4 - Reason

It was dark, very dark inside Oscar's house. He never saw such a strange house like that. The walls seemed like they were covered with coal. He hardly distinguished if the walls were painted in black or they were just full of dirt. Another thing that shocked him was that the walls were empty. Not a single painting, not a single photo, not a single portrait. Nothing. He remenbered his house was full of photographs of him and his parents. And also of his grandfather. But there were no photos now. Everything of his past was ash. He should be part of that ash. At least that was what Oscar told Willam when he entered in his house. William told Oscar everything, although he did not tell the details. Some details like he was the heir of Henry's fortune. William was not so sure if what he saw in Oscar's eyes was astonishment, but Oscar did not certainly expected something like that. Oscar knew what that family was capable of. He himself suffered the consecuencies of confronting them. But he did not expected such an outrageous crime. He was surprised. After everything he saw during his life, he still was shocked with how money corrupted the human mind. Oscar did not knew why William went to his house, at the other part of the city. But Oscar had always been an intelligent man and he could supposed what the reason was. He prayed to be wrong. On his behalf, William was not sure if that strange man could help him. What a twenty two year old boy and an almost sixty year old man were going to do  against such poweful family? But he had no option. He had to tell Oscar everything he needed and pray for him to accept. But before William could say anything, Oscar denied. He suffered enough pain years before and he was not willing to give up his peaceful life. It was so hard to build up the life he had now. But William did not saw that in his eyes. He always had a gift to see through someone's eyes and percieved what that person was feeling. Sometimes it was difficult, as with uncle Alexander, but sometimes it was really easy, as with Oscar. William's eyes seemed to have X-ray and he could see Oscar's soul perfectly well. So, William was clever enough to suppose that such a brilliant and excepcional mind could not resist such tedious life. But not only entertaiment moves a person to confront one of the most powerful families in the world. He knew the anger Oscar felt for his family was something he could also take a profit from. Oscar was surprised of how intelligent that kid was. A characteristic obviously inherited from his grandfather. Even though he did not say it aloud, he recognised that kid was right. But he was still sceptical. He did not knew if he wanted to get into that war. But he also saw that as an opportunity for revenge. That revenge he awaited for years. And he knew that was a wickness. He learned years before that deep feelings should be hiden in order to not to show your wicknesses to your enemies. And he thought it was not going to be so easy for William to take advantage of his anger. Maybe William was clever, but not as clever as he was. Oscar directly asked William to tell him a real reason that convinced him. And William did it.

"I want to snatch everything they have. I want them to be as defenseless as I have been. I want them to feel the fire of hell. I want to blow up their world. And when I finish the only valuable object they will have, it will be the tears on their eyes."