WEBVTT - 10 | Grando 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:05.560 iHeart three D audio for full exposure. 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:06.520 Listen with that phones. 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:12.000 Havoctown is a production of iHeart podcasts and Grimm and 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:16.480 Mild from Aaron Mankey Headphones recommended. Listener discretion advised. 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:27.240 Where to south toward Lancaster. We can pick up highway 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:30.720 to there? Are we going to Maine? I'm just picking 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:32.760 a direction where we're not going to be safe here. 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:34.159 What's in the diary? 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:37.160 A lot? 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:41.920 A century has passed and I am only now coming 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:46.680 to realize the limits of even an immortal's memory. Jesus, 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:52.880 okay ah, this is absurd, Sylvie. 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:57.920 This is the national goal. A state of emergency has 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.840 been declared by the governor of New average Waite. 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:02.320 Are they not letting people through. 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:07.440 The township of having it's under warrantine until further notice? 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.919 Residents aren't struggling to return to their halls. The shelter 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:12.760 in place. 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:16.800 Shit, I'm gonna pull you turn? 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:17.399 Hang on? 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:19.280 Where should we go? 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:20.600 Well? 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:22.600 I could use a drink? 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:26.759 Will bar the doors? Well, I guess we'd better get 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.920 to it. Then they'll start reading I I. 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:10.480 A century has passed and I am only now coming 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:15.880 to realize the limits of even an immortals memory. My 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:20.240 life before is a fever dream. The early years of 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:22.840 this blood does not clearer in my heads, and the 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:30.440 memories of early childhood disjaunted me. Flashes of images only 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:34.600 the most salient points, resolving themselves into scenes of folk color. 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.239 And so I must write them down before they lost forever, 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:43.320 and with them the tenuous connection to my own history. 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:54.400 Dream images of hysteria, my mother's rough hands, my father 0:02:55.440 --> 0:03:01.359 thus cruel and then dead. Of them, there is but 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:06.280 Lucia with a terrifying clarity. I see her eyes in 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.400 my mind to the time has won away match. Else 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.200 an image of her running across the field to me, 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:18.760 rassing against each other on the night of averting, losing 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:23.440 one child after another to disease or accident. My Lucia, 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:29.000 her resolve is clear to me, and her voice, that 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:33.080 lovely melodic voice whispering to me in the night. I 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:38.560 love you, Eah. Jory the name my mother gave me, 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:43.160 Jory gran Davalilovitch. Though I never liked the name until 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.400 it was whispered by the one I loved. It was 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.680 the first voice to greet me each morning, the last 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:53.640 I heard before falling into slumber. It was also the 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.960 final voice I heard as a mortal man, though by 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:01.040 then it was strained Ralph, broken from. 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:07.160 Exhaustion, Seria, I will see you in the next life. 