Your pain and their blood

Driving was hard for me because I had a serious burn on my left hand, and I stink of smoke, I really don't want to cause an alarm of any kind and that Sylvester would be the least person I would want to see now cause he assumes shit too much and I'm in no mood for that cocky bastard today, I just wanna get home, rest and analysis the letter I got. The letter. What should I be expecting from it, a trail on finding mom or just a threat note still saying watch your back, I can't even think straight no more cause I have to meet Sebastian today, he's days on earth are limited I might as well use him wisely, maybe he will have an idea or two about it since Sylvester said he's a threat.

Getting to my room I slump on the bed not minding my hand. "Ahh, the fuck is that." I say as I hear a knock on the door, I just got it, can't you at least let me rest a little before you fucking disturb me. "Get your ass up, duty calls bambino." Sylvester says as he drags his legs lazily inside the room, agh, my brain can't formulate a single thing now, what duty is he talking about. "Do you want to find your mom or not, cause you seem less interested in what I'm about to say and I don't wanna waste my time kiddo." He says while searching his pocket for something. This is like the worst time for this, he tossed a USB to me. "Look at it, clues I say, security footages and some other stuff, I'm sure you can piece them together Niño,(boy) I'm off." He says as he left the room, did he just call me Niño, and he sounded just like him, nah, maybe I'm just over thinking things and I'm not in reality right state of mind, but from now on I'll be observing him.

I drop the USB on the table and went to shower, I used bandage to cover my wound and I ate a replenishing meal so I have little energy to think straight now. Which do I open first, the letter or the USB. I pick up my phone and placed a call. "Niño, this is quite a surprise, wasn't expecting you to call me, ah, to what reason do I owe this phone call cabrito? (Kid)" he asked like he knew I was about to ask a favor. "Can we meet up today? I have important things I want to ask and I'm thinking you may know the answer or have a clue about it. It's an urgent stuff and I need honest answer." I say as i plug the USB in and was waiting for it to display what it had installed for me. "Sure thing muchacho (kiddo) I'll text you the time and place to meet, see you in a jiffy." He says as he ends the call and in less than a minute I saw his text.

I opened the USB and the first thing I say caught my interest. A security footage. This footage wasn't clear so the images where blur but I could make out some few things about the location, it was a place in a forest, covered by trees but the center was a narrow road that a car could move on, a black car passed and I saw two familiar figures, not struggling though, casually talking to someone though there hands where tied. The car's plate number wasn't clear but I could make out the first four things. "AZA3... Shit I can't see the rest but this can work out." I check the map coordinate of there movement and it was kind of funny, I couldn't make out much but I know they moved from Italy to Columbia so this piece of information is useless to me. A cryptic message.

"Among the city's beating heart, where sirens scream and steel veins pulse, a meeting is set in the neon shadows. Beware the dance of the crow's feathers under the street's heartbeat. Follow the rhythm of shattered glass, and at the third gunshot, find the phoenix rising from the ashes. Time is the enemy, and the ally is the echo of thunder." I read out loud as I try to make meaning to this sentence, the metaphors are making it look unexplainable to the eyes. Signore, come farò a ottenerlo?( Lord, how am I going to get this?) These words kept playing in my head like a lullaby.

These are all the information I saw in USB, fanculo la mia vita. (Fuck my life) these shit are fucking me up. I'm going to meet Sebastian.

I put the letter in my pocket and take my bike to meet him in the location he sent. 163 cafe, it's more like a restaurant and it's one of the best in Columbia and has one of the best views, but that isn't the case, I wanna talk business with him. Reaching the place I see him wave his hands at me, indicating that I should come over. "Two plates of fresh seafood and a bottle of Juan Valdez please." He says to the waiter as soon as I take a seat, this is going to be a hell of a day.

We talked over the meal and stuff like that and now it's time to talk business. "My parents got kidnapped and my dad is dead. I was thinking you might have an idea on how I can go around without raising alarms of any kind and if you had a clue too." I say at a go not giving him the opportunity to talk, I want to get this over with as soon as possible. " Dios mío, es algo terrible lo que te pasa."(that's a terrible thing that happened to you.) He says with slightly pity in his voice and I tsked inwardly, I didn't come here so you can pity me, I need clues. "I got a USB and a letter, tried tracking but it failed and the USB had a cryptic message that is hard to explain but I know the words cause it's stuck in my head." I say studying his face, he look quite amused by what I said. "That's a good head start kiddo, can you let me in on the message, maybe I could understand it or something. Send it to me via SMS, I'll see what I can do to help and also send the tracked location, Columbia has lots of weird shit going on so you may never know." He says sounding more excited than I am, thank heavens he's willing to help. "I've got the letter here but haven't read it, I can't understand Spanish and it's written in Spanish." I say handing him the letter so he can help me read it cause I such at reading Spanish.

Niño

puedes alcanzar el punto más bajo y enfrentarte a la oscuridad más oscura, pero también puedes volver a levantarte y salir a la luz. Todo esto es en realidad lo que hace que valga la pena vivir la vida. TU DOLOR Y HAY SANGRE." (you can hit the lowest low and face the darkest dark, but you can also get back up and get into the light. All of this is actually what makes life worth living. YOUR PAIN AND THERE BLOOD.)

He explained to me and all I could do was laugh, it was a laugh that came right from my gut, it was the craziest laugh I've ever laughed, it even got few stares from the crowd and Sebastian just looked at me with wide eyes and amusement. I know he's probably thinking I'm psycho, but this shit is funny as fuck, like how the fuck would you live from someone's pain and blood, this I the highest night of insanity, ahh, I'm gonna have lots of fun when I get this guy, he'll make a perfect toy. "I'll get going now and I can't believe you can laugh so much with all this happening, you're really psycho. I'll text you tonight that's if I get an answer." He says with a chuckle as he tucked his hands in his pocket and left the place.