RE: Open Story - Pouredale

Chapter 3 - Cont

This was not turning out to be the best of days. Plus the beer he had drunk earlier was starting to makes its presence known 'down there'. Alain pulled open the door to his room and almost walked straight into Marcus in the hallway. Marcus was standing completely motionless staring at one end of the corridor. Alain followed Marcus' gaze and gasped when he saw what Marcus was staring at.

A forest.

A deciduous forest rising around them, them being from what Alain could gather, his room, Marcus' room and the small length of corridor between them. It was almost as if a huge scoop had just removed that part of the building and deposited it here, in a forest. The sun was warm and just past the zenith, birds were singing in the trees and the faint smell of wood smoke hung in the air. Marcus looked at Alain. 'What the fuck!'