| Subject: The Strange Land and Aurie's Dream |
Author:
Tawny
|
[
Next Thread |
Previous Thread |
Next Message |
Previous Message
]
Date Posted: 19:11:30 12/14/03 Sun
"What do we do now?" Aurie asked.
Zidane shrugged. "Look for the others, I guess. Where do you think they are?"
"How would I know?"
Aurie walked a ways off, looking around him. He was trying to figure out what was different about it. Sure, everything looked the same. But there was something different... He just couldn't put his finger on it, and it was frustrating him.
"I... don't think that we're going to find them now," Zidane said hesitantly. He could tell that Aurie was deep in thought. "Maybe we should just try find them tomorrow."
Aurie waved his hand impatiently. "Sure."
"I'm going to sleep then."
"Okay."
"Good night."
"Night."
Zidane laid down, and in a few minutes his breathing was steady.
Aurie sat up thinking, thinking....
A young man was bent over him, his brow furrowed. He spoke to someone that Aurie could not see. "I don't know what's happening to him. He's not dead... yet. His heart is still beating. He'll be going to the eternal sleep if he doesn't come back soon."
"What do you mean?" a woman asked. "What do you mean 'come back soon?' He's right there, isn't he?"
The man shook his head. "He's... his soul isn't there."
A gasp of horror, and...
"Aurie! Aurie!" Zidane was slapping Aurie's face. "Wake up!"
Aurie jerked awake. "Wha...?" His face was drenched with sweat and tears and his hands wouldn't stop shaking. He blinked, looking around him. In the light, he saw what was different about this world. "Zidane?" he said slowly.
"What?"
"Where's the sun?"
Zidane gave Aurie a strange look, as if trying to decide whether he was insane or not. "It's in the sky, duh."
Aurie grabbed Zidane's shoulders. "I'm serious, Zidane. Where is it? Do you see it anywhere?"
Zidane pulled his shoulders out of Aurie's grasp with difficulty. He looked towards the sky. "Look, Aurie," he said. "It's right..." He was about to point up, but he realized that there was no sun. Aurie wasn't completely insane. "...not there," he finished softly.
[
Next Thread |
Previous Thread |
Next Message |
Previous Message
]
| |
Feedback: 
