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He laid beneath me broken and bleeding. I had done this to him without realizing it…I didn’t mean to…but he made me so angry that…that…I killed him. But I don’t know how, I just wished that the world would crush him and then…he died. What is that sound, sirens! Run!

I don’t know how I got here my feet just carried me. I don’t know where I am and I don’t know what has happened…but everything around was breaking and I swear I felt the wind but….there hasn’t been any wind since the great undoing. The world has changed a lot, people have changed a lot, and lives have changed. I may be one of them now…maybe that’s why I can still hear the sirens…I just wish they would stop. I just wish they would stop! I didn’t mean to kill him he just pushed to many buttons. He didn’t have to say that joking or not…he didn’t have to say that.

“Hello, my child.”
“Who said that?”
“Don’t be scared. You came here looking for me.”
”No I didn’t…I don’t think.”
“Everyone comes looking for me at some time or another.”
”Wait….are you…no…you can’t be.”
“What child?”
“Are you…god?”
Why is it laughing at me? Why does everyone laugh at me?
“Oh child you’re powers won’t work here please calm down. No, I’m not god, but I can help you. If you will come with me.”
“Who are you then?”
“I’m a friend, please come with me. Oh my name is Grace may I ask what yours is?”
“I...I don’t know.”
“That’s fine we will find out later.”
Should I go…I can still hear the sirens…should I go?
“Yes”
“Yes what my child?”
“Nothing I’ll come Mr. Grace.”’

This place is so odd. I feel comfortable so…at home. We seem to have been walking forever and I still don’t know if this is where I need to be. He says he isn’t god…but…he wasn’t…he has to be. Finally no more stairs I could go down another flight…I’m so tired of running.

“Here we are.”
”Where is here?”
”We are now home.” Grace turns and opens the door.
“You sure that you aren’t god…cause this looks like heaven.”
”You’re close, this place is called haven. It’s a home to people like you and me.”
”By that you mean what?”
“You child…don’t you know what you did in that alley?”
“What alley? I didn’t do anything!”
“Child you are part of the undoing. You are now a member of a special part of society.”
this can’t be…I was normal I had a nice job, some great friends, and I had loving parents. I didn’t mean to kill him…but…but…he laughed at me. “What society?”
“We are called an underground society but we are as much as a society as those above the ground”
”So we are below the streets.”
“Far below, now if you’d like to know what you did in the alley please follow me.”
”I don’t…”
“Know about an alley I know. Don’t worry sometimes someone loses a life for progress.”
“My brother wasn’t a sacrifice for anybodies progress!”
“Your brother…I’m sorry. But please…please come with me.”
I don’t know why I’m doing this…it’s so insane. I just killed my brother in an alley way and this man seems to know all about it. Seems to know everything I’m thinking…he has to be god. Well this place is nice…even if he isn’t god I wouldn’t mind living here. The air is actually…sweet…and clean. We have been on this road for 10 minutes and I haven’t seen a single car.
“And you will not see one either.”
what?!
“Oh I’m sorry…I can read thoughts…and even make you believe what I want you to. But don’t worry it doesn’t work on people of my kind.”
“So…so you know what I’ve been thinking.”
”Yes that’s how I was able to find you.”
“But you just said…”
“I can still read your thoughts I just can’t make you think what I want you to.”
“Oh.”
“You seem to have a problem. You have no identity and no control.”
“What?”
“Oh sorry I was talking to myself…mostly. I’ll explain more when we get to Jesse. He will help us figure out what you did.”
“What I did.”
“Yes…what you did. Don’t worry down here we don’t frown upon it we consider it a growth. Yes I know it was your brother and you don’t want to think of his death as a profit to your future but you can honor him in it too. Here we are well go on in.”
“Aren’t you coming in as well.”
”Can’t, I’ve already been in I know what I can do and I can’t go back.”
“Oh, um…ok”
“Trust me.”
“Guess I have no choice.”

Wow…nice place…that’s a lot of light. But…oh it’s the marble I bet. It’s reflecting the sunlight. Wait…sun…I didn’t see a sun outside. What is producing this much light? Where the hell am I supposed to go? Damn it, why didn’t Grace tell me where to go. Well…there are only two doors so it’s fifty-fifty. I’m sure someone is here and knows where I need to go.

