Thursday, September 4, 2008

Exile

Elsteba leaned against the frozen wall, scanning her memory for the procedures of escaping a frozen space-time tube. As far as she knew, it was impossible to have this happen in the first place, but here it was. Her first thoughts consisted of having a legitiment excuse for being absent from class, but she soon realized that if the tube didn't start moving her soon, she would be stuck forever between parallel dementions. Being locked in her locker for a prank was one thing. At least she had been audible. Now she was trapped between physical and unknown worlds. She pressed her face against the fogged glass in the hopes of seeing someone, or at least something that could help her.
Suddenly, Elsteba saw a flicker of light in the distance. It looked almost like a comet that was only visable for a moment before the darkness swallowed it. She pressed her hands to the glass to push out the light behind her and fell through the glass into the void. Screaming, but not hearing anything, Elsteba fell, gaining speed rapidly and unable to see anything but the cylinder that had been her temporary exile only a few seconds ago. At least there had been light in there, even if it was cramped.

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