User:Sethanon

‘This was my big trip, what a trip’ he smiles ruefully his dark eye sad as he turns away.

Doing a bit of travelling seemed like a good idea; I had just finished with a messy break-up, and wanted to take some time to get myself together. So I took a sabbatical from work, packed a bag and left. I was half way around the world when everything started to go well. I met someone, a fellow traveller, back pack and boots, and a smile that melded the ice around my heart.

Maybe there was a little more baggage that I had bargained for. 2 kids. The 3 of them had been on the road together since there parents had died, I was more than happy to join the family.

We had been together for 6 months, my visa was running out and we had already started talking of them coming back to the UK with me.

We stopped off Malton for a couple of days so that I could contact some friends back home, and we could book flights to Scotland. We never made it.

I will never forget that day.

The kids were bored in the hotel and had wanted to go out for a while. When Finn wanted something he could get really insistent, and his sister was taking lessons from him. So ice-cream it was, and I was to have some time to make calls.

I was standing at the window watching them head across the street. Marian turned and waved back at me. That's when I saw 'them'. The dead.

I watched them run, my little family, I tried to follow, to help, but I was caught in the foyer of the hotel, there were to many of them.

I spent a long time dead. so I know what the hunger is like.

Due to a random act of 'kindness' I ended up living again. But sometimes I wonder if it is worth going on. I keep looking for them, hoping that they might have made it to some safe place. I have heard rumours, but every time I get there, nothing.

I guess I will just keep looking. For now I am happy to be a Renegade, but I keep listening, watching, hoping.

Seth