and had some
insight into them and their environment.
The sky outside was dark even though it was
snowing, and it was normally light where he lived with the
streetlights and light being reflected from the snow illuminating
it, and he realized how far they were from the outside world and
this place this time had no roads or connections to anything. Their
communications had gone when the dark winter night began.
It was so peculiar that he liked it more
than he should have! His normal life and things he encountered were
too repetitive and he relished finding abnormal things to do and
explore, especially when they had new outcomes and findings.
He switched off his light and went over to
the window and stared out into the darkness and ancient wood with a
shiver running through him, from the cold, thoughts of the cold,
and deadly things that they had encountered there.
It was like another world to him and they
were put there to explore it, and it was like a world without a
proper sun and thousands of light years of empty space between it
and the stars.
The world below was a decomposing landscape
shrouded in snow with weak energy.
An array of door knocks made the door shift
about, reminding him of the age of the place, and he wondered again
why it had such advanced objects and structure for that age, and he
realized again that the people who had reconstructed it had done it
up and that he was experiencing 1880 technology.
He slowly marched over and yanked open the
thick wooden door, which had been clearly expertly crafted by hand,
and he watched Merton and Mortimer standing glaring at him from the
darkness outside, suggesting something was along the corridor.
Bryson nodded and closed the door behind him and followed them
along the outer corridor.
He still wondered why they liked being up in
the middle of the night so much, and why he never had properly seen
them tired in the middle of the night. Surely they never had that
many things to do at night?
As he considered how sleepy he was and what
they were up to, and then thought of other situations that they had
done and of them awaking him in the middle of the night, and as he
recalled situations he gasped as he suddenly realized that he could
hear sounds emerging from somewhere further ahead, and he gasped
even more when the sounds seemed to magnify and turn to being
blared out.
It then mildly amused him as he recalled a
similar situation, and he also realized that the sounds reminded
him of his dream, but he could not notice any connection and why it
did.
“ What hell happened? ” Mitchell moaned, rushing up
the corridor, after being awakened by something and seeing them
rushing towards something.
He slapped his face trying to awaken himself
further, vaguely looking like he had a slight hangover, and he
recalled him taking alcohol from the helicopter.
As they approached a region of the corridor
that they heard the sounds at their loudest the disturbance seemed
as if it had different states to it and regularly altered, and
Bryson imagined it as a warp through in space and time causing many
different things to occur and create sporadic sounds about the
castle, and in his dream he wondered if he had seen inside the warp
itself (and the castle lay somewhere beyond it, being one of the
locations connected to it throughout space and time).
Yet even if it was a warp he still never
knew what it was or what was happening, what created it, and why
the things in the wood were there! Did the things, whatever they
were, become part of the disturbance while near it, when it
automatically opened?
Three scientists rushed up to Merton and
Mortimer and they began discussing the occurrences and situation,
and the three scientists rushed back to get equipment and more of
the scientists.
Merton and Mortimer stood listening to the
sounds trying to establish things and where they were mainly
emerging.
Some sounds came screaming at them with fury
and sometimes as though things were
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