Excelsior by Sirois George

Author:Sirois, George [Sirois, George]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Infinity Publishing
Published: 2010-06-23T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

The cramping in Matthew's hand came just as he finished the last pencil line in his drawing. He sat back and shook both hands, loosening up the fingers as he admired his work. The landscapes finally looked the way they should be, his vision of Denab IV so clear that the mountains could have been traced from a photograph.

Matthew squeezed his eyes shut for a moment and when he opened them, the paper had suddenly grown twice its size. He felt his eyelids getting heavy and massaged his brow with one hand, “Must have been working too hard.”

He lifted his pencil and noticed it was heavier than normal. It was a little larger, too.

“What the hell?” The pencil slipped from his grasp and fell to the floor. His next words stuck in his throat as he looked down at his feet. Any other night they were planted firmly on the floor, but tonight, they dangled with several inches of air beneath them.

Matthew grabbed the arms of his chair – which were further apart than they were before – and pushed himself off. He expected to hit the floor immediately, but an extra second of freefall caused him to yell in fear. When he hit the floor, he went limp and rolled, hoping to minimize any chance of injury.

He stood up, looked around his room and gasped. His chair towered over him, the seat ten feet away from the top of his head. The pencil he dropped was now half his size. Matthew started to hyperventilate as he began to walk out of the room, but with every turn of his head, everything around him grew taller.

He tried to yell again, but this time, no sound escaped his lips. Beads of sweat poured down Matthew’s face when he heard thundering footsteps that felt like small tremors. A looming shadow suddenly blocked out the light and he slowly looked up to see its source.

Matthew gazed upon what looked like a 20-foot-tall cut-out of Excelsior. This particular version of Denab IV's savior was a design that Matthew hadn't drawn since he first tried capturing him on paper seven years ago. Excelsior was black and white with no contouring; his yellow eyes the only color. He was a paper doll drawn by a child and just about as anatomically correct. However, this didn't make him look any less threatening or soften the fear as Matthew stared up at him.

The giant two-dimensional figure opened its mouth to speak and raised its right foot off the ground directly over Matthew's head.

Excelsior's voice boomed through the room with a mixture of authority and pity. “I… am… sorry!”

The giant foot came down. Matthew screamed.

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