It’s been a year since this was a fish factory but the sea gulls still swarm it. Old habits die hard I suppose…but then again so does the smell of dead fish. Tayden sat at the end of a pier, formerly used for fishing boats that docked onto the plant. Staring at the setting sun, with his feet dangling over the water….he thought to himself.
(Thought Bubble begins) Books of power, zombies, sweltering jungles, killers set free, and the anti-MBL…chaos and death averted for another day…all the kids get to wake up and go to school tomorrow and mom and dad get to go out and bring home some bacon.
Meanwhile Drake gets weaker; Dirk grows even bitterer; Euro sinks deeper into insanity…and the distance between who I was and who I am rapidly becomes a gulf.
It’s so easy to drown in sorrow here. So easy to lose heart. So easy to get lost in the moments and lose sight of the bigger picture….(If this was a cartoon this is the point where you’d see a light bulb over Tayden’s head) …...wait a minute…….. That’s why I’m here isn’t it…..to get lost in those moments…..to get to experience what I couldn’t from observation alone…..It’s one thing to watch these people go through “life” and its another to put on their shoes and start walking.
Ha! That’s why we’re all here isn’t it….. to feel the pain and love. It’s not the destination…..it’s the journey. You didn’t send me here to do something. Oh Father, I’ve been so vain! You don’t need me to accomplish you’re goals. You’re GOD. You sent me here to….live! (Thought Bubble ends)
Tayden stood up, looked up, and shouted toward the sky. “That’s it isn’t it!!” he yelled. As if on cue, Tayden saw a gull leave the flock and glide right over him. In what seemed like slow motion the bird dropped an enormous bomb of excrement directly into the right eye of the angel.
Tayden wiped his face, smiled, and muttered almost inaudibly, “Yep.”
