A Strange Dream
The Black Void - Episode 1021
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Jacques wakes up to find himself staring into complete darkness. He tries to move, but finds he’s unable to move a single limb of his body. Fear and thoughts surge through his body: Why can’t he move? Where is he? Who is he? He can’t recall where he was last…or where he was ever, for that matter. Random memories float in his head: A sailboat riding through the pouring rain, a dog being hit by a blue car, two hands preparing a sandwich. All these thoughts are jumbled and random and might not even be his for all he knows. He tries to recall his name. It’s something along the lines of Jeffry, Johnny, or Jacob…Jacob, yes, that’s his name. But beyond that, he couldn’t remember anything else.Still unable to move his limbs or head, he blinks in hopes that he will wake up out of what he hopes is a dream, and is surprised to find himself outside, staring at the playground outside of what seems to be an elementary school . There are eight swings hanging from a metal pole, a jungle gym, two sets of monkey bars, and a play area shaped like a Brachiosaurus in which of each of the dinosaur’s four legs and tail is a slide. Farther along, nearer to the school’s doors, are several 4-square courts and basketball hoops. All of this sat under a gray clouded sky. I’ve been here before, Jacques thinks.He blinks again. He’s now staring at what appears to be a lavish bank lobby: In the middle of the rectangular room, there’s a rectangular water fountain with a tall sword-wielding angel standing atop a pillar in the middle. At each of the fountain’s corners is a tree (Although Jacques doesn’t know a thing about trees, so he couldn’t tell you what kind). Holding the room up are two bricked-layered pillars, with fake green ivy wrapped around them. The only sing that signifies that the room is a bank lobby are the booths lined up against the walls. He blinks again. He’s now standing outside of a gate which is withholding a luxurious mansion. It’s three stories high, white with a mahogany roof, and surrounded by thickets of woods and forests. Decorating the ends of the roofs and the porches are gargoyles, giving the house an elegant old look.He blinks again. He’s now standing on top of what he thinks is a mountain (He’s still unable to move, so he can’t turn his head down), overlooking a city…a dead city. There are houses, theaters, supermarkets, gas stations, and clock towers, but there isn’t a person in sight around them. The same went for the cars; they’re scattered everywhere, in the middle of the road and even crashed against buildings, but nobody is in driving them. However, all of this is an afterthought to what had caught his eye immediately; near the city’s coast, stuck on the streets like a beached whale, is a massive ship; eerily similar to one Jacques has seen in a recent movie (Though he couldn’t remember that either). Judging by line of shattered docks and pounded earth leading from the ocean to where the ship now sits, it must have run onto the land at full speed. I’ve been here too, Jacques thinks.He blinks again. He is now standing on and staring up the deck of what he thinks is a ship---the same ship he had just seen a moment early, judging by the uplifted and cracked roads and smashed buildings he can see out of the right corner of his eyes. Once again, the view seems to have come from a movie. Jacques blinks again, and finds himself standing underwater, surrounded by families of fish, wet sand, and seaweed. He notices all of this for second before water begins to flood his nostrils. Jacques blinks…but nothing changes. Fear strikes him like a bolt of lightning. He blinks a few more times, and then blinks rapidly, but nothing changes. He tries desperately to move his arms and legs, but still finds himself as rigid as a board. He tries to open his mouth to scream, but he finds that locked too.He continues to blink and tries to move, but they’re in vain. For every second that passes he becomes more light-headed and his chest burns a little more. Suddenly, something comes crashing down through the water, only a few meters in front of Jacques. Although his vision is blurry from the water and lack of oxygen, he can see what it is clearly: It’s a woman, facing him, her eyes wide open. Jacques screams inside to her to save him. The woman simply stares at him, and Jacques is now able to make out her expression clearly: Saddened, betrayed, and hopeless. She wasn’t going to save herself, least of all Jacques.
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