Chapter Thirty Eight
It was like entering into another dimension.
The glass floor had smoky mirrors and lights that appeared to stretch into infinity…
Where have I seen this before??
I couldn’t seem to get my bearings. Stumbling around, I searched for a stationary focal point.
That’s when I heard Dinah Lynn singing. Her beautiful voice is unmistakable. I can see her silhouette through the fabric? the veil?? the evil spider’s webbing??? What is that????
Although I wasn’t high or drunk, I was experiencing a heavenly floating sensation.
Then, the haze cleared and I saw Audrey giggling. She won’t be laughing when I’m done with her!
I took one step. Then curiously, whatever had been obscuring my view when I first walked inside shrouded her, again.
How dare she try to hide? My bliss exited and my original fury overwhelmed me. I headed through the gossamer-world, concentrating on finding her and making her answer for what she’s done.
Once again, the webbing lifted. Audrey came back into my view.
But, fate would intervene…before a single word…could be spoken to her…
I always knew the darkness existed – at least, intellectually speaking. When I stumbled into it though, I wasn’t ready for the confrontation. Sinister things lurk – evil hides – the wicked seek the shadows – those are commonsense expectations. I never realized making simple, human assumptions could be dangerous and even, deadly.
It was both an aggravation and a relief when I finally found her. My focus was fixed on my destination, up-ahead. The speech I had rehearsed, numerous times on the drive over, had built into a verbal explosion. My mind had already raced into the future, by the time the encounter happened.
My supernatural discovery was brought on by a random set of seemingly normal circumstances. It was through mere chance that I was even located at that specific spot, at that particular second. After all, this is not my type of entertainment.
Whether I should consider myself as being at the right place, at the right time or the wrong place, at the very worst time, would be something I would have to sort out later.
We collided and I gasped, reflexively. The automatic apology was on the tip of my tongue. But not surprisingly, it failed to be spoken.
Somehow, in that insignificant space in time, everything I thought I understood came crashing down around me. My mind was grappling with an unknown reality.
I literally inhaled and the life I had always known, shattered into devastated ruins. Then, I exhaled. And, the fragments had pieced themselves back together without my assistance. So, the mental shards were rearranged and completely unfamiliar. I couldn’t make any alterations to them either.
I am permanently stuck in the here and now. There is no way to escape from it – well, not while I’m still alive and kicking.
It should be impossible for everything to change in a solitary breath…but, that’s exactly how it happened.
A single breath in a lifetime…held two epic fates…
The one before the darkness was so casually revealed…
And, the frightening one that would come…during the inevitable, after…