Mountainous
Adventure
I
love driving through mountainous terrain, with the snow capped peaks rising
above me; the sheer drop to the ice cold mountain stream below. Somehow they
have carved a road through the solid rock. A road so precarious it is dangerous
enough to be safe. Each rocky projection you negotiate provides a panoramic
view which unfolds before you like a living calendar.
However,
this trip was proving to be different. I had had a bad feeling about it before
I started out, and should have listened to my instincts. The further I
travelled the less it looked like the map I had, no matter which way I turned
it and it was getting later and later. Too late to turn back now, it came as
some relief when, negotiating a rocky outcrop, I found a Village tentatively
clinging to the side of the mountain.
Being
mid-winter I decided to find lodgings before it got too late, so stopped and
asked the only person I saw on the street if he could direct me to a Hotel. As
the mist rolled down from the mountains and darkness stole the last rays of
light from the sky he yelled, “Get out of town!!,
Get out of
town now!! It’s the mid winter solstice. You can hear the slamming of bolts as
the people of the village secure their doors and shutter their windows, though
all in vain.
Can’t you
sense the fear in the air? This is the night the Ice Men come down from their
frozen caves on the mountain to steal maidens from the village, for
entertainment and to fill their larders for another year. It is the night the whole
community dreads for none are safe. These men are un-stoppable and no one knows
who will be missing in the morning”.
As he
disappeared into the night, I looked around for somewhere to hide or take
refuge. Fear chilled me to the very bone. I could feel the Ice Men getting
closer and closer. It got colder and colder and I could feel their foul breath
on my face. Frozen to the spot with fear
I could not
move. Suddenly a cold wet tongue licked straight up my face.
I
screamed!!!
I
wake up. The bed covers on the floor, the cold air conditioner blowing straight
at me, and my faithful dog licking my face, so I’d take him outside for a leg
up.
Thank
God, it was only a dream!!
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