sorry

[Jihadjoe]

Dan tried to sleep, his thoughts racing and mind unable to still itself, he forced his eyes closed. Not even the comfortable warmth of Lucy lying beside him made him feel any peace. He eventually drifted into an uneasy sleep.

Suddenly Dan's mind was awash with images. Like a flood of thoughts just pouring in. More intense than any dream he had had before, this immersed him utterly. He lost all control and his mind was taken away.

Images first of blues and pinks, the same alien skies he had seen before, but this time with voices, or not voices, more like concepts, drifting through it.

Wisdom, old and powerful suddenly became one with the planet on which he lived. Then , clear and bright as day he saw a face, Kusarian in shape and tone, asleep, still, but it seemed troubled, lost and confused. Dan felt a draw towards the image, some kind of connection, like a missing piece had been slotted into place.

The face opened it eyes, and looked shocked.
"Find me"
And then it was gone, replaced by a new torrent of images.
Some hands holding a set of keys, 'Blue Moon Motel' printed on the plastic tag the number was obscured by a small bottle of pills with the name of the chemist clearly written on the side.

Dan's home, Manhattan, and his work, he saw himself in his guardian, his mind filled with fog, then he received a shock, he saw himself shooting, it was unclear what it was but the fight was right in front of the docking ring to his home planet. "Only a fool would start a fight there," thought the semi conscious section of Dan's mind as he saw an explosion.

Dan awoke with a start and terror in his mind. he sat bolt upright in bed, whispers screaming out of every corner in the room. Lucy stirred, and rolled over. "Hun? what is it?" she asked sleepily.

He tried to still his beating heart and breathing, to hide his terror from Lucy, but she knew him too well. Even as she woke up, more concerned about Dan than sleep, he lied to her again, and said "It's...It's nothing...go back to sleep..."

Lucy lay back down, moonlight caressing her features, betrayal and pain in her eyes. She knew she wasn't going to get anywhere with him when Dan was like this.

Dan sat up, and held his head. "I.. have to go for a walk. Help...clear my head." Lucy said nothing. He got up, dressed and went downstairs. He pulled his collar up around his ears and walked around his neighborhood. His mind was going 2,000 Klicks a second. He didn't know what to think, or do.

The memory of that face...it hung in front of his minds eye...like a ghost. "Find me" The blue skies. "Find me". The keys. "Find me". Daniel cried , "But HOW?!??!" almost sobbing with the tension.

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