Andre in Wonderland 05

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“Hey Andre!” the rabbit said, and it started thumping the ground with its feet, and then it hopped off into the nearby high grasses and bushes.

The rabbit had been human sized I should add, and it filled me with a certain amount of fear. I half expected to see myself wearing a blue dress with a white pinafore over the top of it.

It soon hopped back into view, like an annoying child trying to get attention, showing off around me. And it repeatedly shouted, “hey Andre!” in what seemed an ever more sinister way. It was kind of hypnotizing and gradually the rabbit flattened the grass and bushes near to me, giving me the feeling that I was becoming more and more exposed. Though, to what I wasn’t sure. As the bushes were being crushed by the bouncing rabbit, the sky above me was turning grey, a menacing grey, the kind of which tells you a storm could be brewing. The rabbit happily kept bouncing as the sky darkened above me.

I knew I needed to take control, the rabbit was controlling matters not me, while my attention was drawn to the rabbit something about me was being eroded. Even though I knew I must be the one creating all this, I didn’t like what was happening. Was I being manipulated? I needed to regain my self-control and create something better for myself. I still needed to think it out of here, because the rabbit was somehow suffocating my thought processes. I breathed deeply, I blinked deliberately, the sky was black but at least the air was clean and fresh with a delicate forest pine like scent. I looked ahead, trying to shut out the rabbit as best I could. I started walking again as I had when I first entered this reality.

The further I walked and the more I shut out the rabbit the further away it went from me, and although the grasses and bushes remained flattened, the sky did begin to lighten. Soon enough, the rabbit was a rare sight, and merely only every now and then I saw it rabbit bouncing high out of the far bushes it hadn’t yet squashed, making a skipping, yippee sound and a distant, “hey Andre!” as it went. I felt myself become free again. Somehow the rabbit wasn’t a good thing, perhaps it was a kind of contamination or a manifestation of a reality I didn’t want. As this thought came to me, I started walking faster and immediately the dead grasses and bushes seemed to fade away. A new and totally different creation was forming, and forming fast. A smooth, mirror of a path was now under my feet. I was wearing pristine, white trainers, I became aware of my physical presence again, and I was dressed all in white.

All plant life was gone and with it the sounds of the forest. The rabbit was in the far, far distance now, a distant, bouncing speck on the horizon, and it was just my white self and the mirror path stretching out in front of me. I steadied my pace to a methodical stride and wondered where this was all going.

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