Dreamwalkers

Chapter Three

Chapter Three:

                I fell onto the soft grass with a thud. I was really confused and couldn’t figure out where I was or how I got there. Sitting up, I looked around to find something that made me lose any voice I might have had. I had to be in the center of the most beautiful place I’d ever seen. Green grass spread out for as far as I could see, and shrubbery was everywhere, its bright flowers adding color to everything. The sky was completely cloudless and a strange mix of pinks, blues, and yellows. Kind of like the sky when the sun is setting, but this had to be ten times more beautiful. In the center of the sky a giant orb of light shone brightly with spirals and swirls flowing endlessly around it. Everything was unreal but familiar looking, as if I’d been here before. Trees were scattered around here and there, but with odd things on them, and weirdly shaped. It was all so strange but completely natural at the same time. I got to my feet, slowly walking over to one of the trees, grazing my hand along its dark green trunk. Instead of the rough texture that I had expected, it was smooth as silk.

                “This must be amazing to you.” An unfamiliar voice shook me out of my daze, and I turned quickly, ready to defend myself. What I saw had to be the most shocking thing I’d seen yet. Before me stood a man… but not. He was very tall, almost 7 feet, and was very handsome. He had tan skin, dark hair that framed his angled face, and beautiful long lashes around his honey-colored eyes. He wore a pair of tights breeches and a leather bracelet with some carving on it. No shoes. No shirt. But the part that freaked me out the most was the fact that I could see right through him. Not that he didn’t look solid, because he did, but his skin had this odd shimmering effect that made him look translucent.

                “I.. bu… wha… w-w-who are y-y-ou?” I stammered, terrified.

                “I am Iker, better known as the visitor, though I do prefer Iker.” His voice was like silk, wrapping around me and soothing my worries and fears. “I know you have many questions, so I want to make things simple for you.” I could seriously drown in his voice. It had a tone of perfection to it that could never belong to a human.

                “I come from an ancient race of beings best known as the Dreamwalkers. Think of where we live as another universe in your own, because we live, you see, in the mind.” A look of horror passed over my face. The mind? Like when someone would say the voices in their head told them to murder their family?

                “I know what you are thinking, and no, we are not evil things set out to control you. We are simple beings, really. Only taking what is necessary to survive. What you see now is the world we live in. When we travel, it travels with us, almost like a companion, but more. We are one in the same. The world makes us what we are and we make the world what it is. One could not exist without the other. We travel to a mind and stay for a while, making friends with our home, before moving on to the next.”

                All the information was coming too quickly for me, and I couldn’t process it. Dreamwalkers? Other world? In the mind? It all seemed completely crazy. Impossible. Something like that couldn’t exist. People would know about it. Scientist would have detected it, wouldn’t they?

                No, this couldn’t really be happening. This had to be a big dream or a set up or something. That thought gave me the courage to finally speak without sounded like an idiot. “I think you’re either completely crazy and have a sick sense of humor, or this is all a big fat lie of a dream that I will wake up from any second.” I put all the confidence I could muster into the sentence, though it still sounded a little flat to my ears, like I didn’t really believe myself.