The world you left was a world of humans and here in this new unfamiliar land you stand as one yet again but this does not mean that you haven’t changed for indeed you have.
your clothing is gone as are your shoes leaving you bare in the cool breze, your body is different and unfamiliar, it feels strange and youthful, perfectly healthy as if everything you had experienced, every injury you had suffered had simply been healed. Your eyes, they could see perfectly as if at the peak of sight. Perfection.
You had changed and perhaps for the better.
With your perfect vision you can finally gaze upon the world around you, it does not seem so different. Great tree’s tower above you, small plants grow in the cracks of light that the sun can reach, great boulders stand from the ground creating natural bunkers for all manner of creatures. The sound of a stream echoes in the distance, your perfect hearing giving you the ability to listen to its calm sounds.
This new world, its as if you were pulled from your own and placed in one unspoilt and untouched, there is no litter, there are no buildings that you can see from the break in the trees, no planes, there are barely any birds. It seems so peaceful and yet wrong at the same time.
Glancing at a nearby tree you are surprised to see something very out of place, hanging from a low branch is a woven basket and its clear that you were mean’t to find it, curiosity getting the better of you leads you to investigate.
Clutching the basket in your hands forces the branch to release the thin strap holding it, with the basket your’s you can open and see what’s inside. Perhaps its your clothing, your phone maybe………no, it is nothing but a mirror.
Resting at the bottom of the small basket is a mirror, with a handle made of finely carved wood and a beautifully polished slice of glass resting in the center its clear that a great deal of effort had no doubt gone into carving such a thing.
Grasping it gently in your hand you bring it up to your eye and finally can look upon yourself in the reflection, how much actually changed?. Are you even the same sex anymore?
