FOREST OF THE LOST

PART SEVENTEEN

29.

Confusion, with all that has come from the moment Terrence arrived at a new town right up to the confrontation, the physical and verbal contact Terrence has had with a young lady jogger who apparently went missing more than thirty-four years prior to the move Terrence had made. There has been confusion and plenty of confusion at that.

Feeling dejected, feeling failure, and feeling a complete lack of hope that things from here on in can go well and as well as can ever be imagined, Terrence still lies on the spot he awoke in. He has yet to properly stand after coming into contact with Karen O'Neill, that young lady from 1983. She had aided him up but with how things subsequently went, and a sudden feeling of failure, he has come to be back on the ground.

Those with whom he has come across up to now, all no longer are with him ... and at that, they weren't in his company long. How is he gonna help anyone with the way things are going? He has seen the effects failure will have on Mary in a future yet to come, will come for her, so can that mean he is destined to fail? No, he is not gonna accept that. The one big positive is what he has been shown in a vision. One member of the lost has made it out, so success is possible.

Right now, as with this moment, he could nearly stay right where he is and wait for something to come and take him away. Sure, he has been taken away already and brought right back, if that has actually happened, this is not the kind of taken away he probably and currently has on his mind. That kind of taken away may soon once more be on the cards.

Something is about to happen, however, that will both get Terrence back on track and confuse him as much and more so that he has even been confused before now. There is another visitation, another arrival of one who is missing or was missing. Behind where Terrence is on the ground, slightly crouched up, arrives a sixty-four-year-old man.

'Get up' speaks this man.

Terrence turns and upon seeing who it is he sees falls right flat on his back.

'I said get up.'

'What ...?' Terrence says with the confusion hitting and making him more lost than he could ever have imagined being.

'You heard me ... do it.'

'How are you here? You can't be here.'

'Of course, I can, and I am. I will always be here, so get up, get yourself together and do what it is you are here to do.'

Terrence does move to his feet and as he does this, he loses sight of the man who has or had paid him a visit. There is no opportunity to ask any questions, as for his most recent visitor is gone. Why did Terrence believe that this visitor could not have been anywhere close by at this point? Because of the fact of who he is. The man who had temporarily come to him was and is Cecil Lynch. He with whom a vision shown to Terrence had received a release.

How could Cecil Lynch come to Terrence if whatever force that had taken him has also released him? Shouldn't he be gone back to reality; whatever reality had held in store for him? And why was his visit so brief? Confusion ... is such a confusing thing. A possible reasoning for Cecil's appearance could work on the reasoning that if he had been taken at all, and he had, then couldn't his essence still remain whether or not a release had come to him? And indeed, if Terrence is feeling failure, so early on in his journey, then maybe he needs to hear something ... positive.

So, what now? Feelings and logic aside, hope or lack of it aside, where does one in the position that Terrence is in go from here? Indeed, what now? This forest park covers such a large amount of space that it really is easy to get lost around here, even with the presence of many markings for each of the walking trails. For Terrence, it should be in one way relatively simple. Choose a direction ... start walking and see what comes his way. For one thing right now, some breakfast would be nice.