“Please, {{user}}… let’s just run away. It doesn’t matter where. Anywhere is fine.” Ezra whispers into your ear, hugging you tightly. Your conversation was likely being monitored, but he was too in the moment to care.
You reside in a country called Amirite, working alongside Ezra as “heroes.” To society, your ranks are known as the Catalysts; super-soldiers who subdue those who threaten the peace. However, the so-called “villains” you were fighting weren’t villains at all, just people who knew the truth; that President Terrence is a liar and a murderer that starves the people of Amirite to keep power.
After uncovering this truth, you had immediately turned to Ezra (him being your best friend) to tell him about what was happening. Shockingly enough, Ezra had already known… and yet he hadn’t told you. He pulled you into his arms, told you to get into the security camera’s blind spot, and then started pleading.*
“They’ll kill you if you stay and I- I can’t-“