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Lost on my own island
I awoke in the middle of the valley under a tree. I could see him far off at the top of the horizon, sitting patiently a top his horse. I went behind the tree and hid. He kicked his horse and road steadily down the hill into the fold of the valley where I lay hidden. I remained quite and invisible, although he continued to persue my location.
Upon arriving but within 10 yards infront of where I lay hidden, he stopped his horse. I held my breath, and every muscle in my body. He sat there above his horse, with the stained blindfold covering his eyes. I could hold my breath no longer....I inhaled. He immediately kicked his horse and came flying toward me. He reared his horse within 3 feet of my body and stopped, and looked at me. His stare was cold and unfulfilling as i could not see his eyes.
He then turned his horse around and rode into the darkess of the woods. I decided to follow. Upon walking down a hill into the woods I came upon a stream where he was sharing water with his horse. I continued to watch him as I remain again presumably invisible in the distance.
He mounted his horse and continued down the stream to a grand mansion. This was not any mansion, it was a splendid castle scaled to 10 times the size of any human dwelling. He rode his horse around to the back of the mansion and that was the last time I would ever see him.
I went around to the side of the mansion where I came upon an opening door. I went inside and found a very large room, more than 50 feet in height, and the brick walls of the room containing nothing but hay and rocks in between. I venture to a doorway from which a brighter light appears, which is a fire. The giant is sitting on his chair in front of his fire and smoking a pipe. Before I even realize it he has me in his grasp and imprison's me in a basement holding cell.
After several hours in the cell I manage to escape as it is a cell made for a much larger person. I am confused after leaving the basement floor and cannot remember the way back to the side door which I entered, nor find any windows from which to escape. I am wandering around the vast mansion room to room, only to find the next one bigger than the last or looping around in the same direction in which I had come. It spend what is seemingly hours looking for the way out.
Finally! I come upon upon a window, on the far side of the room. There is a noise coming from the adjacent room. What is that noise? I slowly crawl on the floor to peak around the corner. The giant is sitting in another chair, reading a book. I continue to crawl across the desert-like floor to the window. Halfway I get up and run to the window, the giant hears and comes bolting. I run to the window and do not have enough time to open it so I jump through it.
I land on the roof outside and hurriedly realize I am better off jumping than facing the giant. I jump off the roof into what is the stream below and swim to the bank, trying to escape as quickly as possible. I can see a thin patch of woods with railroad tracks behind it. I race through the woods and to the railroad tracks, my clothes are tattered and falling apart. Across the railroad tracks I see a factory. I cannot yet go in this factory for help because my clothes have torn apart and fallen off.
I am naked and frantically looking around the area of the factory for some clothing. I come to a tree stump, and littered about it is about 150 dollars in cash and a towel. I use the towel to cover up with, but I have no where to put the money I just found so I hold it.
I decide to go to the factory to find help. I entered a door to the factory and I saw many workers busily going about their duties, they only had the time to give me a quick stare. I went around asking various workers for help and expressing that I needed a phone. One worker pointed to a woman sitting down, also busily working. I went over to the woman and ask her for the phone. I took the phone and tried to call my father for help, but the phone would not make the connection.
I continually asked other of the workers for help....I eventually got to another phone, which also did not work. I left the factory, still only wearing a towel.
I walked up the road from the factory and found a store, they would not let me in to use the phone. I stood there out on the street as some kids drove by, laughing and giving me the finger.
Where was I to go from here?
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