The Forest
The doors to the lift open and she steps out into a narrow corridor that smells of medicine and disinfectant. She barely notices. She's not really here right now: she's in the depths of a mystical forest, a fearless explorer on an Important Mission to find hidden treasure.
“... fast asleep at the moment,” the woman in the white coat says to her father as they walk down the corridor, “She had a very disturbed night yesterday.”
Her father doesn't say anything, just nods. He is breathing quickly and shallowly.
She follows them both down the corridor. Only, it's not a corridor, it's a narrow swing-bridge over an endless ravine, and it could break at any moment and send her tumbling into the abyss. They are moving faster than she is, which is fine, because she's not really sure who they are yet: they don't fit very naturally into the narrative, so she's happy to leave them out of it for now.
At the end of the corridor her father and the woman in the white coat turn left, through a small white door with a blue sign on the front. There's another door opposite it, coming out of the right-hand wall, and it's wide open. She leaves the forest momentarily to peer through it. [read more]
The doors to the lift open and she steps out into a narrow corridor that smells of medicine and disinfectant. She barely notices. She's not really here right now: she's in the depths of a mystical forest, a fearless explorer on an Important Mission to find hidden treasure.
“... fast asleep at the moment,” the woman in the white coat says to her father as they walk down the corridor, “She had a very disturbed night yesterday.”
Her father doesn't say anything, just nods. He is breathing quickly and shallowly.
She follows them both down the corridor. Only, it's not a corridor, it's a narrow swing-bridge over an endless ravine, and it could break at any moment and send her tumbling into the abyss. They are moving faster than she is, which is fine, because she's not really sure who they are yet: they don't fit very naturally into the narrative, so she's happy to leave them out of it for now.
At the end of the corridor her father and the woman in the white coat turn left, through a small white door with a blue sign on the front. There's another door opposite it, coming out of the right-hand wall, and it's wide open. She leaves the forest momentarily to peer through it. [read more]