29.

Confusion, with all that has come from the moment Terrence arrived at a new town right up to the confrontation, the physical and verbal contact Terrence has with a young lady jogger who apparently went missing more than thirty-four years prior to the move Terrence has made, there has been confusion and plenty of confusion at that.

Feeling dejected, feeling failure, and feeling a complete lack of hope that things can from here on in can go well and as well as can ever be imagined, Terrence still lays in a spot he awoke in. He has yet to properly stand after coming into that contact with Karen O'Neill, that young lady from 1983. She had aided him up but with how things subsequently went, and a sudden feeling of failure, he has come to be back on the ground.

Those with whom he has come across all no longer are and at that, they weren't in his company long. How is he gonna help anyone with the way things are going? He has seen the effects failure will have on Mary in the future so can that mean he is destined to fail? No, he is not gonna accept that. The one big positive is what he has been shown in a vision. One member of the lost has made it out so success is possible.

Tight now, in this moment, he could nearly stay right where he is and wait for something to come and take him away. Sure, he has been taken away already and brought right back, if that has actually happened, this is not the kind of taken away he probably currently has on his mind. That kind of taken away may soon once more be on the cards once again.

Something is about to happen however that will both get Terrence back on track and confuse him as much and more so that he has even been before now. There is another visitation, another arrival of one who is missing or was missing. Behind where Terrence is on the ground slightly crouched up, arrives a sixty-four-year-old man.

'Get up' speaks this man.

Terrence turns and upon seeing who it is he sees falls right flat on his back.

'I said get up.'

'What ...?' Terrence says with the confusion hitting and making him more lost that he could ever have imagined being.

'You heard me ... do it.'

'How are you here? You can't be here.'

'Of course, I can, and I am, so get up, get yourself together and do what it is you are here to do.'

Terrence does move to his feet and as he does this, he loses sight of the man who has or had paid him a visit. There is no opportunity to ask any questions for that visitor is gone. Why did Terrence believe that this visitor could not have been anywhere close-by at this point? Because of the fact of who he is. The man who had temporarily come to him was and is Cecil Lynch. He with whom a vision showed Terrence of a release.

How could Cecil Lynch come to Terrence if whatever force that had taken him has also released him? Shouldn't he be gone back to reality; whatever reality had held in store for him? And why was his visit so brief? Confusion ... is such a confusing thing. A possible reasoning for Cecil's appearance could work on the reasoning that if he had been taken at all, and he had, then couldn't his essence still remain whether or not a release had come to him? And indeed, if Terrence is feeling failure, so early on in his journey, then maybe he needs to hear something positive.

So, what now? Feelings and logic aside, hope or lack of it aside, where does one in the position that Terrence is in go from here? Indeed, what now? This forest park covers such a large amount of space that it really is easy to get lost in here. For Terrence it should be in one way relatively simple. Choose a direction, start walking and see what comes his way. For one thing right now, some breakfast would be nice.

This place hears his request and responds duly for Terrence soon walks himself right into what appears to be an orchard. He was totally unaware that such a place existed within the town park, maybe it doesn't exist, maybe a service is being provided. Funny for when Terrence feels a hunger, he is presented with a choice of forbidden fruit. An apple breakfast has been presented to him, who is he to turn it down?

It is not long since Terrence has woken from a sleep, taking a bite out of any apple he can pick will hardly send him back into a sleep, would it? Walking a while and munching on an apple while carrying with him two more, Terrence cannot help but speak out loud the name Cecil Lynch. He does this over and over and over contemplating the visit he had received ...Cecil Lynch ... Cecil Lynch ... Cecil Lynch.

He done this as he moved from one section to the next, how odd would it be if the voice or voices which are what attracted Cecil Lynch to the park to begin with just happen to be the one voice, the voice of Terrence Williams wandering within that very place speaking the name Cecil Lynch. Now wouldn't that be something?

If you were to use that logic, then could it be down to Terrence as to why Todd Grogan and Karen O'Neill became lost to the park? When Terrence came across Todd it was at the point of entry in the moment the boy had vanished to the park, then there was that dream like moment that felt real where being on the park bridge, he saw Karen O'Neill run by.

Terrence did encounter Karen O'Neill right before he encountered Cecil Lynch and didn't Terrence himself enter the park with the intention of finding the young lady jogger once again by that bridge? Alright again, going by the same logic then where do the fourteen-year-old boys fit in? Yeah, Terrence has met them but what else? Can he predict when he might see them again? Nothing he has done or could possibly do could travel through time and attract them to where he so happens to be, right?

The boys Jeremy Wright and Kenneth Torrance were on his list of those he knew had vanished to the park, maybe that in itself could mean something. Then there is the schoolteacher and the storekeeper too. All of this can't be down to Terrence Williams to take on alone. There is no time within the park so he can be in no time and all times at the same time, perhaps time or the lack of it is how Cecil can be free and still be here too.

