The Pearls of Catharsis Times Issue 04, July 2017 | Page 26

he was a few steps outside the door, she called out to him. He turned around
and walked back to stand right outside the door to hear what she wanted to say.
“Locklin, whatever choice you make in your way back, it is not yours alone, so
remember that. Our individual choices affect us as a whole and those choices
presented to us by God affect the earth as the future children will come to
know it.” Locklin nodded his head and left the healer's house.
He looked up to gauge the sun's position and he saw that it was directly above
him. He decided not to go back home but to head straight for the edge of the
mountain, where his dream was sending him.
As soon as he got to the end of footpath he began to run. The further down he
ran, the deeper he went into the forest. He had been running for two hours
when he began to slow down. He could barely see the top of the mountain
where the village was. He had never been to these parts of the forest, and
thought to himself ‘I should have gone home first, what was I thinking? I didn't
even have any breakfast!"
He was kicking pebbles as he walked, when he saw a really clear gem stone. He
picked it up to give to Janet when he got back. He laughed at himself for trying
to escape that day when he met her. ‘I owe her my life,“ he thought. He started
feeling grateful that she had stopped him from running as the silence of these
parts of the forest was beginning to get to him. Instinctively, he decided to start
running again.
He had now been running for almost 45 minutes when he realised that the
ground was now flat and he could no longer see trees ahead of him. He had
reached the edge of the mountain and could not see a glistening window
anywhere. He looked around, and walked up and down a 100 meter stretch. He
started panicking when he looked up to check the time, as he saw a small circle
of something that resembled holy oil suspended in the air. ‘This must be the
glistening window, as it was closing as time was running out," he thought to
himself. He put his hand in as he saw himself do in the dream and when he
pulled it out, he was holding a scroll. Locklin quickly unrolled it and when he put
together what he understood from the writing, he realised it had instructions
on how to build a machine that would be able to capture images as they were.