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Consultation of any kind has never been something Gus would ever consider, well not prior to this point in time but with recent events being what they are, then maybe now would be as good a time as any to go find some consultation. He would soon reach out to such a professional and organize himself an appointment.

'Thank you for seeing me so soon doctor, this is not something I would really ever consider but I guess right now I am open for anything.'

'Luckily enough for me, this kind of meeting is proving more and more popular, especially being sought after on short notice too, so you are not alone Mister Crew ... even if you feel like you are' speaks a Doctor Albright as he grasps Gus's outstretched right hand with both of his own.

Gus is a little unnerved by the hand-shake, but he gets over that fairly quick.

'So how does this work?' Gus asks of the man before him who would appear to be quite possibly twenty years his junior.

'Well, you can take a seat or lay on a crouch I have here. We can have a chat and a bit of a discussion and take it from there. How does that sound to you?'

'I can do that.'

'Great, then why don't we get started?'

Gus tells Doctor Albright of recent events; a few questions were also to be asked and answered.

'So, doc, what do you think? Am I going crazy?'

'Crazy, no not at all, you have a longing, a desire for change. You are so stuck in routine and a comfortable routine at that, now you are all of a sudden attempting to attain such a change that can make it quite possible to a bring about a point where you are witnessing events which are not actually happening.'

'Then, you do think I am going crazy?'

'No, I didn't say that and wouldn't say that you are ...'

'What I ... witnessed ... as you put it, was real, or as real to me as anything I have ever experienced. It is as real as this moment we are having right here and right now, so by your logic then is this a moment which is also not real? Are we not really having this discussion? Listen to me, I definitely sound crazy.'

'Is anything ever real Mister Crew? You are in the here and now and this is what we need to focus on.'

'I ... I have to say ... I am somewhat relieved though. It is good that you have not suggested that I may have had anything to do either knowingly or otherwise with the deaths of either or both Evelyn and constable Rowan.'

The discussion continues for a few minutes though it would be mainly one sided and what the Doctor would say would mostly go over Gus's head and, in a way, he wouldn't hear it at all. Slightly disappointed but with also not having had expected much ... Gus heads home. Night has arrived. The sky is once more looking clear with a near full moon hanging in the sky and a multitude of stars shining bright.

A moment of shock would hit Gus as soon as he would enter the kitchen area of his home, for in the rather large and adjoining dining area there sits a Grand piano. How such a thing is there or how it has got there, is beyond him. He must be going insane. No matter how much he wants change or how much he likes the piano, he would not have organized for such a thing to be in his dining area.

It is not long before he sits at this piano and begins to play that one tune he is so used to playing. Gus closes his eyes and loses himself in the moment. A floating sensation takes him and fairly soon it feels as if he is playing that piano up high in the nighttime sky right amongst the stars.

***

What is real and what isn't? Sometimes when an ending has come to be in the present moment ... some things can be forgotten, and others may become distorted. A soul or spirit can become lost, so lost that perception is not at all what it was, is, or can be. For Henry Augustus Crew lays motionless in a bathtub of warm water, warm water which has turned red in colour. Time of when he has come to rest is a minute after six in the evening.

Evelyn is a young lady who works for the coroner's office. She is one of the first on the scene once it is discovered where Gus is, since he has not been to his store in a couple of days. She had not been someone who had approached Gus in the town center for that moment has not actually occurred.

Doctor Albright is the town coroner, and he has come to investigate a discovered death. Missus Brady is an actual customer or at least was, and she has never been to where Gus lived, she'd have no reason to go there. She now gets her prescriptions from one of those two new chemists in the new town center, the one closest to the main entrance. Pierce Rowan is a police officer, and his job is to investigate the circumstances of the death of a lonely man, and he is on scene to gather whatever information he can.

Gus's nearest neighbour has not been his nearest neighbour for quite some time, as it has been a number of weeks since he had moved out and away from Castletown.

Whatever it is that Gus went through, whatever it is that his soul, his spirit went through, he is now at peace, resting in a Moonlight Sonata with a Grand piano to play high up in the sky and among the near full moon and the stars.

I began writing this story prior to, and completed it soon after, the announcement came through of the death of actor/comedian Robin Williams. In a way this news inspired the ending of this story. If you are dealing with your own personal darkness, please find someone to talk to. There is always someone to talk to. I have dealt with my own darkness in the past and I couldn't be happier that I have come through it.