Immortals of Altaes

Feeling of drowsiness is slowly overcoming my consciousness, I have one last look outside my window before closing my eyes to drift off into dreamland. The night seems darker than usual. Not a light in the sky could pierce the dark swirling clouds that covers them. Not minding the weather outside, I get on my bed and pull a blanket over me. I close my eyes and sleep immediately overwhelms me.

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I wake up with all my blankets and pillow gone. Even my bed is not here. Actually, everything has disappear. There's only black crystal around me. It stretches on and on into the horizon with some small black jag peaks piercing the ever black level surface of this land.

Where am I? What is this place? This place looks like hell.

I know I'm not a really good person, but I'm not a bad person at all. I mean the only bad thing I ever did that I could remember was stealing an adult magazine from a convenient store. So, why am I here?

Wait, wait. How do I even know this place is even hell? Checking everything around me there's only empty wasteland of these black crystals. Also, this place is really dark. I could only see the landscape because of the vast glittering stars in the sky where there's not even a single cloud up there.

Is this the Arctic?

It's a possibility. But, since when did the ice becomes black? Also, I can't feel a single breeze of wind in the air. It's a known well fact, that the winds in the Arctic or the Antarctic are rather strong and really cold to boot. However, the air in this place just stand still as if there's no air at all.

For now, I'll try finding something around me to get out of this situation. I hope I can find people or their camp that can help me.

I start to find some kind of landmarks in this dark wasteland. CRACK. CRACK. I just realize that these black crystal are most likely black color ice. They're feeling kinda cold and strangely quite brittle with every step I take the ice forms a spider web patterns.

At first I try to focus on the farthest edges of the horizon for any landmarks other than those jag black needles popping out. For now, nothing is in sight.

After a long while, I finally started running. I scan left and right, and still nothing of noteworthy.

Is there really nothing? I continue to run in a straight line nonstop hoping at least something comes out of those horizon.

I don't know how long I've been running, but I just realize that after all this while of me running, I haven't even feel tire at all. Not even feeling a bit out of breath. Wait! Breath!?

I haven't really breathing this whole while! I haven't really think about it or the need to think about breathing. I mean who usually does? Oh shit! This is dream! I'm feeling kinda relief over realizing this.

But, still this dream is taking so long to wake up from. I mean, usually when you start freaking out, usually you would immediately wake up. Honestly, I'm already getting bore of this. SIGH.

Fine. If I'm going to through this deep dream, better to at least have some fun with it. So, I just continue to run. Trying to find at least something interesting in this dreamland journey.

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I finally find it! I found other people's track on the icy ground. Looking at these footprints, the tracks shows there's only one person making these. Great! At least I can meet this someone in my dreams.

Without a second thought, I run in the direction of these tracks.

After a long while, of following this trail, I find a second set of footprints next to the first one. A second person!? Wait a minute, where did these new footprints even appear from? It looks like the makers of this footprints just comes out of nowhere and lands here. Well, whatever. Another person I can find!

Continuing on with my journey through these empty cold wasteland, on my way tracking those footprints, I find another set of prints that just appear out of nowhere beside the other two.

Hmmm...this is really strange. Where did this people appear from? More questions keeps piling up with no answer coming around.

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After finding five more new tracks beside the first three, I finally realize that the one who made those tracks is just me. Apparently, I have circle the globe and find back my own footprints. Of course, at first I couldn't believe it at all, but slowly after seeing the same track appearing next to the other time and time again, I'm now convince.

Oh man! That is so stupid of me. Oh jeez, what would my family thinks of me if they see me?

.....Family, huh?

I'm starting to really miss them. I don't know how long I've been here in this dream, but I'm really ready to wake up now. When I wake up, I'm gonna hug my mom, dad and my two brothers. So, please deep dream, wake me up from this nightmare.

So, after reminiscing the faces of my parents and siblings, I really wish there is someone to talk to. Anyone, really. I don't even care what they look like as long I can communicate with them, I'm fine with just that. Although, I would prefer if it's a female. A really beautiful one would be fine.

Suddenly, I feel my body getting heavier as I get tire. To the point I'm becoming sleepy. Wow, this is a first. I'm sleeping in my own dream. Well, probably after going to sleep, I'll wake up. Hopefully.