I'm walking down a dirt road, a hill goes up on my left, and a steep decline goes down the right. Down the incline is what appears to be a slum, I'm in India, I realize. A small, crippled Indian boy in a red shirt passes me by, a blank stare on his face. He drags his legs behind him sadly, relying fully on his crutches. I look toward the slum as he goes by, the sun is quickly setting behind the beaten roofs of the slum. The slum dissapears behind trees, and I walk into the forest.
Nobody knows where I am going, including myself.
As night falls in the forest, a group of Indian people approaches from all around. I get nervous. I keep walking through the trees, and they quickly approach me as i walk into an area thats a little cleared, the ground thick with leaves. I turn back, knowing that they are coming to get me, and one shouts, "You will be unable to leave! if you leave, you will kill him!"
I sort of know what they are talking about-- they are going to try to get the other boy out of me, and as I am a nine year old boy, i will be able to survive it.
I disregard their warnings, I care more for my own life than the one of some random boy, and i start to run away. I trip and fall, feel like small needles are pricking my skin, look down, and see that small, one inch, pale, round spiny creatures have fastened themselves to my body. The Indian people, all men I see, hoist me up. I struggle a bit, free myself from their grasp, and dash through the clearing. I hit some sort of a forcefield, its bright blue light shining around me as my body impacted. I tumbled back, and the men roughly grabbed me again, dragging my dazed body toward a hole in the ground, some of the small spiny creatures fall off my hand, and i see my skin is raw red where it used to be. I'm scared.
The hole in the ground shines brightly, and as we go down the ramp into it, i see that it is a scientific- looking place. Its very white, with a high ceiling, with a floor made of marble tiles. The place is dimly lit though, and the place looks gray.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
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