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A short story I wrote hope you enjoy.
World left behind.
Written by Dana William Sword
2/17/2023
Chapter 1: Huxley
June 1st 1992
Teresa Wincer is riding her Stud mixed bread white horse Dimples down a steep bank by a cliff’s edge overseeing the North Sea. On the out skirts of the Nether Lands. Teresa takes in a n inhalation of cool Ocean air and lets out a sigh of relief. Teresa whispers under her breadth under her breadth “ah we made it” as she dismounts from Dimples. Teresa then pauses a moment and embraces the beauty of the scenery as she looks out over the North Sea. Teresa notices Suters Light house out on Dante’s point. Teresa sees some pilot whales traveling north for the summer, she also notices a cool breeze with an occasional gust of wind coming in land from the West. Teresa can see some sea gulls catching wind and soaring off the cliff.
Teresa then gets back on her saddle and rides Dimples along the beach. It is early in the day and still low tide this time on the lunar calendar. After passing some tide pools along the beach. Teresa rides Dimples back to the trail head, it is a solid path with black berry brambles, wild straw berries and some rose bushes. While on the trail she dismounts and walks with Dimples at her side for little bit and smells some of the rosses. She then picks some black berries and gives dimples some water and oats she had packed for the day trip. Teresa gets back on her horse clicks her heals and rides back to the prestigious Winston Castle located in Luxembourg Amsterdam. Once there Teresa putts Dimples back in his stall and enters the gated Castle using her passport. Teresa then uses an old styled silver key to open on of two large oak doors. Teresa then walks down the mail hall that has numerous paintings and portraits of her ancestors hanging on the walls. Teresa steps down onto a large throw rug in the den. On the left side of the den is a ladder that leads up into a loft. Teresa climbs up the ladder and drops down existed on a velvet down fathered nap sack.
This castle has a double gated U-shape drive up, four car garages, a woodshop, and barn for the 200 sheep plus a horse coral that is the finest in all of Amsterdam. Winston Castle also has the fanciest boutique and flower garden in all of Europe. Within the castle walls live the Prime Minister Malachi Wincer himself and his wife Margaret Wincer their daughter Teresa Wincer and all the other castle employees; some guild partitions, 5 securities, and 30 grounds maintenance people. Unfortunately, the Prime Minister’s daughter Teresa Wincer has recently fallen ill. Due the nature of her disease the family has no other option than to privately have her sent to Huxley Asylum. And on June 2rd, 1992, in the early morning hours in the town of Luxembourg, the Wincer Family and their favorite butler/ security guard personally went for a long stroll down the hill top into town with their daughter Teresa Wincer to have her committed. The day was lovely and, nice the shrubbery, and trees were green along the parkway.
At the gate of the front entrance Mr. Wincer slides a national card to check into Huxley and as the family enters the two tall glass doors of the central marble three story building, they enter the main walkway. They head down a red and gold carpeted hall and stop at the front desk in a guest room with vaulted ceilings. The clerk checks some paper work and says a nurse will be out soon for the rest of this check-in. Teresa can see all these hand-painted pictures of all the previous pharmaceutical technicians and psychiatrist. Malachi Wincer holds his daughter’s hand tells her he loves her and that these are pictures of doctors that are going to help her get well.
One picture sticks out to her more than the others Dr. John Channing 1876. “Teresa Wincer” is called by the nurse. A young man with the name tag on identified as nurse Max. Malachi hugs his daughter tightly and tells Teresa that she needs to follow the man through the doors. Teresa grabs her luggage two large suit cases of belongings and follows the nurse. Max locks the doors behind them. Teresa and Max proceed down four corridors with rooms labeled numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4, take a right 5, 6, 7, and 8, and then another right 9, 10, 11, and 12. Then Teresa and Max stops at room number 11; Max uses a key and says to Teresa “your key is on the nightstand, if you have a problem or any questions for me I’ll be down one more hall to the right, at the medication station just up from the recreation hall.”
Teresa enters her new room. It is slightly warm yet cozy. The bedroom has new upholstery a nice window overlooking a ravine, and can see that it is a nice day outside. Teresa starts to unpack her luggage that is already neatly folded. Some of it she puts into drawers and other stuff, like her Victorian dresses, Teresa hangs up in her coat closet. After putting her blouses knits and dresses away Teresa decides to take a bath in her tub room while the water is nice and hot. There are brand new shampoo’s conditioner’s and other toiletry item’s. After a long hot tub rest, Teresa comes out of the tub dries off, and puts on white nit leggings sandals with lace straps that come up her calf with a leather pocketed skirt that has buckle straps. Teresa then puts on a bra & t-shirt and her favorite vest.
Next, Teresa looks in the mirror and dry’s her straight black hair Teresa then combs it up and puts it in some butterfly clips and a crunchy scrunch in a fancy bun, then puts on her eye mascara and light green lipstick. Teresa puts her pocket watch in her vest, proceeds to her nightstand, where she notices her key on a green and gold glass beaded necklace clasped off on a bedroom lamp. Teresa reaches for the necklace and sees a card on her desk, she picks it up and it says:
Welcome to: Huxley
Today June 2rd 1992 therapy session is at 2:00 pm
In room 22
p.s., don’t be late P.H.P. Dr. John Motley Ω
Teresa then places the card back on her desk by her alarm clock, takes the necklace with the key off, the night stand’s bedroom lamp, and places the neckless key around her neck, and clasps it. Teresa finishes putting her belongings away; she tucks in her pet stuffed unicorn named Dimples after a horse she once owned that somebody murdered. Teresa then hangs up a painting of Babb’s her new favorite horse. After hanging up the artwork, Teresa kisses her fingers and touched them to the picture before exiting her room locking the door behind her. Teresa pauses for a second then takes a right and passes room 12, and proceeds down the hall, passing the nurses’ station and entering a recreation room. Teresa sees a counter with some coffee and donuts so she helps herself to a jelly filed donut.
Teresa is greeted by a peer, “Hi my name is Alex” he holds his hand out as a courtesy and says, “mind if I pore you some coffee?” Teresa replies “sure, why not,” with a half-calked smile. Things started to sink in and come together in her mind. She really feels like crying and shutting down. Like her family, does not want anything to do with her anymore after what had happened. Then Teresa thinks to herself, this Alex guy seems kind of nice, well nice enough. Alex says to Teresa, “you must be the new girl. I heard we were getting somebody new. I just didn’t know it would be this soon.” Teresa replies, “I don’t feel like having a conversation right now,” Alex says, “oh, O.K. no worries” Teresa finishes her coffee and looks at her pocket watch. The watch is made of silver and gold with peacock hands, a white quartz crystal moon, and a gold sun dial in-lay. Her grandfather Allen Wincer gave it to her on her sixteenth birthday.
Teresa sees that it is almost 5 till 2:00 pm. Teresa whispers under her breadth, “oh no, my meeting.” She takes off walking briskly to the nurses’ station and sees Max behind the medication window. Teresa taps on the glass, and Max opens the countered window. Max greets her in a friendly voice and says, “hi Teresa, how may I be of service to you?” Teresa replies, “I have a meeting with Dr. John Motley at 2pm in room 22 how do I get there from here?” Max then points his index finger down the hall “see those double doors down the hall? Go through them, and on the left will be an elevator, the room will be up the next floor, and two doors down the left on the right side of the hall will be room 22.”
Teresa took off went through the double doors and took a left got on the elevator hit the 2nd-floor button to room 22. Teresa started to think it kind of weird that the whole time she had been in the Huxley building, that she had not remembered seeing any exit signs. The elevator seemed as though it only traveled in the middle of the building between floors with long hall ways that had locked double doors at each end.
As Teresa got to the 2nd level, she took a left and went to room 22 on the right. The door was slightly ajar, and she opened it and saw that there were chairs placed in a circle with people sitting in them. “Come on in,” says a bald guy with a thin white coat, light brown dress pants and glasses. “I am Dr. Rey Von Niche,” he then say’s “come on in, find a name tag on the desk, write your name on it and take a seat.” Teresa goes to a counter and finds a marker writes her name on a sticky name tag; she notices a window and that it is nice & sunny and pretty outside, not a cloud insight. She then takes an empty seat. Dr. Rey Von Niche says, “Dr. John Motley should be joining us soon.” Teresa felt nervous and saw four other peers and Dr. Rey Von Niche sitting in a circle, the girls all on the right and the boys all on the left side of the room.
Dr. John Motley comes in, and he is tall, has jet black hair, black slacks, and a teal button-up shirt. He is in his early thirties, is handsome and takes the seat between Teresa and the boys. Dr. Rey Von Niche is sitting straight across from him. Dr. John Motley says “let’s start off the meeting by introducing ourselves. I am Dr. John Motley, a psychiatrist here a Huxley, well go to my right starting with you Alex by introducing ourselves and saying one thing we like.” Alex introduces himself and says “I am Alex and I love the Ocean.” Then Tommy goes “I am Tommy and I love space.” Dr. Rey von Niche says “I am Dr. Rey Von Niche and I am a psychologist.”
Teresa introduces herself, “I am Teresa and I love horses.” It is Elsie’s turn, and Elsie says, “I am Elsie, I love space, I want to be an astronaut.” Samantha says, “I am Samantha but my friends call me Sam and I love the Ocean and I’m going to be a mermaid.” Dr. Rey then says, “this is great and now that we’ve all met each other we are going to start the session.
I want each of you to take in a deep breath, pay attention to my voice as it goes in and out you. Breath in slowly now, one, two, three, four, out one, two, three, four, two more deep breaths in four, three, two, one, out four, three, two, one, yes that’s it, slowly exhale, close your eyes and relax your body, you’re in a safe place, you feel more relaxed, think of blowing bubbles, as you watch them they float up and down, maybe some even catch a breeze and float away. Now you blow a special bubble, and as you do, it starts to float up some little ways, you watch as it slowly comes back down to you. You hold your hand still, and the bubble hits the center of your hand and sticks without popping, so you close your hand around the bubble. When you slowly open your hand you see something popping up on your palm, it’s wings and you see a beautiful butter fly. It sits there for a little while and you soak it in and look at its pretty spots and colors before it flutters away. Now open your eyes in thee, two, and one.”
Dr. Rey Von Niche say’s to the group that “this was for many of you your first guided imagery therapy secession. I hope to continue with all of you as you continue with your journeys here at Huxley, and please feel free to grab one of the leather-bound Journals on the counter.” As Teresa exits the room, she picks up one of the leather-bound diary journals complete with a buckle strap. It has a butterfly imprint and four stars, one on each corner. At this time, Dr. John invites the group to leave back to their rooms. After getting into the elevator and on her way back to her room, Teresa passes the medication window. Nurse Melissa calls over to Teresa, Melissa tells Teresa that it is time for her four o’clock meds and that Dr. John Motley had written an order for her.
Teresa replies, “I was unaware of the order, but O.K.” As Teresa is waiting for her medications. Teresa notices a book on the shelf titled the Binding of drugs in spell form. Teresa is curious about the textbook on the shelf in the nurses’ station, and she asked the nurse Melissa if she can check out the book. The nurse Melisa responds in a firm voice, “these are books for professionals only. You may have no accesses to any information behind this counter ever.” Teresa becomes flush and a little angry at hearing this but manages to keep her calm. Teresa asks what her meds are, and the nurse Mellissa says they are Abilify, and Lithium. Then Teresa swallows her pills, followed by a cold glass of water. She then proceeds to say that “I was just curious and wanted something to read! it gets kind of boring here.” Teresa then proceeds to retire to her room. After entering her room Teresa sits at her desk, and started to pondered about things she had to look forward to, and what the thing was that had brought her to this place. Teresa proceeds to write in her journal.
Dear Diary: June
3th,1992
Huxley Asylum
my second day at Huxley just getting stetted in already have to take meds I don’t really know what to think of this place yet. I’ve been thinking a lot about my Jockey friends, I miss them. I feel dread, and confusion’s over my horse trainer Terrie. I was in such a rage the last time I saw him. I don’t really know what to think of this place yet…
After writing in her journal she hears a staff call out for dinner. All the patients are to meet in the recreation room. This is good because she was hungry and feeling a little dizzy after taking her medications. Teresa thought this is good because I am feeling hungry and feeling a little dizzy after taking those awful medications.” Teresa found a table to sit at and quietly ate her meal, the dinner was stuffed bell pepper, cheese, broccoli, and hot mashed potatoes. After eating, Teresa retired to her room.
