7

After leaving the homeland and landing in an unknown land, Robert did not wake up for what seemed to be a very long time. Maybe it is infinity but where is the world? The milieu he found himself in surely looked different from what has ever been known before. Its composure were disassembled of the simplest of proportions. There was no shape or color to be spotted in the corners of the mist. It was an endless extremity of light with no sign of vitality anywhere. If it was all a dream, were dreams meant to be awakened from?

Robert felt a breeze of delicateness sweeping away in front of his nose like a feather. The soft breeze swept again so close to his nose but this time not away but rather close. Robert felt what seemed to be a feathered creature sweeping so close to his face. This strange incident made his senses alarmed in a state of confusion. He felt an extreme numbness in his muscles and both of his eyes itched. Despite this, he raised his hands to rub his eyes with his slender white fingers, only to reopen them on a sight he surely missed;

-" my father!".

Edmund was standing in front of Robert in all of his flesh and bones. How much Robert wanted to reach and hold him, just to express the extremity of his feelings. But, the strange feeling he felt in the back of his head was too eager and most certainly deepened every time he shacked his head round. What worsened the feeling of dizziness is every time Robert turned his head in a specific direction the ground seemed to also move. So, he fell again but this time not to the ground but rather to the sky.

- "How infinite it is!"

True that every single particle of the sparkling dust around him was moving too slow or rather too fast he could not tell with absolute certitude. What was certain, however, is that was a luminescence extending dimension where the light was its only inhabitant. At the sight of that marvel, Robert remembered the amount of longing the serfs had for the rightful sky. A sky whose light would never fade away. In the freshness of his thoughts, Robert's eyes searched for the source of the light. He looked around him to see that the dimension was only composed of stars, then he concluded that;

-"they are the stars " affirming to his senses that; " they are alive," since they are smiling and chanting everlasting hymns of joy. So, he leaned on one of the stars next to him and whispered in its halo;

-"if I could ever capture this light of yours,".

It was a wish of his heart that his lips pronounced and he so heartfully wished for its immediate realization. This desire of his was not riddled by the shadows of doubts. Robert believed, or rather chose to believe, that it can come true. He stood on one of the clouds waiting for it to come true and how unsurprised he was when it actually did. His olive-green eyes opened wide to witness the star shrinking in size to settle on his black shirt like a Golding pin. He wanted to get more stars since all the stars of the town were deceased and for this reason their shine was not sufficient to enlighten the entire town.

He threw away his shoes and jumped bare-footed from one cloud to another holding on to the rose-smelled air. Catching every star until there was no more space left on his shirt for other golden pins. Robert was wangling in the balcony of his wildest dreams when he saw a bird from afar. An enormous bird, that resembled;

- "a dragon!"

He decided to ask if it would allow him to ride on its feathered back and show him around this place to which he is an absolute stranger. How unsurprised he was when his wish was again granted. All of his wishes were heard by the angels whom he sees dancing and chanting enchanting songs with their angelic sweet voices.

The dragon landed on one of the clouds with his eight paws in front of Robert. The creature went up in the clouds before Robert managed to hold on tight to its garnished brownish long horns. It flew at a supreme speed and Robert was difficulty catching his breath. He felt his heart bouncing in his chest and its nonrhythmic beats can only affirm to his breath that it was only lost to be found again. He closed his eyes, and opened his arms to match the size of the dragon's wings and swore;

-"I swear of oblivion," since "there is no other land but this," beyond certain that; " this is my homeland,"

Robert was sure that he is one of the magical particles composing this place. Yet, it is only now that this truth manifested. True that in the wildness of the dream, everything seemed possible. But still, it is undeniable that there is a thin line separating all truths from lies. Based on the origins of the truth, meaning its roots, it is very evident to believe it. Since it is remarked in the way everything manifests even people's behaviors. The way they speak, walk, think and decide is based on their acceptance of the truth. It is quite evident to think about the truth and accept it but it is rare to manifest its norms behaviorally. People often – if not always- decide to ignore the truth and instead settle for the lie that they happen to find more comfortable. It is true that humans always have a variety of choices to choose between. However, choosing is not a choice given to Robert and he came to realize that he was in fact chosen by infinity itself.

This is no surprise since he is endowed since his birth with certain characteristics that made him excel intellectually. And it is a trait that was soon to project in the way he viewed the world around him. He was granted by God with a sight that surpassed all frontiers. Due to this, he saw clearly the thin line separating the truth from the lie. A true blessing that was only noticed by his mother Catherine whom he missed very dearly. An alarming thought came to Robert's mind at that moment;

- "if my father is here so should my mother".

He ordered the dragon to land by tapping softly on his left white-feathered wing. And the dragon obeyed since Robert at last came to tame him. Robert put his feet on the fertile soil of the dream and marched. He was determined on finding his mother no matter what the obstacles were. His eyes spotted from afar what looked like;

-"an ocean!".

He never visited the ocean, but did read about it in his comic books. True that had always wanted to discover what hid in its depth. To fulfill the hunger of his desires, he approached toward it until he reached its shore, where he stood on the white sand. He crossed both his hands, turned backward, closed his eyes, and dived into the ocean. He felt the weight of his body lowering until it became as light as a feather. Despite this lightness he did not feel his feet reaching the seabed. Robert was sinking in an ocean whose frozen waves in made him feel super cold, and almost froze his muscles. He wished at that moment that its temperature would increase. Suddenly, he felt something holding onto his shoulders and the ocean's temperature raised progressively until it became of an endless warmth. He opened his eyes then and turned back only to see;

-"mother! I found you,".

Catherine held her son's shoulders tight as if she was welcoming him with an alluring smile on her lips that disappeared as she swam away. But the sweetness of her smile did not prevent Robert from seeing the tears in her eyes. He looked around him and came to notice that Margaret, his little sister, was not with his mother. So, he dived furthermore into the ocean determined on finding his sister no matter what the obstacles are. By using only the swimming skills he had read about in his comic books also, he dived further. It was a matter of faith and most importantly of belief. He believed that Margaret was there because he knew very well that she happens to resemble him, that she also;

- "cannot swim, isn't so?", said Robert to his sister whom he had found sitting on the sea grass next to algae.

He took his sister by the hand and swam back up until they reached the shore again. Robert walked into the total unknown once again but this time his sense of loneliness eased since he was holding hands with his mother and sister. The light was spreading in front of them making the road too unclear to spot a way out. They knew at that moment that it had surpassed their intellectual abilities so they gathered in circles and prayed;

-"Oh God, please show us the way back to our land"

Their voices loudened the voice of their heart their yearned to return to the familiar land which they have missed. They heard a voice from behind them calling;

-"come over here,"

They looked back to see it was Edmund pointing at what seemed to be a rope up in the clouds. However, the rope was very thin. Robert knew that they have to climb it individually. He looked at his family members certain that one of them has to stay here, in this unknown land.

-"Catherine, you first,…" said Robert as he stood still for his little sister to stand on his shoulders to reach the rope and climb its way back up.

-"Mom, you second,…" again he stood still for his mother to reach the rope and climb up.

Robert turned to his father who knew what his son was going to say, so he pronounced;

- "together son, together we will fly…"

At pronouncing the last word of his sentence, they flew up to the sky. Robert held on tight to his father's neck as he used to do when he was a child and went up. The air around them was shrinking and it, soon, became too difficult to breathe. The extreme haze of the light was also fading. Then there was no more beam of light to see as well as no more air to breathe.