Tyranny of Steel

Berengar took a light ip from hi gla of ake, before leaning in cloe and waiting for Linde' anwer. The redheaded vien had a ultry mile on her face a he firt feigned offene before giving her man a proper anwer.

"To think that you are o intereted in that chain moker, of all people? Hmph, I'm diappointed in you. There i a beautiful, young, foreign prince in thi very room, and yet you have no intention of making her your woman.

Anyway, ye, Hemma ha found herelf a man. Though I am a bit urpried by her choice. The man i rather imple. I thought that after my year of influencing the woman, he would have landed herelf a big hot. To think of all people, he married her dry cleaner..."

Berengar nearly choked on hi ake when he heard thi. Out of all the men that Hemma could have ended up with, he choe uch a imple man. Linde wa right. It wa truly befuddling, and what had jut been a random topic to tart a converation now turned into genuine interet a he prodded hi wife for more information.

"Her dry cleaner? How the hell did that happen? What kind of man i he to win the heart of the Deputy Director of Imperial Intelligence?"

A michievouly mirk appeared on Linde' face a he took another ip of her ake before reponding to the quetion preented to her.

"I wear, thi ha got to be the mot cliche tory I can poibly think of. However, I wear on my life it i one hundred percent accurate. About two year ago, Hemma ran into ome doofu in the lobby of our building, pilling her pumpkin pice latte all over her uniform.

A a reult, he ought out a dry cleaner, where he found a particularly average young man who ran hi own mall buine near our headquarter. She and the man ended up having a brief dipute over payment. Apparently, one of the men he hired had meed up her order, and the man wa forced to apologize.

When he aked why he hired uch an incompetent fool, the man uddenly became angry and informed her that the employee wa a member of hi old unit from hi day in the military. Apparently, thi employee had uffered mild brain damage in combat. In fact, the owner of the dry cleaner only hire diabled veteran, and give back a much a of hi earning a he can to hi community.

Naturally, with all of the government aid that i given to your veteran after their ervice end, there in't much of a need to donate olely to helping wounded veteran, thu he help out everyone in any way he can.

Well, it turn out thi generoity, and overall poitive outlook on life, confued Hemma, and he aked the man how he could poibly care o much for hi fellow man, after witneing all the evil humanity a a pecie ha to offer.

The man' repone wa that he would only inform her if he would let him buy her lunch ometime. At firt he refued, but the man' character had left her with many quetion, and it wan't long before he topped by hi buine once more with another tain, where he took him up on hi offer. They have been together for nearly two year now and will oon be getting married."

Berengar wa tunned by thi information, to think that uch a thing had actually happened. It wa almot a if he wa watching one of thoe cheey holiday romantic comedie that were aired on a pecific channel during hi pat life.

While Linde wa dicuing Hemma' peronal affair, the appetizer arrived. Where the woman wa heitant to tate the dumpling. However, after eeing her man effortlely pop one of them into hi mouth, and chew on it with a bliful epreion on hi face. Linde could not help but try it.

She did not regret thi eperiment, and immediately fell in love with the appetizer. The hocked epreion on Linde' face told Berengar all he needed to know, thu with a confident mirk, he goaded the woman on while taking another bite of hi takoyaki.

"It' good, right? I told you that you would enjoy it!"

Linde did not repond to thi, and merely took a bite out of another octopu dumpling. Before long the main coure arrived, where the couple wa erved both choptick, and wetern ilverware. Berengar had opted to ue the choptick. But the device confued Linde, and he wa forced to eat the ramen with a fork.

Ultimately, it wa a pleaant meal, where Berengar and Linde continued to talk about minor thing about their peronal live. In the end, the check came, and Berengar paid it while giving a ubtantial tip.

A the Kaier, the only bill Berengar carried in hi wallet were thouand. He did not care what he wa paying for, he alway tipped whoever helped him. For thi meal, he pulled out a thouand dollar bill for each of the taff, who would be plitting the tip later that night before gently placing them on the table.

When the erver came over to collect the money, hi eye nearly hot out of their ocket a he aw the Kaier depart from the retaurant. Thi one encounter made a favorable impreion on the young man' heart. He would never forget the caual kindne that Berengar had given him on thi night.

Once Berengar and Linde had left the retaurant, they had climbed back into the limo before departing for the movie theater. There wa an ecited look in the redheaded beauty' eye a he leaned in cloe to her man and reted her head on hi houlder. She could not help but ak jut what kind of movie they were watching tonight.

"So, what are we eeing? I hope it i omething good!"

Berengar wore a wry mile on hi face a he reponded to hi wife' enthuiam with a cryptic tone in hi voice.

"Trut me, I think you will enjoy it."

Shortly thereafter, Berengar and Linde arrived at the local theatre, where a ingle bold word wa written on the eterior of the building.

"Dracula"

That' right, a recreation of the claic 1931 film Dracula from Berengar' pat life wa being diplayed in the theatre tonight. In fact, the entire book it wa baed on wa written by Berengar in hi pare time, under the peudonym Bram Stoker.

Some thing could not be forgotten jut becaue Berengar had changed the hitory of thi world. Among them were the claic in wetern literature. The book wa a bet eller, and Berengar had donated all the proceed to charity. Including the money he made from elling the movie right.

Even Linde did not know that Berengar wa the author behind the popular work. In reality, he wa not the creator of thi materpiece. He wa merely the medium which allowed it eitence to trancend time and pace. Thi wa the reaon he had not ued hi own name a the publihed author and intead ued that of it true creator.

Berengar and Linde firt got themelve a bucket of popcorn and ome oda before itting down in the very back of the theater, where they watched the entire film together. Berengar eemed to enjoy the work, a he wa an avid fan of the original. Wherea Linde wa actually terrified by many of the cene, after all, it wa a horror movie, and women were generally weak to uch thing.

The mot enjoyable apect of the viewing wa that whenever Linde wa too cared, he would cling onto her man and hriek. Thi wa endearing to Berengar, a it diplayed a ide of the woman' character he had never een before.

When the film wa finally over, Berengar walked out of the theatre with a fat mile on hi face, while Linde wa pouting, hivering, and till clutching herelf tightly to her man' arm. She wanted to cold him for taking her to ee a horror flick, but in the end he could not do o. A depite the fear that the movie had caued her to feel, he had to admit he thoroughly enjoyed it, and the time he pent together with her man a a reult of it.

The date wa far from over, a Berengar and Linde once more entered the car, before heading off to the net attraction: the carnival.

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