It starts with a blurry sight, everything is dark and gray,
I’m standing on the top steps outside of this building, all I can hear is the wind blowing as I’m standing there, I squint my eyes to try and make out what’s in front of me, but all I can see is the shapes of what seems to be people walking on the sidewalk and cars passing by on the streets, but I can’t be too sure. The sound of the wind overlaps every other sound and noise, and still all I see is a gray haze. As this gray haze is starting to clear up, I begin to look around to see if I can make out anything at all, as I am standing here anxiously waiting to move. Then everything begins to clear up. I get my sight back then everything goes silent, I don’t hear the wind blowing not a single sound, I can’t hear anything anymore everything is just a complete silence. Though I see the trees being moved, like they are dancing from side to side, by what I can only assume to be the wind. I spot what seems to be an older lady and a young child walking down the sidewalk, grabbing and tightening their coats to prevent the cold from getting in, like they are trying to keep warm. I see from what appears to be snow thats falling, slow and steadily as if it were dancing to a soothing melody from above, covering anything and everything that it lands on.
The first step I take sinks in, then my next step and my next step, I then reach the sidewalk and suddenly I hear sound and it brings me to a holt, I can hear again, its the wind howling in the night, the car’s tires compressing the light grey layer on the street as its passing me by, I hear the sound of the leafs whipping and cut into the air, and at a distance an unusual sound, but yet a sound that is all too familiar but i can’t think of what it could be, my thoughts run crazy as I can’t, for the life of me, remember where have I heard that crackling and snapping sound before. No matter, I start to head down the street, some how I feel as if I’m supposed to head down in this direction, as if I’ve already been through here, like I already know where it is that I’m supposed to go and yet I draw a blank. But it all looks new to me and still I feel i’ve seen this place before, suddenly a flickering like lights grab ahold of my attention. At first glance I thought it to be lightning, as I am certain, that, I have seen this before and that there is no mistaking it, I draw my sights towards the stormy skies, I do so as if to be possessed, but I feel to not want to look away, I do actually want to look. I come to a complete stop, for what I saw I could not believe. Again I felt powerless, stunned at what was of the skies, the brilliant flickering colors of red, orange and yellow, that was being covered by the darkened clouds, but the colors was not what shocked me to nearly a sort of paralysis, but what it actually was I could not believe, I thought it to be unreal, I thought for sure it was a dream, something like this can not be true. Then for a brief moment I felt stuck in shock and unable to move and just like that it came to me, I finally remembered that unmistakable sound, where I’ve heard it, and everything became all so clear but I feared the worst when I saw what was happening in the sky, and that what was falling reminded me of those wonderful nights around Christmas time that covered with a layer all of the ground outside, but it wasn’t snow it was ashes. Ashes is what was falling down from the flames in the sky that was set a blaze from the mouth of the dragon that hovered up above over all the clouds.
A dragon! It was the only thing that was running through my mind. It just kept repeating and repeating and echoing through my mind. I finally come to, but I couldn’t figure out how to react to this. I mean should I be scared? should I run in fear for my life? So instead I decided to run into the nearest tallest building and head to the roof to get a closer look. Still in a sort of shock as I’m running up the stairs I kept asking myself “is this real?”, “is this really happening?”, “what is this that is happening?” and more importantly what am I to do, “shit what am I going to do when I get up there?” “why am i going up there?”. but I couldn’t bring myself to stop or turn back. some how I was drawn to this, I just thought that my curiosity got the better of me. Breathing heavily and running out of breath I’m getting close to the top now. and just like that I cant go any further, I’m on the last floor but there’s no path to the roof. Now I’m running through the halls trying to find a path but I didn’t have any luck, it was strange that there is no path to be found to reach the roof, but stranger still was the last door at the end of the hall that had a light coming through. The door was open, was it left like that? did the people who live there run out and leave it opened? was it opened on purpose? was it meant for me? am I supposed to go through that opened door?. what ever the reason it doesn’t matter now, not at this point, I am already here and I am goin to walk through. As I slowly approach the door I can start to hear my lungs inhale and exhale calm and steadily, my heart starts to slow down but not an ounce of fear, I hear my footsteps start to echo loud at a distance, my eyes sight sharpens to a tunnel vision, my hands are out as if to brace myself for any surprise that might come through that doorway, time slows down and I try not to blink but the sweat from my brow makes it difficult.
I make it to the doorway and before I go through it I take one last deep breath, I close my eyes gather myself and my thoughts, now I am ready. I go and run through the door……….There’s nothing there, its all silent a white emptiness like there is no time and place, everything is bright all around me. It doesn’t make sense to me nothing is adding up, why is this happening? Why am I here? Where is here? Is this supposed to happen? Then the worst thought, the worst question came to mind. “Am I dead?”. I was lost and confused I didn’t know what had happened. My eyes drew big in a shocking state. And then I hear sound, I can hear noise but I sounds far and its getting closer. I feel a breeze, a cool wind that feels as if it were coming through a hole. And just like that I’m back in the room that I had walked through moments earlier. That sound had gotten really close and that cool wind that I had felt, I now can see where it was coming from. The ceiling was being ripped open. And in a blink of an eye the whole ceiling was gone, I was standing in the middle of the room staring at the sky. But it didn’t take long till I was staring into these big windows to the soul, into the eyes of the dragon.
Eyes locked in, body paralyzed, heart steady, mind clear, I am ready, ready for what ever is to happen right here right now. Then I noticed the dragon’s eyes moving in such a unpredictable pattern as if it were looking for something or someone. It slowly starts to get closer and closer to me, it gets very close, at about arms length. I do think that it knows of what I am hiding behind me. Then I realized I am hiding something behind me and I’m gripping it with all my strength ready to give up my life for this, that until now I didn’t know that I had or what it is that I have. But I feel that the dragon knows, but what’s puzzling me is why isn’t it doing anything. I started to move to my left keeping the dragon head at my front, he moves with me. I move again and so does he. Then he gets closer stops and sniffed me a few times, I felt as if I was going to be sucked into the nose of the dragon, such power and I’m surprised it didn’t knock me off of my feet. He suddenly stopes, moves back a bit and stares at me one last time. He turns around and flies away, fading back up into the fire and ashes in the sky. I couldn’t wait any longer I just had to know what it was that I had in my possession, that I was ready and willing to give up my life for, that in which the dragon felt it necessary to tear the roof off of the building for it. I bring it in front of me to see what it was. And to my surprise I see a golden scroll. I didn’t understand I had so many questions racing through my head, I was trying to make sense out of all that had just happened and why did it happen. A scroll to what?, why did I have it?, how did I get it? And why did the dragon just leave if that is what it was looking for?.
This is the end of this letter for it was but a dream. but it wont be the end of the story, I will think up and write more for this letter, like the reason for the dragon, what of the scroll, the reasons for the dragons actions and such. Ill try to keep it as amusing as this letter.
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Angeli Shixio
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