Not my story
(Warning mentioned of death)
George, I wish you'd look at the nursery
What's wrong with it?
I don't know
Well then
I just want you to look at it is all or call a psychologist in to look at it
What would a psychologist want with a nursery?
You know very well what he'd want his wife was standing in the middle of the kitchen watching the stove busy humming to itself making supper for 4
Alright let's have a look
They walked down the hall of their happylife home which had cost them thirty thousand dollars with everything included this house which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang and was good to them their approach was sensed by a hidden switch and the nursery lights turned on when they came within 10 feet of it similarly behind them in the halls lights went on and off automatically as they left them behind
Well said George Hadley they stood on the grass like floor of the nursery it was 40 feet across by 40 feet long and 30 feet high: it had cost half again as much as the rest of the house but nothings too good for are children
The room was silent and empty the walls were white and 2 dimensional now as George and Lydia Hadley stood in the center of the room the walls made a quiet noise and seemed to fall away into the distance soon an African velt appeared in 3 dimensions on all sides in color it looked real to the smallest stone and bit of the yellow summer grass the ceiling above them became a deep sky with a hot yellow sun
George Hadley started to sweat from the heat let's get out of this sun he said this Is a little too real but I don't see anything wrong
Wait a moment you'll see said his wife
Now hidden machines were beginning to blow a wind containing prepared smells towards the 2 people in the middle of the baked veldt the hot straw smell of lion grass the cool green smell of the hidden water hole the strong dried blood smell of animals the smell of dust like hot pepper in the air and now the sounds: the thump of distant antelope feet on soft grassy ground the paperly rustle of vultures a shadow passed through the sky George Hadley looked up and Aaron he watched the shadows moved across his sweating face horrible creatures he heard his wife say
The vultures
You see there are the lions far over that way now they're on their way to the water hole
