I remember the beginning. There was a graveyard and a lot of people were there, desperately going down the rows (sunset time), digging at the fresh graves with their hands. They weren’t regular graves, though. Instead of fresh dirt on the ground, there was something that looked like stone, as if most of the gravestones were long and flat or had an addition. Anyway, most of them didn’t have a problem getting through. It wasn’t obvious what they were doing until you began to see dozens of people incased in clear plastic bags, raising erratically into an upright position in their graves. The people helped them tear the plastic away from their faces, watching them gasp desperately for air. Someone must’ve buried them like that alive.
I might’ve taken the first step but my friend was right beside me. It was a girl with caramel skin, gleaming teeth and big frizzy hair. We ran further ahead, trying to find a certain gravestone. She says that some of these people might die before we get them as I bend over a couple of small graves bunched together. These graves are old though and I can’t move the stone. Some people are starting to burst out of their graves now themselves- As if hearing all these people coming gave them the extra strength they needed.
I glitch and I’m walking in a sort of airport (because the hallways seemed longer than they did wide- like a mall except shops wouldn’t have been as huge and in some places you could almost sense a bunch of windows). There are these little green flashes, kind of like the sort of neon you get from arcades. I’m with that friend and a group of others now. It feels like I know them and I don’t think it’s me in the dream and that I’m just playing someone else. Everything has a dim, funny hue and it feels like we’re going up pretty rapidly, even though we only go up marble stairs every once and awhile.
“Where are we going?” I ask and I realize I feel a little off-kilter and frantic.
“Don’t know.” One of the guys’ answers (I get the impression of 5 people- 6 including me).
Some of them begin leaving, going back. It seems like the further we go, the less people there are, even if they were heading this way, too. My friend Caramel seems to warp suddenly at some point, while I’m asking her questions. She snaps some comment and when she looks at me she’s not the same. Her eyes have a hint of red, like she popped a vessel. The hue of everything around us changes and it’s greener. The last people leave and one of them tell me to be careful that I don’t change, too. It’s just Caramel and I. She talks to me still but it’s all challenge.
She stops and waits at the top of some stairs as I walk down (not up this time) and it’s not quite the airport anymore. There are leaves, brown from fall flickering across the cobblestone. There are vines that curl around some stone structures, dead from the cold. It’s gotten darker. I walk to the right and walk into this garden structure. It was painted white once but the paint is now faded and chipped. Inside is a sort of sundial and I bend down and begin to turn the knob to a certain spot or number. A green substance bursts out, but it’s more vivid than the color of the things around me now. It shoves past me and out the structure; it goes across the front of the stairs and keeps going. I hear scraping and I figure that that a door has opened. It makes my heart pump and I move out, looking at Caramel. She’s pleased, I think. She runs ahead and turns to the right further than the structure I was in, calling encouraging profanity at me. I follow her and the large black metal gates that were hidden by dead plants and had sounded like stone when they had first opened, shut closed with a sharp clang. The green substance bursts through the holes in the gate, shoving an inch by my head and lighting Caramel’s face with an eerily green light- She’s grinning. I’m trying to get out as the world beneath my feet shakes, I don’t want to go any farther and I feel like I have to fix this. Everything is even greener now. For a split second the gates disappear and it’s all brick. I feel trapped. There’s another step after this, another stage that makes the other side open and I get a dim view of what it might look like. I realize that it’s probably freezing, but I don’t seem to notice right then. I break out of the gates (that appear) and I do something drastic that makes Caramel pissed at me, maybe because I’m never any fun, but I can’t really remember.
K.K.O
October 3rd, 2008
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