks, you flow by Plan B, we’re going to see what’s happening. But but. But but now, whenever you hear some kind of Bikash phonetic or BSB Phanatic complain that Bitcoin is changing narratives explain to them that Bitcoin is changing itself. It’s changed itself. The fundamentals are completely different. So that’s why it is also changing its narrative, because it’s being used for different things, because it’s different. Oh Horst, we have some Bikash. Thank you so much. BTC will probably soon be unusable for paying for Supercharges when lightning. No, no. BTC is usable. You can do instant with instant zero. Com. Supercharged because we’re not shipping anything. We’re not. And we’re not shipping anything. So you can do BTC if you want. You don’t need to wait for conformations and then we check whether the transaction got confirmed or not. So look, we don’t even need the lightning for this, to be honest. We don’t even need lightning hakes fanatic’s exactly when Hecks finance gone. Then you go and they say you’re going to explain what Bitcoin is horse anyway. It is a shelter two. Thank you so much. Obviously if you send Bikash we’ll take because that’s. You could even send. No, you cannot, son. That’s impossible. That’s impossible. And look, zero come for us. Works fantastically well. So please try. If you haven’t, you can. You can do superjet with Bitcoin. It will be instant. It will be instant. And for us, it works fine because we’re not shipping physical products. If you’re shipping physical products, you need to be careful, obviously, because that transaction is not fully confirmed. OK. Moving on, guys. We have a boom in the blocks in industry right now because as everything is collapsing, this is the time. So I guess this is the time to go all in. You guys need to go all in. Mentally, physically, professionally, with all your time, you need to go into crypto with your mental time, with your energy. And you see that we are expanding like crazy. For instance, our company hired 18 new people this year for academy. So, for example, if you are in the academy, you know that you get personalized that plan. You get the personalized personalized assistant that will help you to complete your study plan. You can reach out, take your time to them. We have staffed up like crazy because we are going all in in this bull market. And the same right now is going on in all kinds of different ignitions of crypto exchanges being one of them. So we’re seeing I can, for example, going absolutely wild, hiring three hundred and fifty people because everything is collapsing across the world in terms of fiat. So people are going back. They are going back to words towards sound money. And that is obviously crypto. So they come to crack and obviously they come to us for education. And that’s why it’s so important for you guys as well. If you’re watching on the live side, I would say the concept of check out the courses below, because if you are not trying to get full time into crypto right now, I think you are really misjudging the situation. If you really think it’s time for a career change, go to Academy Dot. I wanted dot com get certified. We will certify you. And the thing is, we are working together with industry leading corporations, as you can see on our landing page. 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I do the loans, the quick loans. Flash loans. Exactly. See you guys remind me. And all of this, all of this D5 protocols are key. They’re key to understand right now. We’re also educating about them in our academy. So it’s key to understand. But right now, Krib dot com has launched a new new deal in the US. Basically, new gift cards are coming and they are expanding like crazy when it comes to supporting retail, supporting retail needs. People love gift cards. They’re launching on all kinds of markets in all kinds of countries, wherever you’re living. I’m sure there is a gift card and you can obviously back it by crypto. So that’s key. Big shout out to crypto dot com. And if you go to I went to the com slash Leive, you go to our life page, you can use this link and get fifty dollars for free. And we will also be guessing 50 doors when you use the link. Now this is keep. We have some interesting statistics about the age of crypto. And guess if you want to please write in the chat how old you are, because that would be fun to read. You know, it’s actually something we’ve been noticing in our academy as well. We have a lot of. Yes. 50, 60. It’s amazing to see it and it’s not something that you hear a lot. Usually you hear that crypto is mating, you know, mainly millennials. It’s not it’s not the older people, but some youth. The statistics speak for themselves. As you can see, web of so many different age groups. It’s insane. It’s insane. And I saw I thought this was interesting because the equity market cap also noticed it. They noticed that, look, we have a lot we have a lot of age groups and them and 65 plus are overrepresented in many cases. It’s amazing. And I’ve been thinking, why is this so? Why is it so that that age group is somehow overrepresented? And in many cases, I think that older people just are a bit wiser. They’re a bit wiser when it comes to money. Maybe they’ve been through a few of the collapses and they understand that you cannot trust money while millennials, they eat the avocado. They don’t really care about what’s going on. They just want to have a fun time. They just want to have a fun time. And they relaxing and they haven’t been experiencing things. For example, they haven’t seen the court a little common bite them. You know, somewhere they they get really bitten. If you survives court lethal, you got bitten real time, I can tell you that. And it takes a bit of knowledge and a bit of wisdom to experience it. And it takes a bit of a bit of losing, a bit of losing money due to the fact how the monetary system is structured. Truly understand the issues, because I think most millennials, they don’t even care that much about how money works at all. At all. At all. So I thought that was very interesting. So let me know what you think, whether you agree or disagree. But that being said, I want to welcome our magnificent our respect, the Buhle Worldwide Superjet to the discussion. It’s my pleasure to remove this headphones because you know that we had a police helicopter wildness going on. Absolutely wild. It was. And actually, I want to show you. Let me see it because I have a recording. I recorded it on my phone. I just need to transport it somehow to my computer quickly so I can show it to her. It was absolutely insane. Basically, helicopters and I even Soss, you know, soldiers dropping from. But now they flew away and then they read quickly in the newspaper. It was a a some kind of, you know, practice. They are they they were doing Praksis. But anyway, let me guess how you are doing. And let’s do some Q&A. Let’s do some Q&A. The powerful chat. Exactly. The magnificence. Respectable and powerful. All mighty chat. Let’s see. Can I download this or not? Can I download this yet? So, look, let me let me quickly show you how can I do it without exposing some sensitive info? Let’s see. Can I do like this? OK. Yes. OK, let’s see. Ocelots it. So see, I’m using my private messenger, so I’m really taking a big risk showing you this, exposing my private messages potentially. But you see, it was basically here, the helicopter absolutely insane. So there you go, guys. There you go. There you go. I don’t know what the hell they were doing. Yeah. Yeah, insane. I really want to show this. So there you go. OK, moving on. What was going on with with the chat? Where were questions, guys? Where our questions told you to prepare questions. We have prepared questions, haven’t you? Can you explain a liquidity trap. Well, a liquidity trap and the crunch would. It’s kind of what we’re seeing right now. I mean, more correctly, it listicle the liquidity crunch. And that is the fact that everyone has loans denominated in USD. All right. But when everything is collapsing and when USD becomes stronger, it’s difficult to pay back the loan. So everyone wants to get the USD to pay back their loan. And they’re getting margin calls. You know that the stocks are falling. Stocks have been falling. All kinds of assets are falling. So a lot a lot of speculation in the global markets have been backed by margin. You know, people use margin all the time. And in global markets, the same. The same, the same. So when the value of the collateral falls, when you have, for example, margin, but you have some kind of stocks as collateral, if you have some other assets and they fall in value, you know what you have to do? You will be liquidated. If you don’t if you don’t fill up your collateral or if you don’t just close your loan. Don’t close your. If you just close your margin position, that’s also fine. But for that, you need dollars. So everyone needs dollars. Very quickly, in the global market, this is what happened in Lebanon. We discussed it. We discussed how Lebanon, their currency lost 50 percent of its value basically overnight. Why is it so? Well, because the government had a lot of obligations in the USD and the central bank. Really? What what can you do? Get that done today? What can you do? You can print money. That’s what you can do. So that is why the global finance system is collapsing as dollar becomes stronger. And it is becoming stronger against other fiat, against other Fiat. There is simply no no choice for many of the governments to simply hyper inflate, to success, to success. So that’s why that’s why. Guys, be careful, be careful. If it is the case that your country will be close to hyperinflation, what will happen? Your assets will probably be taken away from you, just like we saw with Court A. They will try to protect your national garbage currency if it’s close to hyperinflation. And when I say your garbage national currency don’t get old Patriots economy because these guys are not on your team. This your central bank is not on your team, guys. They’re not. They’re not just like the court. Alito even. Do you think the central bank of urgency and then the government of Argentina was on the side of the people when they took 75 percent? So, look, I know when I say, you know, you’re a national garbage currency. There’s always someone who gets upset. But you said, what about my national currency? You’re saying something about my national mike, my pride currency, my national pride. Guys, look, if they’re not on your team, we’re all crypto. We’re all we’re all in the same boat. And you understand that. When you see this code a little, you’re losing 75 percent. These guys are not on your team. All right. Anyway, moving on. So, yeah. So what would they want to say? Basically, when it is the case that a country’s is crumbling in terms of financials, they will not allow you to buy a dollar. They will simply take your dollar convert to garbage. Fiat currency. National currency. They will probably take your gold. They will probably take your assets. They cannot take your bitcoin. That’s what I want to tell you. Why are you not afraid of double spend the tax on your super chat’s? Well, because we’re not. Look, if somebody double spends or reverses the transaction, I will we will just blacklist them and we will not accept supercharges anymore. And I don’t think people will do it. Look at your. Voluntarily. You’re voluntarily doing a supercharged because you like the show. So why would you. So see you. Since you said that you could reverse it if you want. But but then we’ll just keep keep track of that then. Yeah. When you are shipping something physical, obviously I would not ship you like a computer if you bought from me with a one zero coins, but for us it’s just digital messages. It’s fine. What is your take on the Kleptocrat Fund Lagarde is talking about? Will it destroyed the EU union? Actually, I don’t know about the Kleptocrat Fund. I will I will note that Kleptocrat Fund, the interesting kleptocrat fund. So she is talking about it. Thank you so much for educating me. VLF. And that is why we do Superjet. And why would do this chat together that you guys can educate me as well and we can educate together. Thank you for this daily valuable show. Thank you. Thank you. Up NC. Also Bitcoin donation. Bitcoin donation, instant instant bitcoin the nation. So look, it’s all about the use case. We’ve made bitcoin work for us. Our use case. Instant transaction is fine. It’s fine. Yeah. With instant send. That’s you. Yeah. Get man horse. There there are many like Bikash also is my way more instant. And the eath is way more instant. So it’s not about finding better technologies. Just I want people to use bitcoin. People have bitcoin. They want to spend bitcoin. So that’s why we support zero conflict bitcoin. And for our use case, it’s OK. It’s fine. It’s fine. Solid crypto coming with solid five dollar donation. That’s amazing. That’s amazing. That’s amazing. Let’s see. Let’s see. Oh, he’s onboarding a bunch of people to crypto. Got it. Group to one link, man. What is one link? One link. Me big. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. One link is like to shorten. But be careful anyway. We can be careful when clicking links in this chat. All right. Thought you taught us to spend the fifth and never the Bitcoin. If you want to spend the Bitcoin, you can do that. But I’m just saying that most people want. Most people don’t want to. They want to huddle. They want to huddle. And that’s why the merchant adoption is is low, because nobody knew, because nobody is willing to spend bitcoin for other things, like for for buying food and groceries. But we as a group to crypto livestream, obviously, we will support Bitcoin donations. Of course. Of course. Of course. Fiat is like chain for dogs more. You have further you go. Interesting. The more you have, the further. Yeah. I mean, it’s one way of thinking. It’s one way of thinking about it. But what’s important what’s important is that when you spend when you spend it, whether it’s bitcoin or if replenish replenish it. Can you explain me why I have three hundred K limit of buying crypto? I have no clue. Jared, you reach out to their support. Reach out to their support. Probably because of regulation. But I have no clue for support. Reach out to their supports him. I’m not really their support. I just like their products. But each and every detail and the rule of what. How it works. Take it with their support. Yeah. What is the best script exchange to earn interest on your trip. The welder menu. I mean, cryptochrome is one. That’s absolutely one. You have Celsius. You have block fire. You have next. So I am I’m really look, I’m I really wouldn’t be betting the farm on any of them. On any of them. Why? Because you never know. You need to be very rational in how you do this. So be careful. But those are the ones you can try. Answer the one you absolutely can try. If you even even get if you ever get the chance, Ivan, make sure you broadcast from the serving surface. I think we’ll all be on the surface of the moon probably at the end of this year. At least that’s that’s what I’m hoping for. That will be on the surface of this moon. OK, Andreas. When are you launching the central streaming many alternative media news would need to take to Andreas? Yes, we’re working on that. We’re working, working, but we need our core features. So next core feature is a super shot for mobile. So we have Superjet from Mobile, but not Krypto. So that’s our next thing. And what’s good to see, as I see people also writing. We have London real London real getting pissed off on YouTube. One hundred percent. He really got a major, absolutely major issue further with YouTube now. So he has collected he has collected like almost half a million bucks. London real dot com slash freedom, I think it’s called. So let let me just show it to man. What is it like? London real. That old TV slash freedom. Right. Freedom lets you. Yes. So they are collecting these funds and they’re going to build a blocking platform as well. But most importantly, they’re going to take you up to court and. Yeah. So go go and support them if you want, because, look, it’s freedom of speech and it’s not okay. Look, it’s not okay. Where are you basically? Because right now. Your audience can be taken away from you at any moment. So London rule, if you get really fed up. So he started this campaign and he is really working a lot on this. He’s basically establishing a whole trust, a whole trust where people can donate for freedom and and they will basically either either build their own so they have all the funds to build their own. That’s good because they have collected so much. But the next thing is really to to reach a point where platforms are being more like utility. So, you know, for example, electricity companies. Yes, there are they are private companies. Many of them are private companies. There is no way they can tell you you don’t get electricity because we don’t like what you said. Why is it so? Well, you could argue. Well, what they are private companies. They can do whatever they want with their private company. Electricity. Electricity. But some things are just utilities. It’s just that a utility. So when we’re speaking about freedom of speech, the way we speak nowadays, it’s through online. It’s is through through the online mediums. So, look, there are arguments to be made on both sides. I do understand like you to be speaking for all infrastructure, and that’s obvious. So to comment to say, hey, we demand that all content you have is there for it’s also not. That doesn’t make sense either. But there needs to be something that needs to be something in the middle. We’re going to see anywhere. I’m very interested how it is going to go. So that’s why I’m supporting it. Should we no longer be worried about bank bail ins? Now, governments have learned that they can use money printer. So Balan’s absolutely can happen. Depends on which bank and which country. And it also depends on whether your country is sovereign when it comes to the Fiat printing. Because Cyprus, they weren’t sovereign. So they had to beg the EU to do something. And then you said, OK, we will save you. You know that Cyprus, they don’t have their own currency. They have the euro. So they could they couldn’t just print their way out of the out of the situation. So they basically to beg Germany and Germany said, hey, you need to take money from depositors. You’re a big chunk. So you basically have to do a bailout. Yesterday, you were talking about how government has two choices, default or print. Can you describe what will happen if they would actually default? Why do they prefer to avoid that route? Well, look, when you print, everyone stays in power. Every every everything is the same. Nobody changes roles. Nothing is changing. It’s just that the population loses funds. When you default, then you need structural change. I mean, then you really need to go out, undergo a lot of destruction, both economically but also politically. Nobody wants to do that. Why would you, if you are a politician, better to stay in power better? And look, right now, you also can blame the virus. So that’s that’s perfect for it for these guys, too. They know nothing will change, really. It’s only cryptid that will change things. Krypto is the only real thing that can move this world forward, because even if the economy collapses, they will say, oh, it was because of the virus. Who would have predicted that man? Who would have predicted this situation? I mean, we definitely couldn’t predict it. And the economy was fantastic. But, man, the coronis, you know, who would have thought? Who would have thought? So let us stay in power. And because it wasn’t our fault. So that’s what they will they will say, Ivan, the field goes to zero and BTC is at all time highs in what are going to convert, as you see. In what way are we going to convert BTC? Would you short the market? How to act? In case you can’t trust your banks and your BTC is at all time high. And you. So look. So number one question is, if all goes to zero, what do we measure? BTC and probably in commodities, probably in gold or something similar. Because I agree with you that measuring and fiat is meaningless long term. Would you short the market right now? Look, it’s all about how what your talents are. I mean, is your talents to play the market? Then you can short it. My talent is in education and building our educational reach. So that is what I am doing now. If you’re more spending time in the markets and you can and you see that, OK, you want to take a risk and short then. But for me, I’m just long, long term shorting the markets. It’s a bit too short term for me. So it really depends on who you are and what your performances. But for me, I rather put time and building out there Kazimi doing new courses because long term, long term, that will have more impact for me and for anyone. Everyone else. All our students than me trying to time the market in shorts. And yet because the tight look what the thing why is because it’s so difficult to get the timeline to predict the timeline. Now, if you think you can do that, then be good. But timing the markets is not a good idea generally. How? Because while we might be in agreement that the markets must go down the timeline, man, how will you get the timeline? It might happen today or in the month or in the year. How to act in case you can’t trust your banks and your BTC is all time high? Man, I don’t really sure what you mean. You mean that you want to transfer your BTC to fear when you sell. When you sell. Oh, so you have Bitcoin and you want to invest in real estate? Well, when you are investing in real estate and you can cash the whole thing, you don’t need to trust the banks, really. But you’re still trusting our government because the government can take your real estate away from you at a moment’s notice, at a moment’s notice when you need to defend the national currency or whatever they might tell you. Hey, guys. You know, we give. Give us the real estate. We give you this currency huddle with us, please. We need more hurdlers. We have more hurdlers. Otherwise we’re gonna hyper inflate or something. Look, they can take it. They can take it. It’s physical, is there. They know where it is. They can physically take it might sound insane. Some people might not believe it. But look at history. It has happened before. Your money in your bank account is not your real estate. It’s more yours, especially if you don’t have a mortgage. It is yours. But it’s just physically, they could take it. We might. Who knows what kind of political power will be in your country if it really becomes ugly. Just like Ray Dalio says, we need to be worried about populistic movements both to the right and to the left. Imagine that, because we’re closing the long term debt cycle. And usually that means a lot of agony. And when agony comes, you see that the strong leaders take the positions of power that happened in Russia in the 20s. You remember you all remember that happened in Nazi Germany. So, look, it doesn’t matter which which shoe, right or left. If you have real estate, the political powers might take it. Maybe they will explain that is for the best of society. All in all. Why would you sell your Bitcoin at the end of the day? Look, I think your best understanding would come when you see that you don’t have to sell. But if you want to sell it, you could sell and just buy real estate. You’re not depending on the bank. If you if because if you if you don’t have a mortgage, you’re not connected to them. You just own it. And that’s that’s fantastic. That’s fantastic. So that’s a good as well. Now, obviously, if you have a mortgage, then you’re still exposed to interest rates, you’re still exposed to central banks are still exposed to the financial perspective of your real estate. But if you’re fully cash it, then it’s it’s yours. It’s yours. But it still might be taken away from you. Unfortunately, unfortunately, property is largely flawed, in essence due to proprietary loss. All right. Right. What happened to BTC Times traveler? Well, his predictions did not really play out. So I think people just forgot him actually figure around. The timeline isn’t hard. Moving average cross at the same intervals pretty much. Well, timeline is I think it is hard. Maybe you think it’s easy. I generally think that guessing the timeline is part of it. I mean, even the rate that you couldn’t even you know, we discussed a lot that keep Schibetta. He bet against the market in November. But to my knowledge, she did not stick to that because if he would stuck to that, he would be in big, big, great position in the amazing, amazingly great position. So it’s very difficult. But anyway, if you think it’s easy. That’s amazing. Guys, I’ll see you all tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. Central European Summertime. We’re going to see if we see another helicopter helicopter going wild tomorrow. Let me know if you think so or not or not. But I think we’ll manage as long as my adjusting to be more focused when I see it, when I hear the sound outside. And to be more focused. Anyway, see you all tomorrow, 8:00 a.m. Central European Time. And good bye, guys. Oh, somebody’s asking. What are you writing? Look, I’m writing. Number one, I have the topics. I have the topics. But also when I’m speaking, I need to write some important concepts because my my thoughts are sometimes before what I say. So I need to write it down. And sometimes I know that I said something and then I continue speaking and then I want to say something else in regardless. I just this is just mental thing. Mental thing to structure it. OK. See you all tomorrow. And goodbye. Yes. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Go to our webinar right now. Completely free smash the smash the link right now. Go and sign up for by bit. 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ALL FIAT COLLAPSING!! BITCOIN $288,000 in 12 Months – Argentina, Stock To Flow, BTC BULLISH MODEL

