Richard Clarkson opened his eyes and covered them quickly as he realized he was lying in a field with the sun shining brightly on him. He looked down to see he was not wearing his usual suit, rather a shirt and trousers as he did in his youth when he help his father with the horses back in Scotland. Hold on a second…he did feel younger; he touched his upper lip – no moustache. He looked down at his arm and stood up. The scar he got from the war was gone, his hair was longer and more auburn rather than silvery blonde and there were sheep and shepherds cursing them in Gaelic as they were reluctant to leave the grass they were feasting on.

"Won't your ma be waiting for you lad?" It was John, he was the Clarkson's nearest neighbour as there was only a fence separating his farm from their stables and was like a father to him as he grew up. But he was dead and so was his mother! Was he dead too? Is this the afterlife?

John chuckled as if he was reading his mind. "No son." He said "You're not dead, folks don't cuss there but you're getting awfully close and I don't think it's a fine idea."

Richard started to follow him when he started to walk away when a familiar voice caused him to turn back.

"I don't think you should do that leanbh… " The feminine voice belonged to a blonde woman with long hair, fair skin and big blue eyes that resembled his. She was his mother. She was wearing a white long dress and smelled like roses as she always did when she was alive.

"It is not your time yet my baby…" she caressed his face and smiled gently as she saw the purse of his lips before he started to protest.

"But ma I don't have a reason to go back! I'm an old man and the woman I love is about to marry somebody else!"

"No she isn't. I know you think that but she is not."

"Ma, she is! He's a lord and she always said those things don't matter to her and I believed her for a time but of course it matters. He's powerful and well-read and he's offering her a position. He proposed."

"Don't you think she'd have accepted by now if she wanted him?"

"I don't know but maybe it's best that she does."

"Maybe it's best you wake up and tell her not to make the biggest mistake of her life. She's a free soul, Rick and the system into which she's considering to marry will break her. And you know I'm right!"

"Ma….Ma?" The woman was disappearing before his very eyes and he had so much to say to her. He wanted to go with her.

"Not yet my love…" she kissed him on the forehead like she used to when he was a child and left him.

I know Richard's mom is never mentioned in DA but I would like to know what you think - please review :)