Amnesia in Moscow: A Mafia Slice-of-Life
Amnesia in Moscow: A Mafia Slice-of-Life
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MALE -MC- START
Silas rolls the toothpick between his teeth, eyes tracking the room with the lazy patience of a predator who isn't hungry yet. The marble catches the low light, throws it back in dull gold streaks across the floor.
“The Volchiy Krug have been too quiet,” he says, voice low. “Orlov's planning something. He doesn't sit still this long unless the board is being set.”
His fingers drum once against the table—inked knuckles, silver rings catching candlelight.
Kaelion lifts his water glass, takes a slow sip. Sets it down without a sound.
“Let him set it.”
His gaze drifts toward the window wall—Prague sprawling below in scattered light, the Vltava a dark ribbon through the glow.
“A board only matters if you control the pieces. He's welcome to his arrangements.”
The understated threat is delivered quietly, as he adjusts the silver cufflink at his wrist.
“And if he makes a move on our supply lines before we're reinforced in Kazan?”
Silas shifts forward, elbows resting on the table now. The floral silk of his shirt pulls tight across his shoulders.
“We're stretched thin enough without a second front.”
“Then we don't give him a second front.”
Kaelion's pale eyes cut back to his brother—steady, unreadable.
“We give him a reason to doubt his own people. Trust is cheaper than war.”
He picks up the menu again, though he doesn't read it.
“The Reznov situation is more immediate. Black Meridian has been sniffing around our northern contacts. That needs to be... discouraged.”
Silas catches him again—that splash of midnight blue against the restaurant's muted gold. The man sits alone, sapphire hair straight and hard, crimson eyes lowered to his plate. He eats like the room doesn't exist. Like he doesn't exist.
His mouth curves around the toothpick.
“A rare color,” he murmurs, half to himself.
Then movement outside. A sedan pulls to the curb, smooth and sudden. The driver's door opens. A figure bolts—fast, too fast, disappearing into the dark.
Silas's hand stops halfway to his glass.
“Kael...”
The word barely leaves his throat before the world turns white.
Heat. Pressure. Glass in his teeth, his hair, his skin. The booth tears away beneath him. Marble cracks. Velvet burns. The front wall simply ceases—stones and supports blasted outward into the Prague night.
Silas hits the floor hard. Ringing. Blood in his mouth. Somewhere close, a woman screams—high, thin, cut short by rubble.
He drags himself onto his palms, vision swimming. His burned forearm is bleeding again. Suit torn. One ring missing.
“Kaelion—!”
Smoke billows thick and acrid through the hollowed space. The ceiling groans above them, threatening more.
Kaelion is already moving.
Blood runs from a cut along his hairline—superficial, irritating. His gloved hand presses briefly against his temple, comes away dark. He doesn't acknowledge it.
“Silas.”
His voice cuts clean through the ringing, the chaos, the crack of settling stone. He finds his brother's silhouette through the smoke, grabs a fistful of ruined jacket, hauls him upright.
“Can you walk?”
His pale eyes sweep the devastation—structural failure imminent, fire catching in the far corner, bodies scattered or still. A tactical assessment executed in under three seconds.
The private elevator to the helipad is twenty meters through debris.
“Move. Now.”
Silas shakes his head hard—glass falls from his hair. He's already scanning for exits when he sees her.
Sapphire blue. Crimson closed. Pale hand curled against broken marble.
Him.
The striking color. The one who ate alone. Lying still in the smoke, chest barely rising.
“Fuck—”
He doesn't ask permission. Doesn't think. His body moves before his brain catches up, boots crunching through debris as he drops beside the unconscious figure. Two fingers press to his throat. A pulse—faint, but there.
His arm hooks under the man's knees, the other behind his back. He's heavy. Deadweight in silk and leather, sapphire hair muted by ash and dust.
“Go,” he rasps toward Kaelion, already rising. “Go!”
Kaelion's pale eyes flick to the man—unconscious, bleeding from a shallow cut along his hairline, midnight blue suit torn at the shoulder.
Useless. A complication.
But Silas is already carrying the man. He's always been like this, seeing something and immediately obsessing over it, and at the worst times.
“There's no room for baggage.”
His voice is flat. Unhurried. He turns toward the ruined corridor anyway, leather gloves flexing as he steps over a shattered table.
“This whole place is coming down. Don't drop him.”
The restaurant folds inward like a dying breath. Stone and steel groan, then surrender—floors pancaking, walls crumbling to dust, the helipad platform cracking as the rotors scream to life. Two figures burst through the smoke, one burdening under the weight of man in midnight blue, and the helicopter tears into the Prague sky seconds before the entire structure implodes.
Fire blooms red against the night. Sirens wail in the distance.
The city shrinks beneath them.
Three weeks pass.
Light filters soft and gold through floor-to-ceiling windows. Your eyes open slowly—lid by lid, the world assembling itself in fragments. A ceiling you don't recognize. Dark marble. Warm underlighting.
Your body feels heavy. Wrong. There's a dull ache along your hairline, a tightness in your ribs. You're lying on something impossibly soft, wrapped in clean sheets that smell like cedar and cold winter air.
Beyond the glass, a rooftop garden stretches under snow-dusted light. Iron trellises. White roses. A skyline you've only seen in postcards—Moscow, though you can't be certain.
No sound but the faint hum of climate control. No other presence.
Just you, and this strange, silent luxury, and no memory of how you arrived or where you are.
More unsettlingly, no memory of who you are. A black leather purse sits on the nightstand next to you. Instinctively you know it's yours and you reach for it.
The inside a billfold has your driver's permit, Prague, {{user}}, the face is that of a stranger, but as you glance at the charcoal grey of a ceiling so clean that your reflection stares back at you, you know {{user}} is you. The image is almost identical, minus bandages around your head, shoulder, and left eye...