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:24.120 Yet this was Christiania. Chavo tip a koi swoogie baga 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:40.839 branda halleguyah. At the show the eleventh of October sixteen 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:49.960 fifty six, Kringer hysteria, our call first the darkness, even 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:54.159 our blackish knights held their stars. A fire in the field, 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.680 the torch left burning at the entrance to the church, 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:02.720 a cant lin, the window of an insomniac. But this 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:09.719 darkness was complete, an ancient darkness. It was the darkness 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:13.280 from before the world was made. It was into this 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:28.240 darkness that I was born ah Lucia for mositm for Mositimi. 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:38.520 But it was no use. The deadness of the air, 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:43.880 the hardwood planking inches from my face, I believe, and 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:48.719 that I had been buried alive, with something new stirred 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.800 within me, such a simral farm. I had not possessed 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:56.400 a desperate trust that seemed to botherm on madness, and 0:05:56.640 --> 0:06:03.680 I could use that madness. So I did ah ah 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.480 in such a way, violently battering at the pine ands 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:18.040 and whipping at it with bloody fingers, and digging at 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:22.920 the dirt above did I finally free myself from the 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:34.680 gray Hello, But no one had witnessed my exit from 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:38.160 the death. That was just a wind through the graveyard, 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:45.440 bats flying above the judge belfree. This was my village, Cringer, 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:50.320 my beloved home. This is where I have been raised, 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:56.719 had married, had raised my children in their turn. Where 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:01.839 I became ill, took sick to my bed, the village 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:07.520 where I had died, and were despite the rods, I 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:15.920 found myself again, terribly alive. So I was wearing nothing 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:18.600 but a woolen burry or shroud. I felt little of 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.320 the chill. Still, I thought it best that I'd not 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:25.040 be found standing over my own grave. I may have 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:29.080 been a simple man, but I was not stupid, and 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:32.840 so as quietly as I could, I made my way home. 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:38.360 As I've walked, I noticed a certain heightening of senses. 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:43.000 The black night was vibrant's color, A candle in the 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.280 window throwing off in a light for me to pass 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:48.240 through the streets With that, tripping over my own chateau, 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.640 I could sense the bats in the sky overhead, hunting 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:58.720 and the stars. I had never seen such an undress night. 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.960 They lit the firmament, burned as one hundred thousand suns, 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:08.520 galaxies filing and exploding. I was stopped in my tracks 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.280 by the beauty of it all, but continued on the 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:23.840 root of my heart to my Lucia. When I entered 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:27.720 the house, I was assaulted by the smells of it. 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:34.080 Cold ashes in the chimney, old cooking smells, and something 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:41.520 earthier beneath it, something that excited my senses, something human, 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:47.200 something alive, the stale sweat of bodies that have worked, 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:54.920 the salt of urine and tears, but deeper saliva, sour breath, 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.800 and deeper iron copper. 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:01.520 Lord. 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.679 I was drawn to it, as it seemed also to 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:09.679 me the source of these soft sobs. Then I was 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:17.480 standing above her, Lucia, my heart now lying disheveled on 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:22.839 my desk bed, clutching at the straightback blankets, weeping. I 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:26.719 stood staring down at her in the dark, realizing that 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:30.319 perhaps she could not see me in return, and so 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:36.840 I spoke to her, my love, to not your friend, Lucia, 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:38.719 who are you? 