“Hello, my name is Jesse Gresham, you must be new.”
”Um…yeah…Grace told me to come see you I guess, unless there is another Jesse.”
“Nope, I am the only Jesse here.”
”Oh thank god someone who isn’t speaking all proper. Listen I don’t what the hell is going on. I don’t know what I did to get here; hell I don’t even know how I got here before Grace showed up.”
”Everyone comes here sooner or later. At least that is if you are a child of the Undoing.”
”Ok you know Grace said that to me as well…well he said that I was a child of the undoing and that he was waiting for me...but…what the fuck? I mean I don’t remember wanting to look for anyone. I don’t remember asking for any of this and correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t the Undoing that big thing that got rid of the sun and wind.”
“Actually it only got rid of the sun per see. See the sun is still there it’s just covered by man’s mistakes and the wind…well it may not blow as strong as it once did but it still remains as well. Not only does it still remain but you and it are the same.”
“Say what?”
“Well that is to say, you control wind.”
“How can someone control wind?”
“How can someone control electricity, read minds, manipulate paper, earth, or anything else that the other children of the Undoing can do? It’s simple; when man made that last mistake it altered nature and even killed some. But the generation following the Undoing, we are special, we have started to adapt and we are passing the adaptation down generations and now it’s your generation that benefits to our bodies adaptation. Your generation has started to develop powers. Powers beyond anything I’d have imagined, powers that are capable of shaping and creating a beautiful future or, like any other power, destroy it. But that’s a different story and it is being written by you and your generation. No what I need to tell you is this. You have the power over wind…but I have been known to be wrong. When I told Corbin, who you will meet later, that he had power over sand it turned out he has power over earth and anything that was made from the earth. But it has it’s limits, those that we are still discovering. So maybe you just control wind, maybe you control forces, or maybe you are for more complicated than that. It’s something you will have to find out.”
“Well…that was highly informative but.”
“Yes, a name…you don’t seem to have one do you.”
“No…I…I don’t.”
“Hmm…Tapt…yes I think that’ll do well.”
“Tapt…that’s interesting. May I ask why?”
“Where I was from…it meant Lost and you are lost.”
“Oh…thank you.”
“Well Tapt, time for you to go now and learn control. Grace will show you the way.”
”Thank you, Jesse.”

Tapt turned around from the desk and walked out the door.
I wonder what is behind the other door...well only one way to find out.

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He laid beneath me broken and bleeding. I had done this to him without realizing it…I didn’t mean to…but he made me so angry that…that…I killed him. But I don’t know how, I just wished that the world would crush him and then…he died. What is that sound, sirens! Run!

I don’t know how I got here my feet just carried me. I don’t know where I am and I don’t know what has happened…but everything around was breaking and I swear I felt the wind but….there hasn’t been any wind since the great undoing. The world has changed a lot, people have changed a lot, and lives have changed. I may be one of them now…maybe that’s why I can still hear the sirens…I just wish they would stop. I just wish they would stop! I didn’t mean to kill him he just pushed to many buttons. He didn’t have to say that joking or not…he didn’t have to say that.

“Hello, my child.”
“Who said that?”
“Don’t be scared. You came here looking for me.”
”No I didn’t…I don’t think.”
“Everyone comes looking for me at some time or another.”
”Wait….are you…no…you can’t be.”
“What child?”
“Are you…god?”
Why is it laughing at me? Why does everyone laugh at me?
“Oh child you’re powers won’t work here please calm down. No, I’m not god, but I can help you. If you will come with me.”
“Who are you then?”
“I’m a friend, please come with me. Oh my name is Grace may I ask what yours is?”
“I...I don’t know.”
“That’s fine we will find out later.”
Should I go…I can still hear the sirens…should I go?
“Yes”
“Yes what my child?”
“Nothing I’ll come Mr. Grace.”’

This place is so odd. I feel comfortable so…at home. We seem to have been walking forever and I still don’t know if this is where I need to be. He says he isn’t god…but…he wasn’t…he has to be. Finally no more stairs I could go down another flight…I’m so tired of running.

