One more step and…there…that’s it: the farthest he has ever
gone. The tree rests behind him with green leaves still wet from the rain that
seems to have taken a momentarily break. Last time he was here the sun was high in the
sky. He used to come on these lands with Nicks. Sometimes when they were
really, really brave they would come this far to eat lunch under the tree. But
that was it, that was the end of the boy's tiny universe and it had never crossed his
mind to go beyond it.
A pebbled road makes its way ahead through dark muddy hills.
He looked at it for a while as if looking at a painting hanged on a wall and
then turned and took the road home. Exhilaration pumped his heart. He had done
it; broken the circle of his own world, proved it can be done, proved he can break
free at any moment.
It never even crossed
his mind to see what lay beyond those hills.
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