#Ongoing Adventure: What a Dream
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You had hoped for a bit more help from Reveille. As you turn to walk away, you notice something had changed.
The recycling bin was no longer glowing.
Maybe you really were that sleep-deprived.
You decide to take a nap.
You walk to your bed and plop face first onto the pillows. It had been months since you’d cared to change out of pajamas in the morning, and you certainly hadn’t been outside, so the separation of your bed from the rest of your life needn’t be so stringent.
Within moments, the room seems to dissolve around you as you are thrust into a vivid landscape of sound and color.
You feel a bit uneasy, but oddly at home as you navigate this new world.
The sky is a beautiful cascade of shifting colors as it gradually shifts from deep purple, to a neon green, and back again. It’s like an aurora, but also like the entire sky is moving.
It has more stars than you’d ever seen in your life. Are they even stars? They also seem to be moving — buzzing around, never really in one place for too long.
As you walk, the ground seems to crunch under you. All around you, it’s as if there is glass. The surface is completely smooth and reflective, except of course the fractures where you’ve stepped.
It should probably scare you, as if you are going to fall through space, but you aren’t bothered by it.
After walking for what seems like hours, taking in the glow of this surreal environment, you notice the sound of running water. As if out of nowhere, a stream appears in front of you. It looks like honey. If there was anything that made you uneasy about this world, it was this.
The water sounded like it was rushing, turbulent rapids… but it barely looked like it was moving. There was just a golden slop of viscous fluid folding slowly along.
Then the humming began. It wasn’t consistent. Not like the buzzing of the “stars” above. It came and went, oscillating in and out of your head. You weren’t even sure if it was anywhere but in your head.
You looked up just as the sky began swirling. It suddenly looked like a weird knock-off of a van Gogh, where all the colors were wrong and everything was swirling into one point. The humming increased in magnitude, continuing to fluctuate.
The ground began to shatter. The crashing sound was deafening. The entire world was collapsing into a single point in the sky… but not you.
It was just you. You and the endless void of silence.
The humming returns and you immediately jump out of bed.
Sitting on the nightstand next to you is the envelope from the recycling bin, faintly glowing in sync with the humming as the sound slowly fades from your head.
Options:
👉 Open the envelope. 👉 Throw it aside and run for your life. 👉 Call Reveille back. 👉 Go back to sleep.