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My eyes close. A quick breeze blows past my
face with several warm cutting shards of sand. I look up; all that
can be seen is a half covered sun being blocked by a screaming falsetto
of whipping gusts and orange red sand.
This effect conveys an almost orange yellow
tint to the Earth I walk on. My visibility is dramatically affected
but the surrounding area is flat so I am still able to see close
to a mile on each side of myself. Except behind me.
To my back there is a great red brown rock
surface that reaches up to partially block what sun that may be
able to touch the ground. This mountain behind me reaches to my
left and right until the ends slowly blend into the rest of my surroundings.
The ground beneath my feet is much harder than
what is to be expected, at closer inspection it isn't the soft sand
that it was presumed to be. Instead it is nearly rock, more like
a scorched ground of packed dirt, that which has been baked by the
sun since the onset of its creation.
I then decide to move forward, but I am shaken
to notice myself merely cutting the air around me without taking
a step in the direction of my thoughts.
I then stop and look to my hands, they are
the same, but they feel different. I then stoop down to touch the
dirt before myself. Before any contact is made all loose soil, at
first begins to shake, then is moved out of a circular radius according
to the position of my hands.
After taking time to inspect this new phenomenon
I lift my eyes to notice a distortion close to the scorched ground,
such a distortion that can be found from rising heat from a road
after being in the sun, but in this situation it clouded my entire
view, until I close my eyes.
When I open my eyes I find the ground beneath
me begin to move, edging me in my desired direction. I close my
eyes and notice the blood rushing through my eyelids. I then wonder
if it always looks like this when I close my eyes, and I have just
dismissed it due to the frequency in which it happened or if this
is another new experience for me.
I then open my eyes and begin to question now
whether I was moving, or if it was the ground beneath me. During
this thought I was interrupted by the echo of my own thoughts against
the cliff behind me. Which even though my position has moved it
has remained in the same place behind me.
I then begin to move again. This time though
I notice that every time I move there is a circular dome about my
feet much like the one that appeared about my hands earlier.
I continue moving in the same path I have been
on awhile now until I come across a playground. All of the swings
were moving and there was laughter but there weren't any visible
children anywhere. The laughter was blending in and also slightly
masked by the wind.
At the same time as the laugher came from the
playground, it was also crying. Not in anyway that could be defined
by any physical or even mental means. It was more of a feeling,
one that wasn't specifically aimed at me, but through me, if you
believe that feelings can be conveyed to one of the other thing,
like I do. The longer I stood there the more piercing the sound
became and the cries continually grew louder. By this time my head
began to ache, from they're the ache turned into a full migraine,
and soon I felt that my head was about to split itself in half.
I then feel to my knees tears streaming from my eyes and with both
of my hands grabbed my head; attempting to hold it together.
I then looked to the ground and with my head
in the same position, looked upward into the dusty horizon, letting
out a muted cry. In this explosion of myself I let out an energy
much like that which has been observed about my feet and hands,
only this time engulfing my entire body and extending across the
landscape like a shockwave destroying all that was inside the already
barren landscape.
An action which took all energy from my body,
after doing so I fell to the ground, unable to move, a form of temporary
paralysis. The tears on my face wet the ground beneath my face and
rapidly spread outwards.
I then blinked twice and in the time it took
my eyes to close and open the second time all my surroundings had
been transposed into a green tropical climate. I noticed the wind
still whipping but grass and trees have replaced the harsh sand
and rock. I then had a feeling of satisfaction, and rather than
lift my head from its position I decided to rest.
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