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And we’re alive. Yes. Well, it comes as another episode of Good Morning Group down here on Ivan Ontake. We are, of course, broadcasting live straight out of Stockholm, Sweden. And we do this show each and every day at 8:00 p.m. Central Time. Yes, I come to like an atomic clock Asian every day. Today, we will be discussing some big, significant events. Number one, fiat currencies across the world are collapsing as we speak, literally as we speak. It’s not some kind of exaggeration. We’re seeing the Lebanon collapse. We discussed it last week. Today, we’re going to focus on the urgency them and what happens there. And, you know, Argentina has a tradition. The government has a tradition of stealing people’s money. We’re going to discuss the court a little effect the court, a little event which happened 20 years ago, approximately. I will explain to you how the government stole 75 percent of people’s wealth in Argentina and why you should really keep it in mind, because the same thing will happen again, not only in Argentina, but in many other countries. Most probably we will see similar events like Court A and you should really know it. It’s when the government can really take your money. Also, you know that Bitcoin is up against old Fiat this year. Already it against all Fiat. We are up. So really remember that Bitcoin is the refuge, the global refuge for wealth, financial refuge for everyone, no matter the skin color, the religion, the language, you speak, your sexuality, you are welcome. We have a radical, absolutely radical inclusion in Bitcoin. So that is going to be number one. Number two, we actually have a crazy two hundred and twenty eight thousand dollar prediction from plan B, from stock to flow model. Now, the thing he has done is that he modeled Bitcoin in terms of clusters, in terms of stock to flow clusters. So basically, you know, in Bitcoin, we have all kinds of different narratives. We’ve had through the years, like each cash, like censorship resistant gold, like cheap payments network, like programmable shared database and so on, so forth, reserve currency for crypto. And we see how these different narratives have changed through the years. And the reason why they change is because the Bitcoin mechanics change. Bitcoin today is not the same Bitcoin before the last hubbing, because the mathematical properties and the financial properties change of this currency. So it’s very important to disguise that really whenever we have a hubbing bitcoin completely shifts, shifts, its form is shift shape. It’s really shapeshifting each and every time. And we move from one use case to another to another. And in the next tubbing, we’re going to see a completely different Bitcoin with way stronger fundamentals. And this is how this model predicts that the next cluster of stocks will flow. You see these different clusters. If you extrapolate, the next cluster will take us to two hundred thousand dollars, two hundred twenty eight thousand dollars. All in all, we will be discussing this a lot today as well. And this is a very important topic, very key topic to understand. We’re going to discuss about the job market in crypto because cracking is hiring like crazy. Three hundred and fifty people, they are adding this year to the company and so many other things as well. Guys, welcome, welcome. Welcome. Everyone who is watching when. I want to. Com slash Leive. How are you all doing? As I told guys in the chat. Before we do have some helicopter actions here in Stockholm, we have soldiers dropping from helicopters, some kind of exercise they have. We’re gonna see what happens. But literally before we went live, I saw helicopters and then soldiers dropping down and helicopters flying very, very low. Basically, it was like five, 10 meters above the rooftops. It’s it’s insane. We’re gonna see what happens. But welcome, everyone, on to the concept live. Let me know exactly how we were doing. Exactly. Animal in this helicopter money. We’re getting helicopter money. Welcome, everyone. I see the first donation from crypto fruit. I like your unicorn picture. Thank you so much for the nation. And let me know where you turn from a secret to your back. Sebastian. George cryptid tax fixer atomic clock. Gabriella. My topper. Great. The crypt of Farzat Izak. So many people. So many people. Global commune. So amazing to see. Let me know exactly where you are chugging from. And by the way, we have another donation from Harold. Exactly. Exactly. Thank you so much. And also, I have some good news as well from our company. Our company has success successfully. We have successfully completed a tax audit. And it’s it’s amazing. So if you want help with taxes in Sweden, just reach out contact at. I don’t think that’s. Com because, look, we have successfully passed all our tax audits because we have been controlled by the government. You know, they checked our books. All is fine. All this fantastic. Why? Because we work with the best people in Sweden when it comes to crypto and when it comes to accounting. So if you’re not in Sweden, I can not help you. But if you are in Sweden, you are tax liable in Sweden. Contact at. I don’t think that. Com is your email. If you have any issues or whatever, because, look, we managed it with perfect score. I can tell you that. Now, moving on to the markets before we do that, we have some some identified flying object. You know, that they basically released now this footage. The Pentagon has declassified this and it’s basically you have files that have basically been confirmed, I guess I guess it is this UFO. So I guess we do have UFO confirmation or just some kind of anomaly, maybe some issue with the camera, really. I don’t really know too much details about exactly what we’re seeing, but it is unexplained aerial phenomenon. So they they cannot explain it. And people start to speculate, hey, maybe Satoshi was some kind of, you know, being from another planet with higher intelligence. He gave us Bitcoin and then kind of disappeared. People in crypto, they go wild mentally sometimes when when they see something like this. And the bitcoin is really the gift to humanity in many ways. But look, we’re going to see what the hell this is. Let me know what you think and whether it is a UFO. Now, we don’t know when it happened. Maybe this happened like 10 years ago. Maybe it was recent. We don’t know that. So let me know in the chat exactly what you think. What’s your view on this is right now? Now we have Bitcoin at the Plaza, zero point sixteen percent web ethe at the mine is Groupon two percent. All in all, quite stable market to date. This fantastic this fantastic Tuesday morning. Choose the morning we’re having right now together. Looking at the big winners Web Aive DEFAT Project amazing 13 percent start stellar, 12 percent digital futures, 10 percent still futures. I wonder when we will have digital Expressen when they actually have their project in in check Lisk at eight percent, Web synthetics at eight percent. Really time for synthetics to recover. So it’s good to see to see this. Now, looking at the biggest winners, we losers more correctly, we have Hive completely collapsing, by the way, 30 percent down and the same time, let’s be honest, they pump crazy. They pump like crazy during the past few few days and weeks. So 30 percent down doesn’t really matter if you look at the insane growth they’ve been having. Did you buy minus 20 by digits, but did you buy tools? Has been pumping? Whatever comes up needs to come down, at least for a bit. We have engine minus six percent. So those are the big losers now. Yes. Please remember just a few days left until our completely free webinar, a completely free webinar, which will happen on April the twenty ninth. We’re discussing how to stack massive, absolutely colossal, ginormous amounts of Satz in this bull market. If you want to know that and how you do it without taking risks. Go and click the link below for our completely free webinar for our completely free webinar. I see we’re breaking a record. More than 600 people watching live on our Web site. Guys, you’re amazing. Big shout out to you. It’s a record. It’s a record. It’s a record indeed. And to celebrate that, if you haven’t been in the free webinar, go and check it out. Also, as you know, we do have our collaboration with by bit. If you go to I went to the com slash live. You see this link right here. You can get nine dollars. Basically, you can then short, you can long. You can trade Bitcoin markets, you can trade the theater markets, you or some SRP. You can use leverage up to 100 bucks only if you know what you’re doing. Because to be honest, leverage only makes sense if you are good enough. Otherwise, you’re going to lose is just it’s just a matter of how these markets work. If you don’t know what you’re doing, you’re going to lose. But if you are interested and if you are chasing all reds into. Want to try. Go to the con slash live. Use this link right here. Also our femoris and crypt dot com links. So it’s all for our communities to go and use them right now. Look, we are witnessing something that we’ve never really witnessed before. To the scale on this scale, the fact that fiat currencies across the world right now, as we’re speaking, as you and I are communicating through the inshore webs, as I’m sensing this waves on the Internet to you, we’re seeing all of this fiat mass collapse. And just like I tweeted yesterday and this tweet went absolutely berserk, I tweeted that fiat currencies across the world are collapsing as we speak. Last week, the Lebanese pound lost 50 percent. And you already know that if you’ve if you’ve seen my streams, you know that they lost 50 percent. Absolutely insane. Argentina now close to hyperinflation. Two central banks worldwide are literally printing people into starvation. Time for Plan B. And it’s absolutely correct. Look at Argentina on local bitcoin, the day volume on local Bitcoin in Argentina on Bessel, Argentine Bessel. You see, it is skyrocketing because, number one, they are worried people in Argentina are worried what will happen with their money and what will happen with their savings, with their wealth. Number two, also, we need to recognize that a lot of this increase is due to inflation. We do see crazy inflation. In fact, if we switch to BTC instead, if we switch and we measure a volume in BTC instead of Bessel, you see that is basically the levels we’ve had in 2019. But but in terms of Basle, it’s absolutely wild. And this is the real tragedy. This is how people are losing money by the second. It’s insane. That’s still cele. We have. A situation where your money is being gambled with central banks, gambling with your money and printing, trying to stimulate, trying to do this. It’s all a big experiment experiment for them while people literally are losing the hard earned hard work money each and every second. It’s it blows my mind that this is still a problem in 2020. And what’s worse, not enough with inflation. What’s worse is that the government can literally take your money and do whatever they want. You know, we had this episode on Italy. We discussed that, hey, maybe Italy in the near future, they might withdraw from the euro. And there I speculated in that we do that. If you have euro in Italian banks, what probably will happen is that they will simply convert your euro to the new Italian currency, whatever that will be. And that it might be bad for you because look who once knew Italian currency, which is created really to to manage the debt, to pay off the debt, really, because now they can print it. So you would rather have the euro than the newly created Italian or indeed can be added. Maybe Spain, maybe Portugal. Really, it’s not only about Italy, just in general. I told on the stream that it wouldn’t surprise me that if you have euro in Italian, Spain, Portugal, whatever a bank account and and they decide to withdraw, it will mean that you’re probably going to be automatically converted. And I got so much so much heat for that. I get so much shit in the comment section, say, hey, Ivan, this will never happen. They cannot take my euro and convert it without my consent. Hey, Ivan, this is completely, completely impossible because it’s gonna be illegal for them to take my euro and convert to this new new Italian currency. Guys, they can do whatever they want. This has been done before. It will be done again. Your money in the bank account is not your money. Guys, they can literally do whatever they want. If they want to convert it, they will convert it. And you will not be consenting to the exchange rate. They will not even ask you about the exchange rate. And it’s so horrible because it has happened before. Read about the court little effect from Argentina because the court Alito effect illustrates this perfectly. What I am telling you. In 2001, 20 years ago, the Argentine government stole seventy five percent of Argentinians USD deposits to save the banks and the peso. So let me tell you exactly what happened. What they did was that they took your dollars. Let’s say you had a dollar in your bank account. They converted to Besso because one Pessl was equal to one dollar, according to the official exchange rate. So they forced you to convert your dollars for one bessel you had ten dollars. You get done Paiser right after they did so. Right after they did so they said OK. One, Pessl is no longer one dollar. We are not backing it. We’re not guaranteeing that one pessaries, one dollar, which meant that overnight they converted your dollars to one bessel, one dollar, one Bessel. Then they said, Okay guys, we’re not we’re as far as the government, we’re no longer guaranteeing the one two unpeg. So you’re on your own now. Which meant that one peso was only sorry, one dollar was now for pestles. It wasn’t one dollar, one Pessl. It was not one dollar for Pessl. So you lost basically seventy five percent of your money. Why? Because you were forced to convert. The government can do whatever they want with your money. You’re not owning it. You’re not controlling it. And this will happen again. This was 20 years ago in Argentina. Might happen in Italy, might happen in Spain, might happen in all kinds of conscious, maybe even in Sweden. Who knows? Really, it doesn’t matter. All fiat currencies go to zero. And also, there is no need to be super nationalistic about it. I know I said that about Italy in the last Veja. I got many Italians racing. Hey, Ivan, you know, Italy, we it’s not that bad trying to defend. But look, why are you defending it? They’re not even on your team. Central bankers are not on your team, even if it’s the central bank in your country ahead. They’re not on your team, guys. So no need to be super nationalistic. It may happen in Sweden, may happen everywhere in the world. Just note that the only thing that you should be carrying about is you and your wealth and you shouldn’t be thinking about. Okay. This is really something that I need to be thinking about. We need to support the Bessel because they really wanted to support and protect the Bessler against capital flight. That’s why they converted everyone dollars. But are you really willing to pay such a price for it to bail out your government and to to bail out the bank? The bankers, are you or are you not? Answer honestly, because I don’t see any reason why you would. To be honest. And and therefore protect yourself, protect your wealth and protect your family. Is the only thing that matters. So look. Caught a little. If he is coming back, I can tell a little is not over. It’s not finished. It’s coming back worldwide. And. And Bitcoin is the only protection is the only antidote against DeCaro. Little effect. So please be aware. Don’t take it lightly. And remember, already this year, Bitcoin is outperforming all Fiat or Fiat is right now being outperformed by Bitcoin and. Steel and yet steel, if you ask your financial adviser, he will tell you, oh, man, you need to be careful, you need to be careful with Bitcoin, you to be careful with cryptocurrency sky, some kind of scam. Very volatile, very volatile. You better be in cash. Maybe the stock market will collapse. You can use your cash in the stock market. But look, tell that to people in Brazil. Forty four percent lost against Bitcoin. Tell that to people in there. What is this? Is that done with the flag, please, guys? Is it the Colombia? Sorry, my geography teacher wouldn’t be proud. I don’t recognize the flag, but it’s 28 percent nonetheless. Argentina, 16 percent. We have China. Even China, six percent. So all in all, Colombia. Exactly. Colombia. I thought I was told also Colombia. What is this? Indonesia. Right. Eleven. Web check. Rubab. But check. Is this anyway anyway. Don’t test my my geography skills. You understand that bitcoin is outperforming most of us. It’s outperforming most of the all of the fiat currencies in the world. So that’s that’s why it’s so important. Look, moving on, moving on. Not only is Bitcoin a true reliever, true reliever of the financial burden that many of us have because we do not really decide what we’re doing with our money. We don’t really decide how we’re gonna spend our money and how we can really manage our funds. By the way. I see. Or Lexing revenge on the krona is wrecked. I know. I know. It’s it’s a sad story. What happened to your vision, Krona? No vision economy is highly connected to the oil. You know that we’ve been. Oh, the helicopters are gone. Are gone. So we did not guess what. They’re gone. So you see, the Norwegian krone is so connected to the oil. That’s why we in Sweden, we always sell Norwegians that your days are numbered, guys. Oil is either gonna run out or it’s gonna collapse in Sweden, at least we have industry, we have global companies. We have global production. So we usually joke, you know, that, hey, individuals are richer, they’re richer right now. But but your oil gonna run out or it’s gonna go too