Several minutes later, those other rooms closed in on us
and attached to ours, but were now out of my view. The tabletsized
windows were now blocked by those chambers clinging
to ours. I heard the mechanical connecting and bumping as we
all joined tight. My doorway faced outward, unobstructed.
What I was staring at was a distant view of where we
came from. I didn’t want to understand at first. I was outside
the sky. I was outside the world. The sky of God’s creation
was a milky dome on top of a tall column as tall as the sky,
maybe taller. I was seeing the entire world.
My mind spun for a while. I couldn’t understand.
God’s world was so small inside a larger world of some sort.
Everything was too bright at first, but my eyes were adjusting
through fingers slightly parted to filter out light. There was a
nearly infinite sky which was blue and white with stringy and
puffy objects hanging higher than high ever was. Across the
land on which creation stood was... bizarre beauty.
The ground of this larger world surrounding Mr. God’s
haven was all green and yellow and brown and... and I never
saw so much color before in one place. Everything was a color.
Everything was color. Only parts of the new sky were white,
and they were whiter than white.
There were puffs of green everywhere, then carpets
of brown, and reflective twine draping across the land. There
were highs and lows. It was cold. The light was too bright.
Air smelled clean and moist.
Nothing made sense anymore.
Nothing made sense.
Mr. God’s empire of absolute control was so small
within this bigger reality. That domed outcropping was shaped
and colored in complete contrast to what surrounded it. It was
like some tiny, ineffectual phallus erect and defiant against laws
of the world surrounding it.
Perhaps I was just a sperm emerging from Mr. God’s
masculine construct. All but one of such travelers that eject
from a man will die. The single winner creates a new life. I
wasn’t sure there was any way to make life outside of my
home. I had no idea what all this was, what it meant, or what I
was supposed to do within it.
Relief never arrived, my mind still believing this was
just a journey to death, like sperm into a woman. There was
a possibility we would just be dropped somewhere, falling
thousands of feet to our deaths in this metal tomb. I tried to
remain composed; no one else flinched, no one was interested
in what was happening around us.
The city shrank away quickly. Minutes later and it was
gone, reduced to insignificance behind some mass of land and
green-ness. This was the furthest I had ever gone, the fastest I
ever traveled, and I was going to somewhere unknown.
Thoughts multiplied within me, and I passed out from
stress while cold air washed over me without pity.
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