Teresa took a shower and put on her pajamas, cute long Minnie Mouse blouse that went down to her feet, and some pink fuzzy pajama pants. She then snuggled into bed with her stuffed unicorn dimples. Then proceed to remind herself she would be in safe hands, that her dad was a vital community member and that nothing bad was going to happen to her.
Then the pain in her gut hit, and Teresa started to cy uncontrollably for what had seemed like hours. After calming down, she began to reflect on her day. Teresa sees herself being placed in cuffs and under arrested brought into Huxley asylum in full secure locks. A judge had placed her as unfit for society. The day was rainy and thundering outside. The Huxley building is very tall perhaps thirteen stories or so, with gargoyles off the roof. As the police escort got closer she got knots in her stomach just thinking about it.
As she entered the two steel doors to the building she remembered seeing a large hand painted picture of a man with a plaque at the bottom Dr. John Motley 1876. this, guy looks familiar to her even though she doesn’t know why. Next to these paintings are others similar in nature. Some dating back as far as the 1500’s some said Alchemist, and others Physicist and still others Biochemists. Teresa thinks this kina odd. In the picture, Dr. John Motley has jet black hair and was in his mid-thirty’s. She felt ominous about the picture, and strange. The security guard transporting her uses a badge allowing them to enter the building. Teresa was wearing a bloody t-shirt, pants, and boots. The security and she were intercepted by a Huxley asylum employee named Max.
The officer then un-cuffed Teresa, and she followed Max through the building first. He then gave her a small guided tour pointing out the recreation hall where people visit family, play games and eat. “Down another hall is the communal showers” He proceeds to give her a bar of soap, a towel, shampoo, and conditioner. And say’s the boy’s showers are down another hall and that she is not to go down it ever. Max shows her room 11 the room is dusty with no windows it is small and has a twin box spring and mattress with black and gray little stuffed horse with a missing eye on the bed, and on the wall is a painting of an old mare in a field. There is also a small dresser with some gray sweats that say Huxley on them in light blue. The dresser has a card that then says:
Welcome to Huxley Appointment at 2:00 pm in room 122
Dr. John Channing.
Teresa looks at the card then puts it down and grabs the pair of the sweats and some sandals then heads to the girl’s communal shower. The main door to her room has no lock and squeaks when she exits it. Teresa takes off her bloody clothes and throws them in a bin then takes a shower and is grateful for the hot water and that nobody else is in the stall next to hers. She feels like she is in shock as she places on her sweat pants and sweat shirt on. She combs her hair straight and goes back to her room where she takes a nap.
Buzz-buzz! her alarm clock is going off. She hits the snooze button, turns back around and begins to doze off for a few more minutes before hearing a knock at her door. “Knock! Dang it! she thinks to herself as she hears Max’s Voice say “Teresa it is breakfast time there having: Hash browns, Omelets and Orange juice in the recreation hall.” Teresa gets up, in a rush, puts on some slacks and a nice blouse. She combs her hair and heads to the Recreation Hall.
Teresa enjoys her breakfast and is told to check in at the medication window by a Carolyn a line staff. When Teresa approaches the medication station, she sees nurse Max. He asks her “would you like to have your medications in pudding or water?” Teresa replies, “pudding.” Max gives her Xanax and Ritalin as he says, Max says “This ought to help with your scattered thoughts and anxiety.” Teresa liked Max’s demeanor so she took the meds without a fuss.
After taking the meds, Teresa went to her bedroom and unlocked her bedroom door with the key around her neck. Teresa could already feel the effects of the medication becoming active in her system. Teresa was grateful for all the privacy a locked door gives. Having a small window in the top middle of the door for security checks. And staff doing their rounds a little intrusive but a minor inconvenience. Teresa sits at her desk and opens her leather diary / journal and writes:
Dear Diary,
June 4th 1992
I experienced the weirdest dream last night. It was a natural dream that felt like an authentic alternative reality. It seemed so real! The other one seemed so harsh and scared me. I hope this is the actual reality. Teresa closes the diary and locks the strap.
Carolyn the staff comes by Teresa’s room and knocks on her door. “Ah what now” “You have mail and a group at 9:00 am this morning.” Teresa receives her mail and asks Carolyn what room number her meeting is in and Carolyn replies “room 22 your home room.” Teresa then puts the letters on her desk and notices it’s just a welcoming packet from Huxley. She then checks the time it is five minutes until 9:00 am.
Teresa rushes to room 22 on the second floor. Dr. Rey Von Niche is greeting her and her peers at the door, and Dr. John Motley is already sitting and says to Teresa and another peer to take a seat. The peers and the two Doctors do as they have been instructed and sit in the same order as they had before. The girls on the right and the boys on the left of the circle. With Dr. John Motley and Dr. Rey Von being the divider facing one another.
Dr. John says, “let’s start the meeting with each of you saying one thing that you’re grateful for, just one thing! Dr. John re-edifies, Starting with you, Alex this time,” Alex “say’s I’m grateful for my pet gold fish in my room. He’s really a killer whale, and belongs in the Atlantic Ocean.” “ O.K.”, says Dr. John, “Elsie It’s your turn,” Elsie says, “I am grateful for the glowing stars in my room at night. I was really stargazing and seeing the constellations.” “Good,” says Dr. John, now “ Samantha, it is your turn.” Samantha says “I am grateful for my mermaid. She belongs in the Pacific Ocean. I have a T.V. in my room I get to see sea creatures.” Tommy interrupts, and say’s “the Television I have in my room is better I get to watch Astronauts.” Then Dr. john goes, “ O.k. Teresa it’s your turn,” Teresa says, “I am grateful for my stuffed unicorn his name is Dimples and he belongs to magic and to be free to roam.”
Dr. John then guides the group “now I want each of you to take a deep breath and slowly exhale and slowly inhale and exhale. We will do this exercise together. As we do we will shift our attention to our bodies and how; we feel, relaxing as if we are in a safe space. Now think of a nice path with some flowers & shrubbery on either side. The sun is shining and the breeze is warm you see a few clouds in the sky as you walk down the meadow path. You step off of the path and feel soft grass under your feet, you spread out a blanket but not just any blanket it’s a magical blanket. You spread it flat on the ground, and just after you do this you lay on it and it starts to lift you up. Not far just two feet off of the meadow grass you are now suspended and held gently in the air floating. You notice that your body weight lifts as you kind of wobble at first, but by grabbing the two corners on the front of your blanket you are able to quickly stabilize and steady yourself. Now you find that if you pull back the blanket goes forward and if you lean left or right it follows that direction. However, when you lean forward it slows down. You put both your hands straight forward as you become more comfortable. Now you are one with your blanket and as you become one, you spread your hands out and, you feel the soft grass and flowers grazing the palms of your hands. Now you grab ahold of both sides of your blanket and tug three times one, two, three, as you do it lowers down and brings you softly back to the earth. In three, two, one, open your eyes” says Dr. John. “This was your second guided imagery secession please feel free to Journal the experience.”
Teresa leaves the therapy session feeling refreshed and on her way back to her room Alex asks if he can walk with her Teresa politely says “no I’ve got a lot on my mind.” As she unlocks her door room 11 she notices a hand written note on the door it say’s something in a language she doesn’t know she thinks this is odd and that a peer is pranking her. She feels that it’s inappropriate and not funny so she throws the note in her trash can. Teresa proceeds to her desk sits down and opens her diary.
June 4th 1992
Dear: diary
I find Dr. John Motley attractive he is a good psychiatrist and is handsome I really enjoyed therapy today the session made me think of riding a horse. Teresa then closes and buckles her diary.
Knock! knock! Startled Teresa thought to herself “there goes that darn door again, can’t I ever get a chance to relax.” The staff Carolyn yells at Teresa to take her 4:00 pm medications. Teresa takes a nice, hot shower for a half hour, dries off, and puts on her favorite stretchy jeans, button up t-shit, and leather sandals. Teresa straightens her hair with a brush and comb, and then she checks the time and sees that its five minutes until 4:00 pm.
Teresa then leaves her room, locking her door behind her, and goes to the nurses’ station. At the medication window she gets the same two pills Abilify, and Lithium. Teresa swallows the pills and tells the nurse that these pills make her feel uncomfortable. The nurse Melissa tells her to bring up any concerns she has about her medication with her psychiatrist if she wants’ her medication changed. Teresa replies “I will”.
Then she sees somebody in a black hood and black sweats by her bedroom door. Teresa rushes back towards her room, as she approaches the figure disappears. She unlocks her door and checks on her journal. There she finds the same note the one that she thrown in the garbage now on her desk again. In Teresa’s mind she goes “ O.K. this is not funny at all,” and she feels her heart start to pump. Then she looks at everything else in the room nothing else had been touched so she thinks she might just be being paranoid. Teresa lay’s in her bed pulling the blankets over her head holding dimples as her heart starts to slow down feeling light headed, and dizzy, she falls asleep. As she drifts away in her sleep she feels herself leaving her body as she lays there for another twenty minutes before feeling so uncomfortable with this that she opens her eyes Teresa looks to her right and at her alarm clock on an old dusty night stand with white paint chipping and a yellow primer showing from underneath. The time says 10 minutes until 2:00 pm and there is a card she reaches over and grabs the card and it says:
Welcome to Huxley Appointment at 2:00 pm in room # 122
Dr. John Channing.
Teresa set’s dimples her one button eyed stuffed horse to the side pushes the old torn blankets back off of her and she sits up, then stands and changes into a fresh pair of sweats and puts on Huxley issued sandals. She leaves her room in a panicked state of mind. Teresa rushes down a putrid smelling hall she can hear people screaming and yelling all kinds of obscene things so Teresa rushes a little faster, until she comes up to the elevator. She pushes an up button on the elevator and watches as an old lit sign blinking off and on skipping some burnt out lights as the floor numbers reach her. The doors slid open and she gets on panicking as she searches for floor #13 and room #122. Floor #11 is missing a knob she finds the 13th floor it is located on the side board in the elevator she whispers hurry up under her breadth pushes the black dusty knob button with worn numbers for floor #13 and waits as the elevator slowly climbs briefly clicking by each floor. “Finally the 13th floor” Teresa exhales and just before opening it: the elevator drops about three inches as she can feel her gut in her throat she is so nervous. She whispers “finally” as she exits and looks down the left corridor and sees room number #122 on the left side of the hall. She cautiously approaches the room there is a man standing outside the door one that looks familiar with a name tag on that says Dr. Rey Von Niche. He greats her “It’s nice of you to have finally arrived” she sees the lights are twitching in the room and it looks dim and as though there is mildew on the window seals. Dr. Rey Von Niche tells Teresa to put on a temporary name tag and to take a seat. Teresa goes over to a rusted counter writes her name Teresa Wincer on a temporary sticky tag and looks outside the window she notices it is rainy and storming outside. She then sticks the tag on and takes a seat in an empty hard plastic chair with steel legs. Alex and Tommy are on her right speaking to each other and, Samantha, and Elsie are to her left all of them are sitting in a circle facing the center of the room, when all of a sudden a bright flash of light occurred in the room for a second, caused by the lightening cracking from the sky outside. Just then Dr. John Channing is at the entrance of the room he is a tall man wearing a trench coat and dark brimmed hat. After taking the coat off him he puts on his glasses and has a white button up shirt on, he then takes a seat in the empty chair.
Dr. John Channing starts the meeting off by saying let’s introduce ourselves I am Dr. John Channing and am your psychiatrist. Teresa gets flush and her hair stands up like she saw a ghost but she can’t tell what is causing her this fear. “Let’s start the meeting off by going to our right and saying something we like about ourselves starting with you Alex.” Alex says “I am Alex and I like fish and love the ocean”. Next is Tommy, “Tommy says I like space and love astronauts”. Next is Samantha, “Samantha says I like the ocean and love mermaids”. Next is Elsie and Elsie says “I like space and love astronauts”. Next are Teresa, and Teresa say’s “I like horses, and I love unicorns there magical”. All right says Dr. John now “I am going to put you Alex in the hot seat. So Alex tell us what brought you to Huxley.” Alex replies “I came to Huxley because I like to fish at the Ocean.” Now Dr. Rey Von Niche Interjects “that’s not true Alex.” Alex replies “yes it is and I can do this stupid group better than you guys.” Dr. Rey Von Niche then calms Alex by saying to Alex “you may have the floor and lead group though your thoughts today then”.
