Just when you’re about to give up, something draws you back to the game. With me, it may be my absolute obsession to leave nothing undone. A fool’s dedication, but satisfying in some small way.
And reward for the effort is almost immediate; It is hinted that I’m hungry and I enter the nearest pub where an acquaintance gives me some intriguing information that sounds like an additional and important task beyond the pressing of red buttons on the servers. When I leave, a decision to start at one end of the city brings me within a couple steps of the final server and I complete that task to bring the original five servers complete.
I must remember to e-mail the boss and let him know that the mission is complete. But is it? There’s a hidden helmet that the acquaintance has said I will need. So that’s my next move. But first, I must stop and say hello to Leonard Nimoy who is standing 3 feet above ground wearing jeans and a black turtleneck.
Good. The story is becoming fun again.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology