UNDER THE EARTH
WHEN YOU CAN SEE AGAIN YOU ARE STANDING IN WHAT APPEARS TO BE LIKE A GIANT DOME. THE WALLS LOOK TO BE HELD IN PLACE BY AN INVISIBLE FORCE WHILE THE DIRT STILL SWIRLS UNDERNEATH ITS PRESSURE.
THE MOTION IS SICKENING TO LOOK AT.
BEFORE STANDS A STATUE WITH THREE GOLD BUSHES EITHER SIDE OF IT.
THESE GOLD BUSHES EMIT BASS LINES AS THEY GENTLY PUSLE. THESE PULSES WASH PAST YOU AND SILENTLY SLAM HARD INTO THE SIDES OF THE DOME. YOU SPECULATE THAT MAYBE THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR KEEPING THE STRUCTURE OF THE DOME INTACT.
THE STATUE SEEMS TO WATCH YOU.
ITS MATERIAL IS URECOGNISABLE AND THE CRAFT THAT MADE IT IS ONE THAT HISTORY HAS FORGOTTEN. A THICK LIQUID FLOWS UNDER THE TOP LAYER OF ITS SURFACE WHICH GENTLY ILLUMIATES THE ENTIRE STRUCTURE.
ON A WHOLE THE STRUCTURE JUST SEEMS TO BE A FORGOTTEN RELIC
WHILST WALKING UP TO IT YOU START TO NOTICE ITS
EYES
THE EYES THAT TELL A DIFFERENT STORY
AND THE MORE YOU LOOK
THE MORE YOU SEE THAT ITS EYES
ARE STARING AT YOU
ALIVE
QUIVERING
UNTRUSTING
WATCHING YOUR EVERY MOVE
THOSE SILENT EYES
THOSE TERRIFIED EYES
BLOODSHOT AND STRAINED
YOU ARE FROZEN IN PLACE
REMINDED THAT YOU ACTUALLY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS PLACE IS
AND NOW YOU ARE PAINFULLY AWARE THAT YOU ARE BEING WATCHED
BY SOMETHING
IN THE STATUE
YOU HEAR A VOICE
"WE HAVE TAKEN YOU OFF THE SURFACE SO YOU CAN BE REMEBERED WITH YOUR FAMILY DOWN HERE"
YOU'RE CONFUSED AND REPLY SAYING ALL YOUR FAMILY ARE ON THE SURFACE
THEY REPLY THIR TONE MORE FIRM
"THIS IS NOT SO"
" YOUR FAMILY EXTENDS BEYOND THOSE THAT YOU KNOW. THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOU BEING ABLE TO LIVE AS YOU DO NOW. THE LIVES WE LIVE WOULD BE SEEN AS SCIENCE FICTION TO SOME IN THE PAST, BUT THEIR DREAMS ENABLED US TO GET HERE."
............
I NEED YOU TO REMEMBER A TIME IN YOUR LIFE WHERE LIVING AS YOU DO WAS A FANATASY
A DREAM
MAYBE IT STILL IS
MAYBE YOU ARE NOT THERE YET
MAYBE YOU HAVE BEEN LIVING THIS DREAM FOR A WHILE NOW
THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A TIME WHERE SOMEONE HAS TOLD US THAT
YOU CAN'T LIVE YOUR LIFE LIKE YOU DO
OR THAT
THAT THE LIFE YOU WANT TO LIVE
DOESNT EXSIST
WE HAVE TO IMAGINE OUR LIVES AS WE WANT TO LIVE THEM
TO DO THIS
IS TO USE SCIENCE FICTION
SPECULATIVE FICTION
FANTASY
AND WITHOUT THOUGHT LIKE THIS
WE WOULDNT EXSIST
SO THOSE THAT HAVE IMAGINED A PLACE FOR YOU HERE
ARE THE FAMILY THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW THAT EXSISTS