negative. Well, exactly what happened. But anyway, it’s a strategy strategy that you had a Norwegian kroner and you lost thirty three percent against Bitcoin. Absolutely tragic. The same in Sweden, 50 percent. I mean, we’re not some kind of role model either. Swedish krona has also lost significantly, significantly, significantly. So that’s that’s why you need to understand the only financial global refuge you have. It is crypto. It’s global, doesn’t discriminate, radically inclusive. It’s radically inclusive. And that’s why it’s so key. Now, I want to also show to you this the fact that we are not only breaking ourselves free on the personal level, on the personal freedom level, but also when it comes to building new businesses and building new ideas. And they want to share with you this video from Jack Dorsey basically explaining why Bitcoin is so important for them as a company, as a financial company, because they cannot do their business, they cannot do their business without begging the bankers to let them do their business. And that’s not how it should be. That’s not how it should be. So let me know if the sound works. I think it should work. And let’s listen to our friend, to our friend straight from the U.S. broadcasting, Jack Dorsey. So let’s hear what he says. I believe that the Internet deserves and requires a native currency and a notary. I’m such a huge believer in Bitcoin because it is our biggest problem as a company right now is we cannot act like an Internet company to open a new market. We have to have a partnership with a local bank. We have to pay attention to different regulatory onboarding environments. And a digital currency like Bitcoin takes on a bunch of that away where we can potentially launch a product in every single market around the world. Because they’re all using the same currency. There you go. There is no need to beg some kind of bank to please let us collaborate with you. Please, please, please. Begging, begging the cartel, please open up. Please let me do something in finance. Please, please, please. You know, why is it so? Why? Because it’s a walled garden. That. That’s why. That’s why it’s so. And that’s also why you see that there is no way for us to break the walled garden that you remember yesterday with the Scotts. There is no way for us to break the walled garden. And by the way, big shout out to Alex Freedman. It is his podcast that we are taking this video from. I hope it’s okay, but be shout out to him. Go follow him. Leks Friedman, artificial intelligence spot. Guess one of the greatest podcasts right now on the planet. Absolutely. Planet. So I’m sharing it in the description, the Twitter. But look, you understand that we are breaking free on on a personal level, on the corporate level as well, because just like Jack Jackdaw says, why should we? Why should we beg? Why should we beg? But what’s important is that we will never break the. The walled garden. We will never get into the banking cartel. They will not allow us. Obviously. Why would they. Why would they invite us? While the. But you know, the crypto community. Do you think they will invite us? Absolutely not. So that is why we should not fight the old. Let them have the walled garden. Let them have the moat, like we discussed yesterday. Remember, when you are a business, you tried to build a multi around your business so nobody can attack. Nobody can start building a similar idea like you. So you build up a bunch of of moat, a bunch of walls. So you have regulation, you lobby for more regulation. So it’s more difficult for someone else to start. So this means that we need to walk around, just like Jack Dorsey says, when it’s a new system. We cannot buy the old. They are just too fortified with Justin to walk around their system, just like Facebook did not invent the better newspaper. Like it better. I don’t know how people socialize before Facebook. You know, you understand how to compare it. But Netflix did not build a better TV station and an urban B did not build a better hotel. It’s all about walking around the moat, walking around the problem and and innovating. Now, shifting gears quickly, shifting gears quickly. We’re moving to Bitcoin stocks to flow. And while why we’re going to two hundred eighty eight K very soon. We’re actually at 228. I think this I think I messed up the numbers, but truly, whether it’s 88 or 20, it does not really matter. Let me just quickly double check. It’s 88 to 288. But what’s important to note here is that we are shapeshifting. Bitcoin right now is not the Bitcoin you knew from a few years ago. And it’s completely fine. And you see many people sometimes mocking, mocking Bitcoin that we’re shifting our narrative. You know, we went from digital cash. We went from that to cheap payments network. And you see here on the chart that in 2009, this blue area was the biggest. So it was a cash proof of concept, the biggest use case for Bitcoin that the community was discussing. And then you had the bit of cheap payments. I mean, people discuss that as well. And then a bit of the yellow one, which is censorship resistant, E. Gold here as well in the beginning. And then as we move, as we move to the right, you see how it’s changing. So digital cash is cash proof of concept. It basically went to zero. We’re not talking about cash anymore. And we haven’t since 2015, really, because here’s where the blue the blue portion went to zero superrich at desks. Amazing. Horst, you sent Bitcoin. We always send Bikash. Anyway, I think Bikash as well. Thanks so much. Cheap Payments Network. It also declined. And right now you see that digital gold is number one. I mean, that’s the fattest portion. Does the fattest portion the yellow one too, does the number one narrative we have as well, the green one, which is reserve currency for crypto here. And then we have the pink one, which is uncorrelated to financial assets. So you see narratives are always shifting, narratives are always shifting. Why is it so? Because Bitcoin is changing. Bitcoin today is not the bitcoin. 10 years ago or five years ago. Why? Because this toxic flow is changing. The scarcity is changing. Everything is changing. You know, 10 years ago, it would take one year of inflation to replace the full supply 10 years ago when Bitcoin really started. You see that we were about one in stocks with flow ratio. Now, for all of you who don’t know what stocks the flow is. Quick reminder, stock to flow is how many years it takes for new inflation to basically produce that much new money. So it is exactly the same as you have right now in circulation. So we have Circo things supply. And then you ask yourself, OK. Looking at the inflation, how much years, how many years, how much time will it take to replace the current circulating supply? Basically, to produce as much debt is currently circulating. And 10 years ago, it was one year in one year we printed as much as was already in circulation. And then we have been moving towards higher and higher numbers here and stocks of flow. And right now we are at between 10 and the hundred. So we are somewhere here in between. And obviously, that is a completely different beast than when it was at one or when it was at 10. And we are moving to 100 very soon. Basically, that will take 100 years to replace the current circulation supply only from new inflation. It will soon take 100 years. And so obviously, it’s a completely different asset with completely different mechanics, with completely different supply and demand and scarcity dynamics. So that’s why the narrative is changing, because the whole asset is changing. So basically, he combined the different stocks to flow clusters. And he tried to map them to different narratives. So, for example, Biscayan cluster number one of stock to flow was was it payments, proof of concept? Then you had the gold being here, Kluster, number three. And now we’re moving towards financial asset class number four, global macro uncorrelated financial asset. That is a bigger narrative right now. And you see that the next cluster, the next cluster will be somewhere here. And he also put gold and silver. But the next LASWELL probably will be somewhere here around gold that the stock to flow will go even further towards the right. And of course, the price will follow upwards if this model holds, because you see that as stock to flow increases, so does the price and the price. Exponential. We’re basically increasing in orders of magnitude on the price as the stock to flow goes up on the x axis and the price exponential goes on the Y axis. So when we will soon jump to yet another level of stock to flow and we will be even closer to 100 years to replace full, full supply, we’re going to build a new cluster around here of of Bitcoin’s stock to flow. And we’re going to have probably a whole other narrative. And if you try to extrapolate that, OK, first class, there were some was somewhere here and we had the total market cap of a million. When the stock to flow was about one, then we jumped to total market cap of one hundred million and stock to float jumped as well. Then stock to float jumped again. We went to 10 billion, then stock to float jumped again and we went to 100 billion. So now when stock to float jumps again, where will we be? Is the question in terms of total market cap. And if you do the simple calculation, you’ll see that we are going to two hundred eighty eight thousand for one bitcoin, two hundred and eighty thousand for one Bitcoin. And that is some ways to calculate the future price and have some kind of model of the future price. It’s not bulletproof, obviously, because it’s not even been peer reviewed yet. As he says, please be aware that this is only the first step and has not been replicated or reviewed. But this is an issue in theory. And the most important takeaway from here is that Bitcoin is a shapeshifting, just like water going from solid liquid gas ionized or like the US dollar going going from gold, basically backed by gold to paper bag by gold or actually more correctly, dollars going from being actual gold to bagged by gold to bag by nothing. It’s still called the dollar, but it’s a completely different beast. It’s completely different mechanics and completely different fundamentals. So is Bitcoin Bitcoin in stocks, a flow of one is not the same as Bitcoin. Stop to flow of five or ten or a hundred completely different concepts. So in terms of the timeline, I see people asking in the chat. What about the timeline? We are looking at twenty twenty to twenty, twenty four. It’s impossible to say. Could happen in 12 months. Could happen in twenty, twenty four months but 12 months. Completely probable. It is probable but also twenty is probable as well. So it’s basically timeline is always the most difficult. And that’s why bitcoin is more for holding long term. The timeline is impossible to say whether there’s going to be this year or next month or 2024 is basically the whole cycle that in this cycle that we are right now in the cycle of Hobbins before. Right now and the next halving that is when this will happen. And just like here as well. All of this timeline is somewhere between the halving. So that’s what we’re talking about, because then the next halving is going to happen and then we’re going to see a whole other beast. Bitcoin is going to be something entirely different yet again. So that’s very important. And once again, not financial advice. Just how I’m thinking. Do whatever you want with this with this information. But it is interesting. It is interesting nonetheless. Let me know what you think. If you agree or disagree with this amazing, amazing model done by stocks, you flow by Plan B, we’re going to see what’s happening. But but. But but now, whenever you hear some kind of Bikash phonetic or BSB Phanatic complain that Bitcoin is changing narratives explain to them that Bitcoin is changing itself. It’s changed itself. The fundamentals are completely different. So that’s why it is also changing its narrative, because it’s being used for different things, because it’s different. Oh Horst, we have some Bikash. Thank you so much. BTC will probably soon be unusable for paying for Supercharges when lightning. No, no. BTC is usable. You can do instant with instant zero. Com. Supercharged because we’re not shipping anything. We’re not. And we’re not shipping anything. So you can do BTC if you want. You don’t need to wait for conformations and then we check whether the transaction got confirmed or not. So look, we don’t even need the lightning for this, to be honest. We don’t even need lightning hakes fanatic’s exactly when Hecks finance gone. Then you go and they say you’re going to explain what Bitcoin is horse anyway. It is a shelter two. Thank you so much. Obviously if you send Bikash we’ll take because that’s. You could even send. No, you cannot, son. That’s impossible. That’s impossible. And look, zero come for us. Works fantastically well. So please try. If you haven’t, you can. You can do superjet with Bitcoin. It will be instant. It will be instant. 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I do the loans, the quick loans. Flash loans. Exactly. See you guys remind me. And all of this, all of this D5 protocols are key. They’re key to understand right now. We’re also educating about them in our academy. So it’s key to understand. But right now, Krib dot com has launched a new new deal in the US. Basically, new gift cards are coming and they are expanding like crazy when it comes to supporting retail, supporting retail needs. People love gift cards. They’re launching on all kinds of markets in all kinds of countries, wherever you’re living. I’m sure there is a gift card and you can obviously back it by crypto. So that’s key. Big shout out to crypto dot com. And if you go to I went to the com slash Leive, you go to our life page, you can use this link and get fifty dollars for free. And we will also be guessing 50 doors when you use the link. Now this is keep. We have some interesting statistics about the age of crypto. And guess if you want to please write in the chat how old you are, because that would be fun to read. You know, it’s actually something we’ve been noticing in our academy as well. We have a lot of. Yes. 50, 60. It’s amazing to see it and it’s not something that you hear a lot. Usually you hear that crypto is mating, you know, mainly millennials. It’s not it’s not the older people, but some youth. The statistics speak for themselves. As you can see, web of so many different age groups. It’s insane. It’s insane. And I saw I thought this was interesting because the equity market cap also noticed it. They noticed that, look, we have a lot we have a lot of age groups and them and 65 plus are overrepresented in many cases. It’s amazing. And I’ve been thinking, why is this so? Why is it so that that age group is somehow overrepresented? And in many cases, I think that older people just are a bit wiser. They’re a bit wiser when it comes to money. Maybe they’ve been through a few of the collapses and they understand that you cannot trust money while millennials, they eat the avocado. They don’t really care about what’s going on. They just want to have a fun time. They just want to have a fun time. And they relaxing and they haven’t been experiencing things. For example, they haven’t seen the court a little common bite them. You know, somewhere they they get really bitten. If you survives court lethal, you got bitten real time, I can tell you that. And it takes a bit of knowledge and a bit of wisdom to experience it. And it takes a bit of a bit of losing, a bit of losing money due to the fact how the monetary system is structured. Truly understand the issues, because I think most millennials, they don’t even care that much about how money works at all. At all. At all. So I thought that was very interesting. So let me know what you think, whether you agree or disagree. But that being said, I want to welcome our magnificent our respect, the Buhle Worldwide Superjet to the discussion. It’s my pleasure to remove this headphones because you know that we had a police helicopter wildness going on. Absolutely wild. It was. And actually, I want to show you. Let me see it because I have a recording. I recorded it on my phone. I just need to transport it somehow to my computer quickly so I can show it to her. It was absolutely insane. Basically, helicopters and I even Soss, you know, soldiers dropping from. But now they flew away and then they read quickly in the newspaper. It was a a some kind of, you know, practice. They are they they were doing Praksis. But anyway, let me guess how you are doing. And let’s do some Q&A. Let’s do some Q&A. The powerful chat. Exactly. The magnificence. Respectable and powerful. All mighty chat. Let’s see. Can I download this or not? Can I download this yet? So, look, let me let me quickly show you how can I do it without exposing some sensitive info? Let’s see. Can I do like this? OK. Yes. OK, let’s see. Ocelots it. So see, I’m using my private messenger, so I’m really taking a big risk showing you this, exposing my private messages potentially. But you see, it was basically here, the helicopter absolutely insane. So there you go, guys. There you go. There you go. I don’t know what the hell they were doing. Yeah. Yeah, insane. I really want to show this. So there you go. OK, moving on. What was going on with with the chat? Where were questions, guys? Where our questions told you to prepare questions. We have prepared questions, haven’t you? Can you explain a liquidity trap. Well, a liquidity trap and the crunch would. It’s kind of what we’re seeing right now. I mean, more correctly, it listicle the liquidity crunch. And that is the fact that everyone has loans denominated in USD. All right. But when everything is collapsing and when USD becomes stronger, it’s difficult to pay back the loan. So everyone wants to get the USD to pay back their loan. And they’re getting margin calls. You know that the