“Jason, wait!” I exclaim, when the kid has just been swallowed by the darkness. How IU can have been so rude? Sometime this job get to my nerves.
The kid turns back.
“I was just… uhmmm… testing you” I say, while all my comrades watches me perplexed.
“What? You want to admit me in the team?”
“Well… I’m sorry, but there is a rule… to be in the team you must be at last seventeen. So, I can bend the rule just for you, you see… but, ehm… you could be our mascotte…”
The kid’s face turn red, his eyes begins to tears, he turns back and run away.
“What have I said?” I asks.
“You talked well… the first time” says Nowhereman. “Why have you wanted to ruin everything?”
“Because when he was going away I tough that he was knowing our secret. We have to keep that kid around us, we can’t have him to take part in the missions, but he must be one of us. It would be to dangerous to have him selling us to TriVex or something else, unless…”
“Well, I think he now has much more willingness to sell us than before, Cicciotto” says Kristogar, interrupting me.
“Unless, I was saying, you don’t have a mind wiper ray or something like, Mister Velo” I say, smiling.
“Well, I was working on it, I must admit, but I haven’t one completed yet, Eurostar” he responds, with an ironic expression.
“Well, there is no time to talk to him right now. I hope tomorrow will not be too late. OK, one more thing before we start the mission” I say, and come back inside the van. On the door is Danny, with a sad expression. “Don’t be afraid for the future, Dan”, I whisper. “If we are really changing the future, your memories will change with it. If you still remember your family, it means it still exist from where you have come from”.
The young man nods his heads. Then a nearly unnoticeable smile appears on his mouth.
I enter the van, and take a big box.
“Everybody, put on these costumes”. If someone with a camera spots us, we must be different from the stunt at the Zoo. I don’t want anybody to find a connection between our team and the circus”.
All of my friends look at the costumes with eyes wide open. Only Kristogar mutters “No way!”
But Nowhereman says “It could be a good idea”, so our newest recruit reluctantly agree to dress like us.
And a Santa Claus, one reindeer and five Santa’s helpers disappears in the darkness, heading toward the bay.
