Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Unicorn Challenge bloghop.

A word-count constrained imagination contest* hosted by jenne and ceayr, the prompt is an image and the only limit is ‘tell your story in under 250 words’

“shh”

“What the hell?!”

“Did I not just say, be quiet?”

“Well, if you want to take that tone, no, no you did not. You made a noise traditionally used with young children and certain breeds of dog. Besides being completely devoid of vowels, which I suspect limits the number of syllables it can claim, it is kinda rude.”

“Fine. Have it your way.”

{The experience of the passage of time was, for Mankind, the first clue to the existence of the spiritual. The subjective nature of this perspective pretty much guaranteed the eventual development of quantum physics}

“Where am I. Why can’t I see. And, are you holding my hand?!?!”

“With me. Don’t know, though I suspect: a) a state of pre-existence or 2) in a particularly vivid dream, though the distinction might be problematic. Yes, I thought it would help.”

“What do we do? Hey, wait a minute, did you drug my drink?”

“This isn’t the worst thing. I most assuredly did not, deliberately.”

“What?”

“I don’t know why, but maybe you should try accepting the fact that we both find ourselves in a situation that I’m pretty sure will not be resolved or, for that matter, in any way improved by getting angry.”

“Alright. I’ll wait it out. Leave me to my efforts to accept the situation. I can’t imagine how things could get worse.”

“…. be careful what you wish for. I think the world is re-forming and it sounds silly but do you smell cardboard?”