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implications finally became apparent to him. “This will destroy my parents, you can’t do this to my mother.”
    “I am very sorry to tell you that you cannot return to your former life. We had no choice, it was this or death. Your family was going to lose you either way, at least now you get to live.”
    “Live where exactly; all I’ve seen is this room I’ve been locked in. You’ve just told me I am going to live forever but that I can never go home. What’s going to happen to me?” Chase pleaded.
    Shaking his gray haired head in frustration, Armstrong said “Alright, I had planned to take some time and explain all of this in-depth but I have changed my mind. I think now it may be best to just show you instead. I have to warn you though to brace yourself, there are a lot more shocks yet to come. You’ve got your wish, let’s go now follow me.”
    Armstrong turned toward the wall and a small seam appeared and then a doorway opened and he walked through. “What are you waiting for? Let’s go.”
    Chase peered through the suddenly appeared doorway to see what was on the other side.
    “Have you changed your mind? Would you rather stay here now?” he asked knowing his answer.
    “No I’m coming,” Chase said as he walked into a new life that he never chose for himself. Walking through the nondescript hallway he wondered what awaited him at the end.
    Chapter 13
    After only a few steps through the hallway, Armstrong gestured with his hand and a door opened. They stepped into what appeared to be an elevator.  After a very quick descent the door opened again and they both walked speedily through a nice building lobby that he had no time to appreciate as they stood before a door that led to the outside.
    Following Armstrong through the doors, Chase found himself standing in a large sunlit plaza. He had seen it happen on TV before and always thought it was an exaggeration but his mouth actually did drop open with surprise. It was beautiful, it was futuristic, it was otherworldly and it was simply breathtaking.  The plaza had an extremely intricate design that sparkled like demented diamonds and was highlighted by artwork and statues. There was a copious amount of flowers, trees and greenery and while he wasn’t an expert they were clearly very oddly colored and shaped. It was the buildings though that completely stunned him.
    In the foreground stood what he guessed were about ten stylized modernistic tree shaped buildings of varying heights of ten to twenty stories tall. They had thick trunks of several stories that grew wider at the top with what looked like about three stories of rooms artistically decorated with some filigreed metal ornamentation. They looked like a cross between an African acacia tree and the sky houses on the old space-age Jetson’s cartoons. Off in the distance was an enormous skyscraper type of building that easily dominated the landscape and had to be visible from miles away. It literally glittered with bright shades of gold, silver, copper and crystal in a spiral pattern.
    Why he would be surprised by any of this was the biggest surprise of all. After all of the things he’d been through why would he expect any of this to be normal? Chase had to admit though if he was forced to spend eternity in some place; it might as well be awesome. Turning to Armstrong he said “What is this place?”
    “I think it might be wise if we go inside to discuss this”
    They walked across the plaza towards the tallest of the tree shaped buildings. The area around the buildings was artistically landscaped with a park like atmosphere to it. He noticed something weird and almost chuckled out loud at the thought. It was all weird; there hadn’t been a single normal thing happen to him since he woke up. Nevertheless it was weird or at least strange, sort of like the time he saw a two headed turtle in the creek near the park. He saw it when he was ten years old but couldn’t quite catch him; he even rode