I was trying out for something, I think
it was for school. There was a man at the far end of long
room behind a large desk. He handed me a slip of white paper
with writing on it. He said, “If you match my handwriting
with one of the papers on the wall behind me you will win!”
I looked down at the piece he gave me which read, “There
is no point,” and then to the wall behind the man.
On the wall were a thousand pieces of white paper pinned
up, and each one of them read, “You’re doomed.”
I tried searching for the match to the handwriting but all
the papers had the same handwriting and they all matched
the paper in my hand.
I found myself in a huge abandoned school. It must have
been hundreds of stories tall and it leaned to one side.
Alone, I walked the halls. The walls of the school were
old and dirty, cracking from the disease of old age. Posters
were torn from them and large piles of drywall dust and
ruble crunched between me and the ground. I started to search
for something. I poked my head into all the classrooms on
the first floor, but all of them were empty, no furniture,
no living creatures. Finding the stairs I started to climb
them. After a while my legs started to give and I had to
use the stairwell to pull myself up, which increasingly
refused to move the crumbling stairs. Once I reached the
top of the second floor the search started all over again.
The only thing that was different was the last classroom
that I looked in. This time I opened the door and a whole
class was in session. The kids were really young and the
teacher (female) paid not attention to my presence. The
teacher spoke. She asked, “What does Zena the Warrior
Princess stand for?” A girl in the front of the class
stood up. She said, “Society.” This is when
I woke up.
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