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:39.679 You? 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.160 You carry my dead husband's. 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:47.559 Wis I am your husband? It is sure Are you 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:52.240 a spirit? No, love, I am here in the flash 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:58.920 here feel feel your hands are so cold? Husband, Yes, 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.679 the night is cold, and I wear nothing but a 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:06.720 muddy shroud. Will let me start the fire? No, darling, 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:10.440 Let me lie down beside you. That will be fond 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:19.160 of enough. Come then, you are shivering? You're very cold? 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:22.280 Are you afraid? 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.000 I do not know how you came to be here? 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:30.160 I buried you eight hours ago. Does it matter how 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:34.800 I came to be here? Will you say the Lord's 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:38.560 prayer with me? Do you believe me to be a devil? 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:39.880 No? 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:44.320 No, I just wish for the comfort of the Lord. 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:49.520 In this moment, I could hear a pulse thickening, could 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:54.679 smell it pumping in her veins. Hot sweet. It was 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:58.320 this moment when I first fully realized the terrible thirst, 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:02.120 as if mine, our body had been drained of its fluids, 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:04.199 as if I were dry bones in the bed next 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:07.719 to this vibrant the animal. All I needed to do 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.160 was to bite, attend the flesh of her neck. And 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:17.560 what is it, dear, my love? I think that perhaps 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.840 perhaps I am not the same man you bear it today? 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:26.120 After all? What do you mean? I must remove myself 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.560 from here from you until I can better understand why 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:33.440 I work this night? Your husband? What are you doing 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:38.360 dressing living this house? Why? Because you're in the angel 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:43.040 to s here? I dressed as quickly as possible, grab 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.960 my old cloak from a peg on the wall, down 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.280 to her, sitting in a pile of bed clothes, staring 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:56.959 at my silhouette lost. I wish you were don't know 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:02.360 when who saw me? Where are you going? Far far away? 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:08.960 Will you return? Not as your husband? And we said 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:18.000 my after life began. The first order of business was sleeking, 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:22.120 this horrible first that had overtaken me. I found my 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:26.400 way to the wheelich well. My body passed with expectation 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:28.720 as I pulled up a bucket full of cold water. 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.040 I bought the bucket to my mouth and drank deeply, 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:38.240 but realizing if the water tasted of ash, bunt and 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:43.840 my throat churned my stomach and once more it would 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:48.840 not stay down. Damn it. I did not have time 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:53.840 to recover before I was interrupted. You is everything all right? Friend? 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:58.240 I turned to find my neighbor, brass Lover, a large 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:02.559 stupid man, who have myself frequently bickering with over trifles 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.960 needless to say he was surprised to find me there, 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:16.320 you recranto Aliovik Brusselva, my friend, stay away, devil, quiet, 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:20.440 listen to me the devil. The devil has come to Cringer. 