john bard grew up on a farm in albion nebraska and knew pretty much everything there was to know about growing corn by the time he was 15. despite growing up on a farm and in a town of less than 2000 john was quite well read. having spent just about every minute not working on the farm studying at an online university. he would not be to out of place at any major city.john only had one real hobby with the little time off he could get and that was webnovels. storys of fantastical places filled to the brim with magic and wonder. somtimes he could imagine himself out there but he brushed that thought aside and let reality back in.  it was 630 p.m. and it was time to get ready for the next day before he could grab some supper. walking back he could feel the breeze on his back and couldnt help but take a deep breath smelling the world around him. this always braught a smile to his face. this was his farm. just like his father before him and his father before. he might not make alot of money but he was proud and would never give it up for anything. 

looking up at the sun sinking on the horizon  john noticed a large crack in the ground walking slowly and testing the ground he found it to be solid right up unto the crack. as i got closer i noticed that the crack was not so much a whole in the ground as it looked like a portal to the shadow dimension. i couldnt see anything looking down into the 'whole'. all light and matter seemed to disapear on the other side. I kicked some rocks in and they just rolled in. but past the horizon they seemed as if they were swollowed by somthing or just disapeared. going in to shock at what i think i am seeing i can ony stare for a minute. fuck this is some webnovel shit! my mind races so fast i am really thinking of nothing for another 5 minutes before i realize i have been walking around the what i now realize is a portal in the ground to ..... somwhere. looking down i notice the portal is smaller than when i first saw it. FUck! my mind blanks.

i notice that before it was the size or a queen bed now it is the size of a medium desk. I had to go to the barn and the house to get supplies, i needed to call my brother and sister i needed to shit! i didnt have time. as if the closing had sparked some exponential reaction the whole was getting smaller faster. my mind was racing back and forth with a thousand thoughts before finally only 2 remain to fight it out. i could never leave the farm. to what if? until looking down i thought  again with finality. I could never leave the farm, i turned around to leave and head to the barn before i felt my imagination run wild about what if's and a huge smile donned my face. looking at the shrinking portal without any furthur thought i jumped in feet first.

this was a terrible idea i thought to myself. I was floating in what seemed tobe infinite blackness. almost not a lack of light but that there was no such thing as light. I patted myself for what felt like the 50th time to make sure i still exhist. before i wondered what if anything i was breathing!? when i thought this i finally noticed that for the past ?few minutes? i had not actually inhaled. i felt mysefl panic and fear take over my mind like a overwhelming tide, until i tried to center my mind. this always helped me in the past. despite growing up in a quiet rural farm town I had a few issue with anxiety that only got worse as i grew up. when pop died i had a few moments where i couldnt breathe for a moment. experienceing it once was enough for me and i looked for something to help deal with and mititgate my anxiety. basically i started to meditate when i was 18 and now at 25 i could focus and center my mind in seconds and meditate in silence for hours.

I block out everything and close my eyes and try and take stock of the facts. i am stuck in outer space? the void? with no food or water. i am so fucked. I try and think of what i can do to get myself out of this and the fist idea that comes to mind is i need to be able to move. i open my eyes, not that i can see. and try  and look around. turning my head i see nothing but infinite blackness, nothingness. looking down i see more of the same. i seem to be floating on nothing. i dont feel hungry nor do i breathe? its like there are no laws or space or time. I think back to some of the webnovels i read and this sorta seems like a big opurtunity that the main charecter always gets. a big trial thats super dangerous turns into a big windfall. thinking this i can only try and clear my thughts again and try and meditate on if i can sense anything in myself or around me.finally when it seems like days have passed i can percieve somthing in my mind as if i am looking at it with my eyes. after some time i am not sure how much i can sense nothing around me so i focus my attention inwards i can see the cloths i am wearing my boots, my jeans, my belt. i look furthur inwards and see my skin and muscle and bones. i look at my heart and notice it does not beat and i almost lose it for a second. i throw that thought to the back of my mind and continue to focus my attention inwards. i do not know what i am looking for but i do not find it.

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after what feels like days i notice a few things. first i am not alive in the classical sense. i can percieve things but my body doesnt breathe nor my heart beat. i feel no magic or mana or qi around. I attempt to move myself but cannot tell if i am sucsesful. i seem to be stuck in an infiinite endless nothing. i decide to meditate and train my senses to see if i can find something.... anything...

i am not sure how long passes but it feels like a few forevers, i feel like normally i would of gone crazy but nothing here is normal. I can tell my senses have gotten much stronger since i can sense further away from my body but it is difficult to tell how much stonger they are. I continue like this neither hungry nor tired simply meditateing training my sense to try and 'see' furthur. finally i wake up to the thought that maybe somone or somthing or anything really.... might be reaally small and not well a human sized thing. i laugh to myself thinking it might have been too long since i have been alone. I retract and condense and concentrate my sense  and scan what i have termed the immidiate area in as fine a detail as i can, and i see nothing. i force my lungs to draw in non-existant air and sigh. i do not know how long i have been here and still do not know how to get out. I calm my mind with the idea that at least my mind seems to have grown and i am not dead. sooner or later i will get out. I let out my considerable sense again and begin my training, my searching.

like a giant rader my ever expanding sense finaly picks somthing up. almost as if it didnt register i scan again in disbelief. a whole, like the one i came through. i cant see what's on the other side but it doesnt matter to me. it's a way out. but it is on the end of my senese. i do not know how far i am from it but it is far. without warning somthing hurtles threw the crack before it quickly closes.  my mind feezes and my sense become turbulant. MY WAY OUT! i scream. i cant help but lose it for a while. i do not know for how long or what happend but i come back to myself with all my cloths gone. i am naked. at the edge of my sense i see the white light that came through. i bring my focus to bear but no metter how long i look or how much i focus my sense i am unable to see or understand what i am looking at. it looks like a light that i shining under water but i cannot tell its size. somtimes it seems to the size or a grain of sand, others i feel like i can feel a giant universe inside. i  notice that its coming my direction almost as if drawn to me. I try and propel myself towards it and now that i have a bearing and direction i can navigate. i realize i am moving very slowly though or maybe it is just very far. regardless it takes some time before i get closer to the light. i do not know how long my journey was but i am again in front of the small glowing light. i cant help but feel a sense of majesty in front of it. as if i am looking at somthing really impressive.

finally its right in front of me and i notice that it fits between my pointer finger and thump quite nicely like a small nut. not matter how much i try and squeez it, its like there is a forcefield surrounding it. thinking back to the tried and true method of enjoying treasures i do the only thing i can imagine. i eat it.  thinking to what light taste like i get... nothing. as soon as i put in in my mouth it seems to disapear. i panic for a second before i scan my sense inwards and notice at my belly buton there seems to be another space. almost as if there is another dimension inside me. its here i find the light. lighting up a small black space. i stare at it for awhile but nothing happens. i tried to poke and prod it a little but am met with little sucsess. finally i resign myself to training my sense's and finding another portal.