stocks are falling. Stocks have been falling. All kinds of assets are falling. So a lot a lot of speculation in the global markets have been backed by margin. You know, people use margin all the time. And in global markets, the same. The same, the same. So when the value of the collateral falls, when you have, for example, margin, but you have some kind of stocks as collateral, if you have some other assets and they fall in value, you know what you have to do? You will be liquidated. If you don’t if you don’t fill up your collateral or if you don’t just close your loan. Don’t close your. If you just close your margin position, that’s also fine. But for that, you need dollars. So everyone needs dollars. Very quickly, in the global market, this is what happened in Lebanon. We discussed it. We discussed how Lebanon, their currency lost 50 percent of its value basically overnight. Why is it so? Well, because the government had a lot of obligations in the USD and the central bank. Really? What what can you do? Get that done today? What can you do? You can print money. That’s what you can do. So that is why the global finance system is collapsing as dollar becomes stronger. And it is becoming stronger against other fiat, against other Fiat. There is simply no no choice for many of the governments to simply hyper inflate, to success, to success. So that’s why that’s why. Guys, be careful, be careful. If it is the case that your country will be close to hyperinflation, what will happen? Your assets will probably be taken away from you, just like we saw with Court A. They will try to protect your national garbage currency if it’s close to hyperinflation. And when I say your garbage national currency don’t get old Patriots economy because these guys are not on your team. This your central bank is not on your team, guys. They’re not. They’re not just like the court. Alito even. Do you think the central bank of urgency and then the government of Argentina was on the side of the people when they took 75 percent? So, look, I know when I say, you know, you’re a national garbage currency. There’s always someone who gets upset. But you said, what about my national currency? You’re saying something about my national mike, my pride currency, my national pride. Guys, look, if they’re not on your team, we’re all crypto. We’re all we’re all in the same boat. And you understand that. When you see this code a little, you’re losing 75 percent. These guys are not on your team. All right. Anyway, moving on. So, yeah. So what would they want to say? Basically, when it is the case that a country’s is crumbling in terms of financials, they will not allow you to buy a dollar. They will simply take your dollar convert to garbage. Fiat currency. National currency. They will probably take your gold. They will probably take your assets. They cannot take your bitcoin. That’s what I want to tell you. Why are you not afraid of double spend the tax on your super chat’s? Well, because we’re not. Look, if somebody double spends or reverses the transaction, I will we will just blacklist them and we will not accept supercharges anymore. And I don’t think people will do it. Look at your. Voluntarily. You’re voluntarily doing a supercharged because you like the show. So why would you. So see you. Since you said that you could reverse it if you want. But but then we’ll just keep keep track of that then. Yeah. When you are shipping something physical, obviously I would not ship you like a computer if you bought from me with a one zero coins, but for us it’s just digital messages. It’s fine. What is your take on the Kleptocrat Fund Lagarde is talking about? Will it destroyed the EU union? Actually, I don’t know about the Kleptocrat Fund. I will I will note that Kleptocrat Fund, the interesting kleptocrat fund. So she is talking about it. Thank you so much for educating me. VLF. And that is why we do Superjet. And why would do this chat together that you guys can educate me as well and we can educate together. Thank you for this daily valuable show. Thank you. Thank you. Up NC. Also Bitcoin donation. Bitcoin donation, instant instant bitcoin the nation. So look, it’s all about the use case. We’ve made bitcoin work for us. Our use case. Instant transaction is fine. It’s fine. Yeah. With instant send. That’s you. Yeah. Get man horse. There there are many like Bikash also is my way more instant. And the eath is way more instant. So it’s not about finding better technologies. Just I want people to use bitcoin. People have bitcoin. They want to spend bitcoin. So that’s why we support zero conflict bitcoin. And for our use case, it’s OK. It’s fine. It’s fine. Solid crypto coming with solid five dollar donation. That’s amazing. That’s amazing. That’s amazing. Let’s see. Let’s see. Oh, he’s onboarding a bunch of people to crypto. Got it. Group to one link, man. What is one link? One link. Me big. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. One link is like to shorten. But be careful anyway. We can be careful when clicking links in this chat. All right. Thought you taught us to spend the fifth and never the Bitcoin. If you want to spend the Bitcoin, you can do that. But I’m just saying that most people want. Most people don’t want to. They want to huddle. They want to huddle. And that’s why the merchant adoption is is low, because nobody knew, because nobody is willing to spend bitcoin for other things, like for for buying food and groceries. But we as a group to crypto livestream, obviously, we will support Bitcoin donations. Of course. Of course. Of course. Fiat is like chain for dogs more. You have further you go. Interesting. The more you have, the further. Yeah. I mean, it’s one way of thinking. It’s one way of thinking about it. But what’s important what’s important is that when you spend when you spend it, whether it’s bitcoin or if replenish replenish it. Can you explain me why I have three hundred K limit of buying crypto? I have no clue. Jared, you reach out to their support. Reach out to their support. Probably because of regulation. But I have no clue for support. Reach out to their supports him. I’m not really their support. I just like their products. But each and every detail and the rule of what. How it works. Take it with their support. Yeah. What is the best script exchange to earn interest on your trip. The welder menu. I mean, cryptochrome is one. That’s absolutely one. You have Celsius. You have block fire. You have next. So I am I’m really look, I’m I really wouldn’t be betting the farm on any of them. On any of them. Why? Because you never know. You need to be very rational in how you do this. So be careful. But those are the ones you can try. Answer the one you absolutely can try. If you even even get if you ever get the chance, Ivan, make sure you broadcast from the serving surface. I think we’ll all be on the surface of the moon probably at the end of this year. At least that’s that’s what I’m hoping for. That will be on the surface of this moon. OK, Andreas. When are you launching the central streaming many alternative media news would need to take to Andreas? Yes, we’re working on that. We’re working, working, but we need our core features. So next core feature is a super shot for mobile. So we have Superjet from Mobile, but not Krypto. So that’s our next thing. And what’s good to see, as I see people also writing. We have London real London real getting pissed off on YouTube. One hundred percent. He really got a major, absolutely major issue further with YouTube now. So he has collected he has collected like almost half a million bucks. London real dot com slash freedom, I think it’s called. So let let me just show it to man. What is it like? London real. That old TV slash freedom. Right. Freedom lets you. Yes. So they are collecting these funds and they’re going to build a blocking platform as well. But most importantly, they’re going to take you up to court and. Yeah. So go go and support them if you want, because, look, it’s freedom of speech and it’s not okay. Look, it’s not okay. Where are you basically? Because right now. Your audience can be taken away from you at any moment. So London rule, if you get really fed up. So he started this campaign and he is really working a lot on this. He’s basically establishing a whole trust, a whole trust where people can donate for freedom and and they will basically either either build their own so they have all the funds to build their own. That’s good because they have collected so much. But the next thing is really to to reach a point where platforms are being more like utility. So, you know, for example, electricity companies. Yes, there are they are private companies. Many of them are private companies. There is no way they can tell you you don’t get electricity because we don’t like what you said. Why is it so? Well, you could argue. Well, what they are private companies. They can do whatever they want with their private company. Electricity. Electricity. But some things are just utilities. It’s just that a utility. So when we’re speaking about freedom of speech, the way we speak nowadays, it’s through online. It’s is through through the online mediums. So, look, there are arguments to be made on both sides. I do understand like you to be speaking for all infrastructure, and that’s obvious. So to comment to say, hey, we demand that all content you have is there for it’s also not. That doesn’t make sense either. But there needs to be something that needs to be something in the middle. We’re going to see anywhere. I’m very interested how it is going to go. So that’s why I’m supporting it. Should we no longer be worried about bank bail ins? Now, governments have learned that they can use money printer. So Balan’s absolutely can happen. Depends on which bank and which country. And it also depends on whether your country is sovereign when it comes to the Fiat printing. Because Cyprus, they weren’t sovereign. So they had to beg the EU to do something. And then you said, OK, we will save you. You know that Cyprus, they don’t have their own currency. They have the euro. So they could they couldn’t just print their way out of the out of the situation. So they basically to beg Germany and Germany said, hey, you need to take money from depositors. You’re a big chunk. So you basically have to do a bailout. Yesterday, you were talking about how government has two choices, default or print. Can you describe what will happen if they would actually default? Why do they prefer to avoid that route? Well, look, when you print, everyone stays in power. Every every everything is the same. Nobody changes roles. Nothing is changing. It’s just that the population loses funds. When you default, then you need structural change. I mean, then you really need to go out, undergo a lot of destruction, both economically but also politically. Nobody wants to do that. Why would you, if you are a politician, better to stay in power better? And look, right now, you also can blame the virus. So that’s that’s perfect for it for these guys, too. They know nothing will change, really. It’s only cryptid that will change things. Krypto is the only real thing that can move this world forward, because even if the economy collapses, they will say, oh, it was because of the virus. Who would have predicted that man? Who would have predicted this situation? I mean, we definitely couldn’t predict it. And the economy was fantastic. But, man, the coronis, you know, who would have thought? Who would have thought? So let us stay in power. And because it wasn’t our fault. So that’s what they will they will say, Ivan, the field goes to zero and BTC is at all time highs in what are going to convert, as you see. In what way are we going to convert BTC? Would you short the market? How to act? In case you can’t trust your banks and your BTC is at all time high. And you. So look. So number one question is, if all goes to zero, what do we measure? BTC and probably in commodities, probably in gold or something similar. Because I agree with you that measuring and fiat is meaningless long term. Would you short the market right now? Look, it’s all about how what your talents are. I mean, is your talents to play the market? Then you can short it. My talent is in education and building our educational reach. So that is what I am doing now. If you’re more spending time in the markets and you can and you see that, OK, you want to take a risk and short then. But for me, I’m just long, long term shorting the markets. It’s a bit too short term for me. So it really depends on who you are and what your performances. But for me, I rather put time and building out there Kazimi doing new courses because long term, long term, that will have more impact for me and for anyone. Everyone else. All our students than me trying to time the market in shorts. And yet because the tight look what the thing why is because it’s so difficult to get the timeline to predict the timeline. Now, if you think you can do that, then be good. But timing the markets is not a good idea generally. How? Because while we might be in agreement that the markets must go down the timeline, man, how will you get the timeline? It might happen today or in the month or in the year. How to act in case you can’t trust your banks and your BTC is all time high? Man, I don’t really sure what you mean. You mean that you want to transfer your BTC to fear when you sell. When you sell. Oh, so you have Bitcoin and you want to invest in real estate? Well, when you are investing in real estate and you can cash the whole thing, you don’t need to trust the banks, really. But you’re still trusting our government because the government can take your real estate away from you at a moment’s notice, at a moment’s notice when you need to defend the national currency or whatever they might tell you. Hey, guys. You know, we give. Give us the real estate. We give you this currency huddle with us, please. We need more hurdlers. We have more hurdlers. Otherwise we’re gonna hyper inflate or something. Look, they can take it. They can take it. It’s physical, is there. They know where it is. They can physically take it might sound insane. Some people might not believe it. But look at history. It has happened before. Your money in your bank account is not your real estate. It’s more yours, especially if you don’t have a mortgage. It is yours. But it’s just physically, they could take it. We might. Who knows what kind of political power will be in your country if it really becomes ugly. Just like Ray Dalio says, we need to be worried about populistic movements both to the right and to the left. Imagine that, because we’re closing the long term debt cycle. And usually that means a lot of agony. And when agony comes, you see that the strong leaders take the positions of power that happened in Russia in the 20s. You remember you all remember that happened in Nazi Germany. So, look, it doesn’t matter which which shoe, right or left. If you have real estate, the political powers might take it. Maybe they will explain that is for the best of society. All in all. Why would you sell your Bitcoin at the end of the day? Look, I think your best understanding would come when you see that you don’t have to sell. But if you want to sell it, you could sell and just buy real estate. You’re not depending on the bank. If you if because if you if you don’t have a mortgage, you’re not connected to them. You just own it. And that’s that’s fantastic. That’s fantastic. So that’s a good as well. Now, obviously, if you have a mortgage, then you’re still exposed to interest rates, you’re still exposed to central banks are still exposed to the financial perspective of your real estate. But if you’re fully cash it, then it’s it’s yours. It’s yours. But it still might be taken away from you. Unfortunately, unfortunately, property is largely flawed, in essence due to proprietary loss. All right. Right. What happened to BTC Times traveler? Well, his predictions did not really play out. So I think people just forgot him actually figure around. The timeline isn’t hard. Moving average cross at the same intervals pretty much. Well, timeline is I think it is hard. Maybe you think it’s easy. I generally think that guessing the timeline is part of it. I mean, even the rate that you couldn’t even you know, we discussed a lot that keep Schibetta. He bet against the market in November. But to my knowledge, she did not stick to that because if he would stuck to that, he would be in big, big, great position in the amazing, amazingly great position. So it’s very difficult. But anyway, if you think it’s easy. That’s amazing. Guys, I’ll see you all tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. Central European Summertime. We’re going to see if we see another helicopter helicopter going wild tomorrow. Let me know if you think so or not or not. But I think we’ll manage as long as my adjusting to be more focused when I see it, when I hear the sound outside. And to be more focused. Anyway, see you all tomorrow, 8:00 a.m. Central European Time. And good bye, guys. Oh, somebody’s asking. What are you writing? Look, I’m writing. Number one, I have the topics. I have the topics. But also when I’m speaking, I need to write some important concepts because my my thoughts are sometimes before what I say. So I need to write it down. And sometimes I know that I said something and then I continue speaking and then I want to say something else in regardless. I just this is just mental thing. Mental thing to structure it. OK. See you all tomorrow. And goodbye. Yes. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Go to our webinar right now. Completely free smash the smash the link right now. Go and sign up for by bit. If you are a good outraising and they’ll see you all tomorrow guys and shout out to Krypto Hawk for the final donation of the day. Thank you, Ivan. Thank you, guys. See you tomorrow. And goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye.

