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“Does that include me?” I asked “Am I one of these ´Maybe´? Father?” I noticed106Please respect copyright.PENANARiPpHS4CLx
he chose not to answer, but instead to deflect, “Since you can read already, I am sure106Please respect copyright.PENANARdEFCqhvPD
your writing skills are close behind, and so I would have you do something for me.106Please respect copyright.PENANA3UAuD1zgzS
Something quite important.”106Please respect copyright.PENANAEq0LcVxLsg
“I know writing, I mean what that is.” I remember waving my finger around as106Please respect copyright.PENANAfxwgMA42ip
I tried to mimic the words on that sign “But I am not sure I can do it myself. Not yet.”106Please respect copyright.PENANAD5XYXW6hMU
“It will come to you,” He smiled, his most appreciated attempt at inspiring any106Please respect copyright.PENANASbR4P4QBe2
confidence in me, “and when it does, I would like for you to write down everything106Please respect copyright.PENANAfMzZm7bbSL
that is going to transpire tonight.” He then rummaged through that big bag he had106Please respect copyright.PENANA9FA5XjhuMn
been readying for the last moments, before finally slapping his forehead after realising106Please respect copyright.PENANAnsVl000EzQ
what he was looking for was already in one of his pockets. He took it out, and then106Please respect copyright.PENANAqWltU66Kq7
proudly handed it to me. That very same notebook that you now hold in your hand,106Please respect copyright.PENANAqFqAinOjYG
“Can you do that for me?” He insisted.106Please respect copyright.PENANAhLZ26clYMb
“I am not sure I -”106Please respect copyright.PENANADJSE9jO3k0
“It will come to you, all the memories and much more.” He smiled as he handed106Please respect copyright.PENANAOalx7eG7cn
me some pencils too, “And when you know how, when you feel confident enough to106Please respect copyright.PENANA4EM0I4J3D7
start, I want you to write down everything concerning tonight. Write as much as you106Please respect copyright.PENANAsAZHDfuh1a
can - use whatever sight is available to you; pen down whatever your eyes or your mind106Please respect copyright.PENANAN46qlDDYir
decide to show you – keep writing until you find yourself out of here.”106Please respect copyright.PENANAqvND4c07xx
“Can I make it like a story?” I asked shyly, “Of sorts...”106Please respect copyright.PENANAUJKcvmIirD
“Yes, if it pleases you. You can try and structure it like that if you want but do try106Please respect copyright.PENANABjPtFMGNqK
and avoid any glib words.” He took another quick and desperate peek through that106Please respect copyright.PENANAwexsUcVPY6
still barely opened crimson metal door “Then you can read it back to me, and to others,106Please respect copyright.PENANAIyneB1FcGO
once we are far and away from this place - safe and under the sun.”106Please respect copyright.PENANAwmzaRMhTCj
“Can I make some drawings too?” My heart jumped in expectation. “Well,”106Please respect copyright.PENANA4zmyVxjxly
He looked at me again, with the most patient of smiles “yes, certainly. Whatever helps106Please respect copyright.PENANApTyc9Qcjps
you in the telling, why not?” He rummaged again for some crayons which he then106Please respect copyright.PENANAqHPdoyBlJJ
handed to me, and then he hesitantly returned his worrisome look to what was waiting106Please respect copyright.PENANAVDNWqpakMm
on the other side of that door.106Please respect copyright.PENANA2FWfk2qaiE
“Are we going now?” I asked while holding all the things he gave me as tightly as my106Please respect copyright.PENANAjsxvuY3hmv
little weak hands possibly could, “Father?”106Please respect copyright.PENANAoCLXoctXlT
“Where could they be?” I heard him whisper “Well, no matter.” He took a deep breath,106Please respect copyright.PENANAtXO4mOFEdI
“Our way seems to be clear.” He then turned to me, with his eyes staring at mine in a106Please respect copyright.PENANANC0qKuhYjn
more serious way than I had thought possible. “This is it. Are you ready?”106Please respect copyright.PENANAZyZBFkBMx9
“Yes...” I scattered all the pencils and crayons across all pockets available to me and,106Please respect copyright.PENANATiiBVsLrs9
while holding that notebook tightly in my right arm, I slowly extended my left one.106Please respect copyright.PENANABPX4sGQTMZ
He gently took hold of my hand, caressed my fingers a few times behind a comforting106Please respect copyright.PENANAadq1oDVkuv
smile, and then pulled me with him...106Please respect copyright.PENANAQCB2dYyr5l
... and that is why I wrote all that you now hold.106Please respect copyright.PENANAckHA68Tdxk
“I see...” The Tinker admitted a bit dubiously when we were already back his place,106Please respect copyright.PENANAyKGINiEkQH
“That is quite the tale.” His fingers constantly caressing the well-worn cover of that106Please respect copyright.PENANAUtnho5Y5yP
notebook; so easily displaying all the eagerness that his eyes would not share.106Please respect copyright.PENANAVWtZs05Lq8
“That is what happened.”106Please respect copyright.PENANAVAsIxN48IV
“Well, and what then?” He asked as he gestured me to take a seat. We were now in106Please respect copyright.PENANAPvmRMqMR6E
what he called a ´living room´, and I could see all sorts of things scattered around that106Please respect copyright.PENANAlDGjDnpmS4
makeshift table standing distinguishably in the middle. “Go on, sit down. Wherever106Please respect copyright.PENANA0OH3657wBm
you like.” he insisted after placing my notebook in the centre of that table. Then he106Please respect copyright.PENANAR5VIJerU5N
turned around, towards some cupboards and a device leaking out all sorts of fire.106Please respect copyright.PENANAUOMLwMx28q
“Can I take this one?” I asked regarding one of the few chairs I found in a usable106Please respect copyright.PENANA6HoSs92Jhj
condition.106Please respect copyright.PENANAcGJYGYT0Rf
“Go right ahead.” He promptly allowed, without even looking to see what I could be106Please respect copyright.PENANAGhEXKc9uPj
referring to, as he was now clearly too busy preparing something. “Thank you.”106Please respect copyright.PENANAgHAkRlWkHe
“And then,” he asked me again, “what happened after?” He turned around holding a106Please respect copyright.PENANAOVWcupoeqg
tray. On it rested a couple of exceptionally large and funny looking mugs, and between106Please respect copyright.PENANAkL4MB4Ndi3
them was a smoking metal pot.