The bunker, this time, was below a two-storey house. It would have been a perfectly normal home, if not for the shattered windows and broken doors. This bunker sat deep in the middle of the derelict city they had ventured through before. In the back garden, newly planted in it, was a solid stone tombstone. Alex sat cross-legged on a bench a few feet from it.
'In loving memory of Linda Caper. Loving wife and Mother. Gone. But never forgotten.'
Alex spoke solemnly, "I'm sorry for everything. For all of this. I'm sorry I left you behind. I'm sorry I didn't come for you myself. I'm sorry I couldn't save you."
His voice broke and he began to cry silently.
He would often sit there for hours, imagining she was with him with her arm around him, consoling him. Telling him he'd be okay and that all is forgiven.
His voice quivered as he spoke, sobbing, "I told you I'd do better. That I could be better. But how can I ever be better? Mum, without you, I don't even know who I am. What do I do now?"
Alex lay on his side and watched the tombstone for a little while. He closed his sad, tired eyes and imagined he was with her at home and just falling asleep before the end of another movie. Her, carrying him to bed and kissing him gently on the forehead before tucking him in. As he fell asleep with her epitaph beside him he could almost hear her voice soothing him.
"Goodnight Alex," she said.
Alex Caper will return
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The Ethereal Saga - Volume One - The Child of Light
FantasíaA mother who refuses to remember, an all too familiar school counsellor, and a teacher hiding a terrible secret. Alex never knew his father. A fact which he has allowed to define him for his whole life. He always believed there was more to the myste...