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ALL FIAT COLLAPSING!! BITCOIN $288,000 in 12 Months – Argentina, Stock To Flow, BTC BULLISH MODEL

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And we’re alive. Yes. Well, it comes as another episode of Good Morning Group down here on Ivan Ontake. We are, of course, broadcasting live straight out of Stockholm, Sweden. And we do this show each and every day at 8:00 p.m. Central Time. Yes, I come to like an atomic clock Asian every day. Today, we will be discussing some big, significant events. Number one, fiat currencies across the world are collapsing as we speak, literally as we speak. It’s not some kind of exaggeration. We’re seeing the Lebanon collapse. We discussed it last week. Today, we’re going to focus on the urgency them and what happens there. And, you know, Argentina has a tradition. The government has a tradition of stealing people’s money. We’re going to discuss the court a little effect the court, a little event which happened 20 years ago, approximately. I will explain to you how the government stole 75 percent of people’s wealth in Argentina and why you should really keep it in mind, because the same thing will happen again, not only in Argentina, but in many other countries. Most probably we will see similar events like Court A and you should really know it. It’s when the government can really take your money. Also, you know that Bitcoin is up against old Fiat this year. Already it against all Fiat. We are up. So really remember that Bitcoin is the refuge, the global refuge for wealth, financial refuge for everyone, no matter the skin color, the religion, the language, you speak, your sexuality, you are welcome. We have a radical, absolutely radical inclusion in Bitcoin. So that is going to be number one. Number two, we actually have a crazy two hundred and twenty eight thousand dollar prediction from plan B, from stock to flow model. Now, the thing he has done is that he modeled Bitcoin in terms of clusters, in terms of stock to flow clusters. So basically, you know, in Bitcoin, we have all kinds of different narratives. We’ve had through the years, like each cash, like censorship resistant gold, like cheap payments network, like programmable shared database and so on, so forth, reserve currency for crypto. And we see how these different narratives have changed through the years. And the reason why they change is because the Bitcoin mechanics change. Bitcoin today is not the same Bitcoin before the last hubbing, because the mathematical properties and the financial properties change of this currency. So it’s very important to disguise that really whenever we have a hubbing bitcoin completely shifts, shifts, its form is shift shape. It’s really shapeshifting each and every time. And we move from one use case to another to another. And in the next tubbing, we’re going to see a completely different Bitcoin with way stronger fundamentals. And this is how this model predicts that the next cluster of stocks will flow. You see these different clusters. If you extrapolate, the next cluster will take us to two hundred thousand dollars, two hundred twenty eight thousand dollars. All in all, we will be discussing this a lot today as well. And this is a very important topic, very key topic to understand. We’re going to discuss about the job market in crypto because cracking is hiring like crazy. Three hundred and fifty people, they are adding this year to the company and so many other things as well. Guys, welcome, welcome. Welcome. Everyone who is watching when. I want to. Com slash Leive. How are you all doing? As I told guys in the chat. Before we do have some helicopter actions here in Stockholm, we have soldiers dropping from helicopters, some kind of exercise they have. We’re gonna see what happens. But literally before we went live, I saw helicopters and then soldiers dropping down and helicopters flying very, very low. Basically, it was like five, 10 meters above the rooftops. It’s it’s insane. We’re gonna see what happens. But welcome, everyone, on to the concept live. Let me know exactly how we were doing. Exactly. Animal in this helicopter money. We’re getting helicopter money. Welcome, everyone. I see the first donation from crypto fruit. I like your unicorn picture. Thank you so much for the nation. And let me know where you turn from a secret to your back. Sebastian. George cryptid tax fixer atomic clock. Gabriella. My topper. Great. The crypt of Farzat Izak. So many people. So many people. Global commune. So amazing to see. Let me know exactly where you are chugging from. And by the way, we have another donation from Harold. Exactly. Exactly. Thank you so much. And also, I have some good news as well from our company. Our company has success successfully. We have successfully completed a tax audit. And it’s it’s amazing. So if you want help with taxes in Sweden, just reach out contact at. I don’t think that’s. Com because, look, we have successfully passed all our tax audits because we have been controlled by the government. You know, they checked our books. All is fine. All this fantastic. Why? Because we work with the best people in Sweden when it comes to crypto and when it comes to accounting. So if you’re not in Sweden, I can not help you. But if you are in Sweden, you are tax liable in Sweden. Contact at. I don’t think that. Com is your email. If you have any issues or whatever, because, look, we managed it with perfect score. I can tell you that. Now, moving on to the markets before we do that, we have some some identified flying object. You know, that they basically released now this footage. The Pentagon has declassified this and it’s basically you have files that have basically been confirmed, I guess I guess it is this UFO. So I guess we do have UFO confirmation or just some kind of anomaly, maybe some issue with the camera, really. I don’t really know too much details about exactly what we’re seeing, but it is unexplained aerial phenomenon. So they they cannot explain it. And people start to speculate, hey, maybe Satoshi was some kind of, you know, being from another planet with higher intelligence. He gave us Bitcoin and then kind of disappeared. People in crypto, they go wild mentally sometimes when when they see something like this. And the bitcoin is really the gift to humanity in many ways. But look, we’re going to see what the hell this is. Let me know what you think and whether it is a UFO. Now, we don’t know when it happened. Maybe this happened like 10 years ago. Maybe it was recent. We don’t know that. So let me know in the chat exactly what you think. What’s your view on this is right now? Now we have Bitcoin at the Plaza, zero point sixteen percent web ethe at the mine is Groupon two percent. All in all, quite stable market to date. This fantastic this fantastic Tuesday morning. Choose the morning we’re having right now together. Looking at the big winners Web Aive DEFAT Project amazing 13 percent start stellar, 12 percent digital futures, 10 percent still futures. I wonder when we will have digital Expressen when they actually have their project in in check Lisk at eight percent, Web synthetics at eight percent. Really time for synthetics to recover. So it’s good to see to see this. Now, looking at the biggest winners, we losers more correctly, we have Hive completely collapsing, by the way, 30 percent down and the same time, let’s be honest, they pump crazy. They pump like crazy during the past few few days and weeks. So 30 percent down doesn’t really matter if you look at the insane growth they’ve been having. Did you buy minus 20 by digits, but did you buy tools? Has been pumping? Whatever comes up needs to come down, at least for a bit. We have engine minus six percent. So those are the big losers now. Yes. Please remember just a few days left until our completely free webinar, a completely free webinar, which will happen on April the twenty ninth. We’re discussing how to stack massive, absolutely colossal, ginormous amounts of Satz in this bull market. If you want to know that and how you do it without taking risks. Go and click the link below for our completely free webinar for our completely free webinar. I see we’re breaking a record. More than 600 people watching live on our Web site. Guys, you’re amazing. Big shout out to you. It’s a record. It’s a record. It’s a record indeed. And to celebrate that, if you haven’t been in the free webinar, go and check it out. Also, as you know, we do have our collaboration with by bit. If you go to I went to the com slash live. You see this link right here. You can get nine dollars. 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And just like I tweeted yesterday and this tweet went absolutely berserk, I tweeted that fiat currencies across the world are collapsing as we speak. Last week, the Lebanese pound lost 50 percent. And you already know that if you’ve if you’ve seen my streams, you know that they lost 50 percent. Absolutely insane. Argentina now close to hyperinflation. Two central banks worldwide are literally printing people into starvation. Time for Plan B. And it’s absolutely correct. Look at Argentina on local bitcoin, the day volume on local Bitcoin in Argentina on Bessel, Argentine Bessel. You see, it is skyrocketing because, number one, they are worried people in Argentina are worried what will happen with their money and what will happen with their savings, with their wealth. Number two, also, we need to recognize that a lot of this increase is due to inflation. We do see crazy inflation. In fact, if we switch to BTC instead, if we switch and we measure a volume in BTC instead of Bessel, you see that is basically the levels we’ve had in 2019. But but in terms of Basle, it’s absolutely wild. And this is the real tragedy. This is how people are losing money by the second. It’s insane. That’s still cele. We have. A situation where your money is being gambled with central banks, gambling with your money and printing, trying to stimulate, trying to do this. It’s all a big experiment experiment for them while people literally are losing the hard earned hard work money each and every second. It’s it blows my mind that this is still a problem in 2020. And what’s worse, not enough with inflation. What’s worse is that the government can literally take your money and do whatever they want. You know, we had this episode on Italy. We discussed that, hey, maybe Italy in the near future, they might withdraw from the euro. And there I speculated in that we do that. If you have euro in Italian banks, what probably will happen is that they will simply convert your euro to the new Italian currency, whatever that will be. And that it might be bad for you because look who once knew Italian currency, which is created really to to manage the debt, to pay off the debt, really, because now they can print it. So you would rather have the euro than the newly created Italian or indeed can be added. Maybe Spain, maybe Portugal. Really, it’s not only about Italy, just in general. I told on the stream that it wouldn’t surprise me that if you have euro in Italian, Spain, Portugal, whatever a bank account and and they decide to withdraw, it will mean that you’re probably going to be automatically converted. And I got so much so much heat for that. I get so much shit in the comment section, say, hey, Ivan, this will never happen. They cannot take my euro and convert it without my consent. Hey, Ivan, this is completely, completely impossible because it’s gonna be illegal for them to take my euro and convert to this new new Italian currency. Guys, they can do whatever they want. This has been done before. It will be done again. Your money in the bank account is not your money. Guys, they can literally do whatever they want. If they want to convert it, they will convert it. And you will not be consenting to the exchange rate. They will not even ask you about the exchange rate. And it’s so horrible because it has happened before. Read about the court little effect from Argentina because the court Alito effect illustrates this perfectly. What I am telling you. In 2001, 20 years ago, the Argentine government stole seventy five percent of Argentinians USD deposits to save the banks and the peso. So let me tell you exactly what happened. What they did was that they took your dollars. Let’s say you had a dollar in your bank account. They converted to Besso because one Pessl was equal to one dollar, according to the official exchange rate. So they forced you to convert your dollars for one bessel you had ten dollars. You get done Paiser right after they did so. Right after they did so they said OK. One, Pessl is no longer one dollar. We are not backing it. We’re not guaranteeing that one pessaries, one dollar, which meant that overnight they converted your dollars to one bessel, one dollar, one Bessel. Then they said, Okay guys, we’re not we’re as far as the government, we’re no longer guaranteeing the one two unpeg. So you’re on your own now. Which meant that one peso was only sorry, one dollar was now for pestles. It wasn’t one dollar, one Pessl. It was not one dollar for Pessl. So you lost basically seventy five percent of your money. Why? Because you were forced to convert. The government can do whatever they want with your money. You’re not owning it. You’re not controlling it. And this will happen again. This was 20 years ago in Argentina. Might happen in Italy, might happen in Spain, might happen in all kinds of conscious, maybe even in Sweden. Who knows? Really, it doesn’t matter. All fiat currencies go to zero. And also, there is no need to be super nationalistic about it. I know I said that about Italy in the last Veja. I got many Italians racing. Hey, Ivan, you know, Italy, we it’s not that bad trying to defend. But look, why are you defending it? They’re not even on your team. Central bankers are not on your team, even if it’s the central bank in your country ahead. They’re not on your team, guys. So no need to be super nationalistic. It may happen in Sweden, may happen everywhere in the world. Just note that the only thing that you should be carrying about is you and your wealth and you shouldn’t be thinking about. Okay. This is really something that I need to be thinking about. We need to support the Bessel because they really wanted to support and protect the Bessler against capital flight. That’s why they converted everyone dollars. But are you really willing to pay such a price for it to bail out your government and to to bail out the bank? The bankers, are you or are you not? Answer honestly, because I don’t see any reason why you would. To be honest. And and therefore protect yourself, protect your wealth and protect your family. Is the only thing that matters. So look. Caught a little. If he is coming back, I can tell a little is not over. It’s not finished. It’s coming back worldwide. And. And Bitcoin is the only protection is the only antidote against DeCaro. Little effect. So please be aware. Don’t take it lightly. And remember, already this year, Bitcoin is outperforming all Fiat or Fiat is right now being outperformed by Bitcoin and. Steel and yet steel, if you ask your financial adviser, he will tell you, oh, man, you need to be careful, you need to be careful with Bitcoin, you to be careful with cryptocurrency sky, some kind of scam. Very volatile, very volatile. You better be in cash. Maybe the stock market will collapse. You can use your cash in the stock market. But look, tell that to people in Brazil. Forty four percent lost against Bitcoin. Tell that to people in there. What is this? Is that done with the flag, please, guys? Is it the Colombia? Sorry, my geography teacher wouldn’t be proud. I don’t recognize the flag, but it’s 28 percent nonetheless. Argentina, 16 percent. We have China. Even China, six percent. So all in all, Colombia. Exactly. Colombia. I thought I was told also Colombia. What is this? Indonesia. Right. Eleven. Web check. Rubab. But check. Is this anyway anyway. Don’t test my my geography skills. You understand that bitcoin is outperforming most of us. It’s outperforming most of the all of the fiat currencies in the world. So that’s that’s why it’s so important. Look, moving on, moving on. Not only is Bitcoin a true reliever, true reliever of the financial burden that many of us have because we do not really decide what we’re doing with our money. We don’t really decide how we’re gonna spend our money and how we can really manage our funds. By the way. I see. Or Lexing revenge on the krona is wrecked. I know. I know. It’s it’s a sad story. What happened to your vision, Krona? No vision economy is highly connected to the oil. You know that we’ve been. Oh, the helicopters are gone. Are gone. So we did not guess what. They’re gone. So you see, the Norwegian krone is so connected to the oil. That’s why we in Sweden, we always sell Norwegians that your days are numbered, guys. Oil is either gonna run out or it’s gonna collapse in Sweden, at least we have industry, we have global companies. We have global production. So we usually joke, you know, that, hey, individuals are richer, they’re richer right now. But but your oil gonna run out or it’s gonna go too negative. Well, exactly what happened. But anyway, it’s a strategy strategy that you had a Norwegian kroner and you lost thirty three percent against Bitcoin. Absolutely tragic. The same in Sweden, 50 percent. I