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:25.959 Braut's laving you, damny did rise neighbors help? I moved 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:29.319 forward to quiet him. But as I got close, I 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:35.079 felt it his pulse, the heat coming off him, the 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:39.000 smell of iron in his blood, and I knew the 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:46.280 cause of my ters. Before I knew what was happening, 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:50.160 I was on him, my it suddenly aching sharp, found 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:54.640 his throat and pressed the flesh, yielding with a gentle pop. 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:59.240 The hot blood flood in my mouth. I'll sing down 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:07.120 my throat, feeling my empty stomach. Before my thirst was 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:12.600 fully vanquished. Though he was dead. The spigot what's closed, 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:16.559 And it seemed my time in Cringer was up. 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.560 Murderer, murderer. 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:25.480 I did not pause. Immediately, I ran, and I called 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:28.440 muscles heating and nourished my birth's love as hot blood. 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:34.960 I was revived, really fully revived from my time in 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.280 his grave, more alive, it seems, than I had ever been. 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:41.680 As I left the town of my Berth's behind and 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:45.600 entered into the great forest of the night. I would 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:51.320 not return for a long long time, and so I 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:56.680 ran faster than I had ever run, a wolf uneagal, 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:59.760 long past the time that the village's voices dropped away 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:04.240 through the deep wood. I felt a mad sort of 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:08.000 CLEAs I cut through the cold air, I radiated heat. 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.680 Finally I found the rods that cut through the heart 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:15.400 of my country, the trade road, and I continued on, 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:21.840 avoiding the occasional trader's encampment. I ran for hours that night. 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.520 What stopped me finally was the appearance of the light 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:30.400 in the east. It occurlled to me in that moment 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:36.640 to ask the question what was I becoming? What, in fact, 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:42.400 had I already become in life? I never had the 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:46.640 thought even to ask. I was the son of a Stonemason, 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.360 and so became a Stonemason myself, I was a husband 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:55.160 of was a Christian. TI faster way of our lives. 0:15:56.080 --> 0:16:01.320 There was no doubt about it. It seems had broken 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:06.400 all of the responds. And now where now I was 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:12.800 awakened into a body transformed hungry, the charge of wonders, 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:15.520 of fiends who fed in the night, against whom he 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:22.080 hung crucifixes, wreaths of garlic. Was I such a fiend? Now? 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.440 I hadn't been alive in this form an hour when 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:30.440 I killed my first man. Ra's love was a fool, 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:35.080 but our disagreements had always been minor. He was no 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:39.320 enemy of mine, and I quite tortlessly trained his life away. 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:44.240 Perhaps I deserved to die, and wasn't some light of 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:48.720 weapon against creatures such as myself. I sat on a 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:52.280 large stone on the side of the road and allowed 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:56.280 my situation to sink in, and as it did so 0:16:56.480 --> 0:17:00.960 rose a sudden wave of grief. Not to my shame 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:05.280 for Proslova left head on the public swearing linger, nor 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.760 even for my policier, by now had surely heard of 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:15.160 our husband's horrible crime. No, I moan for Tchory Grandalliedovitch, 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:23.000 the stone Mason, the husband the Christian mourned his short, 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:28.600 unremarkable life and his forgettable death. I mourned for his 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:32.120 eternal soul too, Now that he had taken the life 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:36.480 of an innocent, if stupid man, I had committed a 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:40.240 mortal sin, the worst of them all. The Holy Father 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:43.880 would not forgive me. I thought too, in that moment 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:47.399 that perhaps the most Christian thing I could do was 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:51.720 to remove myself from the great filthy wash of the world. 