backpack on my back

It’s really hard to keep days straight here where day and night are so mixed up….  I stayed in this sky island place all day after my last entry.  Stupidly I thought maybe if I just stay in one place she’ll come to me.  I reasoned that she has obviously gone through exactly the same experiences I have if she ever got here.

…if she ever got here.

I can’t think about that now…

The next day(?) after I slept, I went back and walked through the same area I was in before in that Teledahn place to see if there were any traces of her I might have missed.  So far I haven’t found a thing.  But there has been some activity here, at least in the last few years or so.  See, I found a bedroom…

…and, following some interesting clues just lying on the desk, I found my way to the same man’s office in an entirely different world.

I saw it must be in a different place from Teledahn because of the view from the windows!

It’s some sort of abandoned city….

It kind of creeped me out just looking at it, but I wasn’t there long.  There was a stone with a picture on it just like the books…  I couldn’t resist.  I had to touch it…

I was back in Teledahn, but short of jumping in that disgusting looking muddy water below the only way off of that stump thing was to use the cloud island book again.  So, I’m back here again…

I did find, while I was in that first bedroom, a small torn page with a picture drawn on it.  It was lying on the floor by the box the aquarium vault thing came in.  I realize now it was some sort of upgrade to the roof in this cloud place.

I think I am finally starting to understand.  I need to go back and read the books I have found so far as well as the books here in the hut.  I’m sure it’s what Kiki would have done.

Speaking of Kiki, I realized I still had one of the “missing” flyers in my pocket….  It’s gotten damaged a bit but there she is…  I hope she’s okay.

I’m going to leave this folded in my journal.

They used a photo I took of her a few months before she disappeared.  I had just gotten my new camera…  Stupid of me not to bring the damned thing with me here.  I’m glad I thought to bring some snacks though.  I would have starved by now….  I’m running low though.  I’ll bet my mom is worried sick…  I told her where I was going, thankfully.  I left her everything, the letter, the map, directions, everything I could think of.  I even gave her Kiki’s cell phone number just in case.

I must be crazy for doing this.

I hope there aren’t posters like that up for me….

I have to keep my head…

I went to a place apparently called Teledawn or Teladawn or something.  There were huge mushrooms larger than trees and everything was damp and musty.  My allergies went crazy.  I could barely see, my eyes watered so badly.  There was this strange glowing pollen looking stuff floating up from water below the grates and wood planking I was standing on.   There were switches and buttons all over the place, but nothing worked.  I thought one of them might lead me back home, but with no power….  So I went searching for a way to turn the power on.  After some time, I finally figured out there was a solar energy set up and after some trial and error, I got it working.  Then I found this hanging car thing and rode it up to a room with more controls.  The problem then was what appeared to be an elevator refused to go up.  It seemed to be locked down or something so I had to find a way to unlock it….

Of course, I’m really getting ahead of myself.  I forgot to write about the island in the sky.

There’s a hut with two bookshelves and a wardrobe and not much else.  A small but very high mini-mountain stands directly behind the hut and there are other small islands very close but too far to risk jumping to.  And there’s nothing but clouds below me.  It’s as if I have found a piece of real estate in heaven in the literal sense rather than the spiritual.  If my friend came here I know why she would have stayed.  She is such a dreamer…  This kind of place would be like a dream come true.  But I’ve not found a single sign of her anywhere.  I was hoping for bread crumbs I suppose, like bits of paper or a mark on the wall or something.  I haven’t found any indication that anyone has been here in some time.

I’m tired.  I don’t know, but I feel like it must be very late.  I need to sleep, but there nothing but cold floor here in this sky place…  How I wish I could find even a cot or a blanket or a makeshift bed like in that cleft in the desert…

Anyway, (I’m yawning nearly constantly now) when I arrived I kind of panicked.  There were pillars in the center of the island and I recognized that same hand symbol as I found before on each one, so I touched one and a compartment opened revealing a book.  I opened the book and there was another enticing image.  Without thinking, or maybe because I was simply hoping it would lead me back home, I touched the panel and found myself in that Teledawn Teledahn place.  (I must get these names right if this journal is found someday.)

I’m going to have to write more tomorrow…  Too tired….

For the first time in my life I wish I had a cellphone. Not that it would work here probably…  

So, I have found my way to what is referred to as “the cleft”.  I spoke briefly with Zandi but he was more interested in telling me how to enter the cave than answering questions about my friend.

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I quickly explored the area and found a former living space…  No sign of my friend or even any sign of recent activity there…  I’m just not sure what to think.

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In the end I followed the man’s directions and got the power going.

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There was a strange hologram thing of this odd looking woman.  She called herself, Eesha or Yeesha or something.  I followed her directions and finally, after a hide and seek game looking for cloths with an iconic hand stitched on them and watching them mysteriously light up (more each time I touched them) I made my way to a door and inside a cave glowing with blue glyphs on the wall and there was a book there, on a stand.  I felt extremely compelled to touch it and I did.   And when I did I ended up on a tiny island, IN THE SKY!  I could not believe it.    And now I wonder, how am I going to get home?  And what is my own mother going to think if I can’t get back….

I am Sen Ayel.  If anyone finds this journal please look for me.  I am lost.  My best friend had been behaving erratically lately and she found a very old letter and a map that led her to a strange man in the desert of New Mexico.  She told me she was leaving for an adventure beyond anything she’d ever done, packed up a backpack and left.  That was over a month ago.  I showed the letter to the authorities, but they refused to listen and have already abandoned the search.  Her mother is completely destroyed from this as now there are accusations flying about murder and abandonment and so forth.  I have to find her…  She’s down there, somewhere….