Cancer

[Loyola]

Cancer - Сhapter II

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It was a usual debate between Rafael Saelices and one of his main opponents in one of the most prestigious universities on Malta. One of the dozen debates that Rafael had to pass recently. He really enjoyed any of those, he liked to defeat an enemy with the word. Not because he liked to win generally, of course that too, but it was the secondary pleasure. Rafael was enjoying the fact that some of his theories are unbreakable. Yes, maybe they won't be accepted by academic community today or tomorrow, he wasn't even sure if they will be accepted until his death. But the fact that in the end it will be accepted and history will play in hos favour was extremely motivating.

He was one of those Maltese scientists of the new wave, they didn't have scientific degrees. They did take it seriously and worked a lot, that's why they were invited to some universities to present their works. Just main and the most dirty argument against them was thet they are "amateurs" and generally have no idea how to do scientific work properly. Of course they had some point and for them it was just a very important hobby, unlike for the university personnel. Those people were having fun on parties and were living on the energy drink, two days after they appeard in some university and dare to question some prefessor's work. It looked strange and it was strange, sociologists are still trying to find an exact reason of this phenomenon.

After a debate, he was talking with his firned Mateo Loyola, moments after he saw his sister Enma for the first time. They will become a good friends in time. They have spent many hours talking to each other, exchanging point of views. They had a regular meeting in a restaurant near Loyola's house. Rafael was not that rich, his family was not noble and he was a self-made man. Social lifts isn't something that working too well on this planet. Somewhere in Liberty or Bretonia, with his skills he would make a lot of money, but this system was too corrupt to handle even for him. Generally, Rafael was quite realistic and was prepared for the worst case of him being poor until the end of life.

He was getting some orders from differrent families, but it barely was something major. He was working fast and was efficiet. Maybe, if he was a bit less proud he would reach something greater up to this time. But despite the fact that he wasn't from any noble family, he always had a perfect sense of dignity and self-esteem. Many noble families actually knew that they can hire a perfect analitic for a cheap price. In the case if he would be able to gain a trust with loyal service for any of them. He felt that he was better than that. He still was defending the truth in the first place, not defending some familie's interest. That's the opposite goal, because service for Maltese families is usually accompanied by lies, hypocrisy and intrigues.

He never was interested in politics, it's probably was a good way to make money, but he didn't want to potentially lose his life. It was irrational and rather unwise. He was staying aside when his friend Enma had a lot of troubles, he was just watching his his other friend Mateo Loyola was arrested and killed afterwards. It didn't cause a lot of emotions and never was ever complaining about his reaction. He have continiued his work with Enma once he delt with her rivals on Malta and keep living well today. He even somehow replaced her brother, because he knew him good. It's not like Mateo and Enma were that close, but Mateo's death have improved the relations between Enma and Rafael.

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