Xandra's Game (9)

(SN)    Supernatural Themes

"Spiders !!"

Curious, I wandered over to the Stargate, which was now covered in a layer of snow.

Was it open or not ??

From what I'd been told,

a Stargate was open to another world,

when its round surface appeared as a rippling pool of water,

and it was closed to another world,

when you could see and walk through the round surface

to the normal area of the world that you were in at present.

Well, the round surface did not appear as a rippling pool of water,

so it must be closed.

Then that tunnel that I could see through it,

must be the tunnel in my world at present.

So, I carefully went up to it,

and put my hand up to the area of the round surface.

To my surprise,

it felt hard like glass, but was not glass,

and the harder I pushed, the harder it pushed back.

I couldn't get through !!

By what I knew,

that didn't seem to be the normal way.

"How odd," I thought.

Musing on this, I turned to my left, around to face the other way,

and saw a man all dressed in leather,

standing, a way up further along the left hand ledge from the Stargate.

He was turned, motionless, looking away from and askance at me. 

Surprised but not alarmed, 

I turned slightly back around to my right,

and slowly pulled out a package of food from my satchel, 

that was slung around my neck and over my shoulder.

Sensing something,

I turned to face the Stargate,

and saw a reflection of myself in it !!

Was that me ??

"Nooo !!" I realised, "It's Corinne, the Witch !!"

Had she seen me ??

Did she appear, because she could smell the food ??

She turned to look towards her right,

where I saw two of her school companions.

In a momentary flash,

I perceived their true shapes as spiders !!

Could they get through the Stargate , or were they blocked like I was ............. ??

text (c) Katherine Stuart 2017