I don't know why exactly,
but this man who looked a little like Martin Freeman in a police
uniform and was my pretend-husband (and I a person in a yellow
raincoat fluctuating between male and female) wanted us to get off
the tube at the very last station and hide in a niche at the
underground depot. I was pressing myself into a small wallgap to stay
unnoticed, whereas he just stood there in plain view of the subway
people and no one seemed to care. The subway people finally left and
we'd been successful, apparently, but fuck if I know what was
supposed to happen next.
Because it didn't, because this was happening next:
Because it didn't, because this was happening next:
In a big old city, I
wandered through the inner city at night, past a grand old church and
lovely baroque facades, and came across a modern glass-and-metal
structure in rectangular shape. It had only a ground floor and was
"architecturally" reminiscent of those ugly kiosks and
tourist info boxes you may find at some bigger bus station outside of
the main building. Meaning it had glass panes for walls, tinted
orangered or covered with orangered foil, was framed in metal, and
was perfectly straight and angular. And also perfectly ugly and
temporary-looking.
A soldier of high rank
greeted me. As we passed along the outside first, one of its long
sides, I noticed a baneful foreboding, an angry humming and vibration
behind the glass wall. It even rattled. The noise and movement were
erratic as if originating from a living organism (as opposed to a
machine) and did not quite take place in the actual world. It
wasn't that the walls were actually growling and rattling, but rather
that I got the distinct, unmistakable sense that there was something
behind them that shouldn't be contained by them. And wouldn't. I was
fairly certain, as we were entering through the main door at the
headside, that something really bad was going to break out here
during my visit.
The officer (Captain,
Colonel ... who knows, who cares - he never said), mistaking me for
an inspector of some kind, babbled something about the building's new
purpose. He said that since the Doctor had left they had locked down
and secured away part of the left side of the building containing the
old research - skeptical, I eyed the white glass walls separating
said research tract from the hallway. This is secure? - and had
turned the rest of the facility into living space for his
Romans.
Sure enough, right about then a sliding door (squeaky clean white glass again) opened in front of me in this narrow hallway and I half expected it to spit out a couple of bloodthirsty demon monkeys, attacking me, because it shared a wall (white gla- well you guessed it) with the "locked down" left part of the building. You know. The evilly vibrating part.
Sure enough, right about then a sliding door (squeaky clean white glass again) opened in front of me in this narrow hallway and I half expected it to spit out a couple of bloodthirsty demon monkeys, attacking me, because it shared a wall (white gla- well you guessed it) with the "locked down" left part of the building. You know. The evilly vibrating part.
But it seemed to be only
an elevator. A few women looking ... "Roman" somehow, (it
was a mixture of futuristic and ancient in the way they were dressed
and wore their hair) stepped into it, ignoring us completely and
boredly waiting to go down. Right, there's more underground ... I
thought.
It was about then, or shortly after, that shit went down.
It was about then, or shortly after, that shit went down.
It didn't happen in
detail, sorry to disappoint there.
However, a high
official's lovely trophy wife (looked like Oona Chaplin with jewelry)
was sent out during all the ensuing terror to get help. Specific
help. So she ran through the city as it turned from nightly to
nightmarish, large grating and slithering noises, hollow whoomping
and disturbing crackling filling the air, growing, swelling,
buildings rapidly dilapidating without actually falling down, a
maelstrom of sheer horror and mouths demolishing the small glass
building and the people inside, and she looked up at the sky and
cried for the Doctor.
He didn't come and she
began to call even more desperately, for "Doctor Who!"
repeatedly, I looked up at the starry sky as well, and when the
terror consumed and blackened up the air around us, obscuring the
view and all other senses, I drifted up to a roof to see better. It
was actually starry. Not what you usually see from inside a big city,
but rather a picture that the Hubble telescope would show you. It was
so still. Colourful and glittery.
The Doctor never came.
No one came.
The wife was gone when I
returned to the ground.
Out of nowhere a ...
living thing as large as an elephant, with a revolting evil baby face
and wrinkled, naked skin hopped in front of me and assumed the
sitting pose of a dog.
It stared at me.
I was about to say
something to it when it suddenly grew tentacles. Thick and leathery,
turning it into no more than a writhing, thick sausage, the tentacles
grew thicker and sprouted new tentacles. They didn't exactly reach
for me but they lunged for and stoppered all doorways and regular
walking paths in sight and so efficiently cut off all my exits. I was
loathe to touch them but I didn't need to. Managing to avoid the
massive flesh writhing on the ground (most of them were as thick as
old trees now), I jumped up on a low stone bridge to escape.
When I landed on the
railing, another fleshdemondog hopped in front of me and sat. It
stared reproachfully.
This time I didn't wait around and just jumped down the other side of the bridge and ran. There was another fleshdog sitting and staring at me, I ran past it, and in the distance by the cathedral I could see another squatting.
This time I didn't wait around and just jumped down the other side of the bridge and ran. There was another fleshdog sitting and staring at me, I ran past it, and in the distance by the cathedral I could see another squatting.
It ends here.
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