The Pushbutton Butterfly by Kin Platt

Author:Kin Platt [Platt, Kin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4405-4048-6
Publisher: Prologue Books
Published: 1970-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

The room was dark. Then my eyes followed a shaft of light and I was facing the mandala. I heard a click and the sound of humming.

It began to move.

The circles spun inside straight lines. The little blobs of color became blinding streaks. The blurring loops whirled into larger ones, coming closer, then receding.

They embraced me finally and I was sucked inside. I whirled into nothingness.

I awoke to a throbbing sensation in my eyes. A tall girl was standing over me. Her hair was long and blond. Her eyes were large and frightened. I tried to sit up. My hair crackled as I moved; each individual strand was alive, snapping like sparks shooting off a burning log.

Her lips moved and her words blurred, sweeping over me like surf. Her teeth were white and well shaped. She bent her head closer to mine and smiled.

She looked the way I expected Janet Sanders to be. I couldn’t tell her how happy I was to have finally found her because I couldn’t talk. I wasn’t able to move either.

The only thing I was able to do was lie there and see her move away. A shadowy shape joined her.

I heard a door slam and an engine cough and start. The sound got louder. Then it went away. I didn’t get angry with myself for not doing anything about it because I didn’t know who I was.

I opened my eyes to the sound of voices. They seemed to be coming from behind a wall. I tried to get up and fell to my knees. That seemed as good a way as any other I could think of for moving, so I crawled along, telling my body it was easy, that I had seen kids doing it.

I headed for a shaft of light in the dark room. Water splashed my face as I drew closer. I wondered about that. I touched a low stone wall and remembered the waterfall. The Meditation Room provided all the comforts.

I came to a door and the voices became louder. The door was slightly open. I pushed it open a little more. I was very surprised to see Leland Sanders’ wife there talking to Guru Viparina.

I decided to get up and ask what was going on. I pulled myself up, holding on to the wall, and took the first step they all take when they get tired of crawling.

I made out the way they usually do the first time. I didn’t get right up again because I was too sleepy.

The next time I woke up I knew the trip was all over. I felt my body and knew it. I knew who I was, too. A very dumb dick.

My watch told me it was three o’clock. A peek through a chink in the wall made it still night. I put my head in the little Meditation Room waterfall and let it cool me off.

I got up and my feet hit something. It was a wire. I followed the wire to the couch and found the mandala attached to it.

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