she couldn’t even close her eyes. It was as if she was paralyzed. Fearful for her life she screamed. It seemed to have come out in slow motion, if at all.
“MAAAAXXXXXX!!!”
Not a sound could be heard, it was as if her vocal cords had been severed. In fact she couldn’t move her mouth if she wanted to. She realized there was nothing she could do; she was helpless in the paralyzing light which now saturated there room. The light became brighter and there was a distinct electrical buzzing sound that emanated in all directions. Her windows began to shake as if a sonic boom had rippled through the air, pictures fell off the walls and her white popcorn ceiling began to shed particulate and rain down upon her. She didn’t hear Max, she knew he was a heavy sleeper, but to sleep through this he must have been comatose!
Before she could realize what was going on a bright light blinded her eyes and she began to feel herself floating above the bed, she was still immobilized as she attempted to fight the power of the light. But it was pointless. No matter how hard she tried she couldn’t move.
She saw the ceiling turn a translucent opal shade as if it had developed some kind of transparency and was reflecting the light she was encapsulated in. The light pulled her up toward the ceiling, a slow but steadily increasing pace. She wanted to grimace with apprehension as she approached the ceiling, but as she breached the point at which she would have made contact with it, her body simply passed right through without any resistance whatsoever. Surely this must be a dream, just like before.
She was frightened as she felt a growing gap between her and her bed as she continued to follow the light up and over her neighborhood. Then she saw it. Out of nowhere a huge metal ship materialized before her. She had passed through its cloak and into its safe zone. It was shades of green, blue and grey with lights on its sides that wrapped around its entire oval circumference. It looked menacing and dark; almost sad. As she approached the ship there was a circular orb that was affixed to the bottom. It was made of pure, soft, white light. She feared she was going to be incinerated as it become warmer the closer she got. Eventually though she was bathed in this light. To her surprise it was comforting, she almost felt peaceful. Her fear had vanished as she sought to explore this experience, rather than giving into the fear.
As the brightness of the light faded she realized that she could now move and that there was some kind of support beneath her rather than empty space. Her arms and legs were free. As she moved them she felt some resistance and saw that she was enclosed in a thick jelly like substance in a small pool built for at most two average human beings. I must have passed through the orb and into this pool of thick viscosity jelly. She looked up and over the edge of the pool to see the insides of a vast and marvelous space ship.
It was made of a dark metal that also had the characteristics of rock, as if it was some new alloy that she had never seen. She was in was the most high tech room she had ever laid eyes upon. The ceiling was full of what looked like animated displays of star maps and navigational symbols. All of the characters and text on the displays were in a deep blue hue and of alien origin. They looked more like Egyptian hieroglyphics than anything else. There were monitors on either side of her which displayed wavelengths of biometric data which reacted instantly to any move of her body. Somehow the jelly was interacting with her physiology.
Ava was surprised at the level of calm she felt. Instead of being frightened she was in awe. She felt like she did when she had her gallbladder removed, that same opiate high but without the numbness. She ran her hand over her body to realize that she was nude, her nipples erect. She wanted to be afraid, she just couldn’t be, fear became impossible.