by Gary Sapp
days of his life.
Julia pushed him to his favorite spot in the entire room, in the entire world that he couldn’t have reached without her help. And then she left him alone there with the children and rested her own old legs in front of the TV on the couch on the far side of the room.
Thomas had arrived in his favorite spot just in the nick of time.
He watched the three and four year olds running and jumping about having a big time on a beautiful spring day. The teacher’s aides were watchful enough, but became distracted by one of the children who had taken a tumble over by the slide and was crying probably more embarrassment than the effects of an actual injury. The little boy didn’t appear to be seriously hurt.
Meanwhile, just out of view of the aides, two older boys seemed to be locked in a disagreement over something or the other. The talking soon turned into shouting and the shouting escalated into shoving and eventually punches being thrown.
One combatant was a little black boy while the other was a petite shaped white child.
The memories of what happened during Scar pushed up from back of his mind to the surface. He nearly stood in his chair sickened so to what he was seeing. He wanted to cry out and bang on the glass for them to stop what they were doing. He begged out loud for them to behave themselves. Please act civilized. Please don’t act like savages towards another. Thomas was unsure whether he was speaking specifically to the preschool aged boys or to two members of the race in general. One part of his brain did ask the other this question: Why couldn’t one generation learn from the mistakes of those who came before it? He felt his mother rising behind him as he wondered if this country—this world would ever find enough tolerance in the areas of race relations before it was too late for any of it to matter.
Thomas wondered if discord and conflict between these two races was inevitable whether Tabitha Blue found these renegade Pandora agents before the world learned the truth about Joseph Champion’s true intentions or not? He wondered if Christopher Prince’s anointed rising as the One would prevent future conflicts like the ones suffered by so many last year or ignite more of them? The last question was one of the final points that he’d put to the many millions of readers that he knew would view the pages of his final work.
Thankfully, the disagreement between the young boys had ended as quickly as it had come. The two children were back laughing and playing in no time. Whatever had brought on the fury had settled itself even without the aid of grownup supervision or interference.
Thomas Pepper sat himself back in his wheelchair and smiled.
And that smile didn’t fade when the tears of joy flowed down his flushed cheeks.
Perhaps there is hope for peace in our time—in the time of those he would leave behind when I’m dead and gone.
Julia must have seen the tears on his face and wrapped her arms around her boy and comforted him the best she could. Thomas squeezed her wrist with affection but never took his eyes off of the children of all races playing below.
He watched the two boys for a few minutes more.
Perhaps in that miniature block of time and space the two of them had discovered the truth that so many of us had failed to grasp if not completely understand. Thomas hoped that someday soon—before it was too late—that they would be gracious enough to share it with him in the little time he had left.
He would gladly spend the last of his energy—the last of his life’s blood to pass the knowledge and wisdom to a country and world that so very badly needed it.
After all, wherever Thomas Pepper went, the truth was never far behind.
He hoped…he prayed that this truth was not far behind.
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Dedication
As I’ve said before, this one is for…well, for me. This tale has been in my pipeline for a long time.
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