“Does that include me?” I asked “Am I one of these ´Maybe´? Father?” I noticed175Please respect copyright.PENANAwMvBcgeOa5
he chose not to answer, but instead to deflect, “Since you can read already, I am sure175Please respect copyright.PENANADwfNYS1iil
your writing skills are close behind, and so I would have you do something for me.175Please respect copyright.PENANACkHr1nbVWi
Something quite important.”175Please respect copyright.PENANAeYrsRHE9iU
“I know writing, I mean what that is.” I remember waving my finger around as175Please respect copyright.PENANAa3CoLFnaKd
I tried to mimic the words on that sign “But I am not sure I can do it myself. Not yet.”175Please respect copyright.PENANAFkzITquoaa
“It will come to you,” He smiled, his most appreciated attempt at inspiring any175Please respect copyright.PENANAdCCuXKXUwF
confidence in me, “and when it does, I would like for you to write down everything175Please respect copyright.PENANAwNjFl8lDBN
that is going to transpire tonight.” He then rummaged through that big bag he had175Please respect copyright.PENANAJb5gKwno9x
been readying for the last moments, before finally slapping his forehead after realising175Please respect copyright.PENANAhGieGLTac3
what he was looking for was already in one of his pockets. He took it out, and then175Please respect copyright.PENANA0KMoXxXBnv
proudly handed it to me. That very same notebook that you now hold in your hand,175Please respect copyright.PENANArzDqSTmotR
“Can you do that for me?” He insisted.175Please respect copyright.PENANAEGMW8ut4jV
“I am not sure I -”175Please respect copyright.PENANAmSLGAp9bUp
“It will come to you, all the memories and much more.” He smiled as he handed175Please respect copyright.PENANAi3EsJAH20K
me some pencils too, “And when you know how, when you feel confident enough to175Please respect copyright.PENANAM5eR4UAMtM
start, I want you to write down everything concerning tonight. Write as much as you175Please respect copyright.PENANAZ05KBib5f5
can - use whatever sight is available to you; pen down whatever your eyes or your mind175Please respect copyright.PENANAFqsw8SS2do
decide to show you – keep writing until you find yourself out of here.”175Please respect copyright.PENANAWRF4hN3UKN
“Can I make it like a story?” I asked shyly, “Of sorts...”175Please respect copyright.PENANAUcGs3zlf36
“Yes, if it pleases you. You can try and structure it like that if you want but do try175Please respect copyright.PENANAhT0upAgCFA
and avoid any glib words.” He took another quick and desperate peek through that175Please respect copyright.PENANA2Vz6ovFds4
still barely opened crimson metal door “Then you can read it back to me, and to others,175Please respect copyright.PENANAynDi11zsc2
once we are far and away from this place - safe and under the sun.”175Please respect copyright.PENANA0x65yzZFTX
“Can I make some drawings too?” My heart jumped in expectation. “Well,”175Please respect copyright.PENANA5JPXvDKEA6
He looked at me again, with the most patient of smiles “yes, certainly. Whatever helps175Please respect copyright.PENANA46uqc6Ew1w
you in the telling, why not?” He rummaged again for some crayons which he then175Please respect copyright.PENANA4Uv31TZ959
handed to me, and then he hesitantly returned his worrisome look to what was waiting175Please respect copyright.PENANAF1AsAD5S3I
on the other side of that door.175Please respect copyright.PENANADVuh0Q8TDo
“Are we going now?” I asked while holding all the things he gave me as tightly as my175Please respect copyright.PENANAAFGNSUXY63
little weak hands possibly could, “Father?”175Please respect copyright.PENANA44H7Pu9b9c
“Where could they be?” I heard him whisper “Well, no matter.” He took a deep breath,175Please respect copyright.PENANA9N2fhlt9qN
“Our way seems to be clear.” He then turned to me, with his eyes staring at mine in a175Please respect copyright.PENANAAqqDS03SgZ
more serious way than I had thought possible. “This is it. Are you ready?”175Please respect copyright.PENANAs6X5EcHqkv
“Yes...” I scattered all the pencils and crayons across all pockets available to me and,175Please respect copyright.PENANAPxldpuotUs
while holding that notebook tightly in my right arm, I slowly extended my left one.175Please respect copyright.PENANAfbdYcORiL5
He gently took hold of my hand, caressed my fingers a few times behind a comforting175Please respect copyright.PENANARAxW5hSCWJ
smile, and then pulled me with him...175Please respect copyright.PENANAUDxb5kAYzZ
... and that is why I wrote all that you now hold.175Please respect copyright.PENANACFlzJ05Jc6
“I see...” The Tinker admitted a bit dubiously when we were already back his place,175Please respect copyright.PENANARkgqtAT9sQ
“That is quite the tale.” His fingers constantly caressing the well-worn cover of that175Please respect copyright.PENANAT6F5HIOCbs
notebook; so easily displaying all the eagerness that his eyes would not share.175Please respect copyright.PENANAWNYKT5dmBh
“That is what happened.”175Please respect copyright.PENANA7roA2VcmWe
“Well, and what then?” He asked as he gestured me to take a seat. We were now in175Please respect copyright.PENANAWjPQdD0z9U
what he called a ´living room´, and I could see all sorts of things scattered around that175Please respect copyright.PENANAkhcz7ZYNYR
makeshift table standing distinguishably in the middle. “Go on, sit down. Wherever175Please respect copyright.PENANAwfrMi16sqj
you like.” he insisted after placing my notebook in the centre of that table. Then he175Please respect copyright.PENANALWbQdoXksP
turned around, towards some cupboards and a device leaking out all sorts of fire.175Please respect copyright.PENANAj3i2DTD840
“Can I take this one?” I asked regarding one of the few chairs I found in a usable175Please respect copyright.PENANAxVW7wYBBnj
condition.175Please respect copyright.PENANAxTT3D9v2Xd
“Go right ahead.” He promptly allowed, without even looking to see what I could be175Please respect copyright.PENANA2D0izIVLHD
referring to, as he was now clearly too busy preparing something. “Thank you.”175Please respect copyright.PENANAMG9wYcG4Um
“And then,” he asked me again, “what happened after?” He turned around holding a175Please respect copyright.PENANAB0OdeLStTo
tray. On it rested a couple of exceptionally large and funny looking mugs, and between175Please respect copyright.PENANApNqmFkC1Y1
them was a smoking metal pot.