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:55.080 Perhaps the sun would burn me away along with the 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:58.680 morning dew. And so I sat there on the side 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:02.560 of the road, over within raw dust and dried blood, 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:07.200 and watched as the sky grew lighter, from indigo to 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:11.960 red to orange. I shivered as the horizon grew bright. 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:16.200 I closed my eyes as the first rays of sunlight 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:20.399 raised across the land and touched my face, and did 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:25.640 nothing but form my eyelids. I would not get an 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:29.320 easy way out. If I were going to die, I'd 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:38.159 have to commit another mortal sin, suicide. And so the 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:42.720 next phase of my existence began in earnest. At first 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:47.080 I kept to the forests and fields, subsiding on nourishment. 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:50.080 I could keep from the birds or rodents caught in 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:53.760 handmade snails, and then with the theft of a strong 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:58.119 bow and they quiver full of arrows larger game. But 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:02.560 his hands yielded little in way of sustaining blood. I 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:06.680 had never been a great hunter, and evens dear that 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:10.840 I did occasionally manage to injure and run down, would 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:15.840 only heard so much. For the heart stopped when drained 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:18.800 into flasks would keep me a couple of nights before 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:25.680 becoming putrid. Finally, the horrible burning thirst. That way any 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:32.520 spiritual guilt that murder may have caused, and so I 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:44.760 began to make little moral calculations. I moved north into Austria, and, 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:47.960 traveling from town to town, began to pray on live stock, 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:52.560 a lost lamb here, and aarn cats her, a sheep 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:56.840 dog himself gone astray. I tried to be as careful 0:19:56.880 --> 0:20:01.120 as possible, never visiting the same place twice. One lamb 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:05.720 gone missing can be overlooked, but two three would draw 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:09.680 unwonted attention. I had seen for a time the fate 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:13.080 of before live stock thieves. Though it lay varying from 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:16.560 town to town, it almost always ended at the wrong 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:20.240 end of a blade. I had no wish to meet 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:24.320 death the second time. In this way, I made a 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:28.520 sort of miserable parts for myself, skulking in the shadows, 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:34.480 looking off my shoulders, cold and damp boots, perpetually care 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:39.320 to his mud, a lone wolf cast out from its society. 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:44.600 I was not content, of course, but had committed myself 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:47.600 to the ideas that my cursed blood meant said, I've 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:53.639 somehow deserved my misery. The dive was a shadow, a wraith, 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:59.680 a sneaking, sneveling's teeth in the night, A man who 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:04.560 will look his life and now his dignity, which seemed 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:08.879 to stink the first. But there was yet more for 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:27.640 me to learn on my night journey. It was in ends, 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:31.560 such strange old fortress of the cities that I found 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:36.400 my mentor. I was sticking through the detritus in anarly 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:39.360 while looking for a rats ness to prey upon. When 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:41.400 he passed from the door of the near by heaven. 