Entry #19
2/17/13
"Is it possible?" Seth asked.
"Huh?" I replied.
"You know, go back to change all of this? Rescue them?"
I sighed and gazed around me. We were in a square in the financial district of Station Square. People were walking by us normally, minding their own business.
When will this peace end? I wandered. Two people are missing, but unfortunately, I couldn't do anything. The unknown prevents me from doing so.
"I hope I could, but there are some problems." I said. "One, we do not know where the locations are."
"Can't you go to where they were last seen?"
"I could do that, but further altering such small events can bring unintended consequences. Could make stuff worse..."
Seth looks down at the ground, slightly resigned. Too bad his idea got shot down.
"...why?"
"How do you perceive time?"
"As a rope."
"Because?"
"I'm aware of the past, present, and future. Also, aren't there alternate universes? You know, don't they connect?"
"I suppose so..." I said. "But through my travels, I see it in a much more 3-D form, more like a tree...a rope unwound and expanding to several different paths."
"Butterfly effect huh?" Seth replied.
"That's the point." I said, "Any small action, even rescuing them, can bring something worse. Who knows what'll happen to them? Something even more brutal. Retaliation...we don't even know who's doing this."
...
"I've tried a few things before." I said. "When I try to do something good. I unknowingly made the situation worse, I have to undo it. It really hurts..."
"That sucks. If only there were less limits..."
It was around noon by then, we grabbed a quick bite at a cafe. The news still mentioned the missing 15 year old, identified yesterday as "Alex". We found the conversation on TV depressing. Eventually, Seth started up a conversation.
"Have you gotten any weird dreams, lately?"
That got my attention.
"Why do you ask?"
"I don't know. Maybe because of what's going on, the doll and such. Maybe I always found those abstract art interesting, being all weird and involving something besides the mind."
"Do you have a weird dream?" I asked.
Seth sighed.
"I don't know if this is a nightmare or something. Nothing bad actually happens, but I do not like it." Seth said. "For the past few days, I find myself in this empty field, a sea of tall grass, there's this beautiful sunset, and a bunch of clouds within the darker area. The thing about it is that I keep thinking something is watching me, but I see nobody. I try to run, but all there was is the expanse of grass. I felt trapped."
I responded. I haven't thought much on whether this had to with the disappearances, or the doll, but could this be connected. Have we gone too deep?
"That gotta suck." I said.
"It does."
"Similar thing for me. I usually don't remember this but a few days ago, I dreamed that I was in the middle of nowhere. Everything around me was white, except this weird device. It's just a bunch of gears, but it functions as this whole machine."
"Did you figure out what that is?"
"No." I said. "I tried to touch it, but the dream ends before I try to examine it. I wonder if it has to do with being stalked by it?"
"Who knows? Maybe you caused it yourself." Seth started to smile.
"What?"
"Look at yourself." Seth teased.
I suddenly realized what Seth meant. Goddammit, I hate these pot jokes.
My phone started to rumble. I quickly picked it up.
"Hello?"
"Hey Silver-"
"Rouge? Anything going on?"
"Meet me at the GUN Office. I believe we have some things you would want to look at."
Down My Cellar Door: A great series about two girls with a psychological condition causing them to wonder off. Doppelgangers makes an appearance in this Slendervlog. ( user/DownMyCellarDoor)
