Thursday, December 8, 2016

And Now A Respite

Some things you can eat you shouldn't eat. This is one of those life lessons you learn squatting down over a hole you hope something isn't going to emerge from emptying your bowels for what feels like the tenth time that day. It had been eight months since I and Luke had parted ways, it felt like years. He and I didn't talk, we had picked halves of the complex to explore and I swear I got the expired food half. I had been surviving the time spent down there, but I wouldn't say I'd been living. I couldn't' even take much joy in being able to read all the how's and whys.

Apparently the corruption wasn't a disease, or a world destroying event. No it was a change over of one government to another, and the new government didn't do things particularly well. My sight and learning was also nothing amazing, I had apparently stumbled into some kind of sensory experiment, quite amazing, but ultimately not like universe shattering. The sight was even fading, which made exploring a lot more of a pain in the ass in the under lit hallways. But really the hardest part was the food and the digesting. I was in the middle of evacuating my bowels when Hanlon arrived, or I thought it was Hanlon, again not in the best of minds.

"This is an interesting predicament."

"Are you the real Hanlon or have I hit that level of crazy so early."

"Now if I told you I was the real one you'd immediately doubt me, if I confirmed I was your madness you'd also think that was me playing a joke, you are at best impossible to deal with Trezlan and for that you'll just have to believe what you will." It was the most Hanlon answer ever.

"So what do you want?"

"I was looking for you, but I never imagined you'd get lost underground, I mean again, again, how many times is this for you?"

"Kind of busy right now, can you come back when I'm feeling better?"

"Oh sure, sorry to have bothered." He disappeared, and I wasn't quite sure if he was madness or the real one, and I had another four months of being lost before I could confirm either way. And I'm still not sure I made it out of being down there, even now I worry madness took over and I'm eating and shitting as I slowly lose what little is left of my mind down there in the dark.

Oh happy holidays if you celebrate any!

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