Alex says “I am here at Huxley because I killed my step dad at the lake with a salmon knife.” He then started off by saying to the group “everybody closes their eyes and take in three deep breadths. Breadth in three, two, one, out one, two, three do this three more times in three, two, one, out one, two, three, and now you’re feeling safe and relaxed. You hear a settle voice calling you from a short distance. You follow the voice it is leading you down a pathway that goes down a trail in a meadow. The trail is winding back and forth until you reach the trails end, then you notice a different kind of noise it is the sound of water trickling down some rapids and maybe a water fall. So you follow the noise to the edge of a waterfall going off of a cliff. First you dip your right foot into the water to test it, the water is cool to the touch but not uncomfortably chill, there are some small rapids up the stream and it narrows and is about 3ft. deep you decide to slowly climb in upstream. You don’t feel scared though instead you have a sense of excitement and adventure take over your whole body. As you wade out into the water. You turn towards the water fall knowing it’s about a 20 ft. drop into the clear pool down below. Now in position you’re facing downstream you lean back and, lift your feet and, float downstream. As you go over the edge of the cliff it is as if time stops for you. You take in one last deep breath as you see all kinds of water droplets suspended and your free falling until splash you become fully submerged in the water, and just as quick as the water sucked you in. You look up and see bubbles shooting up from where you hit and just as fast as you entered you start to swim up to the surface. Here the current is slow and you grab onto a rock you can see deep into the water and there are fish and other creatures down below. Now you hear the voice again saying to let go and to become one with the environment. And just as you let go a big whirl pool swallows you and you feel light hearted as you enter an underwater cavern that sucks you into an underwater river. Again you are floating you see debris and clothing from lost adventures stuck on some of the rocks and then you get a sick feeling in your gut as you see giant mystical crab like creatures feeding off of the thoughts and the flesh of those who didn’t have faith in their journey. As tempted as you are to grab the cavern wall and hold on you don’t you just keep floating down stream one of the crab like being’s try’s to pinch a hold of you with its claw. However, you briskly avert the danger and swim with the current instead and this propels you down the stream faster and faster and the cavity narrows and your shot into an aquatics world one never seen by anyone but you. You see mermaids’ and mermen swimming about with colorful fish, coral and seaweed. Some of the mermen are carrying tridents and rounding up giant sea horses to saddle and ride. One of the mermen who has golden hair a human face and metallic scales along pats of his body, he also has gills along his abdomen and has a sea horse they swim up to you and he greets you “I am Octavian an aquatic magician. You must be new here”! And he quickly uses his trident and blows a big bubble around you. Octavian goes” I have seen your kind before there is a city nearby I can take you to where your kind and my kind work together and get along.” You can breathe in this bubble and he attaches your bubble to a seaweed rope and he and Murdock his sea horse takes you to the water city of Galvanic. This is a gigantic water dome connected to other domes by what appear to be jelly like, glass walk ways. All light by natural glowing materials. As you approach the merman unhooks your bubble and pushes you and the bubble in to the dome. Where the bubble gets absorbed by the dome and your now in the underwater city of Galvanic. There are cobble stone walk ways and real people walking about in tunics and medieval clothes some have red and purple cloaks and money bags with coins and other Items. The dome pulses with light and life forms. When you look out of it you can see the aquatic life as well mermaids and mermen fighting giant sea monsters and capturing them for observing purposes and their trophies. A giant sea creature hits the dome and the dome solidifies protecting you with each striking blow the dome booms with noise and you see it glow blue, red, green, and purple where the strikes are; you can see giant suction cups with huge spike cleavers sticking out from the tentacles of the sea monster. As it clasps the canopy of the city, now there are mermaids fighting the monster, and corralling it away from the city. When you decide to, you walk around and you notice it’s a lot like its own world down here and you can feel the epic power this place has. You see statues mermen and people that are famous political figures who made treaties down here. You can read tablets on the statues that indicate the dates and the things these mermaids and people accomplished. One of these statues sticks out to you so you go up to it and touch it and when to do it speaks to you, telling you to open you heart and to listen to your inner voice. When you do this you feel a wonderful sensation a good peaceful feeling in fact you feel better than you’ve felt in a long time. Now as you give yourself this appreciation you take in a deep breath and exhale opening your eyes in three, two, one open.” At this point Alex now adjourns the meeting back over to Dr. John and Dr. Rey Von Niche. At this time both doctors dismiss the group back to their rooms.
Teresa leaves feeling refreshed and like she is getting to know her peers a little better. She gets back on the elevator and pushes the button of the 13th floor to the down to the 1st floor. Now she exits the elevator and goes back to her room to debrief and write in her journal/ diary.
“Dear: diary June 5th 1992 the group was very interesting today a peer got to lead and he gave a pretty good guided imagery story.”
Teresa then closed her diary and buckled it. She then checked the time it was 5 minutes until 4:00 pm. Time to get her medication, Teresa walked to medication window, just on time. The nurse Melisa was at the med-station and said I am surprised you’re on time today. Melisa gave Teresa her medication and asked if she had checked in with Dr. John about any side effects she had been experiencing. Teresa said I forgot I’ll do it at my next appointment with him. Teresa then walked to the recreation hall and ate dinner which was meat loaf winter squash and corn bread. She ate felt comfortably full. She then proceeded back to her room to grab shower supplies, and a fresh pair of grey sweats a large purple towel shampoo and conditioner before entering the communal shower. She felt lucky that she was the only one in there today. Even though there were separate stalls she still enjoyed her privacy. After her hot shower she retired to her bedroom holding dimples her horse in her arms and thinking about the day before falling asleep for the night.
Buzz, buzz the alarm clock goes off and Teresa looks at the time it says 10 minutes until 7:00 am June 6th 1992. She wakes up holding her unicorn Dimples he has large green sparkly eyes and a pink unicorn horn and is all white. She gets out of bed feeling refreshed. And changes out of her night gown, throws up her hair in a ponytail and puts on light blue denim stretchy pants with a cute button up shirt. Slips on her sandals and goes over to her journal/diary
“Dear: diary June 6th 1992 I’m going on my fifth day a Huxley I feel that so far things are going well despite my troubles tracking and remembering things.”
Teresa notices something out the coroner of her eye and she quickly closes her diary. She then goes to investigate and even looks under her bed however she does not see anything there. Teresa peaks out her door then leaves her room locking the door behind her. Teresa goes to the medication station, and sees Max as she is walking up and, lets out a yes! Max says hi Teresa and offers her morning medication. After taking her morning medicine she proceeds to the recreation hall for breakfast. After she eats her omelet and hash browns with a cup of orange juice. Teresa looks on the recreation dry erase board and notices that family visits take place at 6:00 pm today. All of a sudden she is interrupted by Alex, “want some coffee I spiked it” and, with a huge grin on his face Teresa says no way and go away with a pause. Then she says wait I’ll drink a cup of coffee with you. He say’s cool I put the good stuff in it. Teresa doubtfully says what do you mean. Alex replies “don’t worry just drink some it’ll help you with your stress, shoot it might even help you unlock some of your potential.” She takes a soft strike at him almost spilling her coffee, and then drinks it. Not soon after drinking the coffee she starts to feel different so she decides to lie down in her room. Teresa imagination takes off a lot faster than she can handle.
Back at Winston Castle Malachi Wincer is sitting at an old rustic oak desk that has a family crest decaled on the top and solid mahogany legs. He is enjoying himself to cigars and a glass of bourbon on the rocks thinking of his daughter. He is looking at a recent picture of his daughter Teresa riding Babb’s an older white horse that the family had taken on from people who could no longer care for the mare. It has been a week since he had seen her and he wants to visit his daughter. Mr. Wincer calls his butler Daemon over and makes an appointment with Huxley. Even as busy as he is he feels the need to see if not at least he has her checked up on and the progress she’s been making.”
It is 8:55 am and Teresa snaps up and remembers she has a 9:00 am group in room #22 she rushes from her room to the group. All of the members are sitting in a circle Teresa joins the group however soon after settling into her chair she fades out of consciousness. Closing her eyes, she soon hears a gentle voice that sounds like Elsie’s saying “open your mind and open your eyes”. She can feel a flower touching her face gently caressing her skin. She opens her eyes and sees a man in horse jockey attire; he is 6 ft. tall and is handsome, he has dark eyes and black shot hair and there are metals on his shirt. He has a black rose in his hand, and there is a lady in all white with white assorted flowers in her hands and hair. The lady says to “Teresa to take the man’s hand and do not be afraid to come home.” The man takes Teresa’s hand and leads her down a path surrounded by a meadow there is a cool breeze blowing in the air. The grass is wavering back and forth and in the near distance there is a black stallion horse. The man says to Teresa to “name the horse he is all yours.” She approaches the animal cautiously and goes to gently touch the horse just as she reaches for it. The horse melts away like a ghost. And she hears a voice calling to her from far away. The voice is saying come home. When all of a sudden she feels completely helpless. A hot then cold chill comes over her. As she over hears people in the back ground. She can make out “put her in the Ice bath she is overheating, we need to get her temperature stabilized.” She blacks in and out of consciousness. She hears another voice call out “give her a shot of Cotentin.” Now she sees a merman he has legs and his gills are just under his lats. He has blond hair and regular man features. He is able to breath under water, and kisses her giving her air helping her to breadth. Together they swim down to an underwater cavern that has a jet stream of water that propels up into an underground cave that is light by glowing sea weed, and moss. She is captivated by some of the creatures in here. They all have a glowing feature from living off of iridescent sea weed and moss. She walks up a path and it leads her to a throne room that has a statue of a merman holding a trident. The statue has a plaque that reads Alexander McCloud the legend lives on. The statue is sitting on a throne seated pedestal. Teresa looks up at it, as it begins to speak to her. In a deep toned voice that is stern, she hears it say “open your mind to the prophetic vision, your brilliant and profound.” Now she gently closes her eyes and feels a light tingling sensation come over her. It is a good feeling; in fact, she feels better than she has in years. The thoughts taking over of clouds in coffee, she feels everything changing, all the memories and years of trauma and abuse done to her at the hands of her horse trainer. Oh how he got everything he had deserved. For the verbal mental and physical abuses, she had endured; the constant threats and head games. All the harassment and to top it off he murdered her horse in front of her this was the last thing he did. Teresa made sure of it. In an instant she was overwhelmed with grief, she clenched her fist and in a fit grinded her teeth, until she calmed down. She started to smile and laugh a little as she saw stairs going up walls and purple and yellow doors leading to nowhere. She opens two doors the first was blue and the second is yellow. The first one had a storm and she didn’t enter. The second she saw a young Dr. John Channing giving a speech in an auditorium. The speech was on biochemistry, as the young Dr. John was talking he stated to grow horns out of his four head they were little nubs at first but grew he had a mace with a pentagram on it, in the same shape as the ones on her journal. He then called her name out. “Please Teresa take to the center of the floor; this is not negotiable” he then proceeded to order her to lie in the middle of the star; at the center of the auditorium now dark with light candles and hooded people taking form. The floor is cold as she lays down and a sheet is placed over her. Then splash she is hit with water and the star goes up in flames, popping, and burning quickly. She now sees her peers each wearing black hooded, cloaks, and holding chalices with purple smoking liquid. They are chanting in tongues as they pass around the chalice taking a sip when the demon says to drink. He then calls out in a deep voice “come to the dark side of a World Left Behind.” During this time Teresa is in shock and feels stunned, she pinches herself and feels pain and the damp water. She is startled by the sound of a gong in the background and the chanting of people. She can feel the vibrations of the gong all around her as the noise closes in closer, and closer. It is emanating brilliant colors of red, green, and purple. She is captivated and opens her eyes as she feels brilliant and alive. When she does she finds herself suspended in the air, being held up by her peers, each of them in a black hooded clock. She has on a silk dress and looks below to see a large green four leaf clover imprinted in the middle of the floor. It is made out of jade with a thin onyx inlay. “Teresa, Teresa snap out of it” It’s the voice of Dr. Rey Von Niche she comes to and he says to her that group is over you may leave back to your room. Teresa says “what day is it” And He says “today’s date is June 7th it is approximately 5:00 pm, are you O.K.?” She says “yes it’s just been a rough week settling in and all.” Dr. Rey Von Niche then says to her that “you’re doing well with the cognitive restructuring keep up the good work. You should be proud and you might get to leave soon, and by the way Teresa you have a visit in the recreation room in about an hour.”
