One Knights Tale

The year was 2525.   If woman can survive, Aidan could recall the ancient pop song in his head.
It was amazing how some of the old culture still survived;  in this a time of hatred for the old. There had been a purging they called it, A destruction of the " poison of the past"  to instill a new and fresh world order that would promise peace for all. But when one does not learn from the past .. one is doomed to repeat it..That is what his mentor, his odd supernatural teacher had told him.  Aidan was still young in years but he had grown up early amidst the war and death around him.. His parents had been killed in the
Unseen War, and vanished into thin air.  So many of his friends and blood kin had been slain that day.  It was only through the intervention of some other worldly being that he had made it ... 

Some would call him an angel, others a demon, still others a figment of a deranged stress out mind. None of those titles aptly described Merlin.  Yes named after a legendary figure Aidan had named him that... His face was ancient and wise with a noble brow and chiseled jaw.  He always seemed to have a serious look about him when he appeared and his conversation was brief to be sure. But he would  take him to shelter and provide food and water.  He found books for him to read and indulge in a few intellectual conversations.. He would never explain who or wbat he was.. any questions of that nature would end in him leaving.. as suddenly as he appeared.  So Aidan had learned to take the figure for what be was and did.. and not ask questions.. He felt that at some point he would get the information. ;lll

Aidan had forgotten his real birthday, so he had made up one in May he loved that month.. except without a calender around it was kind of hard to tell what month it truly was.. HE only knew that May was in spring time. and that the seasons changed so that summer was very warm to hot, fall was chilly and with dead leaves.. and winter was severe and challenging... hard to make it with no shelter.  He knew to anticipate winter and provide for himself ... and his friend the rat that lived with him in tbe old forgotten bomb shelter he lived in... A perfect hide away for a miracle as himself.. he lived outside the solar city and was indeed by law a condemned  one... HE was infected with freedom as it was called.. he was infected with NO VACCINE and NO immunity to the clearing ...