After all the ridicule whispers and medicine Alex didn't question what he was experiencing.Merely gloried in his sanity which he had questioned himself from time to time.
Schizophrenic,the dullwitteds answer to a being with a first class ticket to an interactive experience with the realms that are,not always visible.
10,000 portals. Which ones were safe?How would he find his? Was the guardian to be trusted?
The paranoia was still there after so many deceits and tricks by the indwellers it was hard to trust anyone.No matter that it's wings shimmered with a brightness,music softly hypnotically twinkling from the tips of their irridescent ends,12 storys high , something about him was unsettling. A certain undercurrent of malevolence,permeated from the guide.As if right under the surface laid a venomous dangerous creature. He was smooth, pleasant, and magnificent .Having no other offers of assistance he would follow him.
As yet the other creatures he had glimpsed paid him little if any attention.Occasionally gracing him with curious,sometimes sympathetic glances.
Where are you taking me Alex asked as his guide encouraged him to climb upon his back.
To a place that all you need to know will be revealed.Alex pay close attention.
What is your name?Where are you taking me I demand to know this instant.
."His guide outstretched his magnificent wings,in a graceful instant they were in flight.Ahead Alex glimpsed a mountain. Splendidly arrayed in colors it appeared as a living breathing sensient being. Upon it's robes were two dazzling jewels moving around on it's surface. Upon closer inspection he realized the jewels were had the familiar form of people like himself.
Memorys of the recent past flooded over him. One moment fighting in terror as an otherworlder attemted to pull him through a chasm into this as yet undefined place. The next being drugged and carried to the isolation room of the psychiatric ward his "concerned friends" had him committed to. As he lay there contemplating his illfate and now sure helplessness at the hands of those who sought him out. An otherworlder appeared at at his bedside inviting him to come willingly and he'd complied.This being so different than any he'd encountered since he began his mathmatical exercise into paralell* dimensions.
Again memories washed over him and he had a sense of deepseated serenity. As he recalled the beginning of this foray into and out of mans reality.