Daemon the butler enters the Huxley asylum to check up on Teresa’s progress. He proceeds to check in at the front desk and is escorted by Max to the visiting area of the recreation room. He goes up to Teresa and give her a brief side hug, Teresa says to Daemon “What is my own dad too good to visit me?” Daemon answers her by saying “your father is a very busy man.” Daemon then says how have things been going for you here at Huxley? She replies in a snub yet confident tone that all is well and that the doctors think the cognitive restructuring is going well and that she’ll be able to leave soon. After the visit she goes to her room for the night She falls asleep until buzz, buzz her alarm clock goes off June 8th 1992. Teresa sit’s up turns off her alarm clock and sets Dimples aside. She throws her blankets back and goes to the med window. Where she sees Max and he gives her, her morning medication, in pudding. She then eats her breakfast, a hardboiled egg, and some crunchy waffles before she goes to group at 9:00 am.
Teresa enters her group in room #22 she takes her regular seat Dr. Rey Von Niche starts the meeting off by introducing Tommy and asking him “what brings you to Huxley?” At first Tommy says “what does it matter?” Dr. Rey Von Niche Says “so we can learn more about you Tommy”? Tommy says “I am here at Huxley because I killed my dad during the space launch he was abusive towards me”. As Tommy was talking Teresa’s eyes grew heavy and she took a deep breath before fading out into a full on laps. When she came to she found herself being briefed on a space mission at a military base for the United Nations. The mission is to save the solar system from space pirates. Their challengers are an alien race identified as Yorierokes from a distant goldilocks zone of a much larger planet than earth believed to have similar life forms. The mission is to prevent these space pirates from destroying the indigenousness life beings and prevent them from steeling the rich minerals on Saturn’s beautiful rings. The main ship is called the Alfa Major and it runs on a negative thermal reaction core it has two smaller beta ships one under each wing, and a goliath loader in the ship’s cargo bay. Tommy and his comrades Elsie, Tommy, Alex, Samantha, Teresa, and a chimpanzee named John the A.I. on board is Dr. Rey Von Niche a mechanical computer. All are well rounded in all areas of expertise especially Teresa who is exceptional at being deceptive. Her favorite weapon is a trident harpoon. The officers all have dual motor space helmets, space boots and clocking abilities. The chimpanzee John uses sign language and Tommy is an expert on space travel while Teresa and Alex are experts at hand to hand combat & dodge fighting with beta pods. The Captain gives the orders; the assignment is to protect earth and the outer planets from the invasive aliens.
As the crew heads their way out from the advanced training room they walk down a corridor then down some stairs. As they look up they see some black smoke billowing from some industrial cylinders in the sky at Fort Jade Stock. Just off of the Atlantic coast on planet earth. In their space attire they are briefed on their first mission. The captain says to them “elitists men and women your mission is to save the Earth from the invasive Yorierokes an evil alien race hell bent on destroying all life in our solar system. Their Identified intents so far have been set on steeling precious metals and gasses out of and off of Saturn’s rings. You are now the elite group of opts code named World Left Behind.” the Group walks down a corridor and then down an alley that opens up into a big open stage type area. The steps are wide and lead down to a government building that is forty stories tall. This building has an above ground level and a below ground level that’s 12 stories deep. On a holographic map it shows in big letters Salem Huxley Capital the group is briefed by security before entering. There each given a name tag by the front desk personal and lead to an elevator and brought to room #503 on the fifth floor once inside they take a seat and are briefed by Captain Roderick. “You mission is to kill and retrieve if at all possible any Yorieroke DNA samples. Get as much information as you can put on these portable adaptive interface disks. Got that? Good! Now get all the Intel as you can then return home safely. Got it Privates!” “Yes sir.” “Now don’t waste any more tax payer time get in and buckle up its along ride. Oh and don’t forget to name your ship it is bad luck not to name her.” “Oh yah sir she MG Alta sir.” Tommy says “And sir we didn’t join world forces for nothing” “Good don’t die in vain.” The crew buckles in and takes off in Five, Four, Three, Two, One, blast off. As soon as they excited the earth’s atmosphere gravity drops and everything not attached or latched starts to float um such beauty I’ve never! Then Elsie say’s the Earth it is so beautiful and gorgeous. Then all of a sudden a loud click booms the ships gravity kicks in everyone droops like a sack of tatters this includes stomachs and heart muscles. They all fell to the floor damp well all except John the chimp who just smiled like noobs. The A.I. Rey Von Niche even seemed to be a little shaken. This was kind of odd for a robot. Tommy, Alex, Teresa, Samantha, Elsie and the chimpanzee John all climbed into their cryogenic chambers. These chambers were equipped for a nice 3-month rest. The next stop was Titan, one of Saturn’s moons. Alert, alert wake up says Elsie in a nice voice at first and then she yells get up! The emergency alarm had been going off for the last three hours and all were awakened four days early. Officer Tommy found what was wrong with the ship. After looking on the map with the warning light blinking. Tommy told the rest of the crew that something had damaged part of the ships navigation system. Because it showed the orientation filter was down. Soon the chimpanzee John stepped into action. He quickly put on his space suit and hooked up an umbilical cord; he grabbed his tools and exited the loading dock into space to fix the orientation filter. Once the filter had been fixed he entered back into the ship. As they got closer to Saturn they could see most of Saturn’s 82 moons. The one they are closest to is Titan and both are very brilliant. They look closer at Saturn’s rings to find that there disappearing. Tommy commands the A.I. to turn on heat and ultra violet honing radar. The A.I. does so and they see an alien ship steeling precious minerals from our sister planet. Tommy yells out “Blasphemous Alien scum must die for this. “Then Alex hails the ship. And a commander comes on screen and says what business have you to interrupt the Yorierokes. Alex says vacate the premises or face annihilation. The captain of the Yorierokes replies with we do not take kindly your threats. Tommy then tells the alien Yorierokes” that if they know what’s best for them they will leave and never come back.” After that the screen goes blank and communication is disengaged. Tommy tells John the chimpanzee to man the torpedoes. As soon as the chimp locks on the mother ship he lights up with a grin only a chimp can convey. Tommy gives the order to fire and three torpedoes are lunched from there holding dock. Tommy tells John not to let up on that ship. Then Alex and Tommy take one of the beta crafts. Tommy grabs a space e.m.p. triton and two space swords, while Teresa and the A.I Rey Von take the other beta space pod. The two pods launch from the holding dock and fly into combat with the enemy. Tommy gets ready his eye light up and Alex gasp “sir your eyes I’ve never seen a man do that before.” Tommy replies “everything’s going to be alright brother. I was born for this my parents were astronauts” as he pushes a button on his space suit and a visor comes down. Tommy then grabs his sword and e.m.p. harpoon triton, he pushes a button on his suit and a song rocket man plays by Elton John. It does goanna be a long, long time rocket man. Tommy straps himself to the ships umbilical cord and floats out into space to face the ship, then catapults him towards an alien craft. Tommy yells out eradicate the alien scum and launches a triton at the alien ship. During this time Alex and Elsie were blasting tons of smaller alien ships that had left the hanger of the mother ship with their laser cannons. Tommy’s harpoon triton connects to the larger ship he then releases the umbilical cord as he is pulled towards the mother ship. Tommy pulls out his space sword and cuts a hole through the hall of the ship on the port side. He then enters the ship and floats through the ship towards the captain’s chambers. Once inside Tommy enters the captain’s quarters were he decapitates the captain with his sword then using the captain’s guns he shoots through his head killing two more officers. Now Tommy pulls out his portable adaptive interface scan disk and plugs it into the only place it looks like it’ll fit. After about three minutes a light comes on and then he pulls it from the plug in. Just then Teresa and the A.I. pull up and to the hall port side and Tommy jumps into space towards their craft and gets into their beta pod as he enters and is safe. Now that the mother ship has been destroyed the rest of the pods retreated into deep space. Once back on board Mg Alta the crew members brew some coffee. Tommy is saying “Even though I was born with a warrior spirit I still have a soft side to me.” Here he is a six foot two with brilliant green eyes, short blond hair and a chiseled face line. He has on a long trench coat and goggles. And is sitting at a table drinking a cup of java across from Elsie the love of his life, they look at each other with a soft loving gaze. They can’t help but to smile at each other. Then Tommy tells the crew he got the information they came for.
All the crew member Elsie, Tommy, Alex, Rey Von, Teresa, and the chimp John gather around the computer terminal and peak at the information on the interface scan disk. As they play it on the ships on board terminal and it shows them tons of information on star ships, blue prints, and different encrypted areas of interest for space mining. It showed different graphs of worlds and their elements and other precious substances. All different types of life forms; that the Yorierokes may have encountered throughout the galaxies. Then the crew showered over thousands of documents and for the next four months they were obsessed. They sifted through all the information they could find of interest. Some of distant worlds with different types of governments some with multiple alien races. Some were genetically enhanced for different types of alien environments. They found information regarding antimatter weapons and found fragments called nebulas expanses. These seemed to be descriptions of different dimensions and how to travel into them. There was information on some big brink phenomena that could create planets and stars. In one of these documents was the Quasar expanse, this document describes a giant monster that was captured and held hostage by invoked Yorierokes. The next document Teresa reads she finds very interesting is about an anti-alien Necronomicon that describes an alien named Lucifer and in its encrypted text states that no one has seen the most magnificent and omnipotent force of all the universes. This alien also spoke of outer advanced civilizations and races of aliens that can travel through different realms and spurs by utilizing ancient alien terrain technology. During this time Tommy and Elsie looking out into space. Elsie is wearing a nice sleek night gown when Tommy comes up behind her and puts his arm around her waist. She is beautiful with long black hair and soft skin. Then tommy goes look and points to the North Star. He gives a brief description of how people have used it to navigate during slavery. She in awe by the moment and captivated in a romantic way. While he feels very charged and leans into kiss her on her neck. She then looks into his bright green eyes and kisses him gently at first and then more assertively as the two are over whelmed with compassion for one another. He lifts her up and positions her legs around his waist and Tommy whispers it’s been so long that I’ve loved you as beautiful and elegant as you were when I first met you. And his body and heart were overwhelmed with the rush from her sweet smell and the compassionate kiss. More than anything he was overwhelmed with lust for her in that moment. Elsie can feel his hardened strength and was captured by their kiss; they grab each other’s hands and can feel the masculine and feminine energy pulse between them. Then they to retire to the cryogenic chambers for the rest of the flight back to Earth.
Mg ultra-lands back at Earth in Huxley Capital building the date is June 7th 1992 3 pm. Just as the MG Alta lands Teresa opens her eyes to see she is still in group with Dr. John and Rey Von Niche. Dr. John Goes “Teresa group is about to start today you are in the hot seat. I want to know what brought you to Huxley Asylum?” Teresa answers after taking in a deep pause and say’s “I remember the date was June 1st 1992 I went for a private ride on my horse dimples. I rode down a steep sloped cliff overseeing the North Sea. I remember it being a beautiful day outside as I looked out over the Ocean. I saw a light house on Dante’s point. I noticed some pilot whales traveling North for the summer along with some seagulls hovering off the cliffs. I then rode Dimples past some tide pools. After that Dimples ate some oats and I enjoyed some black berries, and smelled some roses. Then we headed back to the Castle where I put Dimples back in his stall. I entered the castle, climbed up into the loft and took a nap. Then I had an awful feeling something was wrong in my dream. I dreamt that I had woke up late in the day to check on dimples. When I opened his stall I saw him dead laying their helplessly with a pitch fork in his side. Next to my horse nailed on the stall was a note that said.
Dear: Winston Family
From: Trainer Terrie
“I regret to inform you that this horse got out of control and violent towards me so I stabbed it with a pitch fork.” Teresa broke down in tears. All she could think was not again first Babb’s and now Dimples. Teresa says “I was so full of rage. I had a mental break down from abuses and stressing out. Then I heard somebody else in the barn somebody stumbling around grunting profitably drunk. I came out of the stall holding the pitch fork. It was Eric holding his leg begging for help. I was so mad this was the second time he had done this. The first time maybe but not Dimples to. I took the pitch fork and I stabbed Terrie in his gut. Then I ran back to the Castle. It was so bad I woke up Crying.
Then Teresa shut down got really reserved and over whelmed by the trauma she had experienced. Dr. John looks at Rey Von Niche and says should I tell her or you. Rey Von Niche says I will. “ Now Teresa that wasn’t a dream. Buzz- buzz Teresa opens her eyes and looks over at her night stand she sees a graduation letter and some balloons the date is June 8th 1992 she is holding dimples her unicorn and is over come with joy for she knows shell be getting done with her treatment soon and can return home.
