Friday, October 07, 2005

Damned. Just the thought and the way this word flows makes me shiver with fear: Muakeens.

I had a dream this morning, of me being a man who somehow had been stolen to another almost-parallel realm, populated by this people known as the Muakeens.

When I first got pulled in and knew of them, I'd found their human-like body lying motionless on the slope to a hill. Thinking that they were corpses, I'd somehow found a sheriff and brought him there. The sheriff seemed to know awfully much about these people, commenting offhandedly to me that these were 'Muakeens' as he pried open one of their mouths. "How you identify one of them is by opening their mouths and seeing all the soil packed inside."

I remember I'd cringed then, wondering how any sane human could possibly live with mud inside their mouth. Then when the sheriff dug out the mud from the Muakeen's mouth, he suddenly winked at me. And then, the rest of the bodies sat up, and all winked at me.

The sheriff pulled away, and told me to run. And we did, very quickly, till we came to this part of the road that was in the normal world, and saw a truck and a hovering chopper there. The chopper was facing the way we had came, and there were two missiles already activated. As soon as we'd passed them, the guy in the chopper fired off the two missiles, and then all of us quickly fled.

For some reason, I could keep pace with the truck and chopper even though I was merely running without help. The whole world streaked out all around us, until we suddenly encountered this external pull forward, that we couldn't resist. That force pulled us forward, and me apart from them, until I suddenly encountered this green mist that wasn't there before, and was dragged onto a fork in the road that originally hadn't been there.

I was dragged forward until I came to a stop somewhere, and I finally realized I'd been dragged right back to the world of the Muakeens. And they were all waiting for me, hideous smiles and all, saying they wanted me to stay.

I ran. I don't know where. But I suddenly saw a vast expanse of water before me: a clear blue. I think there were mountains on the opposite end, or maybe just the horizon, but I can't really recall. I splashed into the waters, being slowed down by it, and the two Muakeens who'd been chasing me splashed in and caught my hands. But I thrashed and struggled and managed to kick them away, splashing deeper in. And the deeper we went, the more reluctant they seemed to want to follow.

And I was left wondering if they were afraid of the water, the 'real world', or if there was something more malicious than they were lurking beneath that clear blue. For a moment, I hesitated, wondering which evil was better.

Then I woke up with a start. Freakish man.