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Fantasy Mystery Speculative

BEYOND THE LABYRINTH

“I come from Southern Ocean, Antarctic. In underwater, they call me Aatma. I come here through my dream but I can feel, see and touch all things. Everybody also can see me. I didn’t want to live in only Antarctic. I wanted to travel on this earth and wanted to walk on the ground and beautiful roads by these beautiful legs. Absolutely right, I was mermaid. No one agreed me to travel on here. Although they couldn’t let me, I founded my way how to travel here. That’s practice my spirit level to connect with my soul. So, I tried to practice my spirit skill to go anywhere through my dream. My grandma said once that if I succeeded to go somewhere through my dream, I would forget all things that where I come from, who I’m. But I don’t care. I wanted to leave from underwater, Antarctic. Therefore, I started my practicing for my spirit lesson every day. It was so hard for me, but I succeeded it. Then, I could go there through my dream.”

              On the road, one of a girl appear suddenly but no one notice her. That’s Aatma. She stands as a nude on the middle of highway road. She doesn’t know herself. She doesn’t know where she goes. She just walking on that highway road as a nude. She found one light that come from a tent beside of road. She goes inside and look, no one in there. At moment, tent door is open and a woman come inside. When she sees Aatma, she wonders but she talks to Aatma kindly.

“Ohhh, who are you? Why are u nude? Do you have a struggle with something or someone?”

Aatma still quite and she turn to the door and leave. A woman follow Aatma and she say,

“Even though you leave, you need to dress something well, here for you. You don’t say, you didn’t know how to dress this, right!”

Aatma is looking her like who doesn’t know anything. A woman smiles at Aatma and take her inside tent again. Then, she helps to Aatma for dressing up. Aatma leaves from tent after dressing up, but she doesn’t know where she goes. She just walks by a long road. There is no direction, no goal and no purpose, she is just walking on the road. After she walked about 12 hours, she hears a sound from her stomach. She afraid what that sound and she find where does it come from. She found out that sound from her stomach, then she looks around where have something to eat or anyone else to ask for. But no one and nothing have nearby her. The Sun goes down slightly. When she sees the sunset, she feels so exciting because she never sees this scene. She feels like all shrimps are flying in the sky. She walks step by step as much as she can be. However, she feels so tired. She goes down the side of road and she picks up some grasses and eat it. She feels helpless. She has no idea that why she is walking in this road and where she heads to. After she eat it, she wants to drink. She need water, she feels like she can be enough with a drop of water. She can’t find anything, there is no look like water.

              Aatma walk going on her way though she feels thirsty. Then, she feels pain on her bare foot too. She feels exhausted on her way, she starts thinking about her way that where is the end. At that time, one of the flash lights through her head. What is that? She thinks ‘what is that, so who I am, where I live, where I come from and why I walk in this journey?’. She wants to curious about herself after she walked 3 days, 6 hours and 9 minutes. Universe clock is counting for her. Are you curious that why universe clock is counting for her?

Before Atama came to here through her dream, she contracts with universe. After she succeeded her sprit lesson at all, at that night, universe called her spirit and made contract with her.

About contract with universe and Aatma,

‘If you want to go there, you left all of your memories in this contract. When you go there, first time you can receive helping from others, but after that you will solve yourself. You will feel all pains not only in physically but also in mentally. Then, you wake up and you will find yourself again. If you find yourself truly, you will find the key to escape from that place. After that, you can go back where you come from. You need to find the key to escape. After you sign in here, you are not Aatma anymore.’

She has many questions by herself and she take a rest at one side of the road. She recalls her memories since she arrived here and started place where she walking. She is thinking what she was doing while walking on this road in the past. She takes a long the road details where she walked. Then, she tries to find herself, who I’m. At that time, start raining. She lifts her head up and she feel the rain. She hears the voice of rain talking to her. Her spirit longing the water. She realized that she come from water. She finds the answer why I’m here too. That’s, she recognized her spirit took her here. The last, she knew herself, she is created with her spirit and soul. Thus why, she understood, her name is Aatma. After she find out herself, she looks back the road where she walked through her memories. She notices about one thing that all roads and ways are the same like she was walking in one road again. When she walked in past, she never notices around her, she was just walking along the road. Now, she figured it out that she was walking the road of labyrinth. Even though she wanted to go somewhere, she must be listened her soul whispering but she didn’t. Thus why, her road is never end and feel pain more and more. Finally, she found the key to go back her home and to escape from this labyrinth. When she starts listen her soul whispering, she goes through her dream and take back her home.

              We all live in the labyrinth and walk our journey by travelling on this earth, take our way and make a road. We all forget to how to escape from this labyrinth. Life is a journey, walking on our never ended own road. Thus why, I call life journey is walking inside labyrinth.

11:03 PM (KST)

V.LUNA

February 29, 2024 14:11

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Asa P
05:30 Mar 07, 2024

The ending seems rushed and there isn't much action....

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V. Luna
00:31 Mar 08, 2024

Oh.. OK. i'll write the ending scence well next time. Thank you for your review. :^^

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Patrick Druid
22:25 Mar 06, 2024

Hmmm.. be careful what you wish for. I can almost hear Aatma's family say " told you"

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V. Luna
03:22 Mar 07, 2024

Ohh..yes, I knew it. But Aatma replied, "So sorry for that but I'm not a clever daughter." ^^) Thank you for ur comment.

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