Chapter 2: ouch
I fell quickly and landed with a loud thud onto a stone floor. 'Great' I thought, 'a burial chamber beneath my bedroom, that would explain my bad hair days'. It soon dawned on me that where I was, was far too bright for me to still be inside. I lifted my head to take a look at my surroundings and immediately regretted it, leaning my forehead back against the cool stone floor. 'OUCH'. Tentatively I lifted it again and managed to make it to a sitting position, checking for broken bones and nails along the way. Dizzily gazing around I took in the ornately carved gazebo that I appeared to be sitting in the centre of. "What the hell is going on?" I asked aloud to anyone who happened to hear " I find myself on greatest home videos and someone's gettin' their arse kicked". I got to my feet and wandered over to the railing that ran around the edge of the gazebo. Below me was a deep valley, waterfalls rushing down it's walls and a beautiful town of sorts, all white and delicately decorated.
"When I was told there was a whole new world beneath my bed, I didn't take it literally!!!"
No one seemed to be around, or if they were they were keeping well out of the way of the crazy red head talking to herself 'so, this world isn't necessarily different from my own' I thought with an inward snigger.
I seemed to be stuck high up in a different world with no apparent way of getting down and all I could think was 'I wonder if my psychology teacher would accept 'my coversheet fell into another dimension' as an excuse for not having it a few weeks ago if I lost it through the apparent interworld portal beneath my bed'.
I was so busy conversing with myself about the completely irrelevant when a voice from behind me asked
"Good morning, are you well?"
There stood a tallish bloke, clothed in long greenish grey robes with a pointy hat and staff standing in front of a covering of ivy on the rock wall which attached the gazebo to the cliff face.
"Excuse me?" I replied in shock.
"Are you well? you took quite a fall through the ceiling a few minutes ago."
How was it that I had not noticed him before.
"From the look of things, when I wake up I'll probably be strapped to a bed taking 20 forms of medication. Yourself? no offence but with that outfit I may find you in the bed next to me."
"I am quite well Sarah, I have been expecting you"
"Shouldn't you be wearing a white coat and wielding a needle??"
"No no" he chuckled "nothing like that"
This guy was seriously getting on my nerves, and in no small way creeping me out.
"Okay then.......so where the hell am I?"
"You are where you're meant to be."
"Could you be a bit more vague, I almost understood a word you said for a moment there".
He just laughed again.
For God's sake.
"If I throw your stick will you go away?"
"Now now, that's no way to speak to a wizard"
"uh huh, please, just show me how to get off this gazebo?, being trapped here is starting to drive me nuts" I looked around again for a way down, I doubt the old guy had dropped through the ceiling from under my bed like I had. I spotted some tough looking vines growning down over the railing to a ledge below where one of the buildings was situated. "I suppose we have to climb down then hey?"
"That's one way" he reached behind him and lifted the ivy on the wall "Then again there is always the elevator...........
Thanks Luimenel (, I'm glad someone's getting something out of this rambling….but it is so much more appealing to write than biology revision notes.
I fell quickly and landed with a loud thud onto a stone floor. 'Great' I thought, 'a burial chamber beneath my bedroom, that would explain my bad hair days'. It soon dawned on me that where I was, was far too bright for me to still be inside. I lifted my head to take a look at my surroundings and immediately regretted it, leaning my forehead back against the cool stone floor. 'OUCH'. Tentatively I lifted it again and managed to make it to a sitting position, checking for broken bones and nails along the way. Dizzily gazing around I took in the ornately carved gazebo that I appeared to be sitting in the centre of. "What the hell is going on?" I asked aloud to anyone who happened to hear " I find myself on greatest home videos and someone's gettin' their arse kicked". I got to my feet and wandered over to the railing that ran around the edge of the gazebo. Below me was a deep valley, waterfalls rushing down it's walls and a beautiful town of sorts, all white and delicately decorated.
"When I was told there was a whole new world beneath my bed, I didn't take it literally!!!"
No one seemed to be around, or if they were they were keeping well out of the way of the crazy red head talking to herself 'so, this world isn't necessarily different from my own' I thought with an inward snigger.
I seemed to be stuck high up in a different world with no apparent way of getting down and all I could think was 'I wonder if my psychology teacher would accept 'my coversheet fell into another dimension' as an excuse for not having it a few weeks ago if I lost it through the apparent interworld portal beneath my bed'.
I was so busy conversing with myself about the completely irrelevant when a voice from behind me asked
"Good morning, are you well?"
There stood a tallish bloke, clothed in long greenish grey robes with a pointy hat and staff standing in front of a covering of ivy on the rock wall which attached the gazebo to the cliff face.
"Excuse me?" I replied in shock.
"Are you well? you took quite a fall through the ceiling a few minutes ago."
How was it that I had not noticed him before.
"From the look of things, when I wake up I'll probably be strapped to a bed taking 20 forms of medication. Yourself? no offence but with that outfit I may find you in the bed next to me."
"I am quite well Sarah, I have been expecting you"
"Shouldn't you be wearing a white coat and wielding a needle??"
"No no" he chuckled "nothing like that"
This guy was seriously getting on my nerves, and in no small way creeping me out.
"Okay then.......so where the hell am I?"
"You are where you're meant to be."
"Could you be a bit more vague, I almost understood a word you said for a moment there".
He just laughed again.
For God's sake.
"If I throw your stick will you go away?"
"Now now, that's no way to speak to a wizard"
"uh huh, please, just show me how to get off this gazebo?, being trapped here is starting to drive me nuts" I looked around again for a way down, I doubt the old guy had dropped through the ceiling from under my bed like I had. I spotted some tough looking vines growning down over the railing to a ledge below where one of the buildings was situated. "I suppose we have to climb down then hey?"
"That's one way" he reached behind him and lifted the ivy on the wall "Then again there is always the elevator...........
Thanks Luimenel (, I'm glad someone's getting something out of this rambling….but it is so much more appealing to write than biology revision notes.