C+C is still much apreciated by me.
Warped Reality part 1.02
<Denotes Japanice speach>
[Denotes thoughts]
It was another nice day in residential St. Paul. The sky was blue, the grass
a briliant green and the sweet smell of blooming flowers was in the air. Conrad
however missed all of natures splender, walking along oblivious to the outside world.
His nose was buried in a book, yet his steps unerringly found thier way towards his
destination, downtown, without a need for concious thought. Despite his lack of
attention Conrad continued on his way undisturbed by others. At six foot three, not
many people tended to bother the introverted young man. Dressed in one of his many
pairs of tan pants and his dark green windbreacker, he presented an unassuming air to
the outside world.
[Something is wrong] thought Conrad shaken out of his book by a sudden
prickly feeling. As the blond haired high school graduate looked up he unconciously
replaced his latest book into his everpresent usa cup bag. Glancing around he thought
[Something is most definitly wrong]. He was surounded by new concrete buildings
instead of the crumbleing brick that should have surounded him. That and the fact
that all of the signs that he saw were in Kenji.
As he continued ot walk along in a state of stuned disbelief his mind began
to asimilate other facits of his suroundings. The few signs that were not writen in
kenji were definitly not in english. Where before the people on the street were black,
hispanic, or caucation, now he saw almost only asians and only the very occational
caucation or other person not obviously form the far east.
After biulding up his courage he went up to a nearby Asian man dressed in a
bussiness suit. "Um, can you tell me where I am?" Conrad continued "I dont know
how I got here can you help me?"
The only reply that he recived was a confused glance and broken "I no
speack english." before the man quickly went on his way.
Now wandering amlessly and thourhoughly confused, Conrad started to
walk towards what looked like a highschool campus. As he aproached it and started
to hear some of the conversations that were going on in the courtyard over lunch.
He heard enuf to recognize the language as Japanice. [well at least all of that money
that I spent buying anime wasn't completly wasted.] he thought to hiself. [at least I
can understand one word in ten. Maby I can find the english department and get
some help.]
<Can I help you sir?>, said a voice causing Con to breack out of his thoughts
and reenter the real world. He turned around to see who had spocken to him. She was
a cute asian girl in a blue school uniform. She had short black hair so dark that the
sunlight caused blue highlights to form whenever she moved.
"What, I mean Nani, I mean sorry I dont speack any Japanice." was his stuttering
reply to the smoothly flowing question that had proven to be far beyond the meager
language skills he had picked up by watching too much anime and Shogun.
"Maby I can help you sir? I am sorry that my english is so poor but I will help
you if posible." she replyed in near perfect english.
"Well somehow I have gotten lost, do you think that you could help me get to
the american embassy?" an embarrased Conrad asked. [man this is embarrasing] he
thought [I must sound like a complete idiot to her.]
"Let me go find out if it is alright with the Prinicple for me to take you there."
she said while running off. "Don't go anywhere I will be right back."
Left alone with his thoughts Conrad sat down on a nearby bench to try and piece
together what had happened to him. He mentaly made a list of what he knew. [ 1. I am
in Japan right now, 2. I was in the USA in the morning, 3. I don't remember how I got
from one place to the other.] The only conclution that he could come up with was that he
had lost part of his memory. The onset of deprestion and lapse into self pitty was averted
by the return of the energetic Japanice student.
"The Principle told me that because I am so far ahead in all of my classes that it
would be ok for me to take the time to help you get back to the embassy." As she lead him
to the bus stop at the end of the block she asked him, "Why did you come to Japan, are you
an exchange student or just visiting here for a little while?"
"Well, um, I was planing to come here in collage but I guess I decided to come
earlyer." he thought a little bit before continueing "I don't have any plans about what I
want to do or go see while I'm here."
"In that case I think that it would be fun to get together and learn about our
difernt cultures, would you like to meet sometime later this week?" was her cheerful reply
as she completely misunderstood his tone of voice. "Here is my address and telephone
number, call me when you get back to your hotel and we can plan something."
"Thanks alot, my name is Conrad Borsting but you can just call me Con." he
said reaching out to take the offered pice of paper.
"Oh how silly, My name is Mizuno Ami." she said, continueing on as Con stood
there silently with slightly glazed eyes. "To get to the embassy just take this bus and get
off infront of the large american flag, you cant miss it. Well I will talk to you later." With
that she was off running back to school so that she would miss the least amount of class
time possible.
[No way, there is just no way that this is all happening to me.] Conrad thought
as he stepped onto the bus. [This cant be real. Ok get a hold of yourself, this is all just
a big coincidence and there is nothing to worry about.] By the time that he reached the
American embassy he had calmed down and was thinking lucidly again. Opon searching
his person he found that besides the yen that had paid for the bus ride he had a few bills a
passport and some directions in english to a hotel room.
He walked into the Embassy and asked to see the ambasador. After going though
countless departments it was finaly deturmined that he should be taken to the embassy doctor.
As he was scuttled into the doctors office he was told not to worry and that everything would
be ok. This of course made him worry even more. It took the doctor a good twenty minutes
to get the whole story of how he had found himself here and calm him down again.
"From what you have told me I think that you are suffering from temporary amnessia.
It apperars that you have lost your memories for aproximately the last two weeks of your life.
Because the amount of time lost is so small I am very confident that you will remember it all in
a short time. Your loss of memory was probably caused by the stress of being immersed in a
totaly difernt culture without a safty net of some kind. I believe that the best thing that you
could do to regain your memories and make your transition to living here easyer would be if
you were to stay at the embassy and learn jappanice. In this way you will become more able
to cope with the world around you while being shelterd here whenever you begin to get
overwhelmed. For now I am ordering you to go get a good nights rest, I will have all of
your posetions transfered here from your hotel and see to it that you are installed as a
semipermanant resident here. I don't want you to worry about anything Iwill take care of
all the details."
Finishing his speach the doctor stood up and ushered Conrad to the door. "Mr. Talbot here
will take you to your room"
"Thank you very much Docter" Con said as he was introduced to Mr. Talbot. "I am
glad that I don't have to worry about it any more". As soon as he was lead to what would be
his new room he colapsed on the bed, mentaly worn out from all of the days events.
Kelly Conrad Davies Schultz Kellys1@randolph.spa.edu till end of month
Kelly Conrad Davies Schultz
kellys1@randolph.spa.edu but only for a little while
Shade and sweet water.
Skywise
P.S. read Sailor Moon V and the Circe Prodject
and Bubblegum Zone and Tokyo Babylon
and Knights End and Sailor Moon Refugees
and Sailor Moon M and The Wheel of Time
and Honor Harringt and Sour Times