Blank out
You blanked out as the droning of his voice nearly put you to sleep. He seemed to be taken aback by your silent planning- or was it? He had absolutely no way to know, you just remained silent until you both had reached the end of the road.
“Do you think you can handle that small task?” he asked you with a firm head tilt. You found yourself in this too far so your immediate answer was to not, as his question seemed to jar you out of your hypnotized state. “Okay sounds good.”
The two of you continued walking until you both reached the edge of a cliff. Your brother reached into the bushes to grab a machine which looked way too sophisticated for you to use. The blinking red laser beams droned, stunning you almost as the array of lights flashed in a seemingly random fashion. The technology had seemed like it was something from the far future, almost sci-fi like as he gripped the machinery between his paws.
“We gotta do this now okay. Or else we’re going to miss our narrow window of getting things right.” Before you knew it, the two of you had seemed to flash immediately through time and space, placing you both back at the palace. For some reason, everything seemed to have been frozen in time as the two of you walked through the palace walls. Apparently it was in the middle of an invasion, though everything had been frozen in time as if the palace was just as peaceful as before.
As the two of you looked around, you noticed it seemed as if your brother was searching for something. Approaching the throne, your father appeared flabergasted by the happenings, whereas your mother looked much calmer and more collected by comparison, though her pupils had shrunk in surprise. Your brother crouched down, waggling his fluffy striped tail in your face as he crouched down, raising the cloth covering beneath the throne, and reached far underneath it.
“Aha!” it was clear he had found what he was looking for, and from the overshadowed area just below, he pulled out a giant red button, firmly mounted on a grey rectangular prism. “Here it is” he said to you, wide eyes and excited. “Seems like I had a few things wrong this time around, so now we can actually go through this again knowing a bit more than we did last time.”
“What?” You said to him in surprise. “What… are you talking about?” something fearful yet still relaxing came over you. “What’s even going on here? Freezing time? Resetting it? What do you know…”
“A lot.” he said in response. “This isn’t the first time you’ve gone through this. Though it is the first time you’ve learned about this with my help.” he began jotting down notes on a pad pulled from the depths of his robe. “So if you’re interested” He handed you a piece of paper. “You should be taking notes as well, unless you wanted to just get reset again without any reccolection of what you’ve learned.” You stopped for a moment, thinking about the history you had read, you also pondered the history that you may have experienced unbeknownst to you, but had forgotten. You quickly grabbed up the paper and jotted down everything you needed to know the next time. “I see your choice!” your brother said as he smirked “Don’t forget to keep track on that piece of paper sis! It’s going to help you with the rest of your vast journey okay?” He said before quickly pressing the buttons.
Written by Driftingdragon on 16 May 2020
