“Does that include me?” I asked “Am I one of these ´Maybe´? Father?” I noticed657Please respect copyright.PENANAxFpGOWdzKO
he chose not to answer, but instead to deflect, “Since you can read already, I am sure657Please respect copyright.PENANATvZuX0qltE
your writing skills are close behind, and so I would have you do something for me.657Please respect copyright.PENANAJPpeSQsV6I
Something quite important.”657Please respect copyright.PENANA6NCxoSN87V
“I know writing, I mean what that is.” I remember waving my finger around as657Please respect copyright.PENANAUbxiS4DeJz
I tried to mimic the words on that sign “But I am not sure I can do it myself. Not yet.”657Please respect copyright.PENANA8Kpf92u9at
“It will come to you,” He smiled, his most appreciated attempt at inspiring any657Please respect copyright.PENANAsA6akT2f3D
confidence in me, “and when it does, I would like for you to write down everything657Please respect copyright.PENANAoD2xhDUvyk
that is going to transpire tonight.” He then rummaged through that big bag he had657Please respect copyright.PENANA8hXt16ZOS4
been readying for the last moments, before finally slapping his forehead after realising657Please respect copyright.PENANARYEJXJ226P
what he was looking for was already in one of his pockets. He took it out, and then657Please respect copyright.PENANAkUNVpHimso
proudly handed it to me. That very same notebook that you now hold in your hand,657Please respect copyright.PENANA3sfe6ULM2z
“Can you do that for me?” He insisted.657Please respect copyright.PENANAkOhdf6NeLi
“I am not sure I -”657Please respect copyright.PENANAWU9Lp73dvi
“It will come to you, all the memories and much more.” He smiled as he handed657Please respect copyright.PENANAD3ioWbmCKu
me some pencils too, “And when you know how, when you feel confident enough to657Please respect copyright.PENANAagpNj7qCDE
start, I want you to write down everything concerning tonight. Write as much as you657Please respect copyright.PENANAwS6MoCKwy4
can - use whatever sight is available to you; pen down whatever your eyes or your mind657Please respect copyright.PENANAkviogX2T70
decide to show you – keep writing until you find yourself out of here.”657Please respect copyright.PENANAG3eZDLRDvv
“Can I make it like a story?” I asked shyly, “Of sorts...”657Please respect copyright.PENANAqffw45HDID
“Yes, if it pleases you. You can try and structure it like that if you want but do try657Please respect copyright.PENANA3Td1WureQz
and avoid any glib words.” He took another quick and desperate peek through that657Please respect copyright.PENANAnmX8c6JEcj
still barely opened crimson metal door “Then you can read it back to me, and to others,657Please respect copyright.PENANA1qFXrJ5Xog
once we are far and away from this place - safe and under the sun.”657Please respect copyright.PENANAU6Rzy8bOnC
“Can I make some drawings too?” My heart jumped in expectation. “Well,”657Please respect copyright.PENANAA7L6yUBrIQ
He looked at me again, with the most patient of smiles “yes, certainly. Whatever helps657Please respect copyright.PENANAbdXyxXpWbH
you in the telling, why not?” He rummaged again for some crayons which he then657Please respect copyright.PENANAfF6LdufJyJ
handed to me, and then he hesitantly returned his worrisome look to what was waiting657Please respect copyright.PENANA60IjE3EtnF
on the other side of that door.657Please respect copyright.PENANAUBJxz2WrrN
“Are we going now?” I asked while holding all the things he gave me as tightly as my657Please respect copyright.PENANA5e3N3akJsr
little weak hands possibly could, “Father?”657Please respect copyright.PENANAvhuB86WnoH
“Where could they be?” I heard him whisper “Well, no matter.” He took a deep breath,657Please respect copyright.PENANADrnspglZuj
“Our way seems to be clear.” He then turned to me, with his eyes staring at mine in a657Please respect copyright.PENANAKq2VhH1RpK
more serious way than I had thought possible. “This is it. Are you ready?”657Please respect copyright.PENANAFMmMISuFxY
“Yes...” I scattered all the pencils and crayons across all pockets available to me and,657Please respect copyright.PENANAawuRixt2Lw
while holding that notebook tightly in my right arm, I slowly extended my left one.657Please respect copyright.PENANA90Lb1IHCeY
He gently took hold of my hand, caressed my fingers a few times behind a comforting657Please respect copyright.PENANAoFgXLzucUp
smile, and then pulled me with him...657Please respect copyright.PENANAiVDkxDB04c
... and that is why I wrote all that you now hold.657Please respect copyright.PENANAwg6cwak2KJ
“I see...” The Tinker admitted a bit dubiously when we were already back his place,657Please respect copyright.PENANAggEuRUJTye
“That is quite the tale.” His fingers constantly caressing the well-worn cover of that657Please respect copyright.PENANAsm5J7oyeaF
notebook; so easily displaying all the eagerness that his eyes would not share.657Please respect copyright.PENANAVhKZhTbk28
“That is what happened.”657Please respect copyright.PENANACDAlJl9KvZ
“Well, and what then?” He asked as he gestured me to take a seat. We were now in657Please respect copyright.PENANAdpsDLvlSQl
what he called a ´living room´, and I could see all sorts of things scattered around that657Please respect copyright.PENANAIeUseiRHiy
makeshift table standing distinguishably in the middle. “Go on, sit down. Wherever657Please respect copyright.PENANAuGACQtXF81
you like.” he insisted after placing my notebook in the centre of that table. Then he657Please respect copyright.PENANAKTwqDcpn6y
turned around, towards some cupboards and a device leaking out all sorts of fire.657Please respect copyright.PENANAtJGVH5NMWP
“Can I take this one?” I asked regarding one of the few chairs I found in a usable657Please respect copyright.PENANAf4gfdbOjib
condition.657Please respect copyright.PENANALJvcuZHiIZ
“Go right ahead.” He promptly allowed, without even looking to see what I could be657Please respect copyright.PENANAbRTB0nSHvl
referring to, as he was now clearly too busy preparing something. “Thank you.”657Please respect copyright.PENANA9muKihKCZD
“And then,” he asked me again, “what happened after?” He turned around holding a657Please respect copyright.PENANAsBv9AjXAHG
tray. On it rested a couple of exceptionally large and funny looking mugs, and between657Please respect copyright.PENANAwBe5iI5CSF
them was a smoking metal pot.


