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Friday, May 11, 2012

The Child: Entry 28


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The train began to come to a halt when we started to pass many of the larger buildings within the city and I raised up my head to look at what the area that we were stopping in looked like. When I looked through the window that was closest—which was to my left—I saw several tall buildings surrounding a plaza of bricks and tiles, trees lining the sidewalks and the continuation of little rivers that went under the sidewalks and wrapped around the trees. People walked back and forth in the distance; the plaza looked stunning, this entire city looked stunning.

Up closer to us were lines of people outside what seemed like concrete walls and a gate being blocked by wired fences, this was the same place in which we stopped but we were on the other side. I stood up out of my seat to see if I could look over the wall to distinguish more of what was going on but the wall was to high. I turned around to look at Ville to see him still sitting in his seat to see what looked like praying but as I turned my to look at him he opened his eyes and looked at me. 

'Don’t let them scare you Emery. You have no worry in this matter, its just crooked politics and rouge corporations.' I wasn't sure if I wanted to know more about what he meant but at the moment I just wanted to be able to sleep in an actual bed for an eternity. Ville got up out of his seat and walked past me, I watched him every step of the way till he has too far to my left and that’s when I centered my view to see what lied on the other side of the train. Directly on the other side was a series of smaller buildings following the same sidewalks and streams up to a larger body of water—could this be the ocean? Docks followed to ships to ones in sizes I never thought were possible as they raced towards the ever-approaching sunset—it would be dark within an hour. I turned to look at Ville and he was standing in the open doorway that separated us from my new found civilization. 

I walked up behind him noticing that everyone else was leaving but he motioned for me to stay as he held his head down but his ears up high. He was listening for something, it could have been the environment that he had been deprived of and he only missed the sounds of the streets. The others left the train as Ghil gave them back their papers just to show them again to several people who stood at the gates that separated the two groups. I listened with him but I turned to look back at the ocean and all the easy going flows it offered. I couldn't be sure if this is what he missed because the people outside were yelling and crying as if this wasn't a good thing to be doing. This could have been new to Ville; he may be surprised and was listening to hear the community’s outcry for change and whatnot. As all the people gathered in front of the gate, the ones that were standing in front of it previously started to bang on the fence telling the other party to back off. 

Ghil rushed in front of Ville and whispered something to him and walked away, Ville stood for a few seconds longer then motioned me to follow him but also put his finger in front of his lips to tell me to be quiet. He moved swiftly attempting to catch up with Ghil as I attempted to follow also. Instead of walking forward with the rest of the people we took an abrupt right to head down a walkway towards the front of the train. Taking another turn to the right to force us to go under the train, steps began to head to an underground area.

One flight passed then we took a left to head down another couple of flights to end up to a darker corridor being scarcely lit due to what I could only figure to be secrecy. Midway down the hallway was another fence and another pair of people standing in front of it along with Ghil talking to them and handing them objects, which they soon pocketed. Ghil turned to point at us and the two men nodded to Ghil as they opened the gates to let us continue down the hall. Ghil started to walk away to catch up with Ville and me to shake his hand then shook mine.

'Its nice to finally meet you Emery, I wish that this encounter could have been under a better circumstance but with all of these complications, well its at least good that you are here early.' I nodded to him back though I didn't completely understand him but I couldn't help but feel as if I am 'The Chosen One'. I am sure that this isn’t the case but with all of these weird circumstances, one could only wonder. The people that were in front of the gate were rather larger in size but they looked like any average person in average clothes; I looked away after I caught myself staring at them excessively and they took notice. I lowered my head and passed them to follow in the footsteps of Ville, seconds later a click echoed through the hall of the gate closing. Just at that minute I remembered the old man that we wheeled into town and that we left him on the other side of the city where Gillian's Travel Emporium was. 

'Hey. Ville. What happened to that older man that we brought into town?' I asked. Ville turned his head back but continued to look forward as we continued down the hall.

'I left him as Ghil's. He would have no benefit here in his current condition but I can assure you that it wont be the last that you will see of him.'

'So he is going to rise from the dead or something like that?' I asked again. Ville chuckled to himself and responded.

'He wasn't dead in the first place. Lets just call it sleeping, heavy sleeping.'

'Well that man can sleep through a storm. You practically threw that guy down an entire mountainside.' He continued to laugh to himself a little bit harder.

'Well I can assure you that I feel really bad about that and I will apologize to him when he wakes up.' I smiled to myself; it’s been a while since that has happened. Ville continued. 'So, the place we are going to is to where my parents live, when we get there we can figure everything out.'

'In this freaking tunnel? That’s where they live?' I asked. Ville turned after a few more feet, which landed us conveniently in front of another flight of stairs but this time they were heading up. Ville scratched his for a second and then looked at me.

'This is a VIP tunnel that heads to the main corporate and government building that is in the center of the city. This is where the main public figures go to avoid media attention.'

'And from there we will head to where your parents are?'

'Emery. I guess I am not making this very clear. My parents are in the building. They own it, they live in it and the entirety of our family is there. If this were a monarchy, I would be considered the heir to the thrown. My parents and family are the government. They are the political center. They are the main organized crime family that controls the city and I am apart of it also. I don't mean to be a threat to you but you need to follow me and stay close, my mother doesn't take kindly to strangers, let alone anyone at all.'  


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