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A guest in a cage

from The Voyager - OST by Carlos Geadas

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A Guest in a Cage.
This scene cuts directly from Hacked scene, there is no transition, it's a direct cut.

Inside spacecraft CHO.

KEN wakes with the alarm and flashing lights. As soon as he manages to open his eyes, his position changes imediatly to seated instead of lying down. It take KEN a few seconds to understand what is going on and what is the correct procedure. Finally after 3 or 4 seconds of confusion, he sees and hears the voice of CHO navigation device: inteligente life detected on nearby planet, starting landing procedure immediatly.

As KEN reaches for the nearby helmet and places it, he looks at the fast growing planet and notices how blue and white it his, so much like Earth. But everything is going too fast, CHO is already diving into the atmosphere, a butterfly blazing.

"KEN, the suggested landing site is near a local constrution, there is water and sand nearby, it will be a rough landing. Brace yourself.", CHO navigation system said.

KEN replied "CHO, mark the landing site and pass me manual control, I'll do the landing". "Yes, KEN", CHO replied.

At an amazing speed KEN soon was near the surface of the sea, raising an enormous column of vapor. The landing site was marked at his HUD. He had done this hundreds of times with YUUMA.

At exactly the right moment, KEN cuts the power of the engines, the spaceship floats at high speed over the shore and finally stops gently by the beach, leaving no more than some deep scratches of the landing gear at the sand.

"Give me environment report, CHO", he said. But he didn't need to wait for the answer. He openned the lid and came down from the ship. In front of him a beach house, beathiful, with white curtains flying from the doors and windows. Compensation, he thought, he knew exactly where he was.

As he took of the helmet and felt his nostrils flooded with the salty taste of sea, from the house NOA and HICHIROU came out. First slowly then faster, they ran to eachothers arms. The family was together. KEN looked at each one carefully. No time, or nearly no time could have passed. HICHIROU keeps looking 8 years, NOA continues to look the same age and beauty as the day he left. Time as not passed by.

"We've missed you so much!", NOA said. KEN took the opportunity to ask "How long have I've been out?". NOA speaks like a little spoiled girl "almost 3 days". OK, KEN thought, this really is compensation. In the end I've only lost 3 days of my life, of my family, of my future.

They went inside and KEN took off the astronaut suit. We was much more confortable with is swimming shorts. After that change, while NOA was preparing lunch she asked "but what happened?". He decided to keep it simple "they've called of the mission, I think they will do it one day totally unmaned".

From outside, HICHIROU called "Father, come on, lets make a race!". KEN kissed NOA and left. It seemed like he had never felt before the pleasure of water and sand on his feet, the impact of each step on the fullness of his body, the complete freedom and joy to run after HICHIROU, seeing him smile, his wet hair, his feet splashing in the water and threwing wet sand to the air. Everything seemed slow motion and beautiful, and each and everything seemed bigger than life.

Trying to climb the spaceship, HICHIROU made an ugly cut in one of his hands. KEN grabed him to take him home to wash and treat the wound by, after a few steps, the wound had healed itself.

At lunch KEN asked both for how long where they there, at the beach house. None could remember. Both where asleep and woke up with the sound of the spaceship splashing in the water.

They spend the rest of the day sun bathing, swimming, playing. When KEN laid HICHIROU to sleep, the kid kissed him on both cheeks and told him "Father, I was so afraid that I would never meet you again. Thank you for returning". KEN droped one tear, kissed him back and said "I would never leave you for nothing, and I will be here with you and mom forever". "Forever?", asked HICHIROU. "Forever and ever", replied KEN.

KEN was lying down in his bed when NOA left the bathroom. She had only one beauthiful quimono. KEN had never seen such a quimono like that before. "I was saving it for a special occasion", said shy NOA. They both got on their knees over the bed, huged very thightly and started kissing.

KEN was the first to wake up in the morning. He went to the beach and seated on the sand, on his right he could view the full house, on his left CHO standing still. In from of him, the unexplainable and impossible to understand everything that ever was, is and ever will be. Yes, he is a guest. He is a guest in a cage from where there is no exit. He bets there are no other human beings in that world. But now, only now, he knows that is OK to be a guest in a cage, and that it can truly be compensation.
He and his family, forever to love and forever to be loved. Thats priceless.

THE END

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from The Voyager - OST, released August 7, 2014

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Carlos Geadas Lisbon, Portugal

As a listener, music always made part of my life. I enjoy all kinds of music as long as within it's kind is good.
In 2014 I've started playing with Garageband, generative software and a 25 key usb/midi keyboard. Since there I've found that I could express myself through music. The albuns I present here and at my Youtube channel are what I'm learning about painting or writing with sounds.
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