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(TFT) SOLO 014

"Finding a run away child means a trip to the surface." Ada takes her hand off the largest carpet and pulls out the one next to it. "That's a different matter." She and Rebecca take it out side the main door throw it toward the bottom of the stairs. A picture of an ivy covered lattice unrolls before your eyes. In a slow ritual Ada walks completely around the carpet following the hem and examining it intently. The then walks to the center of the carpet, faces forward, and then sits indian style without using her hands. All the tassles around the edge stretch out straight and pull the carpet ridgid. It floats smooth, up, and stops at knee level. Rebecca sits and pulls her legs on. She is behind and to the left of Ada. You climb on to the right side behind Ada. The carpet slides up through the spiral stair. The ceiling is in the patern of the steps above. There is enough clearance for seven people to ride up this stair on the carpet. Rebecca leans over and says "Of course well have to go through the trap door one at a time. Some of the smaller carpets can go all the way through." Ada has her eyes half open. She is concentrating on the flight. The front of the carpet just misses the corner of a step each time. You look over your shoulder as the carpet climbs in a spiral. The back of the carpet is about a meter from the ceiling. You watch one of the steps above your head as you come level to it then pass over it. Then you see that the front fringes actually touch the corner of each step before them. And the right side of the carpet is tickling the wall. You suddenly realizes that the carpet is colision proof at this speed. And the carpet is climbing at about a mans full run. You wonder what it can do in the open air. At the top the carpet lands and everyone dismounts. Rebecca and Ada take a corner on the back. They yank once and the carpet rolls up to them. The lattice work rolling up on itself. Rebecca climbs the ladder. You and Ada stand the carpet up and pass it up to her. Rebecca drags it out of your hands and sets it aside. The rest of you climb up, and Rebecca pushes the handle on the square door. The one to the kitchen. The trap door swings up and shuts beneath her feet. The square door pushes out and she shoves it aside. Turning around she takes one end of the carpet and backs through the square hole. Ada feeds it to her. Once everyone is out the square door is rolled back to its hidden position. Rebecca shoulders the carpet and carries it to your room. Passing through the eating room Ada says to Gail "Set a watch. We are going looking for a run away." Once in your room, they clear the table and two chairs from the middle and stand them against the wall. With a toss the carpet unrolls revealing that lush emerald green vine again. Ada mounts directly and the carpet goes tense. The tassles probing the bed, table, chairs, dresser, and walls. You and Rebecca get on in the same places. Ada whispers "Concentrate on seeing the stars."
You do! More stars than you have ever seen in your life. It's like floating in the cosmos with nothing between you and the liquid milky white that is the central band of the heavens. Ada is there, so is Rebecca. They breath slowly with quite smiles and the stars seem to breath with them. The stark brilliance of the stars. You never knew there were so many.
Eventually Ada turns to you and says "Always check on your body first." Rebecca disappears. Ada continues. "Just think of your body." You are floating above it. Sitting there indian style with Rebecca and Ada you can see the top of your own head. Soon Ada appears and you are all together again. "The bodies look safe. Where should we start?" 
    "Observation mountain."  Rebecca blurts out.
    "O.k. Rebecca."  Then Ada dissappears.
    Rebecca turns to you.  "Think of Ada's spirit."
You are with Ada now in a stone bunker with a huge window or gunport looking out on the ocean. Rebecca is suddenly there too. The room is striped and bare. It looks like it hasn't been used in decades. The ocean is a heavy dark brooding color reflecting the darkened sky. The clouds are heavy and black moving slowly toward you. Rebecca opens a side door and lets in a steady wind. She steps out on a side landing. Outside you get a clear view back over the island. It is a crator with a lake of molten sulfer. Black sooty ash and silt trail away with the brisk wind. The huge trailing smoke columns laying almost flat against the ocean. In that direction. On the other side a massive tunnel has been carved in the rim of the crater spilling the fire onto the ocean. There it forms a very wide road that branches off in all directions to the horizon. You can see the road of fire approach and circle some neighboring islands. They too have flaming cities, like this one. On the other side of the crater from you, the lower side is below you. Your side of the crater is more like a mountain. You are looking down on a burning city sitting along side the incindiary lake. Black smoke rises from the corners of every building and quickly trails off along the roof tops. You can barely see into the city because of it. But a little further back and higher up you can see the occasional flicker of a golden tower inside the smoke. Rebecca says forcefully. "The demons pride themselves on shadow and fire. By spreading their burning roads all over the oceans they have darkened the world." 

    David Michael Grouchy II






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