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voice. “You know, me and your dad used to sit here and watch this same process. Well… not right here, but on different beams all over New St. Louis. Other Greenhaus’, too.”
“ Was it as funny to watch then as it is now?” asked Jacob.
“ Funny as it ever was,” replied Jasper followed by a rare burst of laughter. He quickly put a cap on the chuckles and the smile left his face. Jacob figured something was wrong as Jasper stared off into the distance.
“ Is everything ok? Did you see something in the hills?” Jacob wondered aloud, as Jasper seemed to be staring past the men at work into the drab nothingness.
“ Nah… it’s just that, well, I don’t see the point of all this sometimes.” There was great hesitation when he spoke and he nervously looked all around him, like he was unsure he should be saying what he was about to say. “Don’t get me wrong, I love building new things. It’s just, the Founding Fathers, the Green Constitution. Is this what they envisioned? And where does it stop?”
Jacob furrowed his brow, as if offended by the question before he proudly stated matter of factly, “ When all can share in the bounty of Mother Earth again, just like the Green Constitution says.”
“ I know what the Constitution says,” snapped Jasper, whose years removed from his schooling clearly had taken the shine off their beloved Green Constitution. “Look around you Jacob, your father saw it, I see it, someday you will too.”
“ See what?” the confused young man asked while he looked all around him as if expecting to see things he didn’t see before.
“ See what’s real. And what’s not,” Jasper retorted as his baby blue eyes nervously jutted back and forth. “See the distractions and learn what they are hiding.”
Caught off guard by the direction in which this deep conversation with Jasper was headed, Jacob paused before making a reply. This topic had never been discussed or even hinted at in all the years Jacob had known Jasper. The odd behavior Jasper was exhibiting made Jacob think he had finally reached the tipping point in life and gone mad, something that happened to many in the ‘Haus. Jacob was intrigued by his words, even if he partially doubted their legitimacy. He crouched down to receive the shipment of bolts as he issued his response, a series of rapid fire questions, somewhat sarcastic in nature, but also to put feelers out to gage Jasper’s credibility. “Distractions? From what? The beautiful scenery? Clean Air? Plentiful food rations? Why would anyone need to be distracted? And from what? By whom? It all just sounds like crazy nonsense.”
Jasper ’s eyes widened and his lips tightened. “It’s not crazy nonsense.” Jasper was walking toward Jacob, his blood boiling, the sound of tools and cranes working filled the background. “The answers to your questions are out there somewhere. I am not sure about where and neither was your father, but we did ask those same questions. It’s what we spent our lives trying to figure out. It’s why we traveled together so much and why I continued to do so after his death. We had our theories and reasons for suspicion, but nothing concrete ever surfaced,” he explained, calming himself as he gave his speech
“ Reasons? Suspicions? Like what, I gotta know,” Jacob laughed. The mention of his father further piqued his interest, but he was still mostly skeptical of Jasper’s statements. Jacob continued to needle him, hoping to get just a shred of evidence.
“ I shouldn’t even be telling you any of this, because I promised I wouldn’t involve you, but it’s time you know what we know. You make the decision to get involved or not. I figure out here is as safe a place as any to do it,” started Jasper, who had been visibly nervous throughout this brief conversation, continuously checking all around them even though they were alone on the beams. “Things are not as they seem Jacob, but I can’t explain it all
“ Was it as funny to watch then as it is now?” asked Jacob.
“ Funny as it ever was,” replied Jasper followed by a rare burst of laughter. He quickly put a cap on the chuckles and the smile left his face. Jacob figured something was wrong as Jasper stared off into the distance.
“ Is everything ok? Did you see something in the hills?” Jacob wondered aloud, as Jasper seemed to be staring past the men at work into the drab nothingness.
“ Nah… it’s just that, well, I don’t see the point of all this sometimes.” There was great hesitation when he spoke and he nervously looked all around him, like he was unsure he should be saying what he was about to say. “Don’t get me wrong, I love building new things. It’s just, the Founding Fathers, the Green Constitution. Is this what they envisioned? And where does it stop?”
Jacob furrowed his brow, as if offended by the question before he proudly stated matter of factly, “ When all can share in the bounty of Mother Earth again, just like the Green Constitution says.”
“ I know what the Constitution says,” snapped Jasper, whose years removed from his schooling clearly had taken the shine off their beloved Green Constitution. “Look around you Jacob, your father saw it, I see it, someday you will too.”
“ See what?” the confused young man asked while he looked all around him as if expecting to see things he didn’t see before.
“ See what’s real. And what’s not,” Jasper retorted as his baby blue eyes nervously jutted back and forth. “See the distractions and learn what they are hiding.”
Caught off guard by the direction in which this deep conversation with Jasper was headed, Jacob paused before making a reply. This topic had never been discussed or even hinted at in all the years Jacob had known Jasper. The odd behavior Jasper was exhibiting made Jacob think he had finally reached the tipping point in life and gone mad, something that happened to many in the ‘Haus. Jacob was intrigued by his words, even if he partially doubted their legitimacy. He crouched down to receive the shipment of bolts as he issued his response, a series of rapid fire questions, somewhat sarcastic in nature, but also to put feelers out to gage Jasper’s credibility. “Distractions? From what? The beautiful scenery? Clean Air? Plentiful food rations? Why would anyone need to be distracted? And from what? By whom? It all just sounds like crazy nonsense.”
Jasper ’s eyes widened and his lips tightened. “It’s not crazy nonsense.” Jasper was walking toward Jacob, his blood boiling, the sound of tools and cranes working filled the background. “The answers to your questions are out there somewhere. I am not sure about where and neither was your father, but we did ask those same questions. It’s what we spent our lives trying to figure out. It’s why we traveled together so much and why I continued to do so after his death. We had our theories and reasons for suspicion, but nothing concrete ever surfaced,” he explained, calming himself as he gave his speech
“ Reasons? Suspicions? Like what, I gotta know,” Jacob laughed. The mention of his father further piqued his interest, but he was still mostly skeptical of Jasper’s statements. Jacob continued to needle him, hoping to get just a shred of evidence.
“ I shouldn’t even be telling you any of this, because I promised I wouldn’t involve you, but it’s time you know what we know. You make the decision to get involved or not. I figure out here is as safe a place as any to do it,” started Jasper, who had been visibly nervous throughout this brief conversation, continuously checking all around them even though they were alone on the beams. “Things are not as they seem Jacob, but I can’t explain it all
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