mean, we’re not some kind of role model either. Swedish krona has also lost significantly, significantly, significantly. So that’s that’s why you need to understand the only financial global refuge you have. It is crypto. It’s global, doesn’t discriminate, radically inclusive. It’s radically inclusive. And that’s why it’s so key. Now, I want to also show to you this the fact that we are not only breaking ourselves free on the personal level, on the personal freedom level, but also when it comes to building new businesses and building new ideas. And they want to share with you this video from Jack Dorsey basically explaining why Bitcoin is so important for them as a company, as a financial company, because they cannot do their business, they cannot do their business without begging the bankers to let them do their business. And that’s not how it should be. That’s not how it should be. So let me know if the sound works. I think it should work. And let’s listen to our friend, to our friend straight from the U.S. broadcasting, Jack Dorsey. So let’s hear what he says. I believe that the Internet deserves and requires a native currency and a notary. I’m such a huge believer in Bitcoin because it is our biggest problem as a company right now is we cannot act like an Internet company to open a new market. We have to have a partnership with a local bank. We have to pay attention to different regulatory onboarding environments. And a digital currency like Bitcoin takes on a bunch of that away where we can potentially launch a product in every single market around the world. Because they’re all using the same currency. There you go. There is no need to beg some kind of bank to please let us collaborate with you. Please, please, please. Begging, begging the cartel, please open up. Please let me do something in finance. Please, please, please. You know, why is it so? Why? Because it’s a walled garden. That. That’s why. That’s why it’s so. And that’s also why you see that there is no way for us to break the walled garden that you remember yesterday with the Scotts. There is no way for us to break the walled garden. And by the way, big shout out to Alex Freedman. It is his podcast that we are taking this video from. I hope it’s okay, but be shout out to him. Go follow him. Leks Friedman, artificial intelligence spot. Guess one of the greatest podcasts right now on the planet. Absolutely. Planet. So I’m sharing it in the description, the Twitter. But look, you understand that we are breaking free on on a personal level, on the corporate level as well, because just like Jack Jackdaw says, why should we? Why should we beg? Why should we beg? But what’s important is that we will never break the. The walled garden. We will never get into the banking cartel. They will not allow us. Obviously. Why would they. Why would they invite us? While the. But you know, the crypto community. Do you think they will invite us? Absolutely not. So that is why we should not fight the old. Let them have the walled garden. Let them have the moat, like we discussed yesterday. Remember, when you are a business, you tried to build a multi around your business so nobody can attack. Nobody can start building a similar idea like you. So you build up a bunch of of moat, a bunch of walls. So you have regulation, you lobby for more regulation. So it’s more difficult for someone else to start. So this means that we need to walk around, just like Jack Dorsey says, when it’s a new system. We cannot buy the old. They are just too fortified with Justin to walk around their system, just like Facebook did not invent the better newspaper. Like it better. I don’t know how people socialize before Facebook. You know, you understand how to compare it. But Netflix did not build a better TV station and an urban B did not build a better hotel. It’s all about walking around the moat, walking around the problem and and innovating. Now, shifting gears quickly, shifting gears quickly. We’re moving to Bitcoin stocks to flow. And while why we’re going to two hundred eighty eight K very soon. We’re actually at 228. I think this I think I messed up the numbers, but truly, whether it’s 88 or 20, it does not really matter. Let me just quickly double check. It’s 88 to 288. But what’s important to note here is that we are shapeshifting. Bitcoin right now is not the Bitcoin you knew from a few years ago. And it’s completely fine. And you see many people sometimes mocking, mocking Bitcoin that we’re shifting our narrative. You know, we went from digital cash. We went from that to cheap payments network. And you see here on the chart that in 2009, this blue area was the biggest. So it was a cash proof of concept, the biggest use case for Bitcoin that the community was discussing. And then you had the bit of cheap payments. I mean, people discuss that as well. And then a bit of the yellow one, which is censorship resistant, E. Gold here as well in the beginning. And then as we move, as we move to the right, you see how it’s changing. So digital cash is cash proof of concept. It basically went to zero. We’re not talking about cash anymore. And we haven’t since 2015, really, because here’s where the blue the blue portion went to zero superrich at desks. Amazing. Horst, you sent Bitcoin. We always send Bikash. Anyway, I think Bikash as well. Thanks so much. Cheap Payments Network. It also declined. And right now you see that digital gold is number one. I mean, that’s the fattest portion. Does the fattest portion the yellow one too, does the number one narrative we have as well, the green one, which is reserve currency for crypto here. And then we have the pink one, which is uncorrelated to financial assets. So you see narratives are always shifting, narratives are always shifting. Why is it so? Because Bitcoin is changing. Bitcoin today is not the bitcoin. 10 years ago or five years ago. Why? Because this toxic flow is changing. The scarcity is changing. Everything is changing. You know, 10 years ago, it would take one year of inflation to replace the full supply 10 years ago when Bitcoin really started. You see that we were about one in stocks with flow ratio. Now, for all of you who don’t know what stocks the flow is. Quick reminder, stock to flow is how many years it takes for new inflation to basically produce that much new money. So it is exactly the same as you have right now in circulation. So we have Circo things supply. And then you ask yourself, OK. Looking at the inflation, how much years, how many years, how much time will it take to replace the current circulating supply? Basically, to produce as much debt is currently circulating. And 10 years ago, it was one year in one year we printed as much as was already in circulation. And then we have been moving towards higher and higher numbers here and stocks of flow. And right now we are at between 10 and the hundred. So we are somewhere here in between. And obviously, that is a completely different beast than when it was at one or when it was at 10. And we are moving to 100 very soon. Basically, that will take 100 years to replace the current circulation supply only from new inflation. It will soon take 100 years. And so obviously, it’s a completely different asset with completely different mechanics, with completely different supply and demand and scarcity dynamics. So that’s why the narrative is changing, because the whole asset is changing. So basically, he combined the different stocks to flow clusters. And he tried to map them to different narratives. So, for example, Biscayan cluster number one of stock to flow was was it payments, proof of concept? Then you had the gold being here, Kluster, number three. And now we’re moving towards financial asset class number four, global macro uncorrelated financial asset. That is a bigger narrative right now. And you see that the next cluster, the next cluster will be somewhere here. And he also put gold and silver. But the next LASWELL probably will be somewhere here around gold that the stock to flow will go even further towards the right. And of course, the price will follow upwards if this model holds, because you see that as stock to flow increases, so does the price and the price. Exponential. We’re basically increasing in orders of magnitude on the price as the stock to flow goes up on the x axis and the price exponential goes on the Y axis. So when we will soon jump to yet another level of stock to flow and we will be even closer to 100 years to replace full, full supply, we’re going to build a new cluster around here of of Bitcoin’s stock to flow. And we’re going to have probably a whole other narrative. And if you try to extrapolate that, OK, first class, there were some was somewhere here and we had the total market cap of a million. When the stock to flow was about one, then we jumped to total market cap of one hundred million and stock to float jumped as well. Then stock to float jumped again. We went to 10 billion, then stock to float jumped again and we went to 100 billion. So now when stock to float jumps again, where will we be? Is the question in terms of total market cap. And if you do the simple calculation, you’ll see that we are going to two hundred eighty eight thousand for one bitcoin, two hundred and eighty thousand for one Bitcoin. And that is some ways to calculate the future price and have some kind of model of the future price. It’s not bulletproof, obviously, because it’s not even been peer reviewed yet. As he says, please be aware that this is only the first step and has not been replicated or reviewed. But this is an issue in theory. And the most important takeaway from here is that Bitcoin is a shapeshifting, just like water going from solid liquid gas ionized or like the US dollar going going from gold, basically backed by gold to paper bag by gold or actually more correctly, dollars going from being actual gold to bagged by gold to bag by nothing. It’s still called the dollar, but it’s a completely different beast. It’s completely different mechanics and completely different fundamentals. So is Bitcoin Bitcoin in stocks, a flow of one is not the same as Bitcoin. Stop to flow of five or ten or a hundred completely different concepts. So in terms of the timeline, I see people asking in the chat. What about the timeline? We are looking at twenty twenty to twenty, twenty four. It’s impossible to say. Could happen in 12 months. Could happen in twenty, twenty four months but 12 months. Completely probable. It is probable but also twenty is probable as well. So it’s basically timeline is always the most difficult. And that’s why bitcoin is more for holding long term. The timeline is impossible to say whether there’s going to be this year or next month or 2024 is basically the whole cycle that in this cycle that we are right now in the cycle of Hobbins before. Right now and the next halving that is when this will happen. And just like here as well. All of this timeline is somewhere between the halving. So that’s what we’re talking about, because then the next halving is going to happen and then we’re going to see a whole other beast. Bitcoin is going to be something entirely different yet again. So that’s very important. And once again, not financial advice. Just how I’m thinking. Do whatever you want with this with this information. But it is interesting. It is interesting nonetheless. Let me know what you think. If you agree or disagree with this amazing, amazing model done by stocks, you flow by Plan B, we’re going to see what’s happening. But but. But but now, whenever you hear some kind of Bikash phonetic or BSB Phanatic complain that Bitcoin is changing narratives explain to them that Bitcoin is changing itself. It’s changed itself. The fundamentals are completely different. So that’s why it is also changing its narrative, because it’s being used for different things, because it’s different. Oh Horst, we have some Bikash. Thank you so much. BTC will probably soon be unusable for paying for Supercharges when lightning. No, no. BTC is usable. You can do instant with instant zero. Com. Supercharged because we’re not shipping anything. We’re not. And we’re not shipping anything. So you can do BTC if you want. You don’t need to wait for conformations and then we check whether the transaction got confirmed or not. So look, we don’t even need the lightning for this, to be honest. We don’t even need lightning hakes fanatic’s exactly when Hecks finance gone. Then you go and they say you’re going to explain what Bitcoin is horse anyway. It is a shelter two. Thank you so much. Obviously if you send Bikash we’ll take because that’s. You could even send. No, you cannot, son. That’s impossible. That’s impossible. And look, zero come for us. Works fantastically well. So please try. If you haven’t, you can. You can do superjet with Bitcoin. It will be instant. It will be instant. 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And guess if you want to please write in the chat how old you are, because that would be fun to read. You know, it’s actually something we’ve been noticing in our academy as well. We have a lot of. Yes. 50, 60. It’s amazing to see it and it’s not something that you hear a lot. Usually you hear that crypto is mating, you know, mainly millennials. It’s not it’s not the older people, but some youth. The statistics speak for themselves. As you can see, web of so many different age groups. It’s insane. It’s insane. And I saw I thought this was interesting because the equity market cap also noticed it. They noticed that, look, we have a lot we have a lot of age groups and them and 65 plus are overrepresented in many cases. It’s amazing. And I’ve been thinking, why is this so? Why is it so that that age group is somehow overrepresented? And in many cases, I think that older people just are a bit wiser. They’re a bit wiser when it comes to money. Maybe they’ve been through a few of the collapses and they understand that you cannot trust money while millennials, they eat the avocado. They don’t really care about what’s going on. They just want to have a fun time. They just want to have a fun time. And they relaxing and they haven’t been experiencing things. For example, they haven’t seen the court a little common bite them. You know, somewhere they they get really bitten. If you survives court lethal, you got bitten real time, I can tell you that. And it takes a bit of knowledge and a bit of wisdom to experience it. And it takes a bit of a bit of losing, a bit of losing money due to the fact how the monetary system is structured. Truly understand the issues, because I think most millennials, they don’t even care that much about how money works at all. At all. At all. So I thought that was very interesting. So let me know what you think, whether you agree or disagree. But that being said, I want to welcome our magnificent our respect, the Buhle Worldwide Superjet to the discussion. It’s my pleasure to remove this headphones because you know that we had a police helicopter wildness going on. Absolutely wild. It was. And actually, I want to show you. Let me see it because I have a recording. I recorded it on my phone. I just need to transport it somehow to my computer quickly so I can show it to her. It was absolutely insane. Basically, helicopters and I even Soss, you know, soldiers dropping from. But now they flew away and then they read quickly in the newspaper. It was a a some kind of, you know, practice. They are they they were doing Praksis. But anyway, let me guess how you are doing. And let’s do some Q&A. Let’s do some Q&A. The powerful chat. Exactly. The magnificence. Respectable and powerful. All mighty chat. Let’s see. Can I download this or not? Can I download this yet? So, look, let me let me quickly show you how can I do it without exposing some sensitive info? Let’s see. Can I do like this? OK. Yes. OK, let’s see. Ocelots it. So see, I’m using my private messenger, so I’m really taking a big risk showing you this, exposing my private messages potentially. But you see, it was basically here, the helicopter absolutely insane. So there you go, guys. There you go. There you go. I don’t know what the hell they were doing. Yeah. Yeah, insane. I really want to show this. So there you go. OK, moving on. What was going on with with the chat? Where were questions, guys? Where our questions told you to prepare questions. We have prepared questions, haven’t you? Can you explain a liquidity trap. Well, a liquidity trap and the crunch would. It’s kind of what we’re seeing right now. I mean, more correctly, it listicle the liquidity crunch. And that is the fact that everyone has loans denominated in USD. All right. But when everything is collapsing and when USD becomes stronger, it’s difficult to pay back the loan. So everyone wants to get the USD to pay back their loan. And they’re getting margin calls. You know that the stocks are falling. Stocks have been falling. All kinds of assets are falling. So a lot a lot of speculation in the global markets have been backed by margin. You know, people use margin all the time. And in global markets, the same. The same, the same. So when the value of the collateral falls, when you have, for example, margin, but you have some kind of stocks as collateral, if you have some other assets and they fall in value, you know what you have to do? You will be liquidated. If you don’t if you don’t fill up your collateral or if you don’t just close your