Snowflakes. Part 3.

Walking.  That's all I was doing it felt like I had been walking for hours and not seeing any kind of change in scenery.  Trees, bushes, and flowers all around me.  Pink, blue, purple, and red flowers everywhere.  It was actually a beautiful scene around me.  I wished that I could take it in more but it was slowly beginning to get dark.  The sun was setting creating a beautiful play on colors.  Oranges, reds, yellows sparkling in the sky.  As the sun was setting though I was beginning to feel my chest starting to tighten.  I didn't know where I was.  I was beginning to think that I should have stayed with the people back in the huts but who knew what they were like when the sun went down.  Who knew if they were people that did human sacrifices at night for good crops the next season or something even more horrendous.  I didn't really particularly want to find out but being around other people probably meant that no wild animal would hunt me down and attack.

I knew that I needed to find shelter.  There were so many plants around that I figured I could make some sort of shelter using just my hands.  In my mind I felt like I might have been part of the "A-Team" but without real tools.  I started looking around for the best place to start building my hut.  Somewhere flat, somewhere nice, somewhere where animals hopefully couldn't find me and trees were easy to break apart.  Looking to left I found the place.  There was a slight spot where it was flat.  The trees were thin but sturdy.  I started breaking off branches and laying them on the ground in a pile.  As I was going I realized that I didn't know what kind of shelter I was going to make.  I didn't know how I was going support the branches or put them all together.  My mind quickly went from thinking that I could totally be in the "A-team" to being a woman who was completely and utterly clueless.  Man I wish that I had rope or twine or that I was in the girl scouts they were always prepared for anything.  However maybe not for time traveling. 

I looked at all the branches I had broken off and just stared thinking that maybe if I thought about making a shelter that suddenly it would just happen.  Unfortunately it didn't happen.  I started to arrange the sticks on the grounds from littlest to the biggest.  I tried digging a hole to put them in but that didn't quite work out either.  Soon the sun was down and it was dark all around me.  I still didn't have a shelter so I hid in a bush and called it good for now.  I finally realized that I was such a girl who knew absolutely nothing about the wilderness and I hoped nothing came for me because I would die in an instant.  As I sat in my shelter, aka bush, I noticed a flickering light in the distance.  It was faint but there.  I decided that I didn't feel like dieing in a bush so I slowly crept out of the bush and started stumbling toward the light.  I have heard that the longer you are in the dark the more your eyes adjust to it.  Soon I was able to make out more and more things.  I didn't stumble quite as many times as I first did.  I slowed down as I got closer to the light.  I started to notice more and more flickering lights.  They were all around.  They were moving through the forest as well all going in the same direction.  I followed them.  Getting closer I noticed that the lights were being held by men and women of all ages.  I didn't know where they were going or what they were doing but I at least figured that a wild animal wouldn't attack me. 

I followed them for what seemed like 15 minutes through the forest.  They all started to stop and look up.  I stood behind a tree and as I looked further in front of them I realized that we had come to a gigantic wall.  It loomed in front of us at least 50 feet tall.  There was a door however but no one ventured to it.  They all just stood there and waited.  I didn't know what they were waiting for but I wasn't about to go ask.  There was a groaning sound that I started to hear.  Soon it became louder and louder.  The door was beginning to open slowly as if whoever was opening the door was unsure if they really should or not.  A man soon appeared some 10 minutes later once the door was finally completely open.  The man just stood looking at the people with the lights.  He suddenly turned around and walked back through the doorway.  Everyone followed him as if mesmerized by him.  They disappeared one after another until the were all through the doorway.  I hesitated but only by a minute or two.  I crept as silently as I could toward the doorway wondering what was on the other side.  Just as I was about to step into the clearing beyond the last tree I heard a bloodcurdling scream.  Followed by another and another.  I didn't know what was happening past the wall but I felt my feet moving me further and further back away from the dark looming wall.  Soon I was back in the black of night in the middle of the forest without light, without knowing where I was, without shelter, hoping beyond anything in the world that whatever was happening back there wasn't going to find me.  I could just barely make out a bush in front of me.  I parted the branches to the sides so that I could get under them and sat down.  I tucked my legs up under my chin and wrapped my arms around them.  There I sat trying to get the bloodcurdling scream out of my head but knowing that I wasn't going to be able to.

To be continued...