Faith is the Key

"Interesting," I said, "If you have been changed, what is it that changed you?"

"This afternoon I was talking to our prisoner when he asked me about eternity, and what I knew about it. I tried to describe our training as soldiers, and the kind of future it would hold in the Empire, but I don't think I was very successful. He wasn't impressed. He only pressed me to think about eternity," Romy said.

"There's more to life than the Roman Empire!" Gregory argued.

"Yeah? Well I don't know about much else. I'm still a young man, you know, and I've got a lot to learn," he paused for a moment, and then pointed his thumb back to the cell as he continued, "That man back there has made me do some serious thinking about the future. Do you know he believes in life after death?"

His question stopped the conversation for some time. I looked at Romy, and then at Gregory, who was rolling his eyes in disbelief. It seemed like I had heard something about this subject before, but with everything that has happened lately, it was hard to distinguish one thought from another.

"Where is Onesiphorus?" I asked.

Romy seemed surprised by the question.

"He's still in the Captain's office. He told him he could stay if he wanted to, until your shift was over," Romy answered.

"Why don't you guys go ask him about eternity, and what it means to be a believer? He knows more about these topics than I, and he also has experienced this…what did you call it?" I asked.