“Here we are.”
”Where is here?”
”We are now home.” Grace turns and opens the door.
“You sure that you aren’t god…cause this looks like heaven.”
”You’re close, this place is called haven. It’s a home to people like you and me.”
”By that you mean what?”
“You child…don’t you know what you did in that alley?”
“What alley? I didn’t do anything!”
“Child you are part of the undoing. You are now a member of a special part of society.”
this can’t be…I was normal I had a nice job, some great friends, and I had loving parents. I didn’t mean to kill him…but…but…he laughed at me. “What society?”
“We are called an underground society but we are as much as a society as those above the ground”
”So we are below the streets.”
“Far below, now if you’d like to know what you did in the alley please follow me.”
”I don’t…”
“Know about an alley I know. Don’t worry sometimes someone loses a life for progress.”
“My brother wasn’t a sacrifice for anybodies progress!”
“Your brother…I’m sorry. But please…please come with me.”
I don’t know why I’m doing this…it’s so insane. I just killed my brother in an alley way and this man seems to know all about it. Seems to know everything I’m thinking…he has to be god. Well this place is nice…even if he isn’t god I wouldn’t mind living here. The air is actually…sweet…and clean. We have been on this road for 10 minutes and I haven’t seen a single car.
“And you will not see one either.”
what?!
“Oh I’m sorry…I can read thoughts…and even make you believe what I want you to. But don’t worry it doesn’t work on people of my kind.”
“So…so you know what I’ve been thinking.”
”Yes that’s how I was able to find you.”
“But you just said…”
“I can still read your thoughts I just can’t make you think what I want you to.”
“Oh.”
“You seem to have a problem. You have no identity and no control.”
“What?”
“Oh sorry I was talking to myself…mostly. I’ll explain more when we get to Jesse. He will help us figure out what you did.”
“What I did.”
“Yes…what you did. Don’t worry down here we don’t frown upon it we consider it a growth. Yes I know it was your brother and you don’t want to think of his death as a profit to your future but you can honor him in it too. Here we are well go on in.”
“Aren’t you coming in as well.”
”Can’t, I’ve already been in I know what I can do and I can’t go back.”
“Oh, um…ok”
“Trust me.”
“Guess I have no choice.”

Wow…nice place…that’s a lot of light. But…oh it’s the marble I bet. It’s reflecting the sunlight. Wait…sun…I didn’t see a sun outside. What is producing this much light? Where the hell am I supposed to go? Damn it, why didn’t Grace tell me where to go. Well…there are only two doors so it’s fifty-fifty. I’m sure someone is here and knows where I need to go.

“Hello, my name is Jesse Gresham, you must be new.”
”Um…yeah…Grace told me to come see you I guess, unless there is another Jesse.”
“Nope, I am the only Jesse here.”
”Oh thank god someone who isn’t speaking all proper. Listen I don’t what the hell is going on. I don’t know what I did to get here; hell I don’t even know how I got here before Grace showed up.”
”Everyone comes here sooner or later. At least that is if you are a child of the Undoing.”
”Ok you know Grace said that to me as well…well he said that I was a child of the undoing and that he was waiting for me...but…what the fuck? I mean I don’t remember wanting to look for anyone. I don’t remember asking for any of this and correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t the Undoing that big thing that got rid of the sun and wind.”
“Actually it only got rid of the sun per see. See the sun is still there it’s just covered by man’s mistakes and the wind…well it may not blow as strong as it once did but it still remains as well. Not only does it still remain but you and it are the same.”
“Say what?”
“Well that is to say, you control wind.”
“How can someone control wind?”
“How can someone control electricity, read minds, manipulate paper, earth, or anything else that the other children of the Undoing can do? It’s simple; when man made that last mistake it altered nature and even killed some. But the generation following the Undoing, we are special, we have started to adapt and we are passing the adaptation down generations and now it’s your generation that benefits to our bodies adaptation. Your generation has started to develop powers. Powers beyond anything I’d have imagined, powers that are capable of shaping and creating a beautiful future or, like any other power, destroy it. But that’s a different story and it is being written by you and your generation. No what I need to tell you is this. You have the power over wind…but I have been known to be wrong. When I told Corbin, who you will meet later, that he had power over sand it turned out he has power over earth and anything that was made from the earth. But it has it’s limits, those that we are still discovering. So maybe you just control wind, maybe you control forces, or maybe you are for more complicated than that. It’s something you will have to find out.”
“Well…that was highly informative but.”
“Yes, a name…you don’t seem to have one do you.”
“No…I…I don’t.”
“Hmm…Tapt…yes I think that’ll do well.”
“Tapt…that’s interesting. May I ask why?”
“Where I was from…it meant Lost and you are lost.”
“Oh…thank you.”
“Well Tapt, time for you to go now and learn control. Grace will show you the way.”
”Thank you, Jesse.”

Tapt turned around from the desk and walked out the door.
I wonder what is behind the other door...well only one way to find out.