loan. Don’t close your. If you just close your margin position, that’s also fine. But for that, you need dollars. So everyone needs dollars. Very quickly, in the global market, this is what happened in Lebanon. We discussed it. We discussed how Lebanon, their currency lost 50 percent of its value basically overnight. Why is it so? Well, because the government had a lot of obligations in the USD and the central bank. Really? What what can you do? Get that done today? What can you do? You can print money. That’s what you can do. So that is why the global finance system is collapsing as dollar becomes stronger. And it is becoming stronger against other fiat, against other Fiat. There is simply no no choice for many of the governments to simply hyper inflate, to success, to success. So that’s why that’s why. Guys, be careful, be careful. If it is the case that your country will be close to hyperinflation, what will happen? Your assets will probably be taken away from you, just like we saw with Court A. They will try to protect your national garbage currency if it’s close to hyperinflation. And when I say your garbage national currency don’t get old Patriots economy because these guys are not on your team. This your central bank is not on your team, guys. They’re not. They’re not just like the court. Alito even. Do you think the central bank of urgency and then the government of Argentina was on the side of the people when they took 75 percent? So, look, I know when I say, you know, you’re a national garbage currency. There’s always someone who gets upset. But you said, what about my national currency? You’re saying something about my national mike, my pride currency, my national pride. Guys, look, if they’re not on your team, we’re all crypto. We’re all we’re all in the same boat. And you understand that. When you see this code a little, you’re losing 75 percent. These guys are not on your team. All right. Anyway, moving on. So, yeah. So what would they want to say? Basically, when it is the case that a country’s is crumbling in terms of financials, they will not allow you to buy a dollar. They will simply take your dollar convert to garbage. Fiat currency. National currency. They will probably take your gold. They will probably take your assets. They cannot take your bitcoin. That’s what I want to tell you. Why are you not afraid of double spend the tax on your super chat’s? Well, because we’re not. Look, if somebody double spends or reverses the transaction, I will we will just blacklist them and we will not accept supercharges anymore. And I don’t think people will do it. Look at your. Voluntarily. You’re voluntarily doing a supercharged because you like the show. So why would you. So see you. Since you said that you could reverse it if you want. But but then we’ll just keep keep track of that then. Yeah. When you are shipping something physical, obviously I would not ship you like a computer if you bought from me with a one zero coins, but for us it’s just digital messages. It’s fine. What is your take on the Kleptocrat Fund Lagarde is talking about? Will it destroyed the EU union? Actually, I don’t know about the Kleptocrat Fund. I will I will note that Kleptocrat Fund, the interesting kleptocrat fund. So she is talking about it. Thank you so much for educating me. VLF. And that is why we do Superjet. And why would do this chat together that you guys can educate me as well and we can educate together. Thank you for this daily valuable show. Thank you. Thank you. Up NC. Also Bitcoin donation. Bitcoin donation, instant instant bitcoin the nation. So look, it’s all about the use case. We’ve made bitcoin work for us. Our use case. Instant transaction is fine. It’s fine. Yeah. With instant send. That’s you. Yeah. Get man horse. There there are many like Bikash also is my way more instant. And the eath is way more instant. So it’s not about finding better technologies. Just I want people to use bitcoin. People have bitcoin. They want to spend bitcoin. So that’s why we support zero conflict bitcoin. And for our use case, it’s OK. It’s fine. It’s fine. Solid crypto coming with solid five dollar donation. That’s amazing. That’s amazing. That’s amazing. Let’s see. Let’s see. Oh, he’s onboarding a bunch of people to crypto. Got it. Group to one link, man. What is one link? One link. Me big. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. One link is like to shorten. But be careful anyway. We can be careful when clicking links in this chat. All right. Thought you taught us to spend the fifth and never the Bitcoin. If you want to spend the Bitcoin, you can do that. But I’m just saying that most people want. Most people don’t want to. They want to huddle. They want to huddle. And that’s why the merchant adoption is is low, because nobody knew, because nobody is willing to spend bitcoin for other things, like for for buying food and groceries. But we as a group to crypto livestream, obviously, we will support Bitcoin donations. Of course. Of course. Of course. Fiat is like chain for dogs more. You have further you go. Interesting. The more you have, the further. Yeah. I mean, it’s one way of thinking. It’s one way of thinking about it. But what’s important what’s important is that when you spend when you spend it, whether it’s bitcoin or if replenish replenish it. Can you explain me why I have three hundred K limit of buying crypto? I have no clue. Jared, you reach out to their support. Reach out to their support. Probably because of regulation. But I have no clue for support. Reach out to their supports him. I’m not really their support. I just like their products. But each and every detail and the rule of what. How it works. Take it with their support. Yeah. What is the best script exchange to earn interest on your trip. The welder menu. I mean, cryptochrome is one. That’s absolutely one. You have Celsius. You have block fire. You have next. So I am I’m really look, I’m I really wouldn’t be betting the farm on any of them. On any of them. Why? Because you never know. You need to be very rational in how you do this. So be careful. But those are the ones you can try. Answer the one you absolutely can try. If you even even get if you ever get the chance, Ivan, make sure you broadcast from the serving surface. I think we’ll all be on the surface of the moon probably at the end of this year. At least that’s that’s what I’m hoping for. That will be on the surface of this moon. OK, Andreas. When are you launching the central streaming many alternative media news would need to take to Andreas? Yes, we’re working on that. We’re working, working, but we need our core features. So next core feature is a super shot for mobile. So we have Superjet from Mobile, but not Krypto. So that’s our next thing. And what’s good to see, as I see people also writing. We have London real London real getting pissed off on YouTube. One hundred percent. He really got a major, absolutely major issue further with YouTube now. So he has collected he has collected like almost half a million bucks. London real dot com slash freedom, I think it’s called. So let let me just show it to man. What is it like? London real. That old TV slash freedom. Right. Freedom lets you. Yes. So they are collecting these funds and they’re going to build a blocking platform as well. But most importantly, they’re going to take you up to court and. Yeah. So go go and support them if you want, because, look, it’s freedom of speech and it’s not okay. Look, it’s not okay. Where are you basically? Because right now. Your audience can be taken away from you at any moment. So London rule, if you get really fed up. So he started this campaign and he is really working a lot on this. He’s basically establishing a whole trust, a whole trust where people can donate for freedom and and they will basically either either build their own so they have all the funds to build their own. That’s good because they have collected so much. But the next thing is really to to reach a point where platforms are being more like utility. So, you know, for example, electricity companies. Yes, there are they are private companies. Many of them are private companies. There is no way they can tell you you don’t get electricity because we don’t like what you said. Why is it so? Well, you could argue. Well, what they are private companies. They can do whatever they want with their private company. Electricity. Electricity. But some things are just utilities. It’s just that a utility. So when we’re speaking about freedom of speech, the way we speak nowadays, it’s through online. It’s is through through the online mediums. So, look, there are arguments to be made on both sides. I do understand like you to be speaking for all infrastructure, and that’s obvious. So to comment to say, hey, we demand that all content you have is there for it’s also not. That doesn’t make sense either. But there needs to be something that needs to be something in the middle. We’re going to see anywhere. I’m very interested how it is going to go. So that’s why I’m supporting it. Should we no longer be worried about bank bail ins? Now, governments have learned that they can use money printer. So Balan’s absolutely can happen. Depends on which bank and which country. And it also depends on whether your country is sovereign when it comes to the Fiat printing. Because Cyprus, they weren’t sovereign. So they had to beg the EU to do something. And then you said, OK, we will save you. You know that Cyprus, they don’t have their own currency. They have the euro. So they could they couldn’t just print their way out of the out of the situation. So they basically to beg Germany and Germany said, hey, you need to take money from depositors. You’re a big chunk. So you basically have to do a bailout. Yesterday, you were talking about how government has two choices, default or print. Can you describe what will happen if they would actually default? Why do they prefer to avoid that route? Well, look, when you print, everyone stays in power. Every every everything is the same. Nobody changes roles. Nothing is changing. It’s just that the population loses funds. When you default, then you need structural change. I mean, then you really need to go out, undergo a lot of destruction, both economically but also politically. Nobody wants to do that. Why would you, if you are a politician, better to stay in power better? And look, right now, you also can blame the virus. So that’s that’s perfect for it for these guys, too. They know nothing will change, really. It’s only cryptid that will change things. Krypto is the only real thing that can move this world forward, because even if the economy collapses, they will say, oh, it was because of the virus. Who would have predicted that man? Who would have predicted this situation? I mean, we definitely couldn’t predict it. And the economy was fantastic. But, man, the coronis, you know, who would have thought? Who would have thought? So let us stay in power. And because it wasn’t our fault. So that’s what they will they will say, Ivan, the field goes to zero and BTC is at all time highs in what are going to convert, as you see. In what way are we going to convert BTC? Would you short the market? How to act? In case you can’t trust your banks and your BTC is at all time high. And you. So look. So number one question is, if all goes to zero, what do we measure? BTC and probably in commodities, probably in gold or something similar. Because I agree with you that measuring and fiat is meaningless long term. Would you short the market right now? Look, it’s all about how what your talents are. I mean, is your talents to play the market? Then you can short it. My talent is in education and building our educational reach. So that is what I am doing now. If you’re more spending time in the markets and you can and you see that, OK, you want to take a risk and short then. But for me, I’m just long, long term shorting the markets. It’s a bit too short term for me. So it really depends on who you are and what your performances. But for me, I rather put time and building out there Kazimi doing new courses because long term, long term, that will have more impact for me and for anyone. Everyone else. All our students than me trying to time the market in shorts. And yet because the tight look what the thing why is because it’s so difficult to get the timeline to predict the timeline. Now, if you think you can do that, then be good. But timing the markets is not a good idea generally. How? Because while we might be in agreement that the markets must go down the timeline, man, how will you get the timeline? It might happen today or in the month or in the year. How to act in case you can’t trust your banks and your BTC is all time high? Man, I don’t really sure what you mean. You mean that you want to transfer your BTC to fear when you sell. When you sell. Oh, so you have Bitcoin and you want to invest in real estate? Well, when you are investing in real estate and you can cash the whole thing, you don’t need to trust the banks, really. But you’re still trusting our government because the government can take your real estate away from you at a moment’s notice, at a moment’s notice when you need to defend the national currency or whatever they might tell you. Hey, guys. You know, we give. Give us the real estate. We give you this currency huddle with us, please. We need more hurdlers. We have more hurdlers. Otherwise we’re gonna hyper inflate or something. Look, they can take it. They can take it. It’s physical, is there. They know where it is. They can physically take it might sound insane. Some people might not believe it. But look at history. It has happened before. Your money in your bank account is not your real estate. It’s more yours, especially if you don’t have a mortgage. It is yours. But it’s just physically, they could take it. We might. Who knows what kind of political power will be in your country if it really becomes ugly. Just like Ray Dalio says, we need to be worried about populistic movements both to the right and to the left. Imagine that, because we’re closing the long term debt cycle. And usually that means a lot of agony. And when agony comes, you see that the strong leaders take the positions of power that happened in Russia in the 20s. You remember you all remember that happened in Nazi Germany. So, look, it doesn’t matter which which shoe, right or left. If you have real estate, the political powers might take it. Maybe they will explain that is for the best of society. All in all. Why would you sell your Bitcoin at the end of the day? Look, I think your best understanding would come when you see that you don’t have to sell. But if you want to sell it, you could sell and just buy real estate. You’re not depending on the bank. If you if because if you if you don’t have a mortgage, you’re not connected to them. You just own it. And that’s that’s fantastic. That’s fantastic. So that’s a good as well. Now, obviously, if you have a mortgage, then you’re still exposed to interest rates, you’re still exposed to central banks are still exposed to the financial perspective of your real estate. But if you’re fully cash it, then it’s it’s yours. It’s yours. But it still might be taken away from you. Unfortunately, unfortunately, property is largely flawed, in essence due to proprietary loss. All right. Right. What happened to BTC Times traveler? Well, his predictions did not really play out. So I think people just forgot him actually figure around. The timeline isn’t hard. Moving average cross at the same intervals pretty much. Well, timeline is I think it is hard. Maybe you think it’s easy. I generally think that guessing the timeline is part of it. I mean, even the rate that you couldn’t even you know, we discussed a lot that keep Schibetta. He bet against the market in November. But to my knowledge, she did not stick to that because if he would stuck to that, he would be in big, big, great position in the amazing, amazingly great position. So it’s very difficult. But anyway, if you think it’s easy. That’s amazing. Guys, I’ll see you all tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. Central European Summertime. We’re going to see if we see another helicopter helicopter going wild tomorrow. Let me know if you think so or not or not. But I think we’ll manage as long as my adjusting to be more focused when I see it, when I hear the sound outside. And to be more focused. Anyway, see you all tomorrow, 8:00 a.m. Central European Time. And good bye, guys. Oh, somebody’s asking. What are you writing? Look, I’m writing. Number one, I have the topics. I have the topics. But also when I’m speaking, I need to write some important concepts because my my thoughts are sometimes before what I say. So I need to write it down. And sometimes I know that I said something and then I continue speaking and then I want to say something else in regardless. I just this is just mental thing. Mental thing to structure it. OK. See you all tomorrow. And goodbye. Yes. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Go to our webinar right now. Completely free smash the smash the link right now. Go and sign up for by bit. If you are a good outraising and they’ll see you all tomorrow guys and shout out to Krypto Hawk for the final donation of the day. Thank you, Ivan. Thank you, guys. See you tomorrow. And goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye.

