Beyond a mirror
This season drains me--far more than Winter ever has.
Without obligation, I continue failing to rouse myself before noon, believing my dreams are special enough to warrant wasting daylight hours.
There was a hub city and three mirror-portals. And I was in a party of sorts, four or five of us, and we would split up. There was a world of Light, a world of Darkness, and a world of Balance beyond the mirrors. And there was rumor that all of them were soon to fall.
I jumped through the Darkness portal and found myself in a sunless land bathed in black water. What ground there was happened among platforms that reminded me of oil rigs, except the only lighting was lightning and dull neon. I piloted a form of hydrafoil a lot like Jade's ship in Beyond Good & Evil, and decided to make rounds through as many platforms as possible.
They were occupied by vile bipedal creatures--not men or robot, but something twisted. Some wielded scythes. As I made my way, the platforms were increasingly choked with their presence--the shallow host I first fought soon became overwhelming, and soon began chasing me on a craft of their own.
In the midst of it all I recieved word that the Balanced land had fallen. Friends who checked on it had already escaped back to the hub--and when the sky itself opened revealing a reptillian eye, it was clearly time for my leave as well.
I don't remember much of the rest of my dreaming... the world of Light was ... depressing. I remember some feelings: mostly contempt and skepticism in the face of laughter. Everything was not alright.
Late in the dream there was something to make sense of, but its message is now lost. Buried from the haplessness of this useless day.
And I remember the night I made a decision to escape this world for the dreaming--I remember the bright light that swallowed me before the Rectangle's typing (at 4 in the god-damned morning) came back, and I realized I had woken up instead of ascended.
In that instant I was fully ready to leave Everything in this world behind me so I could begin a new adventure--so I could enter a more fantastic world, alone.
Without obligation, I continue failing to rouse myself before noon, believing my dreams are special enough to warrant wasting daylight hours.
There was a hub city and three mirror-portals. And I was in a party of sorts, four or five of us, and we would split up. There was a world of Light, a world of Darkness, and a world of Balance beyond the mirrors. And there was rumor that all of them were soon to fall.
I jumped through the Darkness portal and found myself in a sunless land bathed in black water. What ground there was happened among platforms that reminded me of oil rigs, except the only lighting was lightning and dull neon. I piloted a form of hydrafoil a lot like Jade's ship in Beyond Good & Evil, and decided to make rounds through as many platforms as possible.
They were occupied by vile bipedal creatures--not men or robot, but something twisted. Some wielded scythes. As I made my way, the platforms were increasingly choked with their presence--the shallow host I first fought soon became overwhelming, and soon began chasing me on a craft of their own.
In the midst of it all I recieved word that the Balanced land had fallen. Friends who checked on it had already escaped back to the hub--and when the sky itself opened revealing a reptillian eye, it was clearly time for my leave as well.
I don't remember much of the rest of my dreaming... the world of Light was ... depressing. I remember some feelings: mostly contempt and skepticism in the face of laughter. Everything was not alright.
Late in the dream there was something to make sense of, but its message is now lost. Buried from the haplessness of this useless day.
And I remember the night I made a decision to escape this world for the dreaming--I remember the bright light that swallowed me before the Rectangle's typing (at 4 in the god-damned morning) came back, and I realized I had woken up instead of ascended.
In that instant I was fully ready to leave Everything in this world behind me so I could begin a new adventure--so I could enter a more fantastic world, alone.
posted by SJ at 7/09/2005 09:54:00 PM
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