Another night another dream, Lucius found himself drifting to sleep as he usually did, late into the night book in hand and bedroom window open, giving the night breeze free reign inside his room. The sensation he had come to know over the past two weeks rushed through like a cascade, as he felt himself sinking into what felt like eternity. Abruptly Lucius felt his feet touch solid ground as a rooftop and several figures appeared before him. A city scape two men, and the girl, the girl who had stalked his dreams, all registered to his senses.
He had come to be fascinated by this strange girl whose presence had become ubiquitous to his nightly activities. Over the past two weeks he had listened to her commands, carrying them out with reluctant suspicion, questioning her motives every step of the way. It seemed to him that she regarded him as some sort of plaything, or pet project or experiment. While this dynamic had been intriguing to him in the past, the presence of the two other men muddled the mystique he had begun to build up around his relationship with the strange woman.
As she began to speak to them, he noticed her hair, as it wisped slowly through the air as if they all were underwater. “Are we underwater?” As the thought occurred to him he felt a weight encapsulate him, and his hands and feet began to feel weight. Lucius looked down at his own body, his white crew neck shirt and black basketball shorts appeared to be drenched in water. The man with the long dark hair spoke to him, but his words seemed to be garbled and muffed. Lucius simply looked at him with a perplexed expression, as he lept off the side of the rooftop. The other shorter man seemed to have said something as well, but his words were just as muffled to Lucius as the first. “It doesn’t matter, you two can play the role of her toys tonight” Lucius thought as he turned his back and walked to the opposite side of the rooftop. Each step was harried by what felt like the weight of water, as if he were walking on the ocean floor. He looked out over the sprawling city scape and thought that he would rather be elsewhere. “These buildings represent man’s knowledge and achievement upon this Earth, but these sparkling towers of steel and concrete also mark the soul crushing reality of modern life. The life of modern man can be quite banal indeed, forced into mundane routines and conformity, huddled into these hives of industry to labor and toil all in the name of capitalism and consumerism.” Lucius said out loud, as if speaking to some far off visitor unfamiliar with Earth and humanity.
Lucius’s musing were brought to an abrupt halt as the entire city scape vanished, leaving only a white plane. He turned to see the other three in the distance, and with no other subjects of interest being anywhere in sight, he began to make his way over.