I am Gideon: Chapter #20

by Dragonhorse | May 31, 2026 | Content, I Am Gideon (Journal)

So, that’s what happens when you think you’re safe, I thought.  Every…single…time. Lesson learned.  I stuffed my clothes, my personal blanket and all two of my books into my duffle bag and caught a ground shuttle back to Mrs. Baxter’s Boarding house.  She was full.  No apologies.  No breakfast. 

I became nobody, going nowhere, and getting used to that descriptor.  True aimlessness was setting in. I looked like every other scruffy laborer roaming the streets of the little backwater towns, drifting …aimlessly.