Maniac's Mirror

  THE TRAVELLER WHO NEVER CAME BACK

  Minion of the unknown power

  One day I met a stranger named Tarkone, he knew all about my past, he gave me a packet and said that in order to save this universe I have to kill Ivanushka. The packet contained a diary which Tarkone called the Timebook of Clocks, the moment I finished reading it, I was transmitted to a forest. Then I saw Tarkone emerge out of nowhere. When I asked him what place is this, he told me, it’s the Silent forest of dreams. He told me when I got married the masters of the unknown power who are always looking for people like me in all the universes found me; they switched my memory with a fake one and sent me to another galaxy named Upnafed, and I don’t remember anything because later the masters of the unknown power gave me back my original memory except what happened in Upnafed and sent me to the world of my dreams the Toolshed. When I asked him who Alyonushka is, he replied, ‘While you were in Upnafed it was the name of a boy, then later of a terrorist organization but now it’s the name of a universe’. I sensed danger I guessed Tarkone was lying about the boy because what I derived from the diary according to that, the boy seemed to be a master of the unknown power. Tarkone sensed my feelings and told me the boy Alyonushka was Arizel. He asked me to follow him if I wanted to learn more. I thought since the masters of the unknown power have found me and thrown me in that unknown planet they surely knew everything about me, it means I had been doing whatever the unknown power wanted me to do. Tarkone said not all masters of the unknown power are evil what happened in Arindhara was to prepare me for what was coming. He said that he was a very small minion of one of the masters of the unknown power I knew as Arizel. I realized I was able to convey my thoughts without speaking any word, I asked him how was I able to do so; he looked me straight in the eye and told me that I have the power of telepathy. I was suspicious either he is lying now or he was lying before. I wanted to learn what happened when I was in Upnafed.

  Two cellar doors

  Tarkone took me into a dark cave, inside the cave as I entered I started feeling immense pleasure then abruptly it ended. When I came to my senses I was in a dingy room lying on a bench facing two men, one was sitting in a cabin and another was sitting outside the cabin on a stool. Before I could say anything the man inside the cabin spoke, ''They are calling you inside 8885JX#*%# and inside 5J0X23V##". He showed me the pictures of two cellar doors each carried one of the numbers he had spoken, I asked if I could keep the pictures, but he quickly snatched them from my hand and vanished, then the man who was sitting on the stool said, ‘I will take you there’. I followed him and as this man shoved me inside an elevator when suddenly I had a glimpse of a pair of big shoes emerging under the cabin. The elevator had a telephone with a broken receiver hung on its wall. The man was about to close the elevator door, but I don’t know why, I stepped outside and told him that I will find a way by myself. Then I climbed the stairways which had emerged in front of the elevator, as I moved on I saw a hallway down the alley, I saw many cellar doors but none of them carried the numbers similar in any respect to what that man inside the cabin told me. The place was something like a prison. I reached a large hall where there were writings on the wall, one of it read keep leaving milestones, and few read the voices have stopped, some said surrender to win, I wonder why I too made a mark on the wall and then I laughed.