Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Zee Deveel?

Imagine a darkened alley with brick walls on either side, but that alley is wide enough for two cars to pass by each other without touching. Now, there is a roof over my head, also made of brick. I see a loading dock in the distance, and the alley cuts sharply to the right.

Something strange you should know. I am a midget, and I am a girl. There is another girl midget with me.

So my midget girl self and my tiny friend walk down this creepy alley. The walls appear damp, and I can see little puddles here and there. In front of us there are little creatures no bigger than soda cans. They have beady, angry eyes and two fangs that hang out of their mouths. I should be scared of them, but I'm not. I run up to one and kick it. The creature sails through the air, hits the wall, and vaporizes.

These things creep me out, so I kick all of the until eventually, they're gone. I think there only two, so "all" might not be the best wording. I have made it to the sharp turn at the end of the alley.

Suddenly, I'm myself again. Full grown Adam Dreyer, and my midget friend is gone.

The wall I see has no visible door. For whatever reason, I feel as though if I touch the wall, something will be revealed to me. So of course, I touch the wall.

The glowing shape of a sickeningly skinny man begins to appear in the middle of the wall. He looks like a skeleton, but with skin stretched over his bones. The bricks of the wall begin to fall away to form a circular hole. The devil is standing in the middle of this hole. He turns his back to me and beckons me to follow him. Once his eyes have left mine, he runs faster than anything I've ever seen. He is gone.

I walk slowly into the hole in the wall. The room behind the wall is magnificent. 20 foot archways on pedestals, intricate designs on the walls and ceilings, dozens of different hallways to explore. I stand in this sort of center room, looking at all my options.

I begin to hear disembodied voices. I can't make out what they're saying, but they're calling to me, like they need me to come to them. It's impossible for me to tell where they're coming from, but I know they're in the same building as I am. I stare down the hallway I believe the devil went running down, but I have a terrible feeling that if I walk down that hallway, something bad is going to happen.

In my head I begin to run possible scenarios. Somehow I am able to see some of the creatures lurking in the hallway without being in the hallway with them. Could I fight them? Kill them? Get through the hallway without them noticing my being there at all? These weren't little soda can creatures. These things were as big as lions, cat-like creatures with their skin all peeled off. They did not look happy.

As I'm attempting to build enough courage to storm the hallway, my sister Erin suddenly appears! I'm excited! Now I don't have to go down the hallway alone!

But she won't go with me.

I start to nag her a bit, but she refuses to go, without saying a word. She will not go down the hallway with the creatures, the darkness, and maybe, the devil.

So I wake up.