When I was eighteen years old, I saw something I still can\u2019t explain.\u00a0 Actually, I saw and did a lot of things I never quite grokked.<\/p>\n
The one I want to talk about right now \u2013 the event came to me last night, a sudden flash of recollection while I was working on something else entirely \u2013 took place in a graveyard.\u00a0 It was one of a couple such field trips with those particular friends, possibly even the first \u2013 this was almost thirteen years ago, so forgive me if it\u2019s just a little hazy in parts.\u00a0 The cemetery was hilly and a little old fashioned, with several large stone angels and little mausoleums, winding paved paths and a few rest areas with benches.\u00a0 On the far side was a field with a great tree to one side, and the property was blocked in by walls of trees that hid the realm of the dead from those yet living.\u00a0 Those of you who read my novels some day will recognize it \u2026 it left quite an impression on me.<\/p>\n
As I said, the north east corner of the cemetery was open, and it seemed to us that we could see a huge, shimmering dome of light there under the moon.\u00a0 One of my friends, the oldest and most experienced of us, said it looked like a portal of some kind.\u00a0 Of course we went to investigate.\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t you?<\/p>\n
What happened next I\u2019ll never forget.<\/p>\n
As we approached the dome a figure of light, some seven feet tall, stepped out.\u00a0 My older friend went up to greet it, while the other two of us stood and stared in awe.\u00a0 We could hear it talking \u2013 or, perhaps more accurately, we could feel<\/em> it talking \u2013 but only she could understand it.<\/p>\n Our friend came back to us, another figure stepped out of the dome of light as the first moved back toward it.\u00a0 They and the dome of light vanished.<\/p>\n It was relayed to us that the portal had been closed because something that wasn\u2019t supposed to come through \u2026 well, had.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know what the dome of light really was.\u00a0 Portal to another world is semiplausible, all things considered.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know who or what the figure of light was \u2013 we never even speculated on that, honestly.\u00a0 We had no data.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what it actually said to my friend \u2013 not that I doubt her, per se, just \u2026 well, I couldn\u2019t hear.\u00a0 When it comes right down to it, I don\u2019t know what happened that night.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know what happened that night. All I know is what I saw.\u00a0 But I saw the dome.\u00a0 I saw the dude-of-light.\u00a0 I saw dome and dude vanish. And shit like this is why I\u2019m hesitant to dismiss anything<\/em> out of hand.<\/p>\n Gods and demons?\u00a0 Sure.\u00a0 Your last incarnation was a cat?\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 Talking to gods, demons, or cats?\u00a0 Plausible.\u00a0 Fairies and dragons?\u00a0 Well \u2026 I\u2019ve sure seen some strange shit that might be best explained that way.\u00a0 Otherkin?\u00a0 Who am I to say who you are or aren\u2019t; or who your parents are or aren\u2019t?\u00a0 Cause, damn, don\u2019t I get some funny looks when I try to tell this story just as it is, even when I don\u2019t even try to provide an explanation for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I was eighteen years old, I saw something I still can\u2019t explain.\u00a0 Actually, I saw and did a lot of things I never quite grokked. The one I want to talk about right now \u2013 the event came to me last night, a sudden flash of recollection while I was working on something else … Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[156,258],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-witchcraft","tag-medeia","tag-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-1t","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}