Thursday, April 17, 2008

Trapped

This morning I was with my sister and mother in a building that felt like a school, with many small rooms branching off of several hallways. The Others were searching for me, and knew that I would certainly come to help my sis and mom get out of that place. I was able to get into the building amidst heavy traffic by assuming an invisibility of sorts (similar to the "fiercely held modesty" that is talked about in the Dark Materials Trilogy) and working my way through the rooms. When at last I found them they turned out to be in the heaviest guarded room of all. Neither of them were able to fight back, much less fly away with me. Once again my lucidity was fueled by the need to push myself, to test my limits in order to achieve what I came to do. As I tried to devise a plan of escape I kept having to psychically distort the Others' memories as they came near the room, to make them forget it existed or to convince them they had already secured the room to buy us time. Unfortunately this made me weary and careless, and eventually someone entered the room. my family hid and I tried to regain invisibility, but this person saw through me (or rather, didn't see through me...) and sounded the alarm. The alarm set off the building's main defense system, which was cybernetic woman with black metal "mecha" suit with all the appropriate bells and whistles- lasers, guns, thick armor. I ordered my family to stay back and tried to prevent the MechWoman from breaking through the small window and annihilating us. I recall what the black metal felt like as I made myself intangible just in time to avoid her massive claw grip. After several shots and small explosions I could feel my energy being quickly drained. In a moment of rage, I accelerated my consciousness and grabbed her head as she looked through the window- I pulled her neck taut and felt the grinding resistance of her mecha suit about to recoil out of my grasp-I pulled her head harder and shot a beam from my hand, through the metal and gears, straight through the flesh of her neck. Before her head hit the ground I summoned the last of my strength to lift my mother and sister (who seemed unconscious) and shoot straight out the window, high into the sky and away from the isolated building, to safety.