A DREAM

I'm floating...

Dreaming universe, watching beautiful celestial events. Everywhere around me darkness full of stars. A lot of stars and ... ''Earth? Is this Earth ?'', I wondered. Then I noticed I was looking out the window. Actually a big opening above my head. Beautiful scenery stretched through it. A blue and green pearl surrounded by stars. If just you weren't so alone... left among the stars.

Earth ... My home.

She looked around her and saw metal-coated walls, and some inscriptions on them. The simbols seem somewhat familiar and yet different. Around her many weird things. She had never seen anything like this in her dreams, she would always be just floating but not inside of something.

''My dreams have always been unusual. At least they are progressing, when not my life," she laughed at herself.

She was laying on a cold surface, on a metal table, it seems. She couldn't move her body. She felt as though she was overcome by all the tiredness of the world. Then she saw something, or somebody. Is coming. Seeing who, WHAT was approaching, her mind fell back into the dark.

They floated above Earth, following it's orbit.

When she came back to consciousness again, she realized she was in the same place as in her dream.

"Not the same dream again!" She though.

And again, feeling helpless. Like she couldn't move any part of her body.

Then she tried to bite her tongue, she tried wake up from this dream that way. She closed her eyes and tried. She did it, but the only thing she felt was pain, and the taste of metal in her mouth.

''I pressed too hard. ''

Opening her eyes, she saw the same ceiling it had greeted her in the previous dream. ''It looks like this does not work. If I could just move my hand to pinch myself.'' She managed to lift her head slightly, only to see her whole body strapped on the cold metal desk, and without any clothes.

She tried to move her body, hoping to get free, but she couldn't move a bit. Everything started to scream in her. Her heart started to beat uncontrollable.

Then she saw again, the same faces approaching at a high speed. Like running. She hoped she did not see well, she would quickly wake up from this dream. But she didn't. They surrounded her. A big, tough, warm hand touched her forehead and wiped the sweat that she didn't even feel started to create. She heard the same sounds as when she went on the street after work.

''Am I dreaming or is this really happening?''

The creatures worked something around her body. Some strange instrument was in the hands of one of them. He let it go, and it started to float around her chest. After that it returned to the hand of that same creature. And as they appeared, they went and left her in even greater confusion and fear.

''Why am I tied here, without clothes and on this cold table? Who was that? What are they? What's happening, what's this dream about? Or is not a dream?''

Hoping that she would never dream of this table, those creatures, only the sky and stars, exhausted, Elli had fallen asleep.

She felt hovering, but in someone's hands. It was like a warm body wraped itself around her. She clenched herself closer to the source of that heat. When was the last time she felt safe? In her mother's hands. This was a feeling like this, a long time lost. Will it take longer...