Rabbit Hole Day
    Went out drinking last night. When I got home around 4 am I discovered I had run out of cigs, so I went to the gas station nearby to buy some more.
    On my way back I suddenly experienced this incredibly odd feeling of the world being yanked sideways and down at the same time - it was disorientating and rather nauseating - then it jerked back into place, as if it had been attached to me by a rubber band.grabbed a nearby lamp post for support, and threw up. Still feeling a little sick and wondering what the hell had happened, I staggered back home, only to discover that my flat was gone. The name sign on the door was missing, and the key didn't fit. After a bit of head-scratching - surely I wasn't that drunk - I decided to look at every door in the building to see if I could find my name sign on a door. I turned around, and there was Mefisto the cat sitting on the stairs, looking at me.
    "How did you get out? And where did my flat go?" I wondered out loud.
    "Never mind that. What took you so long? They're waiting for you!" he answered.
    What the hell? Either I was a hell of a lot more drunk than I had thought (or maybe someone had spiked my beer?), or I'd finally gone insane.
    Mefisto got up and began walking up the stairs, then he stopped and looked back at me.
"Are you coming?"
    "Uh, right, yes..." I said, and followed.
    The cat led me to the roof, where three very tall and thin persons in dark robes were standing, surrounded by glowing spheres which floated in the air.
    "Sooo, what's all this, then?" I asked.
"You are the Chosen One," one of the persons intoned solemnly. They were wearing large hoods, and I couldn't see any faces; it was just darkness inside the hoods.
    "Say what?" I said, not being at my most intelligent at that moment. "Choosen by who and for what?"
    "You have been chosen according to an ancient prophecy, to become the ultimate warrior, to fight against the forces darkness which threatens to devour all life in our galaxy," one of them intoned again.
    "Ultimate warrior? Me?" I laughed so hard I almost peed my pants. "Me?" I gasped. "You must be joking! I mean, look at me! Short and half-blind without glasses!"
    The three persons looked at eachother, then one said, in a more normal voice: "Uhm, aren't you Ms Drake, science genius?"
    "No!" I laughed, "I'm Darkamber, librarian!"
    "Oh... so sorry... our bad..." Even in those concealing robes, they managed to look embarrassed, and as if they where shuffling their feet. "We'll return you to your own reality now."
    The world did that sickening rubber band thing again, and I suddenly found myself standing in my storage room in the cellar. With the door locked on the outside...
    "Thanks a fucking lot!"
    Fortunately, the lock's crap, so it only took a couple of kicks to get the door open.
    When I went up to the 3rd floor this time, my flat was where it should be. I changed into my night t-shirt and crawled into bed. Mefisto was lying in the chair next to my head.
    "Heh, would've been fun if you could talk in this reality, too," I said to him.
    He just looked at me and yawned.
    I chuckled and turned over. Just before I fell asleep, I thought I heard someone say: "My litterbox needs cleaning..."

 
© Amber Drake 2005
 

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