Chapter 1: The Violin

He steps grimly down the ninth metal round bar, the navy blue jacket on him flapping in the rough winds fourteen feet above the wasteland. 

Heaps of rusty steel scraps rustle in the darkness beneath. 

He arrives at the end of the bar and crosses over to the tenth just ahead. It is an upward climb this time. But one misstep, and an ascent swiftly takes you to the same destination as a descent.

The fulcrum nears and once his weight shifts to the other side, the bar tilts down, commencing another downward journey. More bars stretch to the moonlit horizon ahead.

He tucks his violin under his chin and plays Paul Buckmaster's "Dreamers Awake" as he travels on.

The Moon dims but never extinguishes its light.