There is that certain something else too however, a certain presence that is not his own or something more than his own so if Terrence can be any kind of cause, or be he who ends it all, then he can't be an only cause, there must be something more. Terrence is sure that he has never and could never be alone for he has felt this presence; surely it is this presence that is at the center of all that is going on.

There is this chainsaw guy too, Jason Ryan. He does not enter the park until October 2019, a little over two years after when it is that Terrence Williams enters; of course, Terrence has unintentionally come across this fellow too, and has no way of knowing who he is or from when he came.

30.

An aimless wander comes to halt. Another arrival, another visitor makes himself known to Terrence and this one really cannot be. Someone has come to Terrence as if he knew exactly where Terrence would be at the precise moment this visit takes place. This man, this visitor is someone Terrence knows very well.

Confusion can be a wonderful thing at times, especially when it also makes perfect sense. Lawrence Williams has come to see his son. Terrence doesn't visit or converse with either of his parents anywhere near as much as he should. His move gives him all the more reason not to visit them and it also in a way gives him reason to make more of an effort.

A month prior to moving to a new town, a move so far away that any kind of quick visit would really become out of the question, was the last time that Terrence had spent more than a minute or two with his dad. If anything, that last moment together before this one was the only time, they had a real and serious moment together in at least a couple of years.

The main purpose of such a visit to both of his parents on that occasion was to inform them of his move. He would rather have done this over the phone but that would not have been the right thing to do, this information needed to be delivered personally.

Mum fussed over him from the second he arrived; she couldn't do enough for her only son. His visits and over the phone chats are definitely all too infrequent. Terrence didn't really want a fuss; he didn't want an effort to be made though it was from his mother. Mothers should be able to fuss whenever it is they want to.

There had to be a proper home cooked lunch with tea, pot loads of tea. Terrence had rung ahead before arriving, so mum was more than well prepared for her son's arrival. Dad escorted son into the dining room as mum saw to the finishing touches of lunch. Mum and dad share their more than decently sized home together alone though the dining room table is always at the ready to seat at least six and can be extended if anything big enough for its extension is ever being hosted.

Terrence takes a seat at one end of the dining room table and dad moves towards a drink's cabinet turning two short glasses right side up.

'A drink with your dad?'

'Not for me, I'm driving.'

'You are not in any hurry; one drink won't hurt. Besides you are having some lunch so you will be more that fine to drive in an hour or two's time.'

'Alright, just the one so, one and no more.'

Terrence is wise to any attempt dad might make so that his son will stay longer than what he had made plans for. Two large measures of expensive whiskey are poured, a whisky which does not see the light of day all too often. Lawrence carries the drinks towards the table and hands one to his son, they both take a sip and dad sits to son's immediate right.

'So, what's the big news you have, you are not in any trouble, are you?'

'Trouble, me?' Terrence asks with surprise. 'When have you ever known me to ever be in trouble?'

'You were always the hyperactive child that there was a time I was sure it would bring you trouble later in life.'

'And now what do you think?'

'Ah, I think we both can be sure that if trouble were ever to find you then it would have done so long before now.'

'I am young still, plenty of time yet.'

A smile is shared, and another sip of whiskey is taken. Both measures of whiskey have been downed by the time mum enters the dining room with lunch and as she does enter, she can't help but feel a range of emotion upon hearing the sound of laughter.

'What do you say about making our lunch cuppa the most expensive tea we will ever drink?'

'Oh ... go on then so, you have twisted my arm.'

Terrence aids his mum while dad sees to the whiskey being poured. It could be asked why there is distance between parents and son based on how things are going on this visit. Some things just go unexplained. Mood changes after dinner when Terrence announces his plans to take some time out and move to a new town.

He needs some time away and by himself ... it is as simple as that. Parents don't understand such a thing. There will always be a question, a query, as to if something is wrong. Nothing needs to be wrong for Terrence to be wanting a move like this though on some level ... maybe there is.

A stay over is had, dad's whiskey saw to this as it also had the effect dad had wanted, and hugs go all round as well as a tear or two when Terrence heads off that following morning. A renewed sense of family does very little to make an impact on the decision Terrence has made to move far away. A calling has come his way and Terrence is determined to answer it.

Now in a place he would least expect it, Terrence is confronted, or rather visited by his father, something he would have never expected having made entry into such a place like that he has come to be in. And as is in this moment Lawrence appears to be somewhere between ten and fifteen years older than what he had been on that lunch day.

Initial serious and surprised looks upon their faces turn into smiles and an embrace is soon had. Ten or fifteen years older is how dad indeed looks ... only a month or so has passed Terrence had last seen him.