At first, all you see is furniture through the dark tint of your shades. But you donât put any stock in the foreign items; you stand and look out the lavish window to the side of your bed and watch the city below as you think over what exactly happened.
   You think to yourself that youâre in a dream bubble. Was that even possible anymore? It had been years since you found yourself in one of them, but you suppose anything is possible. Earth being destroyed, the universe being ripped in half by some shitty angry alien, falling in love with a shitty angry alien of a different species, sending babies through time to repopulate the planet you helped save... Yeah, anything was possible.Â
   Dream bubbles were kiddie pools compared to the oceans you dove into.
   With no one else around, you think to explore the room you ended up in and consider whose memory it could be. Thatâs how you remember dream bubbles working, at least, but after so much time you suppose you couldâve forgotten.Â
   Well, you donât think you couldâve forgotten your own memories, but your things seemed to be making themselves at home there in the closet; kicking their feet up and enjoying a cozy cup of hot chocolate by the fireplace type of âat-home.â But you werenât home. You were a stranger knocking at the door selling knife sets. At best, you were a neighbor coming over to borrow a cup of sugar, as if that was a thing that people still did. This place couldnât be yours.
   The moment of contemplation passes when you hear a knock. You open it and ask yourself, out loud, how the fuck a sheep could knock on a door. But thereâs no way for the sheep to respond besides its charming bleats, and you donât typically expect responses anyway. You know you talk to yourself a lot. Itâs a harmless habit.
   The details in the letter it somehow delivered to you only sink in when you look back up, the sheep is gone, and the letters in your hand become indecipherable. The city below you is waiting. Youâre beginning to think this isnât a dream bubble, but before you panic, your feet lead you to the elevators. They have to be here. They had to have come with you. You couldnât be alone here, right?
   Thereâs a sinking feeling you try to shove away, but it holds fast under your unreadable expression. All you can do now is walk, and search.
   ( I canât be alone here, right? )