Pilot Manifest: The Source of all Things by Tekla Lucien

Author:Tekla, Lucien [Tekla, Lucien]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-14T23:00:00+00:00

— The Wedding Day

The preparations were endless but the day finally arrived. It was almost all psychological. Some things never change. McKenna brought his family for the wedding. Vesna was happy to see them. She was unaware of anything until McKenna’s young son asked her: where’s your wedding dress. She said she didn’t know, of course, and was happy knowing that we had a secret plan.

She does have a dress. I discovered it in a cabin when resource gathering in the first weeks. I forgot about it until recently. I went back and found it stored in a wooden chest that filled the room with cedar when I opened it.

It was an honor to be joined by McKenna and his family. McKenna’s children were in awe of the skeletons who were covered in the most formal attire available. We were a rather disparate crew.

At a glance, it was as if we stood inside a crystal ball wrapped in northern air. We were history displayed in a hazy orb that was called: waiting for the bride. Resurrected skeletons were symbols of an explosive light. Skeleton sentries were stationed at points around the ceremony grounds. Their war cry was a wind in the forest that declared our brand of reckoning would be fortified with time. The augury revealed a momentous future. A mist of rain ratified the ceremony and vision.

Thank you, Copeland, for being my true great friend. Thank you, McKenna, for being after all a true great friend and for bringing Vesna, the young fighter, here to me. You could not have known the outcome of that dangerous risk or predicted this day in that decision. I think, though, somehow you did.

From far off I saw her. She moved close with an aura beyond beauty. Vesna was as lovely then as in the dream that once caught a glimpse of her haunting the depths of my subconscious in the true beginning of our story together.

The ceremony ended with a consuming embrace.

Today we’ll go sailing.

— 54

So much time is spent at the lodge since the wedding. We can’t move there yet. Vesna thinks we can move there already. That isn’t possible. We still have a great responsibility to maintain and secure our camp. We need to keep watch over our supplies and fallen aircraft.

We have moved an entire small cabin closer to our beach, two actually, with McKenna’s help. One has become a guest room when they visit. McKenna spends much more time with us these days. He usually takes a deer, or some supplies back when he goes. He always prefers to sail here now when visiting.

—I walked along the path, alone, where the burnt mountainside continues to heal—I often visit this place alone. It will always be a memorial to me. Vesna understands the symbol. She is also affected by the violence against nature. I stopped and remembered the last time we were here, Vesna and our child—he gathered charcoal. Vesna held her hand behind his back to support him from tumbling in this necropolis of wilderness.

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