Near dark, the girl was excited to show me something.
She'd pried open one of her hidden doors and pressed her magic device against the machinery inside.
I didn't follow what she tried to explain to me next...
Nida said I was wired to connect to a sort of game she'd made, from my time in the shadowland she called Genesis.
Then she did something, and all at once I was on another world, in a new body.
There were no wheels overhead, only a setting sun scudded with clouds.
I struggled to understand-had I ever truly been in Nida's sky-garden?
I called to her, but instead heard the voice of the angel I'd met in Purgatory.
The angel told me something important.
Then I was yanked back into reality, if this was actually reality.
Nida grinned at me and asked what I thought, and I got sick all over the canyon floor.