Chapter 46: Honest Slumber
There was something about being asleep that made the majority of human beings very honest. In their sleep people were robbed of the many barriers that they put up around themselves when they were awake. Sleep was not a place for secrets, it only allowed for honest desires and simple likes.
It was simple like that, which was why Emily was having herself some good sleep. She was surrounded by an earthy smell, the more she breathed it in, the more she felt as though she was taking a leisurely stroll in the park after a good bit of rain had fallen. The smell was really addictive and so she took in lungful after lungful of it. What made smell even better was the sound.
It went thump, thump, thump. Slow and steady, never missing a beat, and Emily felt as though she could listen it for eternity. But then wonderful smell, and the lovely sound both went away.
She tried to follow them, but the clutches of sleep would not let her go. All that she could do was cry, wanting it back but unable to get to it. She cried and cried, but even then she was not sure if she was heard, her lips too heavy, muffling her pleas for the scent and the sound to return.
But someone must have heard her because in the next moment there was a great shift, and it felt as though the earth itself was shaking. Something unbelievably huge making its presence felt amongst the plates that held the continents of the world together. It should have had her shaking in her boots, unable to form a single coherent thought. But for some reason, Emily was not even a little bit scared. This is a good earthquake though, her mind told her, and she believed it.
How could the earthquake be anything bad when shortly after it, the earth after a rainstorm smell was back, the steady thump, thump coming right back with it.
And then, just as she thought that things could not get any better, there was a third addition to the mix, and this third addition did not make things too cramped...no. Instead the third member of the group of wonderful things, made the combination just right. Fitting in amongst the other two seamlessly, like it had always been there and she had been the one who had forgotten that it was there.