Living Souls

PROLOGUE‘Daniel has had a fair share of life’s problems. First, he lost his parents same day in an auto accident at the tender age of Nine his uncle came to pick him up from school that day instead of his mother who did that more often and taken to his house instead of his own father’s house. ‘The news of his parents’ death was told him three days after. Daniel watched as his parents were buried the same day and he was as helpless as he could be. His age did not help matters too. Daniel had problems in elementary school which nearly tore him apart. He performed poorly and had a problem identifying color sets perfectly and had a false ulcer history, all these with the death of his parents in one day in an auto accident and being the only child of his parents was a burden on his neck. Daniel could feel he had a big burden on his neck. His only succor was his talent of fine and applied arts and his succor in people he found in his uncle’s family; his new “foster family” and his friend in elementary school — Alfred. He and Alfred grew up as friends and although Alfred gained admission into the university before Daniel due to his having to repeat a class in elementary school due to poor performance after the death of his parents which he got over with the help of his uncle’s family. Daniel and one of his uncle’s son Lucas gained admission into the same university with Alfred. He and Alfred got admission to read Fine and Applied Arts as well, and Lucas to study computer science. Daniel is happy and a bit surprised that the room he is posted to in the school hostel is Alfred’s’ room. The two continue their friendship in the school. Things go on smoothly in the hostel until Martina a hostel mate is shot and killed by some group of assailants who belong to a notorious cult group in the school and who are also students in the school. The police swing in. Not deterred, though, Daniel looks forward to setting up a foundation that will cater for single parents and orphans in the society. Daniel attends an event organized on National Holiday, where he meets Michelle, a damsel that created another spring of emotions within him. And more importantly, Sir Pisa, one of the renowned artists in town who puts him through the path of fame and who sets him on the path to realizing his dream; to help people who are in his kind of past, connect with his kind of future.