World left behind.
Written by Dana William Sword
2/17/2023
Chapter 1: Huxley
June 1st 1992
Teresa Wincer is riding her Stud mixed bread white horse Dimples down a steep bank by a cliff’s edge overseeing the North Sea. On the out skirts of the Nether Lands. Teresa takes in a n inhalation of cool Ocean air and lets out a sigh of relief. Teresa whispers under her breadth under her breadth “ah we made it” as she dismounts from Dimples. Teresa then pauses a moment and embraces the beauty of the scenery as she looks out over the North Sea. Teresa notices Suters Light house out on Dante’s point. Teresa sees some pilot whales traveling north for the summer, she also notices a cool breeze with an occasional gust of wind coming in land from the West. Teresa can see some sea gulls catching wind and soaring off the cliff.
Teresa then gets back on her saddle and rides Dimples along the beach. It is early in the day and still low tide this time on the lunar calendar. After passing some tide pools along the beach. Teresa rides Dimples back to the trail head, it is a solid path with black berry brambles, wild straw berries and some rose bushes. While on the trail she dismounts and walks with Dimples at her side for little bit and smells some of the rosses. She then picks some black berries and gives dimples some water and oats she had packed for the day trip. Teresa gets back on her horse clicks her heals and rides back to the prestigious Winston Castle located in Luxembourg Amsterdam. Once there Teresa putts Dimples back in his stall and enters the gated Castle using her passport. Teresa then uses an old styled silver key to open on of two large oak doors. Teresa then walks down the mail hall that has numerous paintings and portraits of her ancestors hanging on the walls. Teresa steps down onto a large throw rug in the den. On the left side of the den is a ladder that leads up into a loft. Teresa climbs up the ladder and drops down existed on a velvet down fathered nap sack.
This castle has a double gated U-shape drive up, four car garages, a woodshop, and barn for the 200 sheep plus a horse coral that is the finest in all of Amsterdam. Winston Castle also has the fanciest boutique and flower garden in all of Europe. Within the castle walls live the Prime Minister Malachi Wincer himself and his wife Margaret Wincer their daughter Teresa Wincer and all the other castle employees; some guild partitions, 5 securities, and 30 grounds maintenance people. Unfortunately, the Prime Minister’s daughter Teresa Wincer has recently fallen ill. Due the nature of her disease the family has no other option than to privately have her sent to Huxley Asylum. And on June 2rd, 1992, in the early morning hours in the town of Luxembourg, the Wincer Family and their favorite butler/ security guard personally went for a long stroll down the hill top into town with their daughter Teresa Wincer to have her committed. The day was lovely and, nice the shrubbery, and trees were green along the parkway.
At the gate of the front entrance Mr. Wincer slides a national card to check into Huxley and as the family enters the two tall glass doors of the central marble three story building, they enter the main walkway. They head down a red and gold carpeted hall and stop at the front desk in a guest room with vaulted ceilings. The clerk checks some paper work and says a nurse will be out soon for the rest of this check-in. Teresa can see all these hand-painted pictures of all the previous pharmaceutical technicians and psychiatrist. Malachi Wincer holds his daughter’s hand tells her he loves her and that these are pictures of doctors that are going to help her get well.
One picture sticks out to her more than the others Dr. John Channing 1876. “Teresa Wincer” is called by the nurse. A young man with the name tag on identified as nurse Max. Malachi hugs his daughter tightly and tells Teresa that she needs to follow the man through the doors. Teresa grabs her luggage two large suit cases of belongings and follows the nurse. Max locks the doors behind them. Teresa and Max proceed down four corridors with rooms labeled numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4, take a right 5, 6, 7, and 8, and then another right 9, 10, 11, and 12. Then Teresa and Max stops at room number 11; Max uses a key and says to Teresa “your key is on the nightstand, if you have a problem or any questions for me I’ll be down one more hall to the right, at the medication station just up from the recreation hall.”
Teresa enters her new room. It is slightly warm yet cozy. The bedroom has new upholstery a nice window overlooking a ravine, and can see that it is a nice day outside. Teresa starts to unpack her luggage that is already neatly folded. Some of it she puts into drawers and other stuff, like her Victorian dresses, Teresa hangs up in her coat closet. After putting her blouses knits and dresses away Teresa decides to take a bath in her tub room while the water is nice and hot. There are brand new shampoo’s conditioner’s and other toiletry item’s. After a long hot tub rest, Teresa comes out of the tub dries off, and puts on white nit leggings sandals with lace straps that come up her calf with a leather pocketed skirt that has buckle straps. Teresa then puts on a bra & t-shirt and her favorite vest.
Next, Teresa looks in the mirror and dry’s her straight black hair Teresa then combs it up and puts it in some butterfly clips and a crunchy scrunch in a fancy bun, then puts on her eye mascara and light green lipstick. Teresa puts her pocket watch in her vest, proceeds to her nightstand, where she notices her key on a green and gold glass beaded necklace clasped off on a bedroom lamp. Teresa reaches for the necklace and sees a card on her desk, she picks it up and it says:
Welcome to: Huxley
Today June 2rd 1992 therapy session is at 2:00 pm
In room 22
p.s., don’t be late P.H.P. Dr. John Motley Ω
Teresa then places the card back on her desk by her alarm clock, takes the necklace with the key off, the night stand’s bedroom lamp, and places the neckless key around her neck, and clasps it. Teresa finishes putting her belongings away; she tucks in her pet stuffed unicorn named Dimples after a horse she once owned that somebody murdered. Teresa then hangs up a painting of Babb’s her new favorite horse. After hanging up the artwork, Teresa kisses her fingers and touched them to the picture before exiting her room locking the door behind her. Teresa pauses for a second then takes a right and passes room 12, and proceeds down the hall, passing the nurses’ station and entering a recreation room. Teresa sees a counter with some coffee and donuts so she helps herself to a jelly filed donut.
Teresa is greeted by a peer, “Hi my name is Alex” he holds his hand out as a courtesy and says, “mind if I pore you some coffee?” Teresa replies “sure, why not,” with a half-calked smile. Things started to sink in and come together in her mind. She really feels like crying and shutting down. Like her family, does not want anything to do with her anymore after what had happened. Then Teresa thinks to herself, this Alex guy seems kind of nice, well nice enough. Alex says to Teresa, “you must be the new girl. I heard we were getting somebody new. I just didn’t know it would be this soon.” Teresa replies, “I don’t feel like having a conversation right now,” Alex says, “oh, O.K. no worries” Teresa finishes her coffee and looks at her pocket watch. The watch is made of silver and gold with peacock hands, a white quartz crystal moon, and a gold sun dial in-lay. Her grandfather Allen Wincer gave it to her on her sixteenth birthday.
Teresa sees that it is almost 5 till 2:00 pm. Teresa whispers under her breadth, “oh no, my meeting.” She takes off walking briskly to the nurses’ station and sees Max behind the medication window. Teresa taps on the glass, and Max opens the countered window. Max greets her in a friendly voice and says, “hi Teresa, how may I be of service to you?” Teresa replies, “I have a meeting with Dr. John Motley at 2pm in room 22 how do I get there from here?” Max then points his index finger down the hall “see those double doors down the hall? Go through them, and on the left will be an elevator, the room will be up the next floor, and two doors down the left on the right side of the hall will be room 22.”
Teresa took off went through the double doors and took a left got on the elevator hit the 2nd-floor button to room 22. Teresa started to think it kind of weird that the whole time she had been in the Huxley building, that she had not remembered seeing any exit signs. The elevator seemed as though it only traveled in the middle of the building between floors with long hall ways that had locked double doors at each end.
As Teresa got to the 2nd level, she took a left and went to room 22 on the right. The door was slightly ajar, and she opened it and saw that there were chairs placed in a circle with people sitting in them. “Come on in,” says a bald guy with a thin white coat, light brown dress pants and glasses. “I am Dr. Rey Von Niche,” he then say’s “come on in, find a name tag on the desk, write your name on it and take a seat.” Teresa goes to a counter and finds a marker writes her name on a sticky name tag; she notices a window and that it is nice & sunny and pretty outside, not a cloud insight. She then takes an empty seat. Dr. Rey Von Niche says, “Dr. John Motley should be joining us soon.” Teresa felt nervous and saw four other peers and Dr. Rey Von Niche sitting in a circle, the girls all on the right and the boys all on the left side of the room.
Dr. John Motley comes in, and he is tall, has jet black hair, black slacks, and a teal button-up shirt. He is in his early thirties, is handsome and takes the seat between Teresa and the boys. Dr. Rey Von Niche is sitting straight across from him. Dr. John Motley says “let’s start off the meeting by introducing ourselves. I am Dr. John Motley, a psychiatrist here a Huxley, well go to my right starting with you Alex by introducing ourselves and saying one thing we like.” Alex introduces himself and says “I am Alex and I love the Ocean.” Then Tommy goes “I am Tommy and I love space.” Dr. Rey von Niche says “I am Dr. Rey Von Niche and I am a psychologist.”
Teresa introduces herself, “I am Teresa and I love horses.” It is Elsie’s turn, and Elsie says, “I am Elsie, I love space, I want to be an astronaut.” Samantha says, “I am Samantha but my friends call me Sam and I love the Ocean and I’m going to be a mermaid.” Dr. Rey then says, “this is great and now that we’ve all met each other we are going to start the session.
I want each of you to take in a deep breath, pay attention to my voice as it goes in and out you. Breath in slowly now, one, two, three, four, out one, two, three, four, two more deep breaths in four, three, two, one, out four, three, two, one, yes that’s it, slowly exhale, close your eyes and relax your body, you’re in a safe place, you feel more relaxed, think of blowing bubbles, as you watch them they float up and down, maybe some even catch a breeze and float away. Now you blow a special bubble, and as you do, it starts to float up some little ways, you watch as it slowly comes back down to you. You hold your hand still, and the bubble hits the center of your hand and sticks without popping, so you close your hand around the bubble. When you slowly open your hand you see something popping up on your palm, it’s wings and you see a beautiful butter fly. It sits there for a little while and you soak it in and look at its pretty spots and colors before it flutters away. Now open your eyes in thee, two, and one.”
Dr. Rey Von Niche say’s to the group that “this was for many of you your first guided imagery therapy secession. I hope to continue with all of you as you continue with your journeys here at Huxley, and please feel free to grab one of the leather-bound Journals on the counter.” As Teresa exits the room, she picks up one of the leather-bound diary journals complete with a buckle strap. It has a butterfly imprint and four stars, one on each corner. At this time, Dr. John invites the group to leave back to their rooms. After getting into the elevator and on her way back to her room, Teresa passes the medication window. Nurse Melissa calls over to Teresa, Melissa tells Teresa that it is time for her four o’clock meds and that Dr. John Motley had written an order for her.
Teresa replies, “I was unaware of the order, but O.K.” As Teresa is waiting for her medications. Teresa notices a book on the shelf titled the Binding of drugs in spell form. Teresa is curious about the textbook on the shelf in the nurses’ station, and she asked the nurse Melissa if she can check out the book. The nurse Melisa responds in a firm voice, “these are books for professionals only. You may have no accesses to any information behind this counter ever.” Teresa becomes flush and a little angry at hearing this but manages to keep her calm. Teresa asks what her meds are, and the nurse Mellissa says they are Abilify, and Lithium. Then Teresa swallows her pills, followed by a cold glass of water. She then proceeds to say that “I was just curious and wanted something to read! it gets kind of boring here.” Teresa then proceeds to retire to her room. After entering her room Teresa sits at her desk, and started to pondered about things she had to look forward to, and what the thing was that had brought her to this place. Teresa proceeds to write in her journal.
Dear Diary: June
3th,1992
Huxley Asylum
my second day at Huxley just getting stetted in already have to take meds I don’t really know what to think of this place yet. I’ve been thinking a lot about my Jockey friends, I miss them. I feel dread, and confusion’s over my horse trainer Terrie. I was in such a rage the last time I saw him. I don’t really know what to think of this place yet…
After writing in her journal she hears a staff call out for dinner. All the patients are to meet in the recreation room. This is good because she was hungry and feeling a little dizzy after taking her medications. Teresa thought this is good because I am feeling hungry and feeling a little dizzy after taking those awful medications.” Teresa found a table to sit at and quietly ate her meal, the dinner was stuffed bell pepper, cheese, broccoli, and hot mashed potatoes. After eating, Teresa retired to her room.
