Sophie looked out of the window, nothing was moving, no cars or vechiles of any kind. No people, animals or birds. She glanced at the clock by her bed, it was 10 in the morning a Monday morning. what the hell was going on she thought to herself, as she hobbled across her room, the sound of her feet hitting the floor filled the room. she looked out of the window on her door but once again there was nothing, slowly she opened it up, afraid of what she may find, but there was nothing, no people anywhere. She guessed she was in a hospital, and slowy the night before came back to her, she had been involved in a car crash, she remembered being put in the ambulance but after that nothing until now.
She walked down the corridor her sense of dread getting bigger by the minute, there should have been doctors and nurses and other patients but she saw and heard nothing. At the main doors she paused, dare she go out there. Fear was creeping up inside her as each second passed. But she knew that standing there was not the answer. As she stpped forward the doors automatically opened, well she thought, the power was still on. stepping outside she realised how still everything was, not even a breeze. Glancing up at the sky she noticed that it was the bluest she had ever seen it, and the flowers that were growing were colours that she knew, but she couldn't describe them.
A sound caught her ears and she stopped where she was, it was water, she realised how thirsty she was slowly and painfully she made her way towards the sound. She prayed that it would be clean water. Then she saw it, a waterfall cascading into a stream, but the stream was calm even where the water was hitting it. She bent down and put her fingers into the stream it felt cool, it tasted the drops on her fingers, it was clean, so she bent down and began to scoop the water in her hands to drink. it only took one sccop and her thirst was sated. She looked at the water and felt dirty sio she decided to get in and wash herself, the dried bllod that was on her arms and legs came off with no problems, she stuck her head under the water and immediatly felt refreshed. Getting dressed she thought that maybe she should make her way back to the hospital, people would be looking for her. She stood up and looked at the way she had come, "No" she said aloud.
The path was no longer there, in the distance she could see the hospital, but it seemed further away than she had walked. Another sound caught at her ears, this one was of bird song, she looked to where the sound was coming from, as she did so she could see another path, with a sigh of relief she realised that she had been looking in the wrong place for the path. she began to retrace her steps when it occured to her that she was no longer in pain, and that she felt as light as a feather. She couldn't even feel the ground beneath her feet.
she looked at her feet, they were not toucing the ground in fact, she was getting higher and higher, she became aware that she was soaring through the clouds, the birds that she had heard singing were with her and they were still singing. "I'm dreaming", she said to herself, the world was getting further and further away, then the thought crossed her mind, I'm not dreaming I'm dead, I died last night. suddenly she began falling, the next thing she knew, she was waking up in a hospital bed.
Sophie looked out of the window nothing was moving, no cars or vechiles of any kind, no people, animals or birds...... she was suddenly struck with a feeling of deja vu.
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