Chapter 8
Mind Map
Date: September 9th, 2020
“VERONICA!” Allison echoed her voice in the trails by their neighbourhood.
Allison panted as she ran in the trails, surrounded by the trees and plants as she witnessed the plants around her froze in ice. She saw footprints left by Veronica and started to follow them. Allison was the type of girl who always made sure that her close friends were okay except at school its entirely different the way people treated her.
During school, she would always get bullied for homework solutions, due to her being a “nerd” or “geek” to others. She had not told anyone about it but was too nice of a person to stop it from happening again. In the past, she has been tripped by other students on the staircase at school, causing her textbooks and binders to go all over the place, without anyone helping her, except Luis. She was full of pale skin, had long silky black hair down to her spine with emerald-colored eyes, she was of European and American descent based on her parent’s bloodline, mainly part Polish and American. She was average height, quite scrawny and had puffy cheeks, her hair was divided on her head, to expose her plain pale forehead.
As she headed onwards, following the footprints, the trail ended at the edge of a cliff and she saw an ice sheet formed by the lake and creek. She looked at it curiously, wondering what was going on and if it had any connection with Veronica at all. She was beginning to suspect that Veronica probably headed home to see if Trixie was okay and whatever was going on about her too in the meantime. As she walked towards the ends of the trail, her eyes began to turn purely white, with her mind suddenly going blank, no thoughts, no processed ideas, nothing at all.
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Blackness filled with stars, cosmos, astral, lights, planets, galaxies, and the universe itself was surrounding Allison herself. She was astonished by the detailing that she was witnessing, she started to have her own nerdy fantasies of knowing the facts of the universe itself, she started to excitedly name the Milky Way, the Galaxies and Nebulas but suddenly saw a giant nebula entity staring at her.
“That’s some odd-looking Nebula cloud that I have ever seen!” Allison exclaimed.
“I am a primordial cosmic entity named Mr. Universe,” the moving cosmic nebula looking figure said aloud.
Allison was mouth opened and got excited to witness this phenomenal. “Really? But where am I and why am I? Is this a dream, space dream, space dream trance?”
“You have been chosen to gain unique powers, abilities and techniques if you pass the trials based on the three questions that I ask. If you do not wish to proceed, let me know,” Mr. Universe spoke soothingly.
Allison thought for a moment. She then asked; “But why me?”
“You have innocent, honest traits and have been treated unfairly by others, so the choice is yours if you really are up for the trials, to prove yourself to the world while being beneficial to others too,” Mr. Universe answered.
Allison immediately made up her mind, “Yes, I would like to go with the trials.”
Mr. Universe repeated the same three questions that he asked Trixie, Veronica, Aiden and Luis. It took some time for Allison to process the questions, as she bit her lip, which was an indicator to help her brain to go into high gear when thinking deeply solving either a math problem, a life decision, puzzles, enigmas, etc. She firmly answered the questions in order; “My deepest desire is to have everyone be fair and nice to each other in this world. My wish would be for world peace if possible. Yes, unless it is self-defence, I would do it but other than that, I would not hurt a fly even.”
Mr. Universe responds simply; “You have passed.”
The entire cosmos of the universe suddenly went black and faded away.
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Allison’s eyes turn back to normal and she continued walking in the trails as if nothing happened after a mere couple of seconds passed by. As she walked through the forest, she began to witness butterflies that were extraordinary, with vibrant wingspans, colours with unique splendid designs. The butterflies came in a variety of colours, indigo blue, traditional orange, pink, purple. Many colours and other things started to appear as she walked through the trails. Her shoes began to feel more grass and flowers appear out of the asphalt pathway of the trails. She witnessed grass, flowers and other magical things starting to appear around her, as she looked around herself in a 360-degree rotation.
“Magnificent….,” she spoke in a confused state of manner. “Only I can visualize the butterflies like that…. wait….”
Allison began to imagine bunnies and cats, to her amazement, those animals in her imagination appeared around her. The cat began to chase after the rabbit, as Allison witnessed it but as the animals were traveling more than a hundred meters away from her, they disappeared out of existence, simply faded away. But as she continued walking out of the trails back onto her neighborhood, she could not let her imagination switch to reality, it was going out of control.
“How do I stop this?” she said stubbornly. “It just won’t go away!”
She was scared to go home and accidentally make the entire house into an Eden garden, or anything she imagined would merge with the house potentially. As kids in the neighborhood passed by, she looked
