I awoke.
This night, the dark dwarf I dreamed many weeks ago has returned, talking backwards and throwing water at me. I didn't understand his words, this time.
But I awoke, and this time, there was not my Eddie near me. I was in a cage made of energy, something in the comics is called a stasis field.
And my memories have returned, too.
Not the memories of my working for the Trust, no.
But what really has happened since my return in Chicago.
My entering, all by myself, in the EPS fortress, in gaseous form. My arrival in Eddie's room. There was a beautiful lady next to him, talking softly to him. I had seen her before, at the Zoo.
But to take Eddie, I had to turn solid.
And that was my defeat.
As I took solid form, the woman noticed me, and I wasn't myself anymore.
I fell in love with her all of a sudden. And then many men where in the room, charginfg at me, and I was powerless, unable to react.
And then I forgot everything, and the dreams began.
Dreams of being able to resque Eddie, dreams of a beating by the EPS in a Sicily straight out from a Hollywood movie of the fifties.
And dreams of dreams.
And then the dwarf arrived and opened my eyes.
And then Walker arrived to my prison.
Smiling, with Eddie on his arms.
"Will you work for us, Cicciotto?" he asked. And his hand kept to stroking eavily the neck of my son.
What could have I done?
I accepted.
