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I had blacked out.

Now I felt like I was floating. Somewhere. Somewhere.

I was disoriented, and I couldn't tell what direction I was moving, or if I even was moving. I felt half awake.

"I think I'm vertical," I whispered to nothingness. I was standing yet floating. There was nothing around me, nothing but a dark, grey-blue horizon expanding in all directions, and I think I saw a few clouds in the sky, floating ominously above me, dark as night.

All of sudden, I felt a strange pull on my body, as if gravity had only now started to take effect here, but I wasn't going down. I felt a weird rumbling that felt like an earthquake.

As if a world was being thrown into existence below my feet, I stumbled on hard, flat terra firma. I fell to the ground, only to lift my head and find I was outside. Something was wrong, though.

"I must be having a lucid dream," I thought in denial, but no, this was in front of me. This was real.

"Am I…? Oh shit."

I had fallen, or rather, spawned, in a thicket of trees, like a little grotto. I could see I was right at the edge of a river, which passed through a valley of mountains with a forest of tall spruce trees on the opposite bank.

There was no wind, the river didn't flow, the leaves on trees stayed in place, and most apparent, there was the fact I was in a world of blocks.

Minecraft.

There was this division of my mind that thought, "Yeah, this is too real not to be fake. You're dreaming," and yet another that just wanted to stay here. Both were confused.

I stood up to try and get a grip on what might be happening and immediately noticed two grey buttons that suddenly popped up into the corners of my vision. Curious, of course, I pressed the one on the left, to which a chat box opened with a sharp click, which happened to already have some text in it.

I started reading it from the top down, earliest to most recent.

[WORLD LOADED]

[WORLD ONLINE]

Rafila1 has joined the game

Rafila1 was my MCPE username.

"So I'm on PE?"

Wait a second.

I turned to my left side and further behind me found a simple, diagonal bridge of spruce wood going just barely above the unmoving river. This seemed familiar.

Sure enough, when I ran near the bridge, a square oak house came into view, with a fenced area full of chickens to its right, and a slew of other buildings behind it. There was a statue of the infamous white-eyed Steve skin I had made with complete accuracy out of wool and terracotta (according to the new update it's not hardened clay anymore).

I was in the PE survival world I played with on my phone….

Then I remembered the stranger in the server room back at my school, who had plugged in the unknown drive, and all of the day's thoughts and memories came back to me at that moment.

And within that same moment, I realized something: I was in his domain.

I was in Herobrine's domain.