Breaking out of Eden.

The Gate That Leads No Where

I woke up while the sky was still dark and even the larks were still sleeping. I had been having the same dream all week, ever since Jacob gave me the Genesis File.

I was standing in a large domed room the walls lined with torches that gave the room a haze of smoke. I could see the starts through the skylight at the top of the dome. The black marble floor bare except for a an old iron gate, seemingly leading no where on a pedestal in the middle of the room.

The gate was painted white, a stark contrast to black of the room. It had writing in a language I didn't recognise on the frame, and a pattern of winding symbols down the sides.

An old man stood by the gate wearing a dark green cloak and leaning on a staff. He looked like he belonged in a painting of a fantasy world or a time long ago. He never did anything, he would just looked at me with his tired brown eyes and give me a faint smile.

But what made the dream a nightmare was the person blocking the steps up to the gate and its keeper.

Its was Matt...but he it wasn't the Matt I knew, every single time he would hold out his hand and ask me for the Genesis File, telling me that together we could destroy the Serpent and rebuild the world as its leaders. I always say no but he never listens, telling me that I'm just being selfish and that if I was really loyal to Exodus I would give him the Genesis File.

After I say no again his face changes, his hair grows shorter and lighter and his eyes turn to a steely grey-green colour. Matt turned in to Adan Eden, then I wake up.

It's always the same, It never goes further that Adan Eden but the dream was too close to what Jacob had said for me to dismiss it as random

I got out of bed knowing I wouldn't get back to sleep, after dressing and leaving a note to Maia telling I was going for a walk, I ran from the apartment and my thoughts.

Walking around Calvary my feet took me towards Bael street, the closest thing to a slum Eden had. Sometimes, if a meeting at the Morning Star ended early I would spend some time with the people here.

Most people who lived on Bael street couldn't afford to buy food at the regular shops so they went to the soup kitchen or the food bank. These places were so cheap because the food they get is the rejected food from the big food production companies. Usually the food would be two or three days past its sell by date, it was still acceptable to eat but whatever drug is put in the food by the Serpent wears off after it comes off the shelf. So the people here know about the world, some have even been out there fought in wars and see different cultures and people.

Bael street was my escape.It's a place where I'm not a member of a rebel group, gathering information to help take down a dictatorship or a part of a secret service trying to find a weapon that could free Eden. Here I was just Valery and it was nice to have no responsibilities for once.

Going down the curvy cobbled walkway you could see the poverty in the shabby clothes of the people scurrying down the street, and on the too thin faces of the children sitting in doorways that lead to cramped living quarters.

Peering out of a near doorway was an old man leaning on a staff he winked at me and motioned for me to follow, he then took off down the street at a pace that should have been much too fast for a man of his age. He was the man from my dream, the keeper of the gate.

The man walked down a fairly deserted side street the end of the lane there was a gate but the few people seemed not to notice the gate.

It wasn't the one from my dream but it was similar. It had the same markings but wasn't as impressive, the old man opened the gate and he didn't appear on the other side.