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Chapter 2 - Interrogation and Murder

Chapter 2 - Interrogation and Murder

The dark was mostly quiet, especially as everyone sensible was already abed. A few individuals kept a watch on the routes taken by thieves over the rooftops. After all, you didn’t want anyone in your territory that shouldn’t be there. The whorehouses and taverns had decided to call it a night.

Every so often a group of drunken louts could be heard over the soft whisper of the wind. Now, when the fewest eyes were on her, was the time for Masquerade to strike. That said, time was rather pressing, as Masquerade needed a sufficient opportunity to question her target before she killed her.

So a stealthy figure made their way to the grand respite, used only by fae and their sparks. A contingent of city guard stood on watch. Not that they were a particularly good watch force. Rather more impressive were the court guards of the Court of Heights. Whilst the fae don’t need protecting, they guard their sparks jealously, and would not have one abscond or be stolen from the court.

Transitions and trades like this were about the only times sparks even got to see outside of the closed walls of the courts. Less so for those of the Court of Heights, but the court guard were still ever present.

This is not to say the life of a spark is bad, quite the opposite. Merely that sparks are one of the few things that truly matter to the fae. After all, sparks are free, all you can eat buffets to the fae. The more sparks a court has, the more powerful that court is.

You might then wonder why the courts even bother to trade sparks. The truth is that sparks have different things that set them off. Oh they all have the same potential, but some people prefer thinking, others prefer doing, yet others prefer loving and some enjoy the bliss that can only be obtained by recreational drugs (unless you’re one of those aforementioned shapeshifters, creating a natural high is technically very straightforward for them).

Whilst Aym lay quietly in her bed, she had no idea that soon she would be visited by Masquerade.

With all the guards around the grand respite, Masquerade scaled a nearby building. Of course, nearby is relative when you’ve got a wide road to cross, followed by a high wall. Naturally, a grappling hook would seem the sensible way in, but these are fae that are being dealt with, and they are not stupid. The walls were suffused with glam to keep anything from clinging to them, be they humans or grappling hooks. This did have the advantage that the walls could be ornamented. This had the disadvantage that Masquerade could consume the glam whilst on the wall, preventing it from having the desired effect.

That’s not to say it wouldn’t still be difficult for Masquerade, as she didn’t have enough throughput to consume all that glam. It meant that scaling the wall would be closer to scaling a glacier with only your hands and feet. The ornamentation would also serve for some hand and foot holds, so she had that going for her. Of course, she didn’t actually understand at the time what exactly she would be doing, she just knew that a grapple wouldn’t work after Teera made that fatal mistake a few years previous.

The client really had not given her much time to prepare, so Masquerade eyed the gap between herself and the grand respite. She could definitely make the jump to one of the protruding gargoyles, and then scale the wall, provided that she could evade whatever traps the fae had seen fit to guard their residence with. Quite why they would go to such lengths, Masquerade was unsure, anyone foolish enough to steal from the fae would be as good as dead without the protection of other fae.

That protection was one of the few reasons she that she entertained the job. Well that and the fact that you don’t say ‘no’ to one of the fae. Of course she just might be able to get away with betraying her client, but the payoff for the job was worth it. If her client decided to betray her, and had lied about some of the limits of the fae, that would be shit she could try to deal with at the time.

Masquerade was just distracting herself, until this point, she might be able to just try and get out of the job, but once she jumped, she was committed. I mean, more accurately, she was just running through all the possibilities again in her mind as her desire for survival was pricking at her. That same piece of logic also reminded her that she needed to get a move on, the longer she dawdled, the less time she would have to speak with the target.

Her body shifted. The muscles in her legs grew in power. Masquerade grew slightly taller. Her hands changed to increase grip strength. Then she lept. As she flew through the air, Masquerade changed her body once more. Moving the strength from her legs to her arms.

Even with her unique physicality, it was an impressive jump, one which a normal human would have to train for years to achieve. Masquerade had still misjudged things slightly, so only her fingers managed to catch onto the gargoyle. Already the glam within the wall was trying to throw her off, and her hands began to slip away from the wall.

With scant seconds before she was a broken heap on the ground, Masquerade swung her legs up to wrap around the protrusion. Using that for leverage, she let go with her hands, and tightened her stomach to bring her arms to proper use.

Relatively secure in her new position, wrapped around the stone gargoyle, Masquerade took the time to take a few breaths. In that time, Masquerade began to feel a growing insistence to feel sadness, despair and terror. Let this be a lesson to you, never consume glam when you don’t know where it’s come from… unless it’s a life or death situation. Like now.

Working her way up to standing on the gargoyle, being very careful of her footing, Masquerade began to feel the wall for cracks to use as handholds. She could tell that this climb would be harder than she originally thought, and the glam on the wall kept it in good repair.

The wall was not quite sheer, but it was close. Cranking up the grip in her hands and bare feet, Masquerade began the ascent proper. As tasks went, this would have been practically impossible for a human, yet Masquerade moved from grip to hold to nook to cranny. Always shifting her strength around to put it to the best possible use. It took the better part of ten nerve-wracking minutes, but Masquerade managed to get over the top of the wall.

Her client had furnished her with a plan of the inside of the compound, so her choice of position on the wall was not a fluke. She had a short(ish) hop down to the roof of the actual grand respite. Even taking care with her landing, Masquerade waited a few minutes to make sure no-one had heard her.

Based on more information from the client, she should have a good three or four hours before any of the servants returned, and the fae valued their privacy. No sound was going to escape the grand respite this night. Much to Aym’s soon to be dismay. Even so, it wasn’t a great deal of time.

Creeping around to the window of Aym’s room, Masquerade peered into her room. Not that there was much to see, as the shutters were closed on the inside, keeping the whole room in darkness.

Pulling out a thin strip of metal, Masquerade lifted the catch to the shutters. Opening them up, Masquerade slithered into the room with barely a whisper of cloth before closing the shutters again and resetting the catch. That last bit was to ensure the glam preventing sound escaping was in full effect.

Improving her eyes, Masquerade took in the room with minute amount of light present. Immediately the opulence of the room was obvious, and the softness of the carpet felt a wonder after the brutal climb she had just experienced. The last vestiges of incense still wafted through the room.

Moving over to the bed, Masquerade looked down at the person she would be becoming. Aym looked disturbed, restless in her sleep. Masquerade filed that away for future use.

Masquerade’s hand shot out, grasping Aym by the throat, and dragged her out of the bed.

“Good morning Aym. I have some questions for you. It is in your best interests to answer them, otherwise I cannot be held responsible for what happens to you,” said Masquerade, whilst giving herself a surge of sadistic pleasure to colour her voice.

***

Aym’s body lay cooling on the floor. Masquerade went over to the shutters to open them, letting the first proper strains of light into the room. As she committed all the answers that Aym had given to her memory, Masquerade began pouring over the naked Aym. She needed to know the exact details of who she was going to be emulating, such than no-one would be able to tell the difference.

She darkened her flesh to the deeper brown of those raised in the Court of Heights and its environs. Her hair grew out to a more impractical length, and her eyes became rounder. Scars and blemishes appeared on her skin where there were none previously. She grew taller and her muscles warped into their new strengths and sizes. Over a matter of minutes, Masquerade was the spitting image of Aym.

I should point out, this was not glam. Oh glam was used in the change, that shouldn’t surprise you, but Masquerade’s body reshapes itself to the glam’s image, instead of constantly projecting glam from her body. Honestly the whole mechanism is quite remarkable, and the fae that thought it up was a genius, even if it was stolen from something most ancient. As I mentioned, she is a true shapeshifter, a near impossibility in the world, but I hope that this might serve as some measure of proof.

There was still the matter of the body, which Masquerade, who was now effectively Aym, had to deal with. As is a surprise to exactly no-one, a travelling spark has a ridiculous amount of luggage. Choosing a suitably sized case, Masquerade moved some unnecessary personal effects and clothes into other cases, or left them in the already near full wardrobe provided within the grand respite. Into the case Aym went, with the intent to dispose of the body at a more convenient time. Worst comes to worst, Masquerade would simply cook and eat the body.

Now I realise that you, dear listener, might have some strong objections to this desecration of the dead. Well tough shit. The ability to consume is within Masquerade’s nature, and as a purely logical being it’s a great way to be rid of a body.

Masquerade stripped out of her own simple clothes, and put on the silk pajamas that Aym had been wearing. She had learned a great deal about what was expected from her from her client, so began to go through some morning stretches, such as she presumed Aym would have done. Already there were sounds of movement within the grand respite, so there was little doubt that she would be called on soon.

Whilst she had the chance, Masquerade also began practicing moving around in Aym’s flesh. Mostly it was trying to get Aym’s walk and mannerisms down. Honestly, looking the part is simple, but acting the part, now therein lies many difficulties. Even fae, with all their power need a reasonably good understanding of a person to pull off a good mimic.

Masquerade, now Aym, at least had the benefit of being moved to a new place where no-one had actually met Aym before, or if they had, it would have been a long while. The real trick would be fooling the court guards escorting her. Fortunately, the fearful Aym had explained to her that she would mostly be travelling by palanquin, and Aym had had the curtains drawn for much of the trip.

Even so, Masquerade would have to make little whimpers and sobs. After all, she had just been separated from her true love.

And by she I mean Aym, because now, to all external observers, Masquerade was now Aym. Which means that I’ll be referring to her as Aym for much of the rest of this part of the story. So fix that in your mind, Masquerade, the shapeshifter is now Aym spy for the Court of Heights. Except she’s also Masquerade, spy for The Steel Court. Confused yet? Well hopefully things will become clear later on.

She would only have about a week more of travelling before Aym reached The Rose Court. Then the mimicry would become easier, but the task would become that much harder. Apparently The Rose Court was at the forefront of glam research, and The Steel court wanted as much information as they could get.

Given that sparks couldn’t wander around the research areas of the court, it was going to be something of a trick to get into those areas and then escape the court. Of all possible thieves though, Aym was probably the best, for reasons even her client was aware of.

…

To be honest, I’m just going to skip over the travelling, it’s pretty boring. Mostly just Aym doing her best to pretend that she’s the real Aym. The court guards being pretty ignorant of their being anything wrong. Aym disposing of Aym’s body, as you do.

In other words, it’s like seven days of nothing interesting happening, and I don’t want to bore you dear listener. So we shall move onto the next point of interest, Aym entering The Rose Court.