Head for the Kingdom
A light flashes before your eyes again, a bright orange.
You jump with fright then laugh when you realize it's the 'Feu Follet'
again.
"Well am I glad to see a friendly...'you break off, laughing.
"Face" hardly applies.
The glowing ball draws back after you speak, then comes forward again.
It pauses, hovering, bathing you with now yellow light. A thought
strikes you.
"Can you take me to the kingdom?" you ask, wondering if the
creature understands your language as you speak it.The 'Feu Follet'
pauses, pulsating, then begins to move slowly over to one side.
Once it realizes that your following it, the littkle ball of light
picks up pace, sailing ahead with a sense of purpose.
You walk along thinking of your family and then sitting down to dinner
without you...
You arms flail as you try to stop your forward movement, but you
tumble into the quicksand with a gasp. The mushy substance filling
your mouth, and you spit frantically, choking on it. You panic for a
second, thrashing about wildly before you realize that your struggles
only cause you to sink deeper.
Almost as if it were a living creature, the quicksand sucks at your
limbs, seizing your clothes and hair and pulling your head backwards.
You know you only have a few minutes before the ghastly mud closes
over your head...
Walking through the forest you look at your watch..its 4:10pm...all
your friends would be home from school watching television or playing
Quake on the computer. You wish you were too.
