How possible and how terrible can it be to live a life full of dreams but never see those dreams come true?
- Have we all failed?
The man continued to look upon the boy and then turned away his head, he gently picked up his hat, covered his -burned- head and smiled for him self.
- No, we have not failed. -the man said- We have just started and there’s still a long way. We must not stay here, for soon enough the night will fall and there are strange and fierce creatures among this very trees.
He got on his legs and helped the boy up who was carrying a dark green -military style- heavily loaded backpack. They felt the cold breeze for an instant and continued their journey.
Chapter I
The first thing was always breakfast, no matter what, breakfast had to had it’s time. They used to get up at around 6:00 AM everyday to get some wood to start the fire, a fire which usually lasted the entire day and was put out late at night when they were -again- ready for bed.
That morning the boy went to get the wood alone, the old man was not feeling very well and decided to stay in bed a few minutes more, at least as long as it took the boy to get back, start the fire and boil some water, that would give him some twenty minutes more -the old man figured. The night before it had rained like never before and part of the roof came down. They had to get up there and fix that hole or else they would have ended up having everything washed away. The old man got a ladder he had kept for some years and holded it against a tree which was close enough to the roof, so the boy could climb up and fix it. The boy pulled a hammer from his pocket along a few nails -which he held in his mouth- and started putting the roof togheter again. It took him about 40 minutes the get that hole almost sealed and decided to get down. The roof was in pretty good shape again and the could sleep in their own beds once more. The old man actually got the worst part, he was just standing there, holding the ladder, not moving and thus the cold night and the rain drops as big as eyeballs went straight down to his very bones and of course he was not as young as he should have been in order to take that easier.