Teresa took a shower and put on her pajamas, cute long Minnie Mouse blouse that went down to her feet, and some pink fuzzy pajama pants. She then snuggled into bed with her stuffed unicorn dimples. Then proceed to remind herself she would be in safe hands, that her dad was a vital community member and that nothing bad was going to happen to her.
Then the pain in her gut hit, and Teresa started to cy uncontrollably for what had seemed like hours. After calming down, she began to reflect on her day. Teresa sees herself being placed in cuffs and under arrested brought into Huxley asylum in full secure locks. A judge had placed her as unfit for society. The day was rainy and thundering outside. The Huxley building is very tall perhaps thirteen stories or so, with gargoyles off the roof. As the police escort got closer she got knots in her stomach just thinking about it.
As she entered the two steel doors to the building she remembered seeing a large hand painted picture of a man with a plaque at the bottom Dr. John Motley 1876. this, guy looks familiar to her even though she doesn’t know why. Next to these paintings are others similar in nature. Some dating back as far as the 1500’s some said Alchemist, and others Physicist and still others Biochemists. Teresa thinks this kina odd. In the picture, Dr. John Motley has jet black hair and was in his mid-thirty’s. She felt ominous about the picture, and strange. The security guard transporting her uses a badge allowing them to enter the building. Teresa was wearing a bloody t-shirt, pants, and boots. The security and she were intercepted by a Huxley asylum employee named Max.
The officer then un-cuffed Teresa, and she followed Max through the building first. He then gave her a small guided tour pointing out the recreation hall where people visit family, play games and eat. “Down another hall is the communal showers” He proceeds to give her a bar of soap, a towel, shampoo, and conditioner. And say’s the boy’s showers are down another hall and that she is not to go down it ever. Max shows her room 11 the room is dusty with no windows it is small and has a twin box spring and mattress with black and gray little stuffed horse with a missing eye on the bed, and on the wall is a painting of an old mare in a field. There is also a small dresser with some gray sweats that say Huxley on them in light blue. The dresser has a card that then says:
Welcome to Huxley Appointment at 2:00 pm in room 122
Dr. John Channing.
Teresa looks at the card then puts it down and grabs the pair of the sweats and some sandals then heads to the girl’s communal shower. The main door to her room has no lock and squeaks when she exits it. Teresa takes off her bloody clothes and throws them in a bin then takes a shower and is grateful for the hot water and that nobody else is in the stall next to hers. She feels like she is in shock as she places on her sweat pants and sweat shirt on. She combs her hair straight and goes back to her room where she takes a nap.
Buzz-buzz! her alarm clock is going off. She hits the snooze button, turns back around and begins to doze off for a few more minutes before hearing a knock at her door. “Knock! Dang it! she thinks to herself as she hears Max’s Voice say “Teresa it is breakfast time there having: Hash browns, Omelets and Orange juice in the recreation hall.” Teresa gets up, in a rush, puts on some slacks and a nice blouse. She combs her hair and heads to the Recreation Hall.
Teresa enjoys her breakfast and is told to check in at the medication window by a Carolyn a line staff. When Teresa approaches the medication station, she sees nurse Max. He asks her “would you like to have your medications in pudding or water?” Teresa replies, “pudding.” Max gives her Xanax and Ritalin as he says, Max says “This ought to help with your scattered thoughts and anxiety.” Teresa liked Max’s demeanor so she took the meds without a fuss.
After taking the meds, Teresa went to her bedroom and unlocked her bedroom door with the key around her neck. Teresa could already feel the effects of the medication becoming active in her system. Teresa was grateful for all the privacy a locked door gives. Having a small window in the top middle of the door for security checks. And staff doing their rounds a little intrusive but a minor inconvenience. Teresa sits at her desk and opens her leather diary / journal and writes:
Dear Diary,
June 4th 1992
I experienced the weirdest dream last night. It was a natural dream that felt like an authentic alternative reality. It seemed so real! The other one seemed so harsh and scared me. I hope this is the actual reality. Teresa closes the diary and locks the strap.
Carolyn the staff comes by Teresa’s room and knocks on her door. “Ah what now” “You have mail and a group at 9:00 am this morning.” Teresa receives her mail and asks Carolyn what room number her meeting is in and Carolyn replies “room 22 your home room.” Teresa then puts the letters on her desk and notices it’s just a welcoming packet from Huxley. She then checks the time it is five minutes until 9:00 am.
Teresa rushes to room 22 on the second floor. Dr. Rey Von Niche is greeting her and her peers at the door, and Dr. John Motley is already sitting and says to Teresa and another peer to take a seat. The peers and the two Doctors do as they have been instructed and sit in the same order as they had before. The girls on the right and the boys on the left of the circle. With Dr. John Motley and Dr. Rey Von being the divider facing one another.
Dr. John says, “let’s start the meeting with each of you saying one thing that you’re grateful for, just one thing! Dr. John re-edifies, Starting with you, Alex this time,” Alex “say’s I’m grateful for my pet gold fish in my room. He’s really a killer whale, and belongs in the Atlantic Ocean.” “ O.K.”, says Dr. John, “Elsie It’s your turn,” Elsie says, “I am grateful for the glowing stars in my room at night. I was really stargazing and seeing the constellations.” “Good,” says Dr. John, now “ Samantha, it is your turn.” Samantha says “I am grateful for my mermaid. She belongs in the Pacific Ocean. I have a T.V. in my room I get to see sea creatures.” Tommy interrupts, and say’s “the Television I have in my room is better I get to watch Astronauts.” Then Dr. john goes, “ O.k. Teresa it’s your turn,” Teresa says, “I am grateful for my stuffed unicorn his name is Dimples and he belongs to magic and to be free to roam.”
Dr. John then guides the group “now I want each of you to take a deep breath and slowly exhale and slowly inhale and exhale. We will do this exercise together. As we do we will shift our attention to our bodies and how; we feel, relaxing as if we are in a safe space. Now think of a nice path with some flowers & shrubbery on either side. The sun is shining and the breeze is warm you see a few clouds in the sky as you walk down the meadow path. You step off of the path and feel soft grass under your feet, you spread out a blanket but not just any blanket it’s a magical blanket. You spread it flat on the ground, and just after you do this you lay on it and it starts to lift you up. Not far just two feet off of the meadow grass you are now suspended and held gently in the air floating. You notice that your body weight lifts as you kind of wobble at first, but by grabbing the two corners on the front of your blanket you are able to quickly stabilize and steady yourself. Now you find that if you pull back the blanket goes forward and if you lean left or right it follows that direction. However, when you lean forward it slows down. You put both your hands straight forward as you become more comfortable. Now you are one with your blanket and as you become one, you spread your hands out and, you feel the soft grass and flowers grazing the palms of your hands. Now you grab ahold of both sides of your blanket and tug three times one, two, three, as you do it lowers down and brings you softly back to the earth. In three, two, one, open your eyes” says Dr. John. “This was your second guided imagery secession please feel free to Journal the experience.”
Teresa leaves the therapy session feeling refreshed and on her way back to her room Alex asks if he can walk with her Teresa politely says “no I’ve got a lot on my mind.” As she unlocks her door room 11 she notices a hand written note on the door it say’s something in a language she doesn’t know she thinks this is odd and that a peer is pranking her. She feels that it’s inappropriate and not funny so she throws the note in her trash can. Teresa proceeds to her desk sits down and opens her diary.
June 4th 1992
Dear: diary
I find Dr. John Motley attractive he is a good psychiatrist and is handsome I really enjoyed therapy today the session made me think of riding a horse. Teresa then closes and buckles her diary.
Knock! knock! Startled Teresa thought to herself “there goes that darn door again, can’t I ever get a chance to relax.” The staff Carolyn yells at Teresa to take her 4:00 pm medications. Teresa takes a nice, hot shower for a half hour, dries off, and puts on her favorite stretchy jeans, button up t-shit, and leather sandals. Teresa straightens her hair with a brush and comb, and then she checks the time and sees that its five minutes until 4:00 pm.
Teresa then leaves her room, locking her door behind her, and goes to the nurses’ station. At the medication window she gets the same two pills Abilify, and Lithium. Teresa swallows the pills and tells the nurse that these pills make her feel uncomfortable. The nurse Melissa tells her to bring up any concerns she has about her medication with her psychiatrist if she wants’ her medication changed. Teresa replies “I will”.
Then she sees somebody in a black hood and black sweats by her bedroom door. Teresa rushes back towards her room, as she approaches the figure disappears. She unlocks her door and checks on her journal. There she finds the same note the one that she thrown in the garbage now on her desk again. In Teresa’s mind she goes “ O.K. this is not funny at all,” and she feels her heart start to pump. Then she looks at everything else in the room nothing else had been touched so she thinks she might just be being paranoid. Teresa lay’s in her bed pulling the blankets over her head holding dimples as her heart starts to slow down feeling light headed, and dizzy, she falls asleep. As she drifts away in her sleep she feels herself leaving her body as she lays there for another twenty minutes before feeling so uncomfortable with this that she opens her eyes Teresa looks to her right and at her alarm clock on an old dusty night stand with white paint chipping and a yellow primer showing from underneath. The time says 10 minutes until 2:00 pm and there is a card she reaches over and grabs the card and it says:
Welcome to Huxley Appointment at 2:00 pm in room # 122
Dr. John Channing.
Teresa set’s dimples her one button eyed stuffed horse to the side pushes the old torn blankets back off of her and she sits up, then stands and changes into a fresh pair of sweats and puts on Huxley issued sandals. She leaves her room in a panicked state of mind. Teresa rushes down a putrid smelling hall she can hear people screaming and yelling all kinds of obscene things so Teresa rushes a little faster, until she comes up to the elevator. She pushes an up button on the elevator and watches as an old lit sign blinking off and on skipping some burnt out lights as the floor numbers reach her. The doors slid open and she gets on panicking as she searches for floor #13 and room #122. Floor #11 is missing a knob she finds the 13th floor it is located on the side board in the elevator she whispers hurry up under her breadth pushes the black dusty knob button with worn numbers for floor #13 and waits as the elevator slowly climbs briefly clicking by each floor. “Finally the 13th floor” Teresa exhales and just before opening it: the elevator drops about three inches as she can feel her gut in her throat she is so nervous. She whispers “finally” as she exits and looks down the left corridor and sees room number #122 on the left side of the hall. She cautiously approaches the room there is a man standing outside the door one that looks familiar with a name tag on that says Dr. Rey Von Niche. He greats her “It’s nice of you to have finally arrived” she sees the lights are twitching in the room and it looks dim and as though there is mildew on the window seals. Dr. Rey Von Niche tells Teresa to put on a temporary name tag and to take a seat. Teresa goes over to a rusted counter writes her name Teresa Wincer on a temporary sticky tag and looks outside the window she notices it is rainy and storming outside. She then sticks the tag on and takes a seat in an empty hard plastic chair with steel legs. Alex and Tommy are on her right speaking to each other and, Samantha, and Elsie are to her left all of them are sitting in a circle facing the center of the room, when all of a sudden a bright flash of light occurred in the room for a second, caused by the lightening cracking from the sky outside. Just then Dr. John Channing is at the entrance of the room he is a tall man wearing a trench coat and dark brimmed hat. After taking the coat off him he puts on his glasses and has a white button up shirt on, he then takes a seat in the empty chair.
Dr. John Channing starts the meeting off by saying let’s introduce ourselves I am Dr. John Channing and am your psychiatrist. Teresa gets flush and her hair stands up like she saw a ghost but she can’t tell what is causing her this fear. “Let’s start the meeting off by going to our right and saying something we like about ourselves starting with you Alex.” Alex says “I am Alex and I like fish and love the ocean”. Next is Tommy, “Tommy says I like space and love astronauts”. Next is Samantha, “Samantha says I like the ocean and love mermaids”. Next is Elsie and Elsie says “I like space and love astronauts”. Next are Teresa, and Teresa say’s “I like horses, and I love unicorns there magical”. All right says Dr. John now “I am going to put you Alex in the hot seat. So Alex tell us what brought you to Huxley.” Alex replies “I came to Huxley because I like to fish at the Ocean.” Now Dr. Rey Von Niche Interjects “that’s not true Alex.” Alex replies “yes it is and I can do this stupid group better than you guys.” Dr. Rey Von Niche then calms Alex by saying to Alex “you may have the floor and lead group though your thoughts today then”.
