5
After the Thanksgiving Dinner, Winston went to bed thinking it'll be a dreamless sleep. Rarely does he remember his dreams but this one he remembered with clear detail. He was flying in space in a rather quick speed with the blue dot getting bigger with every second he got closer. The blue dot had land of green and brown. Winston knew without a shadow of a doubt that the planet contained life a billion years ago as there is life right now. This planet was Earth.
If he wanted to (technically if it wanted to) the foreigner would have landed in a populated area but now wasn't the right time. The life forms on this planet hadn't advanced yet so it needed to freeze until humanity has evolved. It only took a second for the ship to crash into the cold ice of Antarctica when he woke up in cold sweat. He was breathing hard, feeling his torso to make sure that he was real. Strangely he wasn't the only one that woke up startled.
"That was the most vivid dream I've ever had," said Zander catching his breath.
"What was it about?" asked Winston, he had a feeling he knew what it was but, had to make sure. He didn't want to be looked at as insane even though he still thought of himself as mentally ill.
"I was flying through space then I saw a blue dot coming closer to me. With the blue ocean and green land I knew there was life but, at the same time I knew it wasn't time yet so I fell into the ice." Winston was stunned, he knew that they would all share his dream but to hear them all confess was something else.
"I've had the same dream."
"Me too!"
"Yeah…it felt so real," and so on. It was silent for a moment until Russell jumped on the bed in front of Winston. The presence of this dog was strangely human. "Why so shocked Winston? After what you've just experienced these past 24 hours you shouldn't be so surprised."
"Forgive me Russell," said Winston, thinking to himself I'm apologizing to a dog.
I'm more then a dog and you are more then Winston. Now get up, we need to consume today. After saying this in his head the dog jumped out of bed with Winston following behind. The others got out of bed but none of them followed the two outside. Winston followed the dog all the way out into the woods until they he beheld a blue glowing dome. "What is that?"
"It's a teleporter to Oceania or back in the old times England."
"So….where are we now?" asked Winston, thinking he was in Eastasia or Eurrussia. The answer Russell gave him was so odd and yet so beautiful the place they were in now didn't seem real. "This place that you are standing in now is the State of Maine but to put this bluntly….this use to be America before Big Brother destroyed the citizens of all 50 State. This place is sacred to freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Now put your hand on the dome, the devise doesn't work on dogs."
"Oh," said Winston, shaking himself of the greatness of a fallen country. Winston put his hand on the dome were it opened to a glowing crystal blue floor. Russell was the first to walk onto the open dome. The floor rippled as the paws touched the water like floor. "Well, come in, it's quite harmless," said Russell with reassurance. With some hesitation Winston stepped onto the portal. The floor felt squishy under his feet.
"Ready?" Winston nodded even though he wasn't really ready. What came next was much unexpected once Russell said, "Hold still, this will feel a little strange at first." He felt gravity pull him to the ground with the feeling of being submerged in water. It felt like being on an intense rollercoaster ride for only a millimeter of a second. He was now standing the field were he was consumed. "Now lets go hunting," said Russell as they went out to find Winston's first victim to consume.