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Another Dawn Pt Ii

Pt. 2
 with her a tray of stack flapjacks, crisp bacon, and a foam cup filled to the rim with apple juice.  I remember that she came once before, and I was glad to see her again.  Her face was without concerning lines, and she had a pleasant aura about her.
    I was exceedingly voracious, and so she didn't need to encourage me to eat.
    She too disappeared through the steel portal, but this time dolly and I followed her. 
     On the other side , there were large and small numerous forms of peculiarity.
     The brightness of the sun penetrated through a large window and freely occupy the rooms.
     The populace was shepherd by stiff characters.
     Dolly and I felt out of sort, yet flashes of memories of this place stole into my encephalon.
     One of the stiff characters rushed towards me and ushered me to another large peculiar room.  I was frail against her strength.  She placed dolly in a wet chair in the room. Dolly gazed at the floor, and I could not see the pain in her face, but felt her misery.  
     The stiff character, who had the shape of an immense melon, removed my clothes and shoved me under a shower head.  The pressure of the tepid water soothed the long raw abrasions on my body, in which I had no memories of how they came about. 
     With fresh raiment and dolly in my arms, I felt anew and I willingly let the stiff character lead me back into the population.  With the stiff character at my side , I walked the grounds and fed the geese that waddled onto the thick lawn. Greedily I inhaled the scents of magnolia trees and azalea bushes.
     The events of the day were quick and hearty meals. The tear of the day came when I was swept back into her world.

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I clawed at my arms and struggle against the unwanted phantom of my despair.
     He called himself my originator, the ruler of my existence, and he proved his power over me routinely.  I am ignorant to the start and the reason of his savage encroachment of my body and mind.
     As far as I can remember this world that I lived in has been an eternity.

Copyright © Mary E.W. Stephenson | Year Posted 2016

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