19.
Being lost makes it worth being found ... but who is more lost ... Delia or Samuel?
Such a strange thing to be doing, heading to a lost and found center to find a person, of course it is not just any person that Samuel is looking for. That person in question is indeed his wife. If she is somewhere near-by then there is a possibility that she may not want to be found at all but why would this be so?
The love they share, their love, their connection is so rare and strong that surely neither would want to give up on it but here Samuel is, alone in a strange place, a strange world, wanting nothing more than to be with the love of his life once more. This strange world however has already tested that love, it has asked a question or two. No matter the question, Sam is sure of the answer. This place may just question that too.
When Delia went missing ... did she do so willingly? ... it is possible this may be true but there could be more to it than that too. As Samuel is coming to learn ... this place is not any ordinary place, not by a long shot. Perhaps there is a drug like call that drew Delia back here as it is more than obvious that Samuel and Delia were here before. Still ...
It may be a strange world that he has come to, in many a strange way too it is familiar, of course in which it has become apparent that there has been a before in this place. The familiarity is more than a sense or more than a feeling that he has been here before, there are bits and pieces of the real world, bits, and pieces of his world here in this one. And then too there is a nothing raging through this world ... a nothing Samuel has yet to become aware of.
This lost and found center, what does Samuel do once he is there? He can hardly just approach someone if indeed there is someone to approach and tell them that his wife is missing and ask as to if she could possibly be within such a place as in that exact place he has come to. He can't expect for someone to say 'yes sir, just hold on a sec and I'll go get her ...' Nah, surely, he cannot do that at all, or expect it, though this still is a strange world and strange things do happen, strange things have happened, and strange things will more than likely continue to happen.
Once at this center, Samuel is immediately confused. The place is completely unlike what he would expect any kind of a lost and found center to look like ... if anything it bares more a resemblance to a train station than to anything else. In fact, a train station is just what it does appear to be. A lost and found train station, now ain't that something?
He enters the main building, himself looking as lost as anyone could look in such a place. A man who looks to be some kind of conductor approaches and asks ... 'person or item?'
'Excuse me?' asks Samuel.
'What you are looking for, is it a person or item?'
'Oh, person, actually it is my wife, you see ...'
'I don't need details.'
This conductor person works a small machine he has strapped around his neck and issues a ticket to Samuel.
'Platform four' speaks this man while pointing to where platform four is. 'Your train leaves in five minutes.'
'Five minutes ...?'
With that Samuel takes the ticket and the conductor is gone before any further inquiries could be made. Samuel is definitely more than a little confused. Apparently, there is no charge not that Samuel currently has the means to pay for a train ticket to anywhere. A place like this would hardly accept a credit card, let alone one completely maxed out even with the fact he is with employment, employment in the real world that is.
Anyhow, there also are questions he would have liked to have asked such a conductor but as it is, he did not get the chance to do so. What else can he do but move to where this platform four is and board that train?
