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Annabelle's Angel of Redemption
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Published 4/6/2023In a Middle-Renaissance Mars, on a peaceful hotel maintenance mission, Isidore is thrown by fate into an enigmatic search for the key to true redemption with an enchanting, peculiar girl named Annabelle driving the addictive journey full of longing and daring to an unknown fate.
So, I'm a caretaker. It's a pretty simple job. You see, most of the people who come here are rich. They live in big cities, or on planets far away from here. Even if they don't have jobs (and most of them do), they still make money. Sometimes, a lot of money.
The hotel owner is smart. He doesn't kick out his regulars when they don't pay for the rooms anymore. Instead, he hires me to housekeep for those people, who would otherwise be homeless or starve to death.
There's not much to do in this town. I spend my days cleaning the rooms and collecting garbage from the floors and gardens. I also take food from the kitchen and bring it to the guests who no longer can feed themselves. I try to get them to eat something every day. Sometimes, when it's not too bad, I sit down with them for a talk.
I wanted to ask you about your adventures, once, you know? To hear about how you met the Duchess of Hong Kong, what you did together, and all that stuff, but then you said "I am really tired and old now" or some other nonsense like that, so I just nodded and left you alone again because I didn't want to bother you with stupid questions. But then, some time later, you asked me, "Do you think I will ever be able to go home?" and so I said "yes" because well... Why not? And then you said, "What if there is no home anymore?" and it's kind of funny that that's how we got talking about it, but actually, I'm glad we did because that's how I learned what an Angel of Redemption was and that it was probably looking for you because apparently some guy named Metatron gave it your name somehow and told him that he needed to find someone named Annabelle before he could start the end times or whatever, which was why it was looking for you. So anyway, after that, you started telling me all kinds of stories about your adventures on Mars but mostly about the time when you were Queen of Sororotum and tried to unite all the tribes there against their oppressors from Tarsus which was ruled by some guy named Abaddon who... Well... Let's just say that he wasn't very nice at all, so yeah... That one stuck with me. If someone had told me there were places like this out there on other planets years ago... Anyway...
So we're sitting at this table right now (we always sit at this table) eating lunch when suddenly a giant ship flies over us and crashes into a nearby mountain! The entire restaurant goes quiet as everyone looks around wondering what just happened! The ship starts spewing fire everywhere! And then suddenly there's this noise outside! Like... Like... I don't know! But it gets louder and louder until there's this loud *BANG* sound outside, like someone hit a metal pipe with a hammer or something like that! The entire restaurant shakes! Then we hear footsteps running through what's left of our garden path until:
"Isidore!" shouts someone from outside the window! "It's me!"
We all look at each other confusedly for a moment then run outside to see who this person is shouting Isidore's name at us?!
And then we see her! She's holding a large metal rod in her hand and wearing some kind of strange suit and she has these weird wings on her back which she doesn't seem to realize are there because she keeps flapping them around like she wants her hair to blow around behind her ears or something, but anyway, after she sees us standing there, she pauses for a second and says:
"I found him!"
Oh man... Her voice is really cute, isn't it? Kinda high pitched with just enough attitude in it so that even though she sounds young, she doesn't sound childish at all; instead, she sounds strong, which is good because considering what she just did to our parking lot? Yeah... That girl needs some strength behind her if you ask me!
"Who?" asks one of my co-workers whose name is Luiza but everyone calls her Lui because Luiza sounds too fancy for someone who hangs out here all summer long drinking rum shots on the beach with her friends. "Luiza?" asks Lui again? Because both Annabelle (that's the girl) and myself are staring at her with our mouths wide open like idiots! But only for a moment before Annabelle finally says:
"You knew?!"
Three minutes later, we're sitting inside our kitchen discussing what happened while Lui makes us drinks from our small bar where we sometimes drink rum shots with Lui during summer evenings or whisky sodas during winter evenings like today! When suddenly: Annabelle starts talking really fast while waving her hands in front of us and saying
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