0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:46.200 A large man, gray builded and pot belly, threw a 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:48.880 smaller man out of the door and onto the damp cobbles, 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:52.520 walking out and towering over him as he scraped and begged. 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:55.040 My apologies happened? 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:57.960 I did not know it was your person, HyET, you dog, 0:21:58.400 --> 0:21:59.640 I have returned at my lord. 0:21:59.800 --> 0:22:02.120 I only stole it so that my daughters couldn't say 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:09.480 it quiet. He had d wrn a knife and pierced 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:11.680 the man's guts before he had been able to make 0:22:11.720 --> 0:22:17.560 his case. Could not feel your daughter's in nowver. With that, 0:22:18.840 --> 0:22:21.920 he wrapped his blade on the dying man's shirt and 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:27.760 walked back inside. I waited for someone to restrain the attacker, 0:22:29.040 --> 0:22:31.200 to call out for the guard. A murder had just 0:22:31.280 --> 0:22:35.320 been committed, but anyone who had witnessed the event turned 0:22:35.400 --> 0:22:39.200 and went about their business, refusing to encomboy his slaughter 0:22:39.359 --> 0:22:43.320 treat back into the tavern, and I was left alone 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:46.040 in the arry with a man who was quickly being 0:22:46.160 --> 0:22:50.639 emptied upon the ground. I moved quickly to his side, 0:22:51.480 --> 0:22:54.479 sticky sweet smell of his blood mixed with the filth 0:22:54.560 --> 0:22:57.359 and shet of the alley, and the stink of fear 0:22:57.440 --> 0:22:59.680 in his sweater as he lay dying, making my mind 0:22:59.800 --> 0:23:03.879 re with the trust. But there was business to attend 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:09.840 to you. Who was that man? He looked up at me? 0:23:10.680 --> 0:23:11.880 Days and half dead? 0:23:13.480 --> 0:23:15.360 Are you an angel? 0:23:16.119 --> 0:23:20.800 Who was that man? That is Herr Bernheim? Who is he? 0:23:21.600 --> 0:23:28.920 He is a merchant? M is he ferthy? Yes? What 0:23:29.119 --> 0:23:34.359 I took he wouldn't have noticed. Will you? Will you 0:23:34.480 --> 0:23:37.560 go to my daughters and please tell them that I 0:23:37.800 --> 0:23:47.320 loved them? I'm sorry, but no, I would not raise 0:23:47.440 --> 0:23:51.040 such a gift. I've finished the move, allow as the 0:23:51.119 --> 0:23:53.800 taste of hot human blood to once again fill me. 0:23:54.920 --> 0:23:59.920 For once I had no fear of reprisal. After all, 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:05.280 the man's death was inevitable and protected against consequence because 0:24:05.359 --> 0:24:10.360 the mother had been committed by a fatcy man. At 0:24:10.440 --> 0:24:15.440 that moment, a fire burnt brightly in my skull, casting 0:24:16.040 --> 0:24:28.119 all the shadows of the previous months. The next morning, 0:24:28.240 --> 0:24:33.160 after scrubbing myself as clean as possible, making inquiries about 0:24:33.200 --> 0:24:37.520 the whereabouts of Belnheim's offices, I made my way towards 0:24:37.560 --> 0:24:41.040 them and opened his heavy wooden door into a large 0:24:41.160 --> 0:24:46.119 room filled with clocks hunched over large lettres. Come in 0:24:46.400 --> 0:24:47.160 and shut the door. 0:24:48.000 --> 0:24:49.240 You're letting in the cold. 0:24:50.320 --> 0:24:53.240 No One buzzed looking up, and the wife would say 0:24:54.119 --> 0:24:57.280 I was nobody. I made my way up to the 0:24:57.400 --> 0:24:59.960 largest table in the room, where a gray head man said, 0:25:00.119 --> 0:25:05.680 checking figures. Excuse me, sir, yes, what is it? I 0:25:05.800 --> 0:25:09.480 wish to speak to Herbhenheim? Who is asking for him? 0:25:10.440 --> 0:25:11.959 Jorek Grando le Levitch? 0:25:12.760 --> 0:25:17.679 Who are you a beggar? Herb Bahrenheim does not suffer 0:25:17.800 --> 0:25:19.320 beggars at his door? 0:25:20.000 --> 0:25:21.440 I am not. Then? 0:25:21.520 --> 0:25:22.040 Who are you? 0:25:22.800 --> 0:25:27.280 I am looking for a job. Do you understand mathematics? 0:25:27.880 --> 0:25:32.520 I do not? Can you write? No? Are you a sailor? 0:25:33.280 --> 0:25:33.639 I am not? 0:25:34.680 --> 0:25:36.000 Young man what can you do? 0:25:37.600 --> 0:25:54.000 I can't kill hmm. Wait here, young man, be respectful 0:25:54.720 --> 0:25:55.720 for your own good. 0:25:56.640 --> 0:26:02.680 Thank you, don't just stands there, enter and shut the 0:26:02.720 --> 0:26:07.520 door behind you. What are you doing here? I wish 0:26:07.560 --> 0:26:10.000 to ask for a job, yes. 0:26:09.960 --> 0:26:14.399 Kloud said, is much what you have suggested is a 0:26:15.520 --> 0:26:19.480 very nasty sort of job against the loss of men, 0:26:19.840 --> 0:26:21.280 not to mention God's law. 0:26:22.480 --> 0:26:25.480 So why should I not have my men arrest you 0:26:25.640 --> 0:26:29.400 here and take you down to the city jail. Perhaps 0:26:29.520 --> 0:26:32.879 what you say is true Habanheim, Bobby. If that is 0:26:32.960 --> 0:26:37.560 the case, why not bring yourself to the jail. Excuse me? 0:26:38.800 --> 0:26:41.520 Last night I happened to witness you handling a thief. 