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New Eden Township, Salton Sea, California
Monday, September 29, 2054
Year 19 of Project Phase One
A knock quietly sounded, and Leaf lifted his head out of his hands and
toward the hewn wooden door. He shifted uncomfortably in a chair as he
cast a weary glance at his father’s corpse, positioned on a litter stretched
across a narrow table.
With a heavy sigh, Leaf rose from the high-back chair. He trudged
across the planked floor but did not recall a single step, startling when his
eyes naturally squinted against the bright morning sun. When did he open
the door? His eyes burned as he strained to focus on a young woman from
the village who held a ceramic pitcher and a wooden bowl filled with hemp
rags.
“For you, My Lord.” She offered the contents of her hands with a
curtsy, rising when Leaf carefully received each object.
“Thank you,” he mumbled, his dry and gritty throat aching with
each word. The tangy smell of vinegar irritated his nose, but he maintained
a composed expression.
“May I be of further service, My Lord?”
Leaf whispered, “No, but you are most kind for asking.”
“Your father was a good man and shall be sorely missed.” She
bobbed her head with a sad smile.
Leaf remained passive as his attentions slipped to another place.
Chimerical thoughts fed his dreamlike state, and the muscles in his neck
twitched with the heartache of remaining fastened to reality. He glanced up
to repay the honor of her words, but she had vanished. Leaf blinked his eyes
and frantically looked around the second-story deck and out into the forest,
unsure of how long he stood in the doorway. He had seen the candlemaker’s
daughter, and yet looked past where she stood as if she was immaterial. The
vinegar sloshed with his movements, and he peered absently at the objects
in his hands.
The pitcher and bowl clanged as he placed them on a small
cupboard, the sound loud to the unnatural silence of his family home, and
he flinched. He shut the door and held the iron ring, carefully resting the
knob flush against the wood to prevent any further noise, as if it would
disrupt his father’s rest. The air in Leaf’s chest stilled as he studied the
serene expression on his father’s face—eyes closed, and lips positioned into
a small smile of eternal acceptance. Heartbeats echoed audibly in Leaf’s
ears as he waited for his father to awake from the slumbers of this
nightmare.
The delusions parted, and Leaf shook his head of such thoughts.
This was not rest. His father would never awake. The deep and gentle
rumble of his voice would no longer fill their home with his laughter, words
of guidance, or his kind encouragements. This was real.
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