Cyril, a shy young man of unusual mental abilities and brooding secrets, stopped at the top of the mountain and looked down at the small town in the valley. Boones Branch Landing, a small town in the Tennessee mountains south of Kingston was a quiet country community and beautiful from the mountain top. The sunlit town beckoned to him with a promise of the beginning he sought, but he sensed an ending as well. He opened his mind and searched the endless threads of possibility in the place he called the Stream. Threads of light, infinite strings of choices and consequences, stretched out into the void from his unity. The future begins with a choice. His desire was strong. He chose. For better or worse, the Landing was his beginning, and possibility his end.