All Chapters of Controlled Men, the adventure of Tom Salisbury.: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

Tom sat on the train lost in deep thoughts. His eye lids fluttered with the fluttering breeze and his pupils mirrored the speeding greenries and the bustles perfectly. Everyone was dead quiet. It was as if they had just been rescued from the most frightening dares like in the armageddon movies. A silent music can even be heard around, floating serenely through the air from the basilica some few blocks away from the railway. The voice of a female soloist seared through and sped down the spines of all and sundry sat in the train. As if on a cue, shudders ran through everyone spine simultaneously and a slights gasps of skimpy reliefs filled the coach. Tom himself heaved a heavy sigh too and relaxed.

He was walking down the streets of Rome when he saw a huge cathedral. He stopped once and had a strong pull towards the building. Looking either way warily as if a baby stealing milk, he ran across and into the church yard he went. The whole place was eerily quiet and was still like a still drawing. It was the kind of quietness that will make you tiptoe though you know you are doing nothing evil. Tom actually started tiptoeing making sure not to make any sound, till he was in front of the gigantic double doors of the cathedral. 

"what walks on four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three at night? " He shut the booklet again and continued his mazy run around Rome, he needs to catch the flight to Greece before he's caught. However, he needs to visit the pantheon first to acquire the script that the pamphlet said he should. The angel and Habbakuk, that's it. He ran till he was out of breath.  Finally, he reached the train station and without buying a ticket, he sneaked into the train. Think of how he did that? If he could not sneak into an ordinary train these days, the green uniform men would have found him. It's just nothing to him. It's timing and finding the blind spot.  "Thebes, here I come." he murmured.

The place was desolated, filled with fallen houses and half complete structures. The whole derelicts was drowned in a patches of green showing that though the owners and their children might have left this place, Nature still counts it as its own.  In sharp contrast to the desolation, is the blooming greens and verdant vestiges of a fertile land.  "What am I going to do here? Where am I to follow? " Tom asked himself.  Dipping his hands into his ever loyal handbag, he shuffles around a while before springing out with a piece of moldy tattered paper parchment.  He absentmindedly unrolled and spread the parchment, sighed deeply before turning his pointed gaze from the forlon land that it was feasti

"I love them brownie Chocolates, looking for someone to get me the Starbucks" "Uhm, I can. Just that..? " The boy stuttered.  "Really? You're such a darling! " She ran to hug him.  It was as if he was going to say something for a moment but decided against it. He accepted the embrace albeit not eagerly.  "So, " he looked up at her, "are you gonna get with me? " the perfect Spiderman face.  Heidi's face crumpled. It's that what's this is all about? She asked herself.  Seeing the face of the girl crumple, the boy lost it. He now know that this girl will never give in to him a