Walks All Paths:4/13/97 - Part 2
"The Quest Within a Quest"
We awoke in a darkened room, lit only by firelight. After a few moments, all were conscious. Kasee was starting to examine the room when I heard Reuben start to question Dog in a panicked voice. I thought to go over and see what was wrong, but I was more concerned with the elder man sleeping in a chair facing the fire. It turned out that Dog had been denied his spirit abilities and that he was, temporarily, just a dog. While Renee tried to help Reuben with Dog, Kasee, Eric and I approached the man. He woke as we neared and rose, smiling, saying that he was glad that we had finally arrived. He then went over to a tea service (that we all later agreed had not been there before) and offered us all tea. I felt that it would be rude to decline, so I accepted his generosity.
After the man returned to his seat, we all introduced ourselves while he politely refused to do so. Oh well, we were in his home after all. He then asked us what we wanted. Kevin asked if the man knew where he could get his flute back. The man pointed to a cabinet and said to look inside of it. Reuben asked what was the matter with Dog, and the man replied that Dog had been doing much to well, and that when he was not doing as well that he would be able to be a proper familiar again. He then asked us what we really wanted, and I told him of the triat and how I wished for the balance to be returned. Eric and Kevin spoke of the Ascension of humanity. The man listened to us all and then rose, looked through a stack of papers and said, "I need four." He chose Kevin, Eric, Kasee, and myself, and gave us all a script for a play and then we were in a theater. The four of us were on the stage while the rest were in the audience.
We performed a play that seemed nothing so much as a metaphor for the imbalance of the Weaver, the Wyld and the Wyrm. As seemed appropriate, the three powers/characters worked at opposing ends until the fourth, whom I saw as analogous to Gaia, rose and left with the unfinished dollhouse.
After we finished the play, lights came on in the room. We discussed the meaning with the others for a while, then a paper airplane came flying out and landed on the stage. It included two more verses of the poem that Cab had been collecting. At that, Kevin slipped into a trance and returned to us some time later with information about the poem. The main part was the it was a very old epic poem that had been lost for ages, but was very important. The man then brought us back into the firelit room and told us that it was time for us to be off on our journey. There was a door by the fireplace that we were to leave through, so we opened it and peered outside. There was a pastoral wooded scene and the sounds of nature. Pleased with the location to start our journey, we entered this new realm. As the door closed behind us it vanished along with all traces of the man, the room and the theater.
©1997 by Thomas Martin
Tom Brady <tabrady@mindspring.com>
Last modified: Sun 3 Aug 12:08:00 1997 by tabrady