The Golden Key: A Quest For Freedom (The Golden Key: Quest For Freedom Book 1) by Wilmes Marvin

Author:Wilmes, Marvin [Wilmes, Marvin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Key Publications
Published: 2016-04-07T22:00:00+00:00

Part IV: Chapter Four

Wayne came out of the base sauna as he reflected on how Roger had worked his way into his universe. He couldn't pinpoint any reasons why Roger was any different than any other marine. It was as if Wayne felt a responsibility to lift him up.

He had gone to the sauna to clear his head and to shake off the dream he had the night before. Dreams were usually benign, rarely remembered, but not this one. It stuck with him. Deeply. He wasn't sure why?

He had found himself locked in a cage being observed by an elderly gentleman who reminded him of a mad scientist.

"Hey." He grabbed the bars and shook the frame of the cage as he desperately looked for an opening to escape.

"Relax, young man, you are not being kept against your will. You have it within your power to leave any time."

"Who are you?"

"Zeke." The man displayed an evil grin. "Yes, Zeke, is all you need to know.

A heavy, thick fog surrounded the cage and Wayne felt suffocated by the air around him. He wanted to scream, but there didn't seem to be any air to execute it.

Then he saw a shadow begin to emerge from the fog. There was a beautiful black stallion with a mane that glistened from the moisture in the air.

Upon the horse was a rider and Wayne gasped as he realized who the man was.

It was his late father.

"Dad."

The man's eyes were saddened as he dismounted the horse, then walked toward Wayne without saying a word. As he arrived at the cage, he lifted the lock that secured his son in this cage of fear.

"Don't you understand, son?"

Wayne felt his body shiver. It had seemed like forever since he heard his father speak. Guilt washed over him after he recalled his last words to his father were that he couldn't go fishing with him on a weekend camping trip because he wanted to go to a Bob Dylan concert instead.

His father had not argued or tried to talk him out of it.

He wished he had, because a week later his father had been digging a trench while at work when the sides of it caved in and buried him. His coworkers tried desperately to dig him out as emergency personnel were called in to assist, but it was to no avail.

Wayne had never been able to make sense of the tragic accident. His father had simply gone to work one day and never returned home. His sense of security in this world left him.

What had hurt the most was his mother's pain. He didn't know how to console her, how to comfort her. So, instead, he hurt her. He rebelled and withdrew from any sense of responsibility or moral clarity. He ran into a life that eventually destroyed his sense of freedom.

Wayne surveyed the bars of the cage around him.

He had ended up joining the military, trading in his caged existence on the streets for the structured rigors of military life.

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