#itwouldbe

Being creative is difficult. So instead of being creative, I’m just going to tell you the story of a dream that I had a few nights ago. I actually texted this idea to a friend of mine. So I’m basically just giving you the overview of my dream. It starts off as mostly my dream but as I get closer to the end, it starts becoming my own idea. Because, y’know, dreams never have a real end. You always wake up at the really good part and then never go back to it. So this is my nice little bow on my dream.

It started off as just a simple obstacle course. Get through the obstacles the fastest and you get to go onto the next course. How I got there, I had no idea. I had no memory of where I came from other than I knew I had a twin. He looked just like I did. The lady-in-charge said that it was a requirement that we looked alike. Lucky for us.  We went through the obstacles, no problem at all. Just a few puzzles and climbs to the end of the course. We went onto the next round. A little bit harder. The puzzles were a little harder, the climbs were a bit higher, and the whole thing seemed a bit longer, but we still got through it, no problem. So we went to the next round.. and the next one, and the next one, and the next one... At one point, I had asked the lady-in-charge how many courses there were and she told me as many as there needed to be... Yeah, I guess so, but I would have preferred a number or something. My twin didn’t mind it. He didn’t mind a lot of things. He just went along with everything that was happening. I followed his actions. It was a long time before we saw the lady-in-charge again.  Some of the courses took hours to get through, some took days. As the days went on, we would be required to gather supplies, just to keep ourselves fed and healthy enough to keep going. We met some pairs of twins along the courses occasionally. They would be hurt or starving to the point where they couldn’t go on. I suggested to my twin to help them, but he said if we did, we wouldn’t be able to keep going. So we left them behind. We left all of them behind. I felt horrible about it, but that was just the way it had to be... i guess. The course we ended up being put on was suppose to take just a few hours to complete, but for us and everyone else, it seemed to take weeks. The puzzles were unsolvable, the climbs were impossible, and no one had even seemed to get past the first half of the course. It was infuriating. Until I saw her. A girl, a little older than I was, standing above us on an unreachable platform. I pointed her out to my twin, but he told me that we needed to focus on getting through the puzzle. That’s all he ever wanted to do. He just wanted to get through the course. He never even stopped to think why we were even there. Not once did he ever think for himself. I had enough of it. I spent days trying to get to the platform. Even after the girl left, I still tried. All the other twin pairs assumed that I had just gone crazy and left me alone. My own twin had left me. I just wanted to get out and if that girl had found a way, I wanted to go with her. I didn’t care if I left everything I’d ever know behind. I wanted a future away from these courses and I had a feeling that the girl I saw was going to be my answer. After a few weeks of attempting only one thing, I finally got up there, to the surprise of many who would sit and watch me for their own entertainment. There was a path on top of the platform and I followed it. It wasn’t very long before I found her. She was surprised that I had made it, that I even tried to get up there in the first place. I told her that I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life stuck in a obstacle course. She told me that’s exactly what she wanted too. She had found the platform and path months ago after she saw another girl standing on it.  The girl led me to a small village of individuals who had, at one point, had a twin as well, but there were no duplicates of anyone in sight. The girl told me that she knew why the lady-in-charge was doing this to people, putting twins through week long obstacle courses. She told me the story of a man and a woman who were deeply in love. But one day, the man took something from the woman and left. The woman was deeply wounded by the action and vowed to take back what the man stole.  The girl took me to the edge of a cliff that beheld a beautiful sight. A large body of water that surrounded a distant city and in the center of the city was an incredible tower. The girl told me that was were the man hid, but no one could get through his defenses. She invited me to stay with the rest of the village. To live as peacefully as they could outside of the course. I was hesitant, but I agreed to stay. It wasn’t too long before I started to think. Obviously, the woman in the story was the lady-in-charge. She was just trying to get back whatever the man had stolen. She was using everyone she could, training them to get through the puzzles that lay outside the man’s tower. It was wrong of her to use other people for her own problems, but she was hurting and wasn’t thinking straight. I had to put an end to it or many, many other people would meet the same fate as everyone else that had been left behind. I decided to go back to the course. I needed to stop the lady-in-charge. This all needed to end. Once I went back to the course, I saw him, my twin, still attempting to solve the puzzle. With a clearer head, I realized the answer to the puzzle and we made it through. I told my twin what the girl had told me. Unfortunately, he did not understand the way that I did. I asked him to at least follow me this one time and if it didn’t go the way that I wanted it he could leave. He could go back to the courses and I would join him, never questioning why again. He agreed with a roll of his eyes. We got through the puzzles ahead of us and kept going until we found the lady-in-charge. I told her that I knew of her tale and why she was doing what she was doing. The lady told me that she admired my choice of coming back even though I had been free to live on the edge of the course with the others. She also informed me that I was not the only one to come back from there. She proceeded to escort me and my twin to a large room with several beds along with other individuals and two pairs of twins. She told me that this was the team that she was sending to the distant city to gather information about the obstacles that the man had placed to keep her away. She asked us if we would agree to become part of the team and help her get through the man’s defenses and take back what was hers. We agreed.