I started out waking up and feeling like I had to pee. I looked around me, and I was in the front room of a small cabin. It was sparsely decorated with a small cot, which I was in, and a chair or two and a fireplace somewhere in the room with a small fire going.
I knew that there was someone else there at the cabin with me, but I didn't know where they were at the moment. I only knew that they weren't sleeping.
I got up and went out the front door. There was a bright flood light on the front of the cabin that was shining out into the yard. The area beyond the yard wasn't quite dense enough with trees to be considered a forest, but there were plenty of trees around. It was dark out, a little chilly, and there was a light mist hanging around.
I didn't want to pee there in the front yard, so I looked around and decided to head out along the path and through the trees out from the front of the cabin. I trotted off in that direction to find a place to go. As I went, I never felt fully awake. Despite the fact that I was jogging and it was chilly out, it was like I was barely awake. I just knew three things: I had to pee, I was following a path, and no matter how far away from the cabin I got, the flood light shone just as bright as if I was at the edge of the yard.
I wound up jogging for about twenty minutes, following the path and winding my way around trees and hills. I finally got to an area that was a little more open and had a bit of an upward slope to it. I went to the other side of this area and noticed that just on the other side was the crest of a hill, and down the slope were more trees on the other side. As I went down the far side of the hill, the flood light from the cabin finally quit following me.
Still feeling like I was mostly asleep, I also finally felt like I was out of view of the cabin and could go to the bathroom in peace. I did so and then turned to make the return journey.
After going back over the top of the hill and seeing the flood light in front of me, I vaguely remember seeing and hearing a small herd of buffalo there in the clearing. Some were sleeping, others were standing and quietly eating, but I could hear their breath sometimes and hear the rustle of the grass if they moved a hoof a little bit.
I started jogging again and went all the way back to the cabin, which took about another twenty minutes.
When I got back to the cabin, I was still mostly asleep, but as I slowed down and went back inside, I finally started to wake up and realize just how asleep I had been. I was amazed that all of that running for 40 minutes in the chilly air didn't do more to wake me up.
Once I was inside, I met the other person that I was there with. It was Jethro Gibbs from NCIS. He was asking me where I had gone to. I told him that I had to go pee, and he started getting agitated and angry. He knew I had gone far away to pee, and he was asking me about where I went. I was telling him that I wasn't sure, and he said, "Well, you didn't go out past the buffalo, did you??"
As soon as he said that, I realized that there was something out there besides the buffalo. I don't know what it was, but I knew it was dangerous. It was something nebulous and not well defined. It had the feeling of some mystery from Lost, like the smoke monster or a force or something. I knew immediately I had been stupid to go out that far, but I had forgotten, and now I felt very lucky to be back safe.
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