28.02.03. Time 4:30. Dominion Rexes. Jasmine was still at Rexes dominion. She didn’t know where to go and search for Jyotsana. At Thickle’s appartment nobody would open the door, so she started wandering around town and dwelled into a place next to the park: a forest. She wore boots till her calves, black, a knee high skirt, blue and a bright orange top, sleeveles. A messenger bag over her shoulder.
She was walking around and saw this park. She entered through the shabby gates that were half open. They squeeked. She went deep, walking already for an hour. She went where the people who lived at Rexes never went. There was a stream and a huge rock which she climbed on to see what was behind it. It was the cemetary of the unexistent. The place was totally different from the rest of the park. In the park all trees were green or purple, but here, in the cemetary of the unexistent, it was all yellow-brown and golden and it was beautiful with a certain degree of calm that was divine. The light mellow. The colour warm.
She jumped off the rock and started walking further into the yellow forest. Very spatial, calm. Then as soon as she proceeded the leaves lifted up and flapped their wings... as they were birds now. And Jasmine couldn’t understand whether this dominion was like Dodgegroove where things are as though they are in a dream or whether this forest was enchanted. She decided to just stand there and look into the forest, but her receptor started beeping. She tried answering but wasn’t able to hear anyone at the other end, meaning that someone was looking for her from another Dominion. Time 6:00
Dominion Creil. Time 5:40. Trevor was running like mad with a water balloon and as soon as he neared Terry’s bed to wake her up with it she was already waiting for him and threw the covers open. She scared him instead. Took the balloon from him. He was running away now with her running after him. They were laughing like mad. In the corridor they met Solo who was phoning Jasmine, he was looking for her. He took the receptor from his ear: nothing. “She’s still somewhere in another Dominion. Perhaps still at Rexes as Terry says”. Then the bell rang and Solo went to answer. It was Jyotsana. She put her gadgets on the glass table in the living room and her jacket which was made in an ancient jabesse style. They were all looking at her in hope she’d give them news of Jasmine. “What up gaz. Why you all staring at me that way?”
Dominion Rexes. Time 6:01. Jasmine understood that people were anxious for her well-being. “Yes I must go home. But I will come back here to see what’s beyond this forest and what’s it all about!”.
She had no friends here who’d tell her the legends of these places and nobody from the Vegastorm Crew knew much about Rexes. And so Jasmine didn’t know what this forest is all about and whether people never came beyond this point just because it’s too far away from the centre of the city or seemed uninteresting...
