Sarah
Cathy…..where are you??
Sarah
Getting worried. Haven’t heard from you…
Cathy
Sarah you getting this??
Cathy
I’m lost. Please answer.
Sarah
I got your text. WHERE ARE YOU?
Cathy
I don’t know where I am.
Sarah
What do you mean? Can you tell me what’s around you?
Cathy
There’s nothing around me.
Sarah
Uh...how did you get to where you are?
Cathy
Not sure. The last thing I remember was going to sleep in our dorm. And all of a sudden, I woke up here.
Sarah
I’m calling campus police.
Cathy
Not sure they will be able to help in this particular situation.
Sarah
Describe to me what’s going on.
Cathy
I’m in a completely dark space. There is an utter lack of anything around me.
Sarah
Use the light on your phone.
Cathy
The light creates a defined beam which seemingly extends into eternity. There is nothing in sight.
Sarah
I don’t understand.
Cathy
Sarah I think I’ve somehow transported somewhere else.
Cathy
Like somewhere not on Earth.
Cathy
Shit I just saw something.
Cathy
Don’t know what it was. It was a geometric shape or something.
Cathy
Yeah. It kind of floated by. Or crawled by or something.
Sarah
Cathy have you been taking drugs.
Cathy
It was a 3D shape with many sides. Maybe infinite sides. It was moving with limbs or something. Looked like octopus tentacles.
Cathy
Sarah I think I might be in another dimension. There are things here that clearly cannot be explained in terms of human logic.
Cathy
Call Prof. Fellner.
Sarah
He’s just a physics 101 professor what’s he gonna do to help us?
Cathy
Idk maybe he knows about other dimensions and stuff and how I can get out of here.
Sarah
Alright I’m looking up his number.
Cathy
Tell me when you’re done talking to him.
Sarah
He’s gonna come over and help us figure this out.
Sarah
Alright, he’s here.
Sarah
He wants you to try to call me.
Cathy
I’ve been trying. Not going through.
Sarah
He wants to know how much battery you have on your phone.
Cathy
Um...about thirty percent. Shit.
Sarah
Now he wants you to scream very loudly.
Sarah
He wants to see if the sound waves might carry over to where we are.
Sarah
It was faint but definitely there.
Sarah
Okay he’s saying he wants you to take 100 steps forward, then scream again.
Cathy
Just did. You hear me again?
Sarah
Fellner says he wants you to now take 200 steps backward, in the direction you just came from, then scream again.
Sarah
You were louder this time. Fellner’s saying this is interesting because sound is apparently able to travel from whatever place you are, an alternate dimension maybe, to our own reality.
Cathy
I don’t want a freaking science lesson just get me out of here.
Sarah
He’s saying now to start feeling the air around you for any anomalies. Anything that feels different from just plain thin air.
Cathy
HOLY SHIT. I felt something then all the sudden one of those shape tentacle things just like...materialized into my hand.
Cathy
Yeah. I dropped it and it slithered away.
Sarah
But you felt something?
Cathy
Some kind of ripple in the air. I could fit my hand into it.
Sarah
Fellner wants to know how big the ripple is.
Cathy
I don’t want to touch it again.
Sarah
He says it may be the only way out. A wormhole maybe.
Cathy
Fine I’m feeling around the edges. I think it’s about the size of a small person.
Sarah
Fellner wants you to enter it.
Sarah
You have to if you want to make it out of there.
Sarah
CATHY??? YOU STILL THERE?
Sarah
DID YOUR PHONE DIE? YOU GETTING THIS?
Sarah
Please answer. Fellner had to leave. I’m scared.
Fellner
Sarah, this is Fellner. We need to meet.
Fellner
I think we inadvertently caused some kind of damage.
Fellner
Have you seen the news?
Sarah
No. This is a college dorm, I don’t own a TV.
Fellner
It’s probably best you go seek out a TV somewhere. Watch the news. Or, I suppose you could simply walk outside.
Sarah
What’s going on? Just tell me.
Fellner
Do you recall the creature that Cathy had described as a geometric shape with many sides, gliding via octopus tentacles?
Fellner
Sarah, one of those creatures, perhaps interdimensional in nature, has somehow manifested itself into our reality and is now suspended approximately one thousand feet in the air above our very campus.
Fellner
And it’s BIG. About the size of two football fields in diameter.
Fellner
Sarah, I think that the most disturbing part of this is...well..this creature is your roommate Cathy.
Sarah
How in the hell could you think that?
Fellner
I think the wormhole or whatever it was that Cathy transported herself out of the other dimension with, somehow jumbled her atoms. Perhaps into something that was more compatible with the laws of physics that exist within that dimension.
Fellner
Sarah, It’s screaming. It seems to be in great pain.
Sarah
Screaming? That doesn't mean anything.
Fellner
Sarah, I recognize her scream. From earlier. This creature is your roommate. And my student.
