She awoke slowly and could feel she was in the arms of someone who loved her. She could tell by the feeling of comfort. She turned her head to look at his face, but He was three men at once, and this startled her. Suddenly, she felt a sense of urgency, and she sat up quickly. She realized she was in the bed she slept in as a teenager. She was in her room as a teenager. She looked through the bedroom doorway, which was supposed to lead into her brother’s room, but instead it lead to a living room. Various people from her past were scattered throughout the space, sleeping.
She leapt out of the bed and to her feet. He asked her if she was OK and if she was back from where she had gone? She didn’t understand Him, but at the same time, she understood Him. He was The Protector. He was doing his job. She loved him for this. She turned to look at herself in the dresser mirror, her dresser mirror. She was stunned to see someone with sandy blonde hair, bangs, blue eyes, and lips not her own. The reflection was not hers and she felt more lost than ever. She also realized she had no memory of anything recent. She wasn’t sure how she got here or what happened the night before, but she knew something of significance took place.
She looked back at Him and He said; you are beautiful. The Protector was gone. This was The Catalyst speaking now. She knew he meant what he said, but what scared her was that she didn’t know what face He saw. And so she ran downstairs.
When she got into the kitchen it was full of the same people from the living room. Now they were awake; eating and talking to one another. When they saw her, she could tell they were looking at her strangely. She didn’t understand why and this was unsettling. So she ran through the front door, and into the night. She was in a yard she did not know. She looked up at the sky and it began to rain. Then it began to storm and the whole yard started to flood. It filled with water and became a deep pool almost instantly, and now all those same people were there swimming around her. They were making it a whirlpool and it was making it difficult for her to keep her head above the water. She wanted them to stop, but they were laughing, having fun, and didn’t notice that she was drowning.
Suddenly Time sucked everything dry and there was only pavement and she was cold and laying on it. A huge truck was driving towards her, but she was paralyzed and couldn’t move out of its path. It drove on top of her and she pushed up on the tires as hard as she could, and to her complete amazement, she flipped the truck over and away from her. The ease with which she did this was odd, and she knew something was very wrong. Was she dreaming, hallucinating….??
She is in an empty garage now, the truck which she overturned is gone, and she turns to see everyone behind her, just staring. She can’t tell what their faces are saying, so she gets up and heads out of the garage and toward the day light. She makes it out of the garage and looks up at the sky. It is bright out, sunny, warm. She has no idea where she is, and she is lost more than ever. At the same time she is happy to be alone and standing in the sun. She doesn’t know which way to go, so she stands still. She looks down at her hands and knows that something is missing.
