RE: Interactive Painting Contest #7: The Epilogue
And this was my story for the final episode:
Everybody who was present - Mystery Man, The Green Rhas Al Ghore and His Beings all went silent, awestruck by the presence of The Guardian.
The Guardian of the Lake did not flinch and spoke - quietly, but with great authority: “Enough is enough. This charade has gone on way too long now. I shall speak and so shall it be done: Mystery Man, you shall find your brother when you wake up from this quantum-dream. Sleep now and awake in the Multiversitudinal morning. Your brother shall awake on the bunk bed beneath you. As for you, Rhas Al Ghore and your Beings: go back to the Realm of Mists whence you came, and bother some other mythical and mistical creatures from Niflheim. You can bother me again in eighthundred and eighty-eight years from now."
"I can live with that, your Ladyship, thank you," Mystery Man answered, kneeling before her.
"Never!" Rhas Al Ghore shouted, while drawing his magical staff, summoning a tempest of unseen lightning- and thunderstorms.
The Guardian of the Lake stood still and blinked an eye towards Mystery Man.
All went quiet.
Mystery Man woke up.
just a dream? meh... something isn't right here! Now everything only vaguely making sense totally makes sense. That can't be!
Hmm... I guess I didn't write it out well enough, and I remember writing the final sentence "Mystery Man woke up" and being so tired and glad it was finished, it doesn't do it justice - you're right. I also didn't re-read my ending (which I wrote a week ago)
I should've put more emphasis on The Guardian's explanation: "... when you wake up from this quantum-dream", where in my mind a quantum-dream would be like flinching and finding yourself in a different reality; looking behind you and instantly being seeing a complete new world...
So no, not just a dream but a dream within a dream outside of a dream that's being dreamt by a dreamer's dream persona - or anything that's even more inexplicable :P
Thanks for calling me out on this!
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Was it all a dream then? Thank you for the payment. That's very welcome!
Well... The story I wrote here is just my ickle interpretation :)
But the story that was written by you and other steemians is way more awesome :) And even much more open to interpretation
And even if it is/was a dream - does it take anything away from it? I'm going to go to sleep soon, and am looking forward to my dreams :)
You decide whether it was a dream! And my pleasure sending the payment, I'm glad you participated, thank you Dee! :)
I've got a correction to make! I didn't mean this simply as a dream, and I didn't re-read my ending properly (which I wrote the week before) and I now see it really just points out to being a dream.
Except for what the Guardian says: "...wake up from this quantum-dream", which I really should've explained better and will try to do here: (quoting myself from my reply to @fraenk, who also called me out on this being just a dream:
Thanks for poking me between the ribs, it hurt a bit but I see I didn't explain it well enough :)
No, I wasn't meaning that at all. I was just asking. When I saw him wake up, I just wondered. You wrote a great story!!
Hey, thanks, just wanted to set the record straight :)
And the story was possible thanks to the contribution of all the players, it was fun!