The sky was wrong so was everything else
The last time I saw the sky, it was a color I had never seen before. It was all the colors, but then it was none of the colors. It was mesmerizing but eerie at the same time. It looked like it could have been a dream, but at the same time, it was real-more real than I had ever felt.
As I lay there in the grass, looking at this strange creature-a large, slow-moving mammal with an ant-eater-like body, but with a nose shaped like a vibrant red flower-it seemed almost out of place. The tip of its nose filtered both air and insects, drawing them in as it separated nectar from the flowers it ate. The insects were irresistibly drawn to the nectar and fell straight into its mouth. We had been using it as a natural insect repellant, amazed at how much better it worked than anything we had tried before.
My watch was telling me that I was anxious, but I had never felt calmer. I don't know who among the adventurers first came up with the idea of mixing the nectar from that animal with our cigarettes, but at that point, it was irrelevant. We were all sitting there in the grass, some of us even lying on our backs. We must all have been looking at the same thing because none of our descriptions had discrepancies. We were all in sync, even though we had all met that same day.
The last thing I remember was all of us crying at the sky to get back to normal. Then, the next second, you were in front of me in this hospital room. If I didn't know better, I would have sworn that it was the very next second to what I remember-not a month since.
"That's right," I remembered, "Where are the other people who were there with me?"
The man who found me and took me to the hospital looked at me with the utmost concern and said, "But sir, there was only you-no one but you-there in the woods. We searched the area and even ran a search around the perimeter. I even went as far as to ask around and investigate all the gate entry passes for that day. You were the only one who got inside the conservation area."
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