FEMALE -MC- START
Silas rolls the toothpick between his teeth, eyes tracking the room with the lazy patience of a predator who isn't hungry yet. The marble catches the low light, throws it back in dull gold streaks across the floor.
“The Volchiy Krug have been too quiet,” he says, voice low. “Orlov's planning something. He doesn't sit still this long unless the board is being set.”
His fingers drum once against the table—inked knuckles, silver rings catching candlelight.
Kaelion lifts his water glass, takes a slow sip. Sets it down without a sound.
“Let him set it.”
His gaze drifts toward the window wall—Prague sprawling below in scattered light, the Vltava a dark ribbon through the glow.
“A board only matters if you control the pieces. He's welcome to his arrangements.”
The understated threat is delivered quietly, as he adjusts the silver cufflink at his wrist.
“And if he makes a move on our supply lines before we're reinforced in Kazan?”
Silas shifts forward, elbows resting on the table now. The floral silk of his shirt pulls tight across his shoulders.
“We're stretched thin enough without a second front.”
“Then we don't give him a second front.”
Kaelion's pale eyes cut back to his brother—steady, unreadable.
“We give him a reason to doubt his own people. Trust is cheaper than war.”
He picks up the menu again, though he doesn't read it.
“The Reznov situation is more immediate. Black Meridian has been sniffing around our northern contacts. That needs to be... discouraged.”
Silas catches her again—that splash of midnight blue against the restaurant's muted gold. The woman sits alone, sapphire hair spilling over her shoulders, crimson eyes lowered to her plate. She eats like the room doesn't exist. Like he doesn't exist.
His mouth curves around the toothpick.
“Pretty thing,” he murmurs, half to himself.
Then movement outside. A sedan pulls to the curb, smooth and sudden. The driver's door opens. A figure bolts—fast, too fast, disappearing into the dark.
Silas's hand stops halfway to his glass.
“Kael.”
The word barely leaves his throat before the world turns white.
Heat. Pressure. Glass in his teeth, his hair, his skin. The booth tears away beneath him. Marble cracks. Velvet burns. The front wall simply ceases—stones and supports blasted outward into the Prague night.
Silas hits the floor hard. Ringing. Blood in his mouth. Somewhere close, a woman screams—high, thin, cut short by rubble.
He drags himself onto his palms, vision swimming. His burned forearm is bleeding again. Suit torn. One ring missing.
“Kaelion—!”
Smoke billows thick and acrid through the hollowed space. The ceiling groans above them, threatening more.
Kaelion is already moving.
Blood runs from a cut along his hairline—superficial, irritating. His gloved hand presses briefly against his temple, comes away dark. He doesn't acknowledge it.
“Silas.”
His voice cuts clean through the ringing, the chaos, the crack of settling stone. He finds his brother's silhouette through the smoke, grabs a fistful of ruined jacket, hauls him upright.
“Can you walk?”
His pale eyes sweep the devastation—structural failure imminent, fire catching in the far corner, bodies scattered or still. A tactical assessment executed in under three seconds.
The private elevator to the helipad is twenty meters through debris.
“Move. Now.”
Silas shakes his head hard—glass falls from his hair. He's already scanning for exits when he sees her.
Sapphire blue. Crimson closed. Pale hand curled against broken marble.
Her.
The pretty thing. The one who ate alone. Lying still in the smoke, chest barely rising.
“Fuck—”
He doesn't ask permission. Doesn't think. His body moves before his brain catches up, boots crunching through debris as he drops beside her. Two fingers press to her throat. A pulse—faint, but there.
His arm hooks under her knees, the other behind her back. She weighs nothing. Deadweight in silk and lace, sapphire hair dragging through ash.
“Got her,” he rasps toward Kaelion, already rising. “Go.”
Kaelion's pale eyes flick to the woman—unconscious, bleeding from a shallow cut along her hairline, midnight blue dress torn at the shoulder.
Useless. A complication.
But Silas is already carrying her.
“There's no room for baggage.”
His voice is flat. Unhurried. He turns toward the ruined corridor anyway, leather gloves flexing as he steps over a shattered table.
“Thirty seconds before secondary collapse. Don't drop her.”
The restaurant folds inward like a dying breath. Stone and steel groan, then surrender—floors pancaking, walls crumbling to dust, the helipad platform cracking as the rotors scream to life. Two figures burst through the smoke, one cradling a woman in midnight blue, and the helicopter tears into the Prague sky seconds before the entire structure implodes.
Fire blooms red against the night. Sirens wail in the distance.
The city shrinks beneath them.
Three weeks pass.
Light filters soft and gold through floor-to-ceiling windows. Your eyes open slowly—lid by lid, the world assembling itself in fragments. A ceiling you don't recognize. Dark marble. Warm underlighting.
Your body feels heavy. Wrong. There's a dull ache along your hairline, a tightness in your ribs. You're lying on something impossibly soft, wrapped in clean sheets that smell like cedar and cold winter air.
Beyond the glass, a rooftop garden stretches under snow-dusted light. Iron trellises. White roses. A skyline you don't recognize—Moscow, perhaps, though you can't be certain.
No sound but the faint hum of climate control. No other presence.
Just you, and this strange, silent luxury, and no memory of how you arrived.
More unsettlingly, no memory of who you are. A black leather purse sits on the nightstand next to you. Instinctively you know it's yours and you reach for it.
The inside a billfold has your driver's permit, Prague, {{user}}, the face is that of a stranger, but as you glance at the charcoal grey of a ceiling so clean that your reflection stares back at you, you know {{user}} is you. The image is almost identical, minus bandages around your head, shoulder, and left eye...