Clearly, if Franklin did not stop fidgeting, he would cause Mr. Williams to go insane.

Not that there wasn't any controversy about Mr. Williams' mental state in the first place.

Then again, Franklin thought, Mr. Williams was the land. This singular fact revealed to him in the strictest confidence. If there was anyone who had any right to seem mentally unstable, it was him.

"Franklin are you alright?"

Franklin looked to Mr. Williams.

"Yes. Of course, Mr. Williams. Just a couple of dust bunnies over in the corner that I couldn't reach with the broom. Irritating my sinuses is all."

"Franklin, how many times have I told you that when I'm staying with you to call me Matt?"

"Sorry. Do you think you could tell me a story about the time before..."

"Before what Franklin?"

"Before. When your brother was still here?"

Matt looked out the window. He could just barely see the one of three monuments that had not been destroyed when-

"Did I ever tell you of when Alfred and I first discovered when we were brothers?"

"It was back before we had become colonies. I was wandering around the hills that were the Rocky Mountains. Alfred always called them the Appalachian mountains though. I had felt this weird pull towards them, and I was curious as to what was causing it.

I saw what was me with a different hair. I called out to him and he responded. We both had been called there by each other.

Now, of course we did everything together from that moment on. Eventually we grew so close as to reveal our awakening day. He said that he had woken up in a field with one other, who looked sort of like him. He didn't want to wake me up, so he just wandered off.

I, unfortunately, was woken by a bear who would say he had forgotten who I was just to get a good laugh in."

Franklin, while Mr. Williams had told his tale, managed to calm himself down to a level he could easily hide.

Franklin thanked Mr. Williams for the story, and excused himself to bed.

That night, Franklin dreamed of being a child wandering through forests and fields.

A thousand apologies. I meant to update sooner, but life.