why yes, children, this is what we call a flashback!
Like every memory, it opens in a haze.
The haze, of course, is more effectively called rapid eye movement - not that this matters.
(now she's falling hard)
When it lifts, Sheila finds herself in a perfectly familliar location ... the lake outside, at Milliways, watching the not'stars.
"Ashley?"
She turns to where she thought her newly-named fiancee sat, talking to her of something, anything -- and there's nothing.
Just, suddenly, a sound in the distance.
The haze, of course, is more effectively called rapid eye movement - not that this matters.
(now she's falling hard)
When it lifts, Sheila finds herself in a perfectly familliar location ... the lake outside, at Milliways, watching the not'stars.
"Ashley?"
She turns to where she thought her newly-named fiancee sat, talking to her of something, anything -- and there's nothing.
Just, suddenly, a sound in the distance.