What's going on?
Where am I?
?
I feel my hands through the blades of grass around me, surrounding me.
It's all I see, it's taller than I am, and I can barely see the sky poking through the folds.
My hands are numb, like tv static, it's just like the room again, only, it's so much less claustraphobic.
But is it really? This comforting sight it...
Is anyone there?
It changed.
Hello??
Where did the sand, father, the
Water, as much as I swallowed underwater, rushes up to my throat-- and bursts out in one uncontrollable motion
i'm left cold on the floor too weak to stand.
And the area around is drenched.
It was a flood
...
Crying softly, in pain
The winds above cry too
Grey?
--...
A cough escapesIs... Is someone there--
My vision's too blurry to see, and my ears are blocked up, ringing
Yet I hear them...
Grey, please
...
Grey! Come on!
...
My ears suddenly pop, I can hear so much more now. A voice erupts,
Grey!
WHAT THEBlue?!
oh my god- you... I...
I see them now, through the fronds, talking to me
Standing there, I only see their feet, the fronds obscure the rest of them.
But I know it's them.
I.. oh my god I..
I hear them start to cry
I thought that you'd never wake up I thought that was it I
I... I...
I thought I...
you're back...!
yeah... y... we, eyes stopped seeing and
What--
What happened?!
Blue jumps, startled, and finally yells what they were trying to say
I didn't see anything!!
Who is that...
Just when I register this new voice I have to cough, my voice is raspy, I feel the need to whisper
(what was that?!)
Their voice is loud, they sound upset, and I can hear them push through and shove fronds somewhere nearby
Guess this field is larger than I thought...
Vibrations of the floor tell me their pace is 'stompy'
It's happening again, it's happening again,
I swear to-- fuck WHY?!!
Grey get- (get up)
--? Who's there?
(Who is that?)
... (Grey, get. up.)
I rush to my feet but try not to make a sound, I'm still leaning, slowly pushing myself up
(Calm down she's not dangerous!)
(She's just easily scared, like you) ...
(Someone else is here...)
... ("Grey"...)
I'm still tense
(Oh... I... What happened while I was out...?)
(...)
(A lot.)
(Come on.)
Blue reaches a hand out to help me up, I grab it, getting to a stable upright stance...
We walk together, they guide me by still holding my hand as we move and bend...
(Can't be far now...)
We step, and our steps make sounds, our bodies move through the grass and the grass moves to make room, we're not very secret about where we are anymore.
Then, somewhere nearby, I hear something else move
Somewhere in front of us
suddenly, a collision
AH-- OW!
Ahh!!
What- the hell- are you doing sneaking around??
YOU'RE the one who ran off.
Blue regains his stance and I move to the side, both hold their head in pain
I'm sorry, I'm sorry
Please forgive me
This new someone, I can't see them well enough, but just their presence and look, they feel familiar.
What's the deal? You act like I was gonna maul and kill her.
Or worse, you.
i'm sorry I... She's new
They seem... brash
it's whatever. whatever.
Rushed in here as fast as I could cause you ran off without saying anything
They shake their head and take their hands off from covering the collision spot, grabbing both of our hands
?!
??
So, you, "Grey" is it?
I notice just how tall she is compared to us
She looks older
Yeah, uh who--
Cool, Grey, Blue, let's get the heck out of here now thanks
I'm so sorry who--
We're being pulled in a direction which is hopefully the exit to this grass blade maze
Miraculously we make it out and she pulls us further, letting us go
Waitwait!
We tumble out of the grass and onto a much less chaotically-highsprawling field
in my final tumble my body's momentum slows, overtaken by gravity, laying flat with a thud.
I'm facing up, sprawled out, dazed. That must've been downhill. I gotta calm down
I look to my side and Blue looks like they took quite the tumble as well, and must be out of air
I... just-- wanted to calmly talk. I can't think...
they're just staring up at the sky breathing
Hehe
I hear that bastard walking downhill.
Okay, now that we're somewhere far less claustraphobic and overstimulating
What did you uh... want to say, Blue?
Dude.
Shhh
Rose, are you done.
Yeah, I uh, I think so.
You?
...
Blue grumbles
We've been having this dream for a while now.
Well--
Yeah- well-
Blue rolls over, trying to push themself up, getting into a sitting position where they can relax
Yeah if you'd just listen--
I am listening
I'm sorry, who is this?
Just-- JUST GIVE ME A SECOND!
NO ONE TALK
...
...
...
Rose, this is Grey.
They point at me
Grey, this is Rose.
Then point at "Rose".
"Rose"?
Introduced.
okay...
You're not gonna believe this Grey...
?But...
No you're really not going to believe this...
Oh for crying out loud.
Grey. This dream, these fields, that beach.
It's not real.
?!
NO! See if you'd just. LISTEN?? Instead of talking over me???
Blue turns to me, and inches closer, they look into my soul with their gaze.
Grey, everything happening here is real.
Or at least, god, okay all that happened here,
it really happened, but it's mixed up
(Oh, right...)
...?
I know we blacked out, and all that happened, but that's...
A nightmare, based on what happened that day.
I feel my heart sink and my body go cold.
A nightmare?
You're- we're, not dead.
But I felt myself die. I drowned. There was so much water.
There was no one around me.
Please wrap your head around this.
(I'll fucking kill him. The next time I see him...)
We're still here
(Hurting us like this even when he's not a part of our life anymore.)
I overheard Rose's mumbles as Blue was talking. Looking over I see she's standing there with her arms crossed around herself, hunched, deep in thought?
What?
She begins to breathe again
It's trauma.
Blue notices Rose approaching us now
Rose leans down to sit with us. She loosens her hands around her body, then takes hold of my hand gently, holding it with both to comfort me
Even when we're all grown up it still haunts us.
You could say that again...
...This isn't the end.
She sighs, relaxing, she seems more composed, involved.
This isn't the beginning either, Grey.
Let me ask you a question...