Into the Green

I wait for the bus that will take me home -- its route through an unknown city. When it drops me off, I walk into a field of bright green grass. I walk until it becomes obvious I'm all alone, the sun is setting in the West (I'm heading South), and there is nothing ahead of me but more wilderness.

I climb a mossy cliff. An intersection between two paths in the field is right beneath it. A line of hungry rodents scampers down one of these paths -- either hunting or being hunted. I climb down the cliff and continue my walk.

Suddenly, ahead of me, a man in a red jacket runs onto the path. At first, I think he's a traveller like myself, but then I notice he has joined three other people beside an abandomned car. They are hunched over, looking at something; when they hear me, they stand up and run... they had just beaten up a man, who is now slumped by the car. There are five of them, including a woman with long black hair. I can't see their faces, but I know they have realized I'm alone. They re-group by an abandomned office building beyond the car and pick up stones & sticks to attack me.

I'm rooted to the floor and I know nobody will be able to help me even if I manage that mobile phone call.