The Deluded

When I close my eyes, I envision an eldritch landscape of immense magnitude. The ground is a brownish color, but whatever it is formed from is not of terrestrial origin. I look up and view the sky it is of a yellowish tint without a cloud nor the sun in sight. My surrounding is filled with onyx monoliths tall as skyscrapers that almost breach the heavens. Carved into each standing stone is an assortment of peculiar letters of an unknown language to man.

I begin walking towards one of the pillars. While approaching the column I notice on the ground there is a small stone with jagged edges lying on the unearthly soil. I lean over and grab the object. Once in palm of my hand I realize the stone has a similar inscription of the monoliths before me. Unable to read the lettering on the stone, I put it in my pocket. The moment I put the relic in my pocket, I began to hear distant footsteps.

Suddenly my eyes open and I’m sitting on a bed in an enclosed room with an iron door as the only exit. I continue to hear the footsteps, eventually they come to an abrupt stop. I then hear the shambling of keys on the other side of the door. Shortly after, my door opens, and a man wearing a completely white outfit enters the room. In one of his hands he is holding a small plastic cup.

The man then begins to approach me and opens his other hand revealing two tiny pills resting in his palm. He starts to speak in a dull voice saying “Alright William, it is time to take your afternoon meds.” I whisk both the pills and the water from his hands and consume them. After I take the medication, the man takes the cup from my hand and exits the room, closing and locking the door behind him. I quickly start feeling woozy. As I begin to lie down on my bed, something in my pocket scratches my leg….

-Matt9196