{"id":326,"date":"2009-05-12T18:17:02","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T17:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/12\/goodbye-yellow-brick-road\/"},"modified":"2009-05-12T18:17:02","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T17:17:02","slug":"goodbye-yellow-brick-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sobaseki.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/12\/goodbye-yellow-brick-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

So goodbye yellow brick road 
Where the dogs of society howl
You can’t plant me in your penthouse
I’m going back to Dal\"Q_small\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

It was late last year, when I got tired of war. Of killing. Of podpilots around me being killed. Of the life of a minmatar freedom fighter. I enlisted to help my people, and to be honest some part of me also was looking for recognition. Trying to make a name for myself. <\/p>\n

After months of fighting though, I felt empty inside. We took over some systems, killed quite a few Amarr religious zealots, but still\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to make a difference.<\/p>\n

It was then that I decided this wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the life for me. I contemplated about going back to my old job, a mammoth freighter trucker. Maybe do some missions for the Republic Fleet every now and then and use my combat skills for at least a somewhat good cause.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t an easy decision to make, but late in the fall of last year, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I did. One day I silently left Dal, my war homebase and picked up my old trusty Mammoth in Rens and never looked back. Or at least that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I thought.<\/p>\n

And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s when it started, the nightmares. Visions even more horrible than what I ever saw in the war. Not sure how my mind came up with those ! It started with only one a week, but it got worse as time went slowly by.<\/p>\n

Till it got to the point where I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t dare to go to sleep again. And during the day it was like there was a dark cloud over me. I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find any joy in whatever I did, and kept thinking of the friends I left behind. Roc Wieler, Angry Fist, Stoogie. What happened to them ? And how were they coping ? The thought that I let my people down, and betrayed my heritage kept popping up in my mind.<\/p>\n

Then it struck me:<\/p>\n

It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t supposed to happen this way<\/em><\/p>\n

This was not my purpose as a pod pilot ! I had to get back to Dal and back into the war. <\/p>\n

And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I did. And weird enough from the moment I signed on again, the nightmares were gone. Some sort of inner peace came over me inside the turmoil of the war. I found my destiny again, and hope I will never loose it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Disclaimer:<\/strong> My first effort at fanfiction for Godlesswanderer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s contest<\/a>, please be gentle :).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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