Hearing the Call

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The "Sand King" took "the wanderer" to meet the "Captain", who will be responsible for training and healing "the wanderer" addictions. But will be "the wanderer" capable? Or will he just run away like he always does...

19 - Hearing the Call

Narrator: "How long been since the last time you did you used snow?" asked the captain. "The wanderer" lied: "Two days".

"Bullshit, i can see in your eyes, you should wash your face before telling lies like that...how long?" "The wanderer didn't want to tell the truth.

Narrator: "Look boy, if we gonna lie to each other, this whole thing ain't gonna work. Do you want to be clean? Do you want to go in that mountain?".

"The wanderer" look into the captain eyes and answer with honestly "No sir, i don't want to be clean...all i want all the time is to see "Andromeda Ghost" and make snow!"

Narrator: "I don't give a damn about climbing this mountain... this came to me... i didn't choose it" For the first time "the wanderer" was talking about everything with honestly and anger. The deepest anger that he felt in his heart since the beginning.

Narrator: The captain remain calm. He walks into his bar/home pour himself another drink. After drinking, both look calm and the Captain says: "I knew Andromeda, before she turn into a ghost, was a pretty girl, she run away from his fate, like i did with my. Then, my dear boy, choose your destiny or your destiny will choose you, like he did with me, and like he did with her..."

Narrator: "The wanderer" heard that like a shoot into his chest. He knew about the consequences of avoiding the choices, but he didn't want to lie. "I know sir, but you ask for the truth, and that's the truth..." The Captain moves his head giving a sign of understanding. They remain calm and quiet for a moments.

Narrator: "Even so, you are here, that means, that you want to make it different, so try, but try hard, and then, when you see... you will be doing" said the captain, drinking another shot. All people have vices. But some vices bother more. And then people want you to quit them. Like "the wanderer" having to quit the snow. It matters to the story, and matters to him, but have you ever asked why he doesn't want that? Something good for him, and be "special" in the world of BACU (his world) isn't that great?

Narrator: He was about to explode that on words to the Captain.

"I want to stop with the snow, but sometimes is so hard, sometimes nobody is there, anybody won, nobodys's gives you a hugs, nobody have a nice day, nobody eat that well, nobody is you, sometimes,

and sometimes the day is hard and the night is long, sometimes rains in your weding, sometimes you have a bad day, or sometimes you just want to chil.

So, captain i want, but I don't know if can, just trying hard, doesn't seen enough, because I've been trying hard". "The wanderer" talked as never before, at least not in a few years. That was the start of the training, you must be strong inside, if you want to shape the world outside.

Narrator: The Captain didn't response to the waterfall of words, as a wise man/hook he wait till "the wanderer" to calm down. And then after that moments impossibles to describe in minutes or seconds, but time enought to give back some words: "Is in those moments that you have to decide if you will be there or someone else. In these moments son, isn't about: play, is about to win."

Narrator: "The wanderer" didn't know much about win, his life been a sequence of defeats. It's that why he can't believe in himself, he don't remember a victory, how it taste and how it feel. He's been living on snow day after day, and the fisrt day without, feels like a knife cuting his heart.

Narrator: "The wanderer" asked: what else will we be training? The "Captain" pick up the "wanderer"' cigarettes and say: we will be caring about for your lungs as well, the climb is hard, it's going to feel like there's no air there for a long time.

Narrator: "The wanderer" start to manipulate the wind, without snow to mess with his head. Or cigarettes to makes him want to quit and smoke, the manipulation sees easier and better. "See...you can do better than usual, it's only a question of focus. So take your head from thing that distract you and focus on the only things that real matters." Said the "Captain".

Narrator: They going to train a few days before the wanderer feels ready, but the fact is, he won't be ready. We never are ready to face ours most difficult days, but we have to go anyway . Only we can face our destiny, whatever it maybe.

Narrator: But this first steps that the wanderer is giving, is the hearing the call, and at least he is not running away, now he is really changing and facing his fate.