Steel Skin: Pitch Black

37:00 Third Wheel's Warning

Valdemar Clavane Florentin, discharged a few days ago, is already back to work, shoving paperworks and reports on his ass. Halos dalawang linggo lang siyang wala sa trabaho pero eto siya ngayon, tambak sa trabaho.

Mas mainam na rin itong abala siya, upang hindi na rin masagi sa isip ang panaginip na iyon. Since dreaming about that, it never faded his memory. Bawat sandali niya itong inisip, lalong-lalo na kapag mag-isa siya o tahimik ang paligid. It overpowers him, sometimes he gets sick of thinking about it.

Now that he's busy, he can summon the time to at least take couple of breaks from his thought.

His telephone dangled just upright his desk rang. Habang nagtitipa sa laptop sabay basa ng naka-staple na documents, kunot-noo niyang binuksan tinanggap ang tawag, at itinapat ito sa tenga.

"Sir Valdemar, the royal court of Liechtenstein messaged me right now." sabi ng babae niyang sekretarya.

Habang nagbabasa sa dokumento at pinipirmahan ito'y kaswal siyang nagsalita. "Does it contain the schedule already?"

"Yes sir, Prince Josef scheduled it himself and he said the dinner will be set at Friday, 7 pm in Vaduz." anito. Valdemar wrinkled his forehead.

"Where the hell is that?" he asked, surly. He scratched his brows in irritation.

"It's in his country, sir. The dinner is probably set in his castle, since the royalty resides there."

Kamot ang kilay ulit, he hissed. "Fine, fine. Cancel my appointments this friday. Book me a flight there asap." utos nito. The secretary said yes so he immediately turned off the call at muling ibinalik ang telepono kung saan niya ito kinuha.

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[Song: hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have- but I have it// Lana del Rey]

"I was reading Slim Aarons and I've got to thinking that I thought,"

Sister Nathalia pressed keys in her favorite piano at the center of the stage at lahat ay napatahimik habang pinapakinggan siya. Students are also gathered to one crowd in this gymnasium, at si Alessandro ngayo'y nakatitig sa mukha niya habang ito'y kumakanta, suot ang habit nito.

The visitors and sponsors for Banco del Mundo's charity project is sitting comfortably in their seats at the stage, kasali na din ang mga teachers na nakatitig lamang sa madreng naghahandog ng tugtog para sa kanila.

"Maybe I'd get less stressed if I was tested less like all of these debutants,

Smiling for miles in pink dresses and high heels and white yachts,"

Callie Cesaro on the other hand is on her seat, bahagyang gulat na nakatitig sa madreng kumakanta.

"Ang galing ni Sister Nath, girl crush ko siya talaga," siko ni Sandy sa tabi niya sabay bulong. Alinlangan namang napangiti si Callie dahil sa malalim na pag-iisip.

Sister Nathalia or what she recently found out as Romano's excellent talent in singing is given at alam na niya iyon. She looks extremely attractive when she sings at alam niya iyon, walang makakatanggi doon.

But what astonishes her is the song she is singing.

With the same voice, it was the exact song that radio has been playing for five years, at ngayong kinakanta ni Sister Nathalia ay siyang ikinabigla niya. Something is going on, certainly.