In The Corner vol. 3
A few days of procrastination have passed. :D Not that I really had to write, but I kept thinking about it, and then decided that I wasn't inspired enough to write so..........
Then I suddenly got in the writing mood, and contemplated starting a new story, but I decided to just continue In The Corner. Once again, I had planned this chapter to be something different, but it just keeps changing as I write more. >>
Anyways, in this chapter, Eita makes his way through the um... place he ends up in after walking through the door in the stars~*~*~
In The Corner vol. 3
Eita flew through the door in the sky and, using some ounce of grace, managed to land on his feet with a soft thud. As expected, the door he passed through shut itself behind him without reason. It was becoming routine. He looked around him, eager to learn about his new whereabouts.
He was now in a dark room. Surrounding him, where the night sky previously was, were four dark blue walls - so dark they were almost black. Spread across the room’s walls and ceilings were hundreds of little lights, as small as Christmas tree lights, in place of the stars. Behind Eita were lights outlining the door he had previously arranged using the stars. It appeared to be the only door in the room, but as Eita was quickly learning, he couldn’t judge anything just by its appearance anymore - not while he was in a world full of invisible walls and ladders that appear out of thin air.
He examined the room carefully, checking the nearby walls. When he found nothing, he made his way to the wall opposite the door and went to press his hand against it. To his (slight) surprise, his hand went straight through, as if the wall were not there at all. He walked forward into where the wall should be, but no matter how many steps he took toward it, he couldn’t get any closer.
Eita had a suspicion. He turned to check the door he had entered the room through, and his suspicion was confirmed: it was now further away than before. It was like the room was stretching with every step Eita took. Thus he had a feeling he was going the right way. Because, he reasoned, if anything seemed like it would make sense in this world, it was obviously wrong.
He decided to keep heading on this track and walked further and further into the wall. He must have taken hundreds of steps without growing closer, but each time he checked behind him, the door grew further and further away.
As he walked, constantly checking his distance from the door, he admired the lighting in the room. It was obviously not a room full of real stars, but somehow the atmosphere still made him feel like he was wandering through a dream. He weighed the chances of this adventure being a dream versus reality. Oddly enough, he thought it was more likely real. Why? His dreams, when he could actually remember them, were usually limited to boring, unadventurous. But he rarely could recall a dream, even after he was just woken from the middle of one. So he just had a hunch that everything was really happening around him, no matter how strange and unreal it appeared to be.
After a while of walking, the door had become just a speck off in the distance, and soon it disappeared altogether.
As soon as it was no longer visible, Eita turned back to face the wall and BAM! He walked right into it, falling over onto his butt once again. He grimaced and helped himself back up. Then he took a moment to look at the wall. Now there was a new door.
It was a rather regular door. It was average height, average width, plain and white. The doorknob was also normal. It looked like it could be any door in any house.
Eita wondered if this was the door back to his closet. It was the most normal door he had found so far. It was perfectly plain, so it seemed like the perfect candidate. And then, for a split second, the thought disappointed him. He almost didn’t want to leave now; he was starting to enjoy this fantasy world.
The more he stood there thinking, the more he realized it would be better to explore alongside someone else - a friend, or maybe his brother. If this door led back to his closet, he thought to himself, he would get someone to come back and explore more with him. Then he realized how absurd it would be for him to come stumbling out of his closet, run off to his brother, and tell him that he should join him in exploring a giant hole that opened in his closet into which he fell, then walked through a green door, found a forest, climbed a tree, played with the stars, went through a door in the sky, and walked to the end of an endlessly stretching room filled with Christmas lights before making his way back to the real world. No, his brother would not think he was insane at all.
He made his final decision as he put his hand on the knob. Eita wouldn’t have to show his brother anything. He would simply show him. Then he would understand. With that thought, he opened the door.
To be continued...
Then I suddenly got in the writing mood, and contemplated starting a new story, but I decided to just continue In The Corner. Once again, I had planned this chapter to be something different, but it just keeps changing as I write more. >>
Anyways, in this chapter, Eita makes his way through the um... place he ends up in after walking through the door in the stars~*~*~
In The Corner vol. 3
Eita flew through the door in the sky and, using some ounce of grace, managed to land on his feet with a soft thud. As expected, the door he passed through shut itself behind him without reason. It was becoming routine. He looked around him, eager to learn about his new whereabouts.
He was now in a dark room. Surrounding him, where the night sky previously was, were four dark blue walls - so dark they were almost black. Spread across the room’s walls and ceilings were hundreds of little lights, as small as Christmas tree lights, in place of the stars. Behind Eita were lights outlining the door he had previously arranged using the stars. It appeared to be the only door in the room, but as Eita was quickly learning, he couldn’t judge anything just by its appearance anymore - not while he was in a world full of invisible walls and ladders that appear out of thin air.
He examined the room carefully, checking the nearby walls. When he found nothing, he made his way to the wall opposite the door and went to press his hand against it. To his (slight) surprise, his hand went straight through, as if the wall were not there at all. He walked forward into where the wall should be, but no matter how many steps he took toward it, he couldn’t get any closer.
Eita had a suspicion. He turned to check the door he had entered the room through, and his suspicion was confirmed: it was now further away than before. It was like the room was stretching with every step Eita took. Thus he had a feeling he was going the right way. Because, he reasoned, if anything seemed like it would make sense in this world, it was obviously wrong.
He decided to keep heading on this track and walked further and further into the wall. He must have taken hundreds of steps without growing closer, but each time he checked behind him, the door grew further and further away.
As he walked, constantly checking his distance from the door, he admired the lighting in the room. It was obviously not a room full of real stars, but somehow the atmosphere still made him feel like he was wandering through a dream. He weighed the chances of this adventure being a dream versus reality. Oddly enough, he thought it was more likely real. Why? His dreams, when he could actually remember them, were usually limited to boring, unadventurous. But he rarely could recall a dream, even after he was just woken from the middle of one. So he just had a hunch that everything was really happening around him, no matter how strange and unreal it appeared to be.
After a while of walking, the door had become just a speck off in the distance, and soon it disappeared altogether.
As soon as it was no longer visible, Eita turned back to face the wall and BAM! He walked right into it, falling over onto his butt once again. He grimaced and helped himself back up. Then he took a moment to look at the wall. Now there was a new door.
It was a rather regular door. It was average height, average width, plain and white. The doorknob was also normal. It looked like it could be any door in any house.
Eita wondered if this was the door back to his closet. It was the most normal door he had found so far. It was perfectly plain, so it seemed like the perfect candidate. And then, for a split second, the thought disappointed him. He almost didn’t want to leave now; he was starting to enjoy this fantasy world.
The more he stood there thinking, the more he realized it would be better to explore alongside someone else - a friend, or maybe his brother. If this door led back to his closet, he thought to himself, he would get someone to come back and explore more with him. Then he realized how absurd it would be for him to come stumbling out of his closet, run off to his brother, and tell him that he should join him in exploring a giant hole that opened in his closet into which he fell, then walked through a green door, found a forest, climbed a tree, played with the stars, went through a door in the sky, and walked to the end of an endlessly stretching room filled with Christmas lights before making his way back to the real world. No, his brother would not think he was insane at all.
He made his final decision as he put his hand on the knob. Eita wouldn’t have to show his brother anything. He would simply show him. Then he would understand. With that thought, he opened the door.
To be continued...