A while had passed and the family started and finished eating their meal. Josh was drinking water from a metal cylinder as he slowly walked up the stairs to his room.
He put the water container on his desk and he sat on his bed. 'It's been a while since I've actually slept', he thought to himself as Josh remembered the soft and comfortable bed.
He lied down the bed and looked towards the ceiling, 'What am I doing? It's just like the time before I got the capsule, empty.'
Josh had played Lothaedan every free time he had. This included the time where he would normally sleep, while he would be physically be recharged whenever he left the capsule, his mind felt more and more restless.
It wouldn't be a stretch to say Josh was quite burnt out, sleep would remedy that, but he didn't feel "tired" right now.
Rather, he stood up and recollected his memories. He walked around his room in circles as no memory more than 5 years ago came up.
'They've always said I got into a huge accident that caused memory loss, but there aren't scars on any part of my body.', Josh thought, he was thinking of asking more about that but something bugged him.
Pwaap!
A startling sound came out of Josh's phone, he sighed and checked what it was.
[Are you playing yet? If you don't answer in 5 minutes I'll assume that you are.
-France ]
Josh replied with,
[I don't think I'll play anymore today.]
[Why?]
[Haven't slept in 5 days.]
[Ohh... Login as soon as you can tomorrow then.]
[Yeah...]
Josh yawned as he put away his phone, 'I need to sleep.', and he walked to his parents room.
"Hey dad, do you have any sleeping pills?", Josh asked
"No can do, I haven't bought the child friendly ones yet."
"Goodbye.", he said coldly and went back to his room.
"Do you think our son is starting to remember?", a woman in a blue shirt asked. Josh's mother, Nora.
"Even if he does, we need to suffer for our incompetence." Josh's father, Rue said with a regretful face.
*****
As Josh began sleep, France worked on the Steam Cart. He had just collected the materials at the blacksmith.
'This would take a while.', France said as he imagined the size of the steam engine. Even if France properly did it, he will not be able to test if it will work or not without Josh's magecraft.
He sighed as he pulled out hammer and started putting the base of the parts. He put the locations for the pistons on the bases, it looked to be two cylinder shapes welded together with an opening at one side, there was also a valve on where to stick the hose for steam and there was also a another hole inside allowing for steam to enter on the other cylinder.
He put the Pistons in them and the sound of air escaping the from where the hose would soon be. He then put the flywheel and eccentric shaft on the other bases and two pipes connected to the flywheel and the pistons.
France needed to add the final thing, the steamer. It was basically just a metal casing with a water storage at the top.
France happily laughed after finishing the steam engine, until he remembered he was making a steam powered cart.
The trickier parts, which were connecting the wheels to the eccentric shaft.
*****
Josh was dreaming, an area where unfamilliar people were the crowd. The group of people stood and stared off into the distance, as if they watched a movie.
The next area began with the sound of the ambulance. Josh looked around as his expression grew uncomfortable.
Another area shown, this place was quiet, lonely, yet familliar. A rope tied up to the ceiling with a knot, was someone using them to work out?
The last area appeared, an unknown boy played the tablet, he turned around, and started walking. Josh followed the boy, until a door appeared, he entered it and they young boy looked shocked, and horrified. Was there a monster?
The sensation of comfort slowly took control, and Josh woke up with a tear dripping down his face.
He woke up at about 2:00 A.M, he lied down again and slept peacefully this time, far from the memories of that day.