The Day the Lamp Went Off

And the light was born within the rusty lamp overspreading the warm light around him and builds very creepy shadows around the big Tombstones, a light that looks like a candle in the dark. For a moment, Ancient Tom stand there staring at the rusty lamp, he was truly loves this rusty lamp even though that the village people bring to him a modern flash lights but he insist to use his rusty lamp and he always said that the day he stop uses his rusty lamp is the day he died. For no reason he smiled as he lifts the rusty lamp to his sight level and starts to look through its weak light around the graveyard while his legs start the journey toward the hut. As the moon was hanging up in the dark sky sending its glowing spears of silver light to the land beneath it there was a small light moving from the center of the cemetery and walking in a very slow motion toward the north surrounding by horde of dogs were howling in sadness, all this will makes this place the worse to be in. “If anybody saw this scene, damn sure he’ll run out of blood.” Ancient Tom thoughts as he was watching the shadows that he builds on the Tombstones as he was shaking his rusty lamp left and right all the way to his hut. Deep down him he was enjoying this atmosphere, the quietness – which wasn’t presence tonight thanks to the dogs - , the dark, the smell of the cold fresh air, the sound of the whooshing wind. He really considers this place as his Kingdome. All this were running in his head before he suddenly stopped. He felt something! To be exact; he felt that someone there, for a moment he stopped doing any movement at all, only he sharps his senses as far as his age could allow him trying to ignore the dogs’ howling while his eyes were rolling around trying to catch anything, it did nottake him more than ten seconds then he shakes his head saying to himself: “No need to be scared old man; if there’s anything you need to be afraid of; it is death.” As he starts walking, suddenly the dogs stop howling and heavy silence surrounds the place. A very, very quite silence that was more annoying than the annoyance itself. “What the hell is happened to this dam dogs!” Ancient Tom thinking “why they suddenly stop howling ... And what...” “Excuse me sir?” A voice rises from behind him, a feminine voice to be exact. And that makes him tremble and shocked for a second then he turns around quickly to see who this is? Even though the lamp light was not that strong but it could clarifies the comer. It was a girl, a young girl. He estimates her age in the late twenties. She was having a round face, black eyes with long eyelashes, a long black and thick hair was covering her head. She was wearing a black blouse and black pants, a long black shiny boots and long shiny leather black coat that cover her body. Everything on her was black except for her white face and her skin; it was very white so any one sees her immediately will think that this girl is sick. Another thing was really catching the attention on her; it was what it looks like a thick silver pendant shaped as a big silver feather and it was overhanging her chest. “Excuse me!” The girl repeat her question with a very sweet voice to ancient Tom, he lifts his rusty lamp more toward the girl to see more of her and said: “yes.” He replies her very quietly in a way that looked like he was ready for this visit which makes the girl really surprised, she was thinking that this old man would be frighten but she never let her surprise control her, she said: “Can I take your time...? I need to talk to you.” Ancient Tom lifts his rusty lamp and gets near the girl with questioning face that makes her said quickly “If your time allows you to do so.” Ancient Tom smile and said as he pull off his rusty lamb from the girl’s face: “well...” then he turns around and points with his lamp to the space ahead of him saying: “If you want my time... well… as you see... I have a lot of time... Very lot.” The girl did notsay a word; she only looked at the old man with happy eyes. An eyes that makes ancient Tom wonder about them, he was about to say something when the girl said: “thank you sir. I really appreciate your kindness. What I am looking for is…” “Hold it there lady!” Ancient Tom cuts her, “I assume that you want to make a conversation which is based on this place will not be proper to have it here.” The girl looked at him with wonder this time, “follow me please.” He said then he points with his head to the girl to follow him, which she did. They walking till they reach a squared yard, it was small and clean, in the upper right corner of the small yard there was an old wooden chair that looks very heavy, in the opposite side there was a Hugh rock covered with a red carpet, a rock that a three people could sit on it, at her left side and under the silver light of the moon she could see a wooden hut that its door facing the yard while in the middle of the yard there was a stack of dry woods surrounded by a little stones and beside them there was a small pot.