FOREST OF THE LOST

PART THREE

1.

Terrence Williams arrived at his new home just before ten in the morning on Wednesday the sixth of September 2017. He got out of his easy on the eye Ford Mustang, moved a few feet and stood to take in any kind of feeling he could get for the immediate area of where it is his new residence so happens to be. Slowly turning a full three sixty he needs to briefly shield his eyes from the strong low lying morning sun.

He had had that car of his for some time now and prior to its purchase he had thought about acquiring a colourful car to match a personality he really wanted to let loose upon the world. Somehow red, yellow, or blue just did not feel right so he went with the classic black, a colour his personality has aligned with. Attempting to fool the world only partly achieved with the purchase of something he wouldn't have gone for if it weren't for the want for change, and in such he has grown into this purchase rather than it being something that just wasn't or couldn't be ... him.

Now there is nothing dark about Terrence Williams, rather the colour matches his ordinary world where he always accepts what is expected of him. He never strayed, not by much anyhow, and never really just gone with the wind. He had never done anything off the cuff, unusual or unexpected. He never just followed the scent of what could just be and see where that takes him.

His current circumstances have set him free to the degree where he can now go do things he always wanted to and had previously been unable to do. The car was the beginning of a new start, and he wanted to reflect this with colour. Instead of choosing freeing colours like red, yellow, or blue, he went with the colour he formerly would have associated his life ... black, well it would have been either that or grey.

He has also acquired himself a new house, one with which he could not wait to get to for in this there certainly is change. Focus, effort, and staying on a particular path saw him on to succuss, financial success, that being nice and all but something just wasn't right, something was missing. The purchase of this new home may be the actual first step in changing from a classic black to perhaps a red, yellow, or blue. Still, this is just a maybe ...

This new home is more than a little way away from where he is from. It certainly is a little way away from the life he has known up to this point. Beyond that, this new home is the first completely detached house he sees from having passed through the main estate ground gates and at that, it is not all so far beyond those gates. From right next to this new house, to the right more so than to the left as he looks at this building, the estate begins to move downwards, quite steeply at first.

It is not a particularly large estate, the grounds as a whole can be walked in a matter of minutes and is fairly circular, probably a little more oval than circular. This house is one of three on an island like patch of land, the connecting point of this Y shaped estate.

Housing is a mix of detached and semi-detached buildings to the left, to the right and in the center of a single road that circles the whole area is where he stands. One could walk or drive down to the right side of Terrance's new home and could find themselves coming up on the left-hand side in no time at all.

At this moment in time, the estate is fairly quiet. There are two young children playing a little way down the hill on that right-hand side as one would see it having only just come through the estate gate. The children are possibly three or four years old and are being supervised by a single adult, their mother, or aunt perhaps. She sees this new arrival, Terrance, looking in her direction and sends a friendly wave his way. He waves back, speaking a pleasant hello loud enough for her to hear. First impressions as a new homeowner have him believing that this really could be a pleasant place to live.

With it indeed approaching ten o' clock, Terrence has nowhere in particular to go, or nothing in particular to do, for the moving van coming his way is due to arrive at midday. Bit of a shame really, for his new home has not even got so much as a kettle or a mug to make himself a hot drink, not that he had anything he could add to boiling water. As it also is, there is not even so much as a chair for him to sit on and wait out the next couple of hours.