05-19-2018, 06:23 PM
Behind his sunglasses, Roger Smith closed his eyes. And let his mind wander.
Something. There had to be something.
Something to explain just what was going on here. Where he was. How he had gotten here. What the hell this place was. Some kind of bizarre dream? Some strange...purgatory? He hadn't a clue.
Eventually his wandering mind stumbled upon something to answer his dilemma. Something which he had let slip in his initial confusion over simply waking up here, as his perceptions had told him. And that something provided answers to at least three of his questions.
"So...Omni, huh," he finally spoke again. "And this is the Omniverse." He shook his head. "Someone sure is full of themselves...naming a place in their own image." He pushed off from where he sat on the edge of the fountain. "At least he answered some questions before just dropping me off here..." Roger reached up to pull his sunglasses off, carefully folding and tucking them into a pocket of his suit. He then held out his hand, palm up, and let his eyes close. Anything he desired, the odd little child-thing had said, in his strange introduction...
He lost track of how long it took. Not more than a few minutes, he knew. But time was hard to judge when there was nothing to base it on. When he felt the weight in his hand, though...familiar and welcome. He knew it had worked. How it had worked, by what ridiculous notion short of this all being some crazy dream, he didn't know. But it had.
He opened his eyes again and stared at it. Large enough to fill his hand entirely. Bright red, faintly glistening in the strange sourceless light of this place. Firm in his grasp, yielding only slightly to a gentle squeeze. The weight he already knew was spot-on. And the smell... He brought it up, the bright green stem just a few inches from his nose and inhaled. Faint...but there. Sweet. Earthy. He lowered his hand again, looking down at the fruit it held. "Well... That's a pretty neat trick." And with a faintly amused smile, he brought the tomato back up and bit into it.
Small things. But sometimes they were nice.
Something. There had to be something.
Something to explain just what was going on here. Where he was. How he had gotten here. What the hell this place was. Some kind of bizarre dream? Some strange...purgatory? He hadn't a clue.
Eventually his wandering mind stumbled upon something to answer his dilemma. Something which he had let slip in his initial confusion over simply waking up here, as his perceptions had told him. And that something provided answers to at least three of his questions.
"So...Omni, huh," he finally spoke again. "And this is the Omniverse." He shook his head. "Someone sure is full of themselves...naming a place in their own image." He pushed off from where he sat on the edge of the fountain. "At least he answered some questions before just dropping me off here..." Roger reached up to pull his sunglasses off, carefully folding and tucking them into a pocket of his suit. He then held out his hand, palm up, and let his eyes close. Anything he desired, the odd little child-thing had said, in his strange introduction...
He lost track of how long it took. Not more than a few minutes, he knew. But time was hard to judge when there was nothing to base it on. When he felt the weight in his hand, though...familiar and welcome. He knew it had worked. How it had worked, by what ridiculous notion short of this all being some crazy dream, he didn't know. But it had.
He opened his eyes again and stared at it. Large enough to fill his hand entirely. Bright red, faintly glistening in the strange sourceless light of this place. Firm in his grasp, yielding only slightly to a gentle squeeze. The weight he already knew was spot-on. And the smell... He brought it up, the bright green stem just a few inches from his nose and inhaled. Faint...but there. Sweet. Earthy. He lowered his hand again, looking down at the fruit it held. "Well... That's a pretty neat trick." And with a faintly amused smile, he brought the tomato back up and bit into it.
Small things. But sometimes they were nice.
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