Part 12: Beyond the New Choice
Damian Stone felt as though the world before him had subtly shifted the moment he made his decision.
Taking a deep breath, he carefully traced the lines marked on the map, overlaying them with the shape of his own future.
“The choice is mine,”
he said softly.
His voice, once laced with doubt, now carried a quiet strength.
In his eyes was the resolve to walk his path once more.
As I approached him, he looked up and met my gaze.
“But where do I begin?”
he asked.
I answered without hesitation.
“First, you need to make peace with your past.
It doesn’t matter what choices you made before. What matters is where you’re heading now.
Leave the past behind. Let it stay there.”
Damian stared at me in silence for a moment, then slowly nodded.
“That’s the right choice, isn’t it…”
He once again picked up the pen and began writing something on the map.
At that moment, a subtle tremor passed through the air, and somewhere, a low sound echoed.
It was as if something vast had begun to stir.
“Something just started to move,”
Damian said, looking at me.
I met his gaze in silence.
What his decision would bring to the future—
that, we could not yet see.
But one thing was certain: something within him had begun to change.
And the path now drawn on the map would soon point in a new direction.
12/15
★OliveR's Dream Journal★ 