Alex says “I am here at Huxley because I killed my step dad at the lake with a salmon knife.” He then started off by saying to the group “everybody closes their eyes and take in three deep breadths. Breadth in three, two, one, out one, two, three do this three more times in three, two, one, out one, two, three, and now you’re feeling safe and relaxed. You hear a settle voice calling you from a short distance. You follow the voice it is leading you down a pathway that goes down a trail in a meadow. The trail is winding back and forth until you reach the trails end, then you notice a different kind of noise it is the sound of water trickling down some rapids and maybe a water fall. So you follow the noise to the edge of a waterfall going off of a cliff. First you dip your right foot into the water to test it, the water is cool to the touch but not uncomfortably chill, there are some small rapids up the stream and it narrows and is about 3ft. deep you decide to slowly climb in upstream. You don’t feel scared though instead you have a sense of excitement and adventure take over your whole body. As you wade out into the water. You turn towards the water fall knowing it’s about a 20 ft. drop into the clear pool down below. Now in position you’re facing downstream you lean back and, lift your feet and, float downstream. As you go over the edge of the cliff it is as if time stops for you. You take in one last deep breath as you see all kinds of water droplets suspended and your free falling until splash you become fully submerged in the water, and just as quick as the water sucked you in. You look up and see bubbles shooting up from where you hit and just as fast as you entered you start to swim up to the surface. Here the current is slow and you grab onto a rock you can see deep into the water and there are fish and other creatures down below. Now you hear the voice again saying to let go and to become one with the environment. And just as you let go a big whirl pool swallows you and you feel light hearted as you enter an underwater cavern that sucks you into an underwater river. Again you are floating you see debris and clothing from lost adventures stuck on some of the rocks and then you get a sick feeling in your gut as you see giant mystical crab like creatures feeding off of the thoughts and the flesh of those who didn’t have faith in their journey. As tempted as you are to grab the cavern wall and hold on you don’t you just keep floating down stream one of the crab like being’s try’s to pinch a hold of you with its claw. However, you briskly avert the danger and swim with the current instead and this propels you down the stream faster and faster and the cavity narrows and your shot into an aquatics world one never seen by anyone but you. You see mermaids’ and mermen swimming about with colorful fish, coral and seaweed. Some of the mermen are carrying tridents and rounding up giant sea horses to saddle and ride. One of the mermen who has golden hair a human face and metallic scales along pats of his body, he also has gills along his abdomen and has a sea horse they swim up to you and he greets you “I am Octavian an aquatic magician. You must be new here”! And he quickly uses his trident and blows a big bubble around you. Octavian goes” I have seen your kind before there is a city nearby I can take you to where your kind and my kind work together and get along.” You can breathe in this bubble and he attaches your bubble to a seaweed rope and he and Murdock his sea horse takes you to the water city of Galvanic. This is a gigantic water dome connected to other domes by what appear to be jelly like, glass walk ways. All light by natural glowing materials. As you approach the merman unhooks your bubble and pushes you and the bubble in to the dome. Where the bubble gets absorbed by the dome and your now in the underwater city of Galvanic. There are cobble stone walk ways and real people walking about in tunics and medieval clothes some have red and purple cloaks and money bags with coins and other Items. The dome pulses with light and life forms. When you look out of it you can see the aquatic life as well mermaids and mermen fighting giant sea monsters and capturing them for observing purposes and their trophies. A giant sea creature hits the dome and the dome solidifies protecting you with each striking blow the dome booms with noise and you see it glow blue, red, green, and purple where the strikes are; you can see giant suction cups with huge spike cleavers sticking out from the tentacles of the sea monster. As it clasps the canopy of the city, now there are mermaids fighting the monster, and corralling it away from the city. When you decide to, you walk around and you notice it’s a lot like its own world down here and you can feel the epic power this place has. You see statues mermen and people that are famous political figures who made treaties down here. You can read tablets on the statues that indicate the dates and the things these mermaids and people accomplished. One of these statues sticks out to you so you go up to it and touch it and when to do it speaks to you, telling you to open you heart and to listen to your inner voice. When you do this you feel a wonderful sensation a good peaceful feeling in fact you feel better than you’ve felt in a long time. Now as you give yourself this appreciation you take in a deep breath and exhale opening your eyes in three, two, one open.” At this point Alex now adjourns the meeting back over to Dr. John and Dr. Rey Von Niche. At this time both doctors dismiss the group back to their rooms.
Teresa leaves feeling refreshed and like she is getting to know her peers a little better. She gets back on the elevator and pushes the button of the 13th floor to the down to the 1st floor. Now she exits the elevator and goes back to her room to debrief and write in her journal/ diary.
“Dear: diary June 5th 1992 the group was very interesting today a peer got to lead and he gave a pretty good guided imagery story.”
Teresa then closed her diary and buckled it. She then checked the time it was 5 minutes until 4:00 pm. Time to get her medication, Teresa walked to medication window, just on time. The nurse Melisa was at the med-station and said I am surprised you’re on time today. Melisa gave Teresa her medication and asked if she had checked in with Dr. John about any side effects she had been experiencing. Teresa said I forgot I’ll do it at my next appointment with him. Teresa then walked to the recreation hall and ate dinner which was meat loaf winter squash and corn bread. She ate felt comfortably full. She then proceeded back to her room to grab shower supplies, and a fresh pair of grey sweats a large purple towel shampoo and conditioner before entering the communal shower. She felt lucky that she was the only one in there today. Even though there were separate stalls she still enjoyed her privacy. After her hot shower she retired to her bedroom holding dimples her horse in her arms and thinking about the day before falling asleep for the night.
Buzz, buzz the alarm clock goes off and Teresa looks at the time it says 10 minutes until 7:00 am June 6th 1992. She wakes up holding her unicorn Dimples he has large green sparkly eyes and a pink unicorn horn and is all white. She gets out of bed feeling refreshed. And changes out of her night gown, throws up her hair in a ponytail and puts on light blue denim stretchy pants with a cute button up shirt. Slips on her sandals and goes over to her journal/diary
“Dear: diary June 6th 1992 I’m going on my fifth day a Huxley I feel that so far things are going well despite my troubles tracking and remembering things.”
Teresa notices something out the coroner of her eye and she quickly closes her diary. She then goes to investigate and even looks under her bed however she does not see anything there. Teresa peaks out her door then leaves her room locking the door behind her. Teresa goes to the medication station, and sees Max as she is walking up and, lets out a yes! Max says hi Teresa and offers her morning medication. After taking her morning medicine she proceeds to the recreation hall for breakfast. After she eats her omelet and hash browns with a cup of orange juice. Teresa looks on the recreation dry erase board and notices that family visits take place at 6:00 pm today. All of a sudden she is interrupted by Alex, “want some coffee I spiked it” and, with a huge grin on his face Teresa says no way and go away with a pause. Then she says wait I’ll drink a cup of coffee with you. He say’s cool I put the good stuff in it. Teresa doubtfully says what do you mean. Alex replies “don’t worry just drink some it’ll help you with your stress, shoot it might even help you unlock some of your potential.” She takes a soft strike at him almost spilling her coffee, and then drinks it. Not soon after drinking the coffee she starts to feel different so she decides to lie down in her room. Teresa imagination takes off a lot faster than she can handle.
Back at Winston Castle Malachi Wincer is sitting at an old rustic oak desk that has a family crest decaled on the top and solid mahogany legs. He is enjoying himself to cigars and a glass of bourbon on the rocks thinking of his daughter. He is looking at a recent picture of his daughter Teresa riding Babb’s an older white horse that the family had taken on from people who could no longer care for the mare. It has been a week since he had seen her and he wants to visit his daughter. Mr. Wincer calls his butler Daemon over and makes an appointment with Huxley. Even as busy as he is he feels the need to see if not at least he has her checked up on and the progress she’s been making.”
It is 8:55 am and Teresa snaps up and remembers she has a 9:00 am group in room #22 she rushes from her room to the group. All of the members are sitting in a circle Teresa joins the group however soon after settling into her chair she fades out of consciousness. Closing her eyes, she soon hears a gentle voice that sounds like Elsie’s saying “open your mind and open your eyes”. She can feel a flower touching her face gently caressing her skin. She opens her eyes and sees a man in horse jockey attire; he is 6 ft. tall and is handsome, he has dark eyes and black shot hair and there are metals on his shirt. He has a black rose in his hand, and there is a lady in all white with white assorted flowers in her hands and hair. The lady says to “Teresa to take the man’s hand and do not be afraid to come home.” The man takes Teresa’s hand and leads her down a path surrounded by a meadow there is a cool breeze blowing in the air. The grass is wavering back and forth and in the near distance there is a black stallion horse. The man says to Teresa to “name the horse he is all yours.” She approaches the animal cautiously and goes to gently touch the horse just as she reaches for it. The horse melts away like a ghost. And she hears a voice calling to her from far away. The voice is saying come home. When all of a sudden she feels completely helpless. A hot then cold chill comes over her. As she over hears people in the back ground. She can make out “put her in the Ice bath she is overheating, we need to get her temperature stabilized.” She blacks in and out of consciousness. She hears another voice call out “give her a shot of Cotentin.” Now she sees a merman he has legs and his gills are just under his lats. He has blond hair and regular man features. He is able to breath under water, and kisses her giving her air helping her to breadth. Together they swim down to an underwater cavern that has a jet stream of water that propels up into an underground cave that is light by glowing sea weed, and moss. She is captivated by some of the creatures in here. They all have a glowing feature from living off of iridescent sea weed and moss. She walks up a path and it leads her to a throne room that has a statue of a merman holding a trident. The statue has a plaque that reads Alexander McCloud the legend lives on. The statue is sitting on a throne seated pedestal. Teresa looks up at it, as it begins to speak to her. In a deep toned voice that is stern, she hears it say “open your mind to the prophetic vision, your brilliant and profound.” Now she gently closes her eyes and feels a light tingling sensation come over her. It is a good feeling; in fact, she feels better than she has in years. The thoughts taking over of clouds in coffee, she feels everything changing, all the memories and years of trauma and abuse done to her at the hands of her horse trainer. Oh how he got everything he had deserved. For the verbal mental and physical abuses, she had endured; the constant threats and head games. All the harassment and to top it off he murdered her horse in front of her this was the last thing he did. Teresa made sure of it. In an instant she was overwhelmed with grief, she clenched her fist and in a fit grinded her teeth, until she calmed down. She started to smile and laugh a little as she saw stairs going up walls and purple and yellow doors leading to nowhere. She opens two doors the first was blue and the second is yellow. The first one had a storm and she didn’t enter. The second she saw a young Dr. John Channing giving a speech in an auditorium. The speech was on biochemistry, as the young Dr. John was talking he stated to grow horns out of his four head they were little nubs at first but grew he had a mace with a pentagram on it, in the same shape as the ones on her journal. He then called her name out. “Please Teresa take to the center of the floor; this is not negotiable” he then proceeded to order her to lie in the middle of the star; at the center of the auditorium now dark with light candles and hooded people taking form. The floor is cold as she lays down and a sheet is placed over her. Then splash she is hit with water and the star goes up in flames, popping, and burning quickly. She now sees her peers each wearing black hooded, cloaks, and holding chalices with purple smoking liquid. They are chanting in tongues as they pass around the chalice taking a sip when the demon says to drink. He then calls out in a deep voice “come to the dark side of a World Left Behind.” During this time Teresa is in shock and feels stunned, she pinches herself and feels pain and the damp water. She is startled by the sound of a gong in the background and the chanting of people. She can feel the vibrations of the gong all around her as the noise closes in closer, and closer. It is emanating brilliant colors of red, green, and purple. She is captivated and opens her eyes as she feels brilliant and alive. When she does she finds herself suspended in the air, being held up by her peers, each of them in a black hooded clock. She has on a silk dress and looks below to see a large green four leaf clover imprinted in the middle of the floor. It is made out of jade with a thin onyx inlay. “Teresa, Teresa snap out of it” It’s the voice of Dr. Rey Von Niche she comes to and he says to her that group is over you may leave back to your room. Teresa says “what day is it” And He says “today’s date is June 7th it is approximately 5:00 pm, are you O.K.?” She says “yes it’s just been a rough week settling in and all.” Dr. Rey Von Niche then says to her that “you’re doing well with the cognitive restructuring keep up the good work. You should be proud and you might get to leave soon, and by the way Teresa you have a visit in the recreation room in about an hour.”
