6

I feel like I just woke up from a nightmare and found myself in fantasyland.

With the help of the bright, unusually big and close looking moon that I'm only noticing now, I can make out a floating thing in the sky. And it looks like a blim

If not for the small lights on the aircraft, I wouldn't have noticed it

I can only blame my ignorance on the snakes. I was too scared to even notice my surroundings properly

Any normal person, whose not me obviously, would have noticed how they're in a place that looks way too foreign to be their country of origi

I can't even begin to imagine where on earth I am. I want to ask but I'm ushered into a box like lift that just descended from the aircraf

It's big enough to carry about twenty people. My savior makes the horse stand in the middle of the lift and straps me in one of the fancy looking seats before he straps himself i

I could have done that myself but I don't complain. He seems like a good... whatever he is. I'm still confused, I'm not sure if I should call him a man or animal or bein

It starts ascending and I'm too confused to even react. I mean, aren't these things rare? I mean like very, very rare? I think they are countable, and all of them are owned by big companies I think. So how am I about to board one in the middle of ... nowher

Urgg! I think I need a stiff drin

I don't even drink alcohol but right now, I think that is what a person who drinks would say in my position right now. As for me, maybe a stiff maheu (a fermented mealie meal drink)

I'm so confused by so many things my brain is not working right anymore. I think it is better if I just look around for no

But.

"Excuse me?" I say cautiously to my savior. I would prefer to keep quiet in my current position but I need to ask this before I'm taken to the unknow

"Yes?" he says turning his attention to m

"How far is Glenview from here?" Glenview is where I live in Harare. I can tell from up here that there aren't any houses or buildings near by. The moonlight is so bright I can see so far from up her

He stares at me for a few seconds, a little crease appears on his forehead before he answers with a question. "Is that where you come from

I'm just noticing now that he has an accent that sounds familiar. "Yes

"I will ask the pilot when we board. He must know, I have never heard of that place

There were warning bells going off in my head before cause of this whole thing I have managed to land into after stepping out of a supermarket...but now they're going off on another level. "Have you heard of Harare?" I ask in a low shaky voic

"Ofcause, that's where we are headed. We should be there in the next hour or less." he smiles at me as he replie

I sigh. At least I'm still in my country, this help me relax a bit. At least I'm headed hom

"Wow!" I couldn't help exclaiming, the blimp is even bigger up close. As we got closer I lost sight of it's ends. It was that huge

So I have heard that the inside of a blimp is not that huge and it can't carry a lot of people like planes but I'm curious about how it looks inside

As the lift gets closer to the bottom of the blimp, a door slides open and we are swallowed i

It's brighter inside and my eyes hurt from all this light. I shade my eyes with my hands as I look around while my eyes adjust to the brightness

I don't want to miss even a single detail incase some unknown threat is coming at me. Aunt Kathy told me never walk into a situation/building blindly. Keep your eyes ope

Man! It's amazing what you can learn to apply in your life in less than an hour of life threatening situations

"Wait here," my savior says as he points to a bench along the white walls along the entrance we just came through

I sit obediently as I look around. The place is actually smaller than I expected. I was expecting a very big entrance like a hotel lobby. Me and my imaginatio

The place is all white, from the ceiling to the floor, it's all white. Even the bench I'm sitting on is white. There are several doors and an archway leading off to places I'm a bit curious about. Besides this, it's so plain in her

My savior disappears behind one and emerges with another big and rough looking ma

The new man looks me up and down with a frown but doesn't say a thing to me. He finishes his scanning, shakes his head and leaves wordlessl

"Is everything okay?" I ask, worrie

"Yes. Follow me," he says as he leads me awa

I follow him behind another door and he shows me into a room with about twenty women. They all look so thin and fragile

"We will be arriving in the city forty-five minutes from now. I suggest you get some food and rest, I will see you later

All eyes in the room are on me and I feel out of place, I turn to my savior but he's gone already. I turn back to the silent, staring woman and say, "Hello

I hear a few mumbles and I assume they're greeting me back. I find a seat and try to get comfortable. I am so exhausted but I can't sleep here no matter what

How can anyone sleep in my current situation? One, I have no idea where I am! Two, the eyes I'm feeling on me right now are giving me an uneasy feeling! Three, I just went from a supermarket to a forest!! And worst of all, I almost died

I sighed and put my head in my hands. I have a lot to process and I have this lingering, weighing kind of feeling that something major just shifted in my life. Things are about to get worse or better...