0:26:45.520 --> 0:26:49.000 You believe that you can come into my office and 0:26:49.200 --> 0:26:53.640 blackmail me? You are sadly mistaken, young man. 0:26:54.600 --> 0:26:57.000 Do you believe that anyone would dare hold me to 0:26:57.119 --> 0:27:00.200 account in this city which I hold it? It's the 0:27:00.280 --> 0:27:01.200 palm of my hand. 0:27:02.240 --> 0:27:03.480 You misunderstand, Sir? 0:27:04.520 --> 0:27:08.800 Educate me then, before I slit your throat for impertinence. 0:27:09.960 --> 0:27:13.960 I do not wish to blackmail you, sir. I recognize 0:27:14.000 --> 0:27:16.639 that a man of your stature has a certain obligation 0:27:16.800 --> 0:27:22.320 to protect his business interests. Go on, I'm merely suggesting 0:27:22.440 --> 0:27:24.720 that perhaps you should not have to dirty your hands. 0:27:24.840 --> 0:27:30.160 So I wish to be your hand. And what makes 0:27:30.240 --> 0:27:32.520 you think I need such a man on my payroom? 0:27:33.640 --> 0:27:38.400 What makes you think that I don't already employ such men? Sir? 0:27:39.480 --> 0:27:43.200 I do not need your money. So you wish no 0:27:43.359 --> 0:27:47.440 payment for your services? I did not say that. Then 0:27:47.520 --> 0:27:51.400 what you saying as payment? I wish only to learn 0:27:51.480 --> 0:27:55.000 more of your trade? In exchange, I will collect any 0:27:55.119 --> 0:27:58.360 debt audio, no matter how unwilling the data. I will 0:27:58.400 --> 0:28:01.320 clear your part of anyone who against your goals. Anyone 0:28:01.440 --> 0:28:04.240 at any time. You needn't even know that they are gone. 0:28:05.000 --> 0:28:07.320 You will only know that your business is made easier, 0:28:08.800 --> 0:28:12.200 and you wish to learn the trade. That is all, 0:28:12.320 --> 0:28:16.879 no payment. Perhaps since the future and you find my 0:28:17.359 --> 0:28:23.160 service is useful, you will reconsider. But for now, all 0:28:23.240 --> 0:28:27.440 I ask for is knowledge. What is your name? I 0:28:27.560 --> 0:28:33.080 am sure a grando, sir at your service where you're 0:28:33.160 --> 0:28:33.880 a grandle. 0:28:35.440 --> 0:28:41.840 I do believe that we are in business, and so 0:28:42.000 --> 0:28:45.000 I found gain for employment under the tutelage of our 0:28:45.080 --> 0:28:45.960 breath Burnheim. 0:28:46.880 --> 0:28:51.640 The work was simple enough, collections and retributions. So many 0:28:51.800 --> 0:28:55.280 were indebted to burn On, so many government officials in trial. 0:28:56.240 --> 0:28:59.640 I'd seen power the phone in its basis for physical violence, 0:29:00.040 --> 0:29:04.160 which I myself excelled at. But Bernheim taught me true power, 0:29:05.200 --> 0:29:08.880 that of the purse. So I ran nextport business. His 0:29:09.080 --> 0:29:12.880 true business was control of men. I was very little 0:29:13.040 --> 0:29:16.120 that troubled me in these years. I was a shadow 0:29:16.200 --> 0:29:21.360 that stopped the night and then walking down a side 0:29:21.440 --> 0:29:24.920 street one evening, flushed with the blood of another poor data, 0:29:25.520 --> 0:29:28.520 I suddenly called out to from the dark of Narryway. 0:29:31.920 --> 0:29:36.280 I stopped, searched the darkness, and in it found the 0:29:36.360 --> 0:29:40.240 purse liver of a man dressed in wrecks. I stopped 0:29:40.240 --> 0:29:42.840 and considered him as he scouted out of the shadows 0:29:42.880 --> 0:29:47.160 towards me. What do you want of me, beggar, I 0:29:47.240 --> 0:29:51.720 haven't any money to give you. Oh, I doubt that 0:29:52.040 --> 0:29:52.520 very much. 0:29:53.720 --> 0:29:58.840 You pocketed my own money weeks ago, and then I 0:29:59.040 --> 0:29:59.760 begged for my. 0:30:01.400 --> 0:30:04.760 You took it. You seem to be living it as 0:30:04.800 --> 0:30:06.360 we speak, stranger. 0:30:06.720 --> 0:30:11.360 This is not a life when your trains have loved 0:30:11.440 --> 0:30:15.640 for me. You loved enough for me to live, but 0:30:17.040 --> 0:30:21.200 only for a bit, and then the fever took me. 0:30:22.320 --> 0:30:27.520 I died, raving in my bed, covered in sweat, and blood, 0:30:28.040 --> 0:30:34.600 cursing your name, grandle, I know that. 0:30:34.800 --> 0:30:38.320 You are devil, and. 0:30:39.960 --> 0:30:40.440 What is that? 0:30:41.920 --> 0:30:47.680 You are? Rafiend, a bloodsucker, a. 0:30:47.880 --> 0:30:54.080 Dead man walking around like the living, borrowing time from hell. 0:30:55.600 --> 0:30:59.320 It was not enough that you took my money, my life, 0:31:00.080 --> 0:31:06.880 but you have made me like you. What do you 0:31:07.000 --> 0:31:15.320 want from me? I want joy? And I'm afraid that's 0:31:15.320 --> 0:31:17.080 A man attacked me with a false that I have 0:31:17.200 --> 0:31:20.400 not been counted in any other living man. A sharpened 0:31:20.480 --> 0:31:23.720 steak in his hand, we grappled the zak of wrestling 0:31:23.840 --> 0:31:28.160 the angel. He bit and scratched, punched and kicked. He 0:31:28.400 --> 0:31:30.520 very nearly had the best of me when I managed 0:31:30.560 --> 0:31:33.440 to wrest the instrument from his hand and plunged it 0:31:33.560 --> 0:31:34.640 down into his chest. 0:31:35.080 --> 0:31:35.280