True Wisdom
Abigail landed on a pavement beside an empty road. The air was much cooler and Abigail opened her arms to welcome the cooling sensation. In front of her was a building with bare, brick walls and a simple tiled roof. An entrance with electric double doors was off to one side with a sign above it saying:
'QUIET LIFE ELDERLY CARE HOME'
Abigail entered through the double doors and went to the sign-in sheet. She did the date, time, her first name, and then had to cross out 'Kend' and put 'Dun' for the last name. She moved through to an open area with stairs on the right, a meeting hall ahead, and rooms on the left. The flooring was plain wooden strips and the walls were a light blue to try and get the feeling that it was the sky and not the walls of captivity. A single CD player from many years ago sat in the corner playing songs from the time between the second and third great wars.
Abigail walked down to the left which was a corridor of doors ranging from number 1 - 40. Each room in this building was exactly the same except for the furniture inside and certain things like hand rails. Abigail walked all the way down to the end of the corridor before it turned right for the rooms 20 - 40. She knocked on the door numbered 19 and waited. A muffled sound of shuffling could be heard inside followed by the unlocking of the door. The door swung open and there stood a tall, grey haired woman wearing a self-made jumper over a white t-shirt, and black, slightly baggy trousers.
"Abi, what a nice surprise!" said the woman.
"Hello grandma." replied Abigail as she hugged the mother of her adoptive father. She walked into the room and made her way into the living room.
The living room wasn't too small with one sofa along a wall facing the television and a single armchair perpendicular to the sofa facing a large window. Connected to the living room was a kitchen into which the woman (Mary) had walked into.
"Would you like a cup of tea?" she asked. Abigail shook her head but as she sat down on the sofa her face fell into her hands and she began to cry. Mary quickly walked over to her to comfort her. Although an artificial connection to the omni-network kept her body in strong condition until she naturally left, she still wasn't the fastest.
"I lost Amy!" blurted out Abigail through the tears. Mary pulled a handkerchief out of her sleave and handed it to Abigail.
A few minutes of crying later Abigail regained her composure and told Mary what had happened.
"I hope you don't mind me asking dear. Why did you come HERE? Shouldn't you be out looking for her?" asked Mary.
"I'm going to find her but first I need to do something for her. She knows nothing about James. And I barely know much about him either. So I wanted to ask you about him to I could finally tell her about him in his entirety." said Abigail. Mary shifted in her seat and began to think hard.
"Well I guess you know that he always tried his hardest to help people. He didn't care if he got hurt in the process because he knew it was for a good cause. He was just like his father. Too bad he went missing the same day I found out I was pregnant."
"Wait. I thought James' father was killed when he was five or something?"
"Oh Arthur! No. I met Arthur while I was pregnant and he helped me care for James. We married when James was about one so he wouldn't feel bad about Arthur not being his dad."
"Ladies and Gentlemen! Bingo is beginning in five minutes!" said a voice through a speaker.
"I forgot that was today! I'm terribly sorry Abi but I have a championship spot to maintain. You can come if you like?" offered Mary.
"No thank you. I need to make another stop somewhere." replied Abigail. The two of them said goodbye and Abigail marked herself off on the sign-in sheet. Her next stop was an old friend of hers.