Poor Tyler. So confused. *shakes head sadly*
Invisible Burt
Tyler followed a short distance behind the seasoned survivalist, nibbling on an MRE. It didn't exactly taste very good but he was hungry and they were a couple valleys away from any real food so he decided he would chance it. He still wasn't sure why they were out here anyway. Not that he really cared. He didn't have any tours today and everyone's cars where running perfectly fine so there wasn't much he needed to do.
Burt was about a yard ahead of him not really paying any attention to the ground. In fact he didn't really seem to be paying any attention to anything. He was just strolling along as if taking a walk through a park and Tyler was beginning to wonder if that was the only reason they were out here. To take a walk. Sighing, he took a bigger bite of MRE and chewed it slowly. He didn't know how Burt could stand to eat this stuff all the time. It was disgusting and getting hard to eat no matter how hungry he was. He decided to take his mind off of it and concentrated on Burt's feet, counting his steps. It worked. For about a minute.
He had just taken another bite and had reached 34 steps when the feet disappeared. Tyler froze and looked up, around him, behind him, and finally back in front of him. No Burt. He had just disappeared into thin air. He stood there for a moment, staring at the space Burt should have been but wasn't. This wasn't something you saw everyday. Then again, nothing around here was something you saw everyday, but still! This was just beyond weird. 'Well…at least it can't get any weirder.'
"Tyler! Are you planning on standing there all day?" 'Oh look it just did.' There was Burt, standing several yards ahead of where he had disappeared.
"Tyler?" Burt was beginning get that annoyed confused look only he seemed to be able to achieve.
"Uh…did you just notice….um…something?"
"What?"
"Did you notice anything weird just now?"
Burt stared at him for a moment. "No."
"Oh. Okay." Tyler was beginning to wonder if he had just imagined the whole thing. He looked down at the MRE in his hand, wondering.
"Tyler?" Burt had walked back to him and was looking at him a little worriedly. "You ok?"
"Huh? Yeah, I'm fine." He grinned, getting another odd look in return. Burt stared at him a moment before continuing on. Tyler glanced back down at his MRE. He wasn't sure if it they were really capable of creating hallucinations but Rosalita was always saying it was some kind of super food so maybe it could. He didn't have anything else to blame anyway. He looked at it a moment longer before tossing off to the side and hurrying to catch up with Burt. 'Either way I'm never eating one of those things again.'