Chapter Four
My eyes fluttered open and I was standing in a place I had never seen before. It was mostly black, with wisps of dark grey fog that collected around my feet. I also why took a few steps forward, what sounded like gravel crunched under my feet. I knew I shouldn't just walk into some place I didn't know, but I threw all thoughts of common sense out the window and kept on walking.
I walked slowly and calmly, some how not frightened. The swirling fog was relaxing to watch, and the blackness that surrounded me was not overbearing, just hanging loosely in the distance. I must have walked for miles when I first started to tire, and the landscape unchanging. I looked around, for maybe a hint of water anywhere, but there was nothing. I walked a little bit longer, but then suddenly, out of the fog, a well rose up. I smiled and walked over to it and drew some water.
It was cool, refreshing. I took a few, long sips before letting the bucket drop back into the well. I turned around to get back on the gravel path that I had been traveling on, but it had disappeared. I frowned, walked forward, but the ground never changed to gravel. I turned, to walk back to the well, but that too had disappeared. Puzzled, I decided to just walk forward. It was obvious that I couldn't go back to the gravel path, so I decided to just keep moving forward.
More miles past and my stomach began to growl. Sighing, I sat down in the cool grass. I ran my hands through the greyish green blades and plucked a couple to play with. I looked around, still confused as to where I was, how I had got here, and where I was heading. After a few moments of rest, I pushed myself to my feet, and maybe about a quarter of a mile away was an orchard.
"Well," the sound of my voice echoed a little in the emptiness. "That wasn't there before." Nevertheless I started my way towards it. Once there I was met with a bounty of apples, pears, and more. I tugged some of the fruit in reach down and began to eat a little bit. I decided to take a few apples for the road. After taking maybe three steps from the orchard, I looked back, but it had disappeared.
"Strange." I frowned at the place where the orchard was mere seconds ago, before turning to walk again. Within a few moments I was met with the gravel path again. I stopped. None of this made any sense. The well, the orchard, the gravel path, all coming and going as they please. Frustrated, I stamped a foot on the ground. I wanted these things to make sense, for the pieces to fit together and paint an understandable picture. I had questions, but no one to answer them. I sighed and stomped forward a few feet before stopping.
There was a human outline up ahead in the fog.
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