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- Tower Climber
- Jakob Tanner
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And for most of the people he knew around him: their lives had been a lie too.
How did one keep moving forward under such circumstances?
He had never felt compelled to travel to Europe or Asia, but he always felt comforted by the possibility that he could go and do that.
But that was all mere fabrication.
His world was a lot smaller than he realized, consisting of the outer-rim, the tower-zone, and the tower itself.
It may have been smaller, yet it felt suddenly much more frightening.
He was one of the few humans with the power to climb the tower. One of the few humans to be able to go forth and find a way to save humanity and undo the damage to their lost home world.
All of his goals and decisions suddenly felt like they even had more weight.
He felt an oppressive overwhelming sense of responsibility.
It made him feel sick.
Part of him also wondered what Elle thought? He could imagine that his sister had spent some time here in the tower-zone and then had been strong enough to ascend through the floors of the tower herself.
She, too, must know of the truth of this world, of the real state of affairs.
How did such knowledge govern her actions, he wondered.
His phone suddenly vibrated in his pocket.
He checked and saw it was Casey.
“Hey! Are you alright? I woke up at home in bed. I’m not hallucinating that we were in the outer-rim earlier today, right?”
Max wrote her back straight away, explaining the entire day’s events up until when they were put to sleep. He was about to tell her everything the climber president had told him, but then he stopped. Probably best not to send such crucial information over text messenger.
They made a plan to meet up the next day, return the ward-breaking knife, and get Toto out of the clutches of that weird merchant and make a training plan for the upcoming climber final exam.
He lay back in bed and sighed.
Only a few more weeks until the final exam.
If he succeeded there, it would be the first true step towards finding his sister.
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The following day, Max got up at seven a.m. sharp.
He showered, got dressed, made breakfast for himself and then he was out the door. He left a scribbled note to Sakura: “Gone to train. Will be back in two weeks or so.”
He met up with Casey briefly and gave her the ward-breaking knife to get Toto back. After that, he wished her good luck on her training and continued his morning preparations.
He sucked in the cold January air proudly as he marched across the tower-zone to the climber’s guild. He made a few quick stops by some shops, picking up some extra supplies.