What job?

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I open my eyes. I see an endless field of feathers. I'm standing on a stone slab, it's not cold nor is it hot. I'm not breathing, wait, I don't need to breathe. Why don't I need to breathe? I step forward. my leg is sore, very, very sore. I take another step. it hurts so bad, but I can't stop now. If I stop I won't find out where I am. I take a third step, then another. The pain is starting to go away. I stop, what happens when I step on these feathers? I take a careful step. It's so soft. I take another. I hear a noise, it sounds like birds chirping. The once solid field of feathers, falls apart into trillions upon trillions of medium sized doves. I'm falling, am I falling? No, I'm balancing on two doves. They're forming a spiral staircase. I go down it. There's nowhere else for me to go. I go down further, and further, and further. I see something blue... no, grey, or maybe grayish blue? I go down further I'm so curious now. I reach the end and stop for a moment, It looks like... water, I think. I poke the floor with my toe. It's warm I think. my toe starts a ripple effect. I don't feel like jumping in... I feel like... walking on it? There's a moment of silence. I don't even hear the sound you usually hear when there's nothing going on. I take a step on the floor... I don't fall. I put my other foot on the floor. I'm standing... why am I standing? Shouldn't I have fallen into the water? I start walking, my legs feel fine now. My feet don't even feel wet. I start to hear a roaring sound, like a waterfall. I feel like walking away from the sound but the second I turn around. what was once a still body of water, has turned into a waterfall, or more like a series of waterfalls forming a staircase going down. Why am I still going down? Why can't I go up? The only thing I can do right now is go down so why not try that and see where that leads? I walk down the stairs made of water. Not one living thing in the water at all. Not one fish, not even a bug or any sort of plant. I reach the end, it's brighter. I blink, and I see another seemingly endless field . The floor is made of small stone pentagons. It seems solid enough so I start walking on it. It is solid... wait, is it solid? the pentagons start falling, I'm falling, but I'm still on my feet. I'm not falling my feet are still on the ground, there's a brief second of it stopping it's fall. Now it's starting to go up, up up up. It then stops and sends me flying. There's something above me, it looks like another still body of water. I fall through it and then I fall onto it from what used to be above it. I'm not hurt, I'm confused. I get back up on my feet and start walking again and that's only breaks into a jog and that jog so he breaks into a sprint. the air is hitting my face so hard. I'm going so fast. I don't stop by slowly going back down to a walk and then stopping, I just stop. It starts raining from the floor. Now I'm falling again or am I flying? All I knew was that I started to ascend from the floor and that it started to feel as if I was falling, I stop falling. I'm not stopped by anything I just stopped in mid-air. Why am I here? The floor appears and everything suddenly goes dark, then, I see something I see light. I start running towards it. It looks like a way out of here it's getting brighter. I'm starting to hear voices. "Are you ok?", "Can you hear me?" "Baby wake up!". "Baby"? Wait, I know that voice! That's my wife! I start to yell, "WHERE AM I?!" "I'M COMING BABY DON'T WORRY!" I have to keep running, I start to remember, I'm married, I can't seem to figure out how long, just that it feels like i've always been with them, AND I DON'T WANT THAT TO STOP! I start to hear a different voice, not coming from the light but from all around me. "You can't die yet, you still have a job to do" Who does this voice belong to? It sounds deep but also light somehow. I can't figure out the gender of the voice. I have a job to do? What job? My eyes open. I'm alive...I'm...happy. I'm given an avalanche of kisses all over my face. My love's face is covered in tears. My love is ok...thank God. I grab my love tight, their scent filling my lungs, I suddenly feel like I'm home...of course I do. I'm with my love, my love is my home. There is one thing bothering me though...What job?

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