Daemon the butler enters the Huxley asylum to check up on Teresa’s progress. He proceeds to check in at the front desk and is escorted by Max to the visiting area of the recreation room. He goes up to Teresa and give her a brief side hug, Teresa says to Daemon “What is my own dad too good to visit me?” Daemon answers her by saying “your father is a very busy man.” Daemon then says how have things been going for you here at Huxley? She replies in a snub yet confident tone that all is well and that the doctors think the cognitive restructuring is going well and that she’ll be able to leave soon. After the visit she goes to her room for the night She falls asleep until buzz, buzz her alarm clock goes off June 8th 1992. Teresa sit’s up turns off her alarm clock and sets Dimples aside. She throws her blankets back and goes to the med window. Where she sees Max and he gives her, her morning medication, in pudding. She then eats her breakfast, a hardboiled egg, and some crunchy waffles before she goes to group at 9:00 am.
Teresa enters her group in room #22 she takes her regular seat Dr. Rey Von Niche starts the meeting off by introducing Tommy and asking him “what brings you to Huxley?” At first Tommy says “what does it matter?” Dr. Rey Von Niche Says “so we can learn more about you Tommy”? Tommy says “I am here at Huxley because I killed my dad during the space launch he was abusive towards me”. As Tommy was talking Teresa’s eyes grew heavy and she took a deep breath before fading out into a full on laps. When she came to she found herself being briefed on a space mission at a military base for the United Nations. The mission is to save the solar system from space pirates. Their challengers are an alien race identified as Yorierokes from a distant goldilocks zone of a much larger planet than earth believed to have similar life forms. The mission is to prevent these space pirates from destroying the indigenousness life beings and prevent them from steeling the rich minerals on Saturn’s beautiful rings. The main ship is called the Alfa Major and it runs on a negative thermal reaction core it has two smaller beta ships one under each wing, and a goliath loader in the ship’s cargo bay. Tommy and his comrades Elsie, Tommy, Alex, Samantha, Teresa, and a chimpanzee named John the A.I. on board is Dr. Rey Von Niche a mechanical computer. All are well rounded in all areas of expertise especially Teresa who is exceptional at being deceptive. Her favorite weapon is a trident harpoon. The officers all have dual motor space helmets, space boots and clocking abilities. The chimpanzee John uses sign language and Tommy is an expert on space travel while Teresa and Alex are experts at hand to hand combat & dodge fighting with beta pods. The Captain gives the orders; the assignment is to protect earth and the outer planets from the invasive aliens.
As the crew heads their way out from the advanced training room they walk down a corridor then down some stairs. As they look up they see some black smoke billowing from some industrial cylinders in the sky at Fort Jade Stock. Just off of the Atlantic coast on planet earth. In their space attire they are briefed on their first mission. The captain says to them “elitists men and women your mission is to save the Earth from the invasive Yorierokes an evil alien race hell bent on destroying all life in our solar system. Their Identified intents so far have been set on steeling precious metals and gasses out of and off of Saturn’s rings. You are now the elite group of opts code named World Left Behind.” the Group walks down a corridor and then down an alley that opens up into a big open stage type area. The steps are wide and lead down to a government building that is forty stories tall. This building has an above ground level and a below ground level that’s 12 stories deep. On a holographic map it shows in big letters Salem Huxley Capital the group is briefed by security before entering. There each given a name tag by the front desk personal and lead to an elevator and brought to room #503 on the fifth floor once inside they take a seat and are briefed by Captain Roderick. “You mission is to kill and retrieve if at all possible any Yorieroke DNA samples. Get as much information as you can put on these portable adaptive interface disks. Got that? Good! Now get all the Intel as you can then return home safely. Got it Privates!” “Yes sir.” “Now don’t waste any more tax payer time get in and buckle up its along ride. Oh and don’t forget to name your ship it is bad luck not to name her.” “Oh yah sir she MG Alta sir.” Tommy says “And sir we didn’t join world forces for nothing” “Good don’t die in vain.” The crew buckles in and takes off in Five, Four, Three, Two, One, blast off. As soon as they excited the earth’s atmosphere gravity drops and everything not attached or latched starts to float um such beauty I’ve never! Then Elsie say’s the Earth it is so beautiful and gorgeous. Then all of a sudden a loud click booms the ships gravity kicks in everyone droops like a sack of tatters this includes stomachs and heart muscles. They all fell to the floor damp well all except John the chimp who just smiled like noobs. The A.I. Rey Von Niche even seemed to be a little shaken. This was kind of odd for a robot. Tommy, Alex, Teresa, Samantha, Elsie and the chimpanzee John all climbed into their cryogenic chambers. These chambers were equipped for a nice 3-month rest. The next stop was Titan, one of Saturn’s moons. Alert, alert wake up says Elsie in a nice voice at first and then she yells get up! The emergency alarm had been going off for the last three hours and all were awakened four days early. Officer Tommy found what was wrong with the ship. After looking on the map with the warning light blinking. Tommy told the rest of the crew that something had damaged part of the ships navigation system. Because it showed the orientation filter was down. Soon the chimpanzee John stepped into action. He quickly put on his space suit and hooked up an umbilical cord; he grabbed his tools and exited the loading dock into space to fix the orientation filter. Once the filter had been fixed he entered back into the ship. As they got closer to Saturn they could see most of Saturn’s 82 moons. The one they are closest to is Titan and both are very brilliant. They look closer at Saturn’s rings to find that there disappearing. Tommy commands the A.I. to turn on heat and ultra violet honing radar. The A.I. does so and they see an alien ship steeling precious minerals from our sister planet. Tommy yells out “Blasphemous Alien scum must die for this. “Then Alex hails the ship. And a commander comes on screen and says what business have you to interrupt the Yorierokes. Alex says vacate the premises or face annihilation. The captain of the Yorierokes replies with we do not take kindly your threats. Tommy then tells the alien Yorierokes” that if they know what’s best for them they will leave and never come back.” After that the screen goes blank and communication is disengaged. Tommy tells John the chimpanzee to man the torpedoes. As soon as the chimp locks on the mother ship he lights up with a grin only a chimp can convey. Tommy gives the order to fire and three torpedoes are lunched from there holding dock. Tommy tells John not to let up on that ship. Then Alex and Tommy take one of the beta crafts. Tommy grabs a space e.m.p. triton and two space swords, while Teresa and the A.I Rey Von take the other beta space pod. The two pods launch from the holding dock and fly into combat with the enemy. Tommy gets ready his eye light up and Alex gasp “sir your eyes I’ve never seen a man do that before.” Tommy replies “everything’s going to be alright brother. I was born for this my parents were astronauts” as he pushes a button on his space suit and a visor comes down. Tommy then grabs his sword and e.m.p. harpoon triton, he pushes a button on his suit and a song rocket man plays by Elton John. It does goanna be a long, long time rocket man. Tommy straps himself to the ships umbilical cord and floats out into space to face the ship, then catapults him towards an alien craft. Tommy yells out eradicate the alien scum and launches a triton at the alien ship. During this time Alex and Elsie were blasting tons of smaller alien ships that had left the hanger of the mother ship with their laser cannons. Tommy’s harpoon triton connects to the larger ship he then releases the umbilical cord as he is pulled towards the mother ship. Tommy pulls out his space sword and cuts a hole through the hall of the ship on the port side. He then enters the ship and floats through the ship towards the captain’s chambers. Once inside Tommy enters the captain’s quarters were he decapitates the captain with his sword then using the captain’s guns he shoots through his head killing two more officers. Now Tommy pulls out his portable adaptive interface scan disk and plugs it into the only place it looks like it’ll fit. After about three minutes a light comes on and then he pulls it from the plug in. Just then Teresa and the A.I. pull up and to the hall port side and Tommy jumps into space towards their craft and gets into their beta pod as he enters and is safe. Now that the mother ship has been destroyed the rest of the pods retreated into deep space. Once back on board Mg Alta the crew members brew some coffee. Tommy is saying “Even though I was born with a warrior spirit I still have a soft side to me.” Here he is a six foot two with brilliant green eyes, short blond hair and a chiseled face line. He has on a long trench coat and goggles. And is sitting at a table drinking a cup of java across from Elsie the love of his life, they look at each other with a soft loving gaze. They can’t help but to smile at each other. Then Tommy tells the crew he got the information they came for.
All the crew member Elsie, Tommy, Alex, Rey Von, Teresa, and the chimp John gather around the computer terminal and peak at the information on the interface scan disk. As they play it on the ships on board terminal and it shows them tons of information on star ships, blue prints, and different encrypted areas of interest for space mining. It showed different graphs of worlds and their elements and other precious substances. All different types of life forms; that the Yorierokes may have encountered throughout the galaxies. Then the crew showered over thousands of documents and for the next four months they were obsessed. They sifted through all the information they could find of interest. Some of distant worlds with different types of governments some with multiple alien races. Some were genetically enhanced for different types of alien environments. They found information regarding antimatter weapons and found fragments called nebulas expanses. These seemed to be descriptions of different dimensions and how to travel into them. There was information on some big brink phenomena that could create planets and stars. In one of these documents was the Quasar expanse, this document describes a giant monster that was captured and held hostage by invoked Yorierokes. The next document Teresa reads she finds very interesting is about an anti-alien Necronomicon that describes an alien named Lucifer and in its encrypted text states that no one has seen the most magnificent and omnipotent force of all the universes. This alien also spoke of outer advanced civilizations and races of aliens that can travel through different realms and spurs by utilizing ancient alien terrain technology. During this time Tommy and Elsie looking out into space. Elsie is wearing a nice sleek night gown when Tommy comes up behind her and puts his arm around her waist. She is beautiful with long black hair and soft skin. Then tommy goes look and points to the North Star. He gives a brief description of how people have used it to navigate during slavery. She in awe by the moment and captivated in a romantic way. While he feels very charged and leans into kiss her on her neck. She then looks into his bright green eyes and kisses him gently at first and then more assertively as the two are over whelmed with compassion for one another. He lifts her up and positions her legs around his waist and Tommy whispers it’s been so long that I’ve loved you as beautiful and elegant as you were when I first met you. And his body and heart were overwhelmed with the rush from her sweet smell and the compassionate kiss. More than anything he was overwhelmed with lust for her in that moment. Elsie can feel his hardened strength and was captured by their kiss; they grab each other’s hands and can feel the masculine and feminine energy pulse between them. Then they to retire to the cryogenic chambers for the rest of the flight back to Earth.
Mg ultra-lands back at Earth in Huxley Capital building the date is June 7th 1992 3 pm. Just as the MG Alta lands Teresa opens her eyes to see she is still in group with Dr. John and Rey Von Niche. Dr. John Goes “Teresa group is about to start today you are in the hot seat. I want to know what brought you to Huxley Asylum?” Teresa answers after taking in a deep pause and say’s “I remember the date was June 1st 1992 I went for a private ride on my horse dimples. I rode down a steep sloped cliff overseeing the North Sea. I remember it being a beautiful day outside as I looked out over the Ocean. I saw a light house on Dante’s point. I noticed some pilot whales traveling North for the summer along with some seagulls hovering off the cliffs. I then rode Dimples past some tide pools. After that Dimples ate some oats and I enjoyed some black berries, and smelled some roses. Then we headed back to the Castle where I put Dimples back in his stall. I entered the castle, climbed up into the loft and took a nap. Then I had an awful feeling something was wrong in my dream. I dreamt that I had woke up late in the day to check on dimples. When I opened his stall I saw him dead laying their helplessly with a pitch fork in his side. Next to my horse nailed on the stall was a note that said.
Dear: Winston Family
From: Trainer Terrie
“I regret to inform you that this horse got out of control and violent towards me so I stabbed it with a pitch fork.” Teresa broke down in tears. All she could think was not again first Babb’s and now Dimples. Teresa says “I was so full of rage. I had a mental break down from abuses and stressing out. Then I heard somebody else in the barn somebody stumbling around grunting profitably drunk. I came out of the stall holding the pitch fork. It was Eric holding his leg begging for help. I was so mad this was the second time he had done this. The first time maybe but not Dimples to. I took the pitch fork and I stabbed Terrie in his gut. Then I ran back to the Castle. It was so bad I woke up Crying.
Then Teresa shut down got really reserved and over whelmed by the trauma she had experienced. Dr. John looks at Rey Von Niche and says should I tell her or you. Rey Von Niche says I will. “ Now Teresa that wasn’t a dream. Buzz- buzz Teresa opens her eyes and looks over at her night stand she sees a graduation letter and some balloons the date is June 8th 1992 she is holding dimples her unicorn and is over come with joy for she knows shell be getting done with her treatment soon and can return home.
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