---------------------------------Journal of Juan “John” Jose Perez found entry----------------------------
June 10th, 1993
Dear Journal,
My dad bought me this stupid thing. A journal, how typical of him. Told me it would “help”. I don't need help, I am 17 not 7… I hate how he barely has any time for me, but still treats me like a kid. What is happening to me the other 6 days of the week Pop? Oh yeah, I live with the people you pay to mind me. I hate you, I hate Ireland and I want to go home. I miss Texas!!!
~John
June 11th,1993
Journal,
So I heard a new song that reminds me of how I feel about my dad.
“Tell me what you think about your situation
Complication, aggravation
Is getting to you, yeah
If Chicken Little tells you that the sky is falling
Even if it wasn't, would you still come crawling
Back again?
I bet you would my friend”
Aerosmith's “Livin on the edge”
Journal, I'm the one constantly crawling back to him.
June 12th, ‘93
So my dad was telling me about this place that's being inducted into the UNESCO world heritage sites. Said it was called Newgrange or something. I tell you that doesnt look right as just one word writing it. He says its some long dead Irish from the bronze age. He gets so excited about his history stuff that I almost cant get a word in edgewise.
~Juan Jose Perez...John for short.
June 14th, ‘93
Journal,
I hate school here, its so weird getting stared at for being what amounts to tan here. To these people I might as well come from another planet. They have paper skin and could almost glow in the dark. I Miss Texas….. I miss Tamale...I miss home.
~J
This book's true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.
June 17th, ‘93
Journal,
I saw the coolest symbol today in a shop. After I got him to write it down he told me it was called a triskelion. It looked so different from what I grew up seeing. It was made out of silver and the curves were so smooth you felt it pulling your eyes. I'm getting dad to buy it for me so I can wear it on a necklace.
~Juan
June 18th,
Dad invited me out to some summer solstice thing on the 21st. I guess something happens during the sunrise and sunset he wants me to see. He also bought me the necklace. He was excited and started going into its history. I zoned out about two words in. Always the same three words, “Did you know?” Oh well, its amazing and feels right close to my heart. Like im growing as a person. Or something.
~John
June 21st,1993
Today is the day, Dad and I are going together to the sunrise festivities but I plan to go and see the sunset ones as well. I have to remember to bring my passport and Embassy ID. Maybe I can weasel my way into somewhere I shouldn't be.
~J
June 21st er….22nd I dont know! Something happened.
Holy God in Heaven…… I saw something. The sunset and my dad and everyone left. I sat there watching the world die around me. The last of the Light drain from the Tomb. They let me stay because my dads the ambassador. I watched for what felt like hours. Pop went home, something about sleeping but I knew he would just work and fall asleep at his desk….again.
So I check my watch after fading in and out of my thoughts. I realized it had been 6 hours and I had no idea how that much time passed so I started to panic. I stood up, put my hand to a wall to support myself and all the spirals and swirls came alive from my touch. The stone was smooth to the touch and pivoted easily under my finger tips. The swirl pattern I had placed my hand on seemed to be a button or the top of a joystick. The swirls glowed a light emerald drawing lines around the old carvings. Racing to the window that illuminated the tomb Eventually the window where we watched the sunset pierce the tomb earlier went matte. The sky wasn't anything but a black box with the occasional white line of static.
Then I saw a star, but it wasn't just the star. It looked like the 3D image you would see at a planetarium. It wasn't our sun at all. The bright red sun was many times larger than what school had taught me our suns size was. I looked where my hand was and saw the classic three swirl pattern that the man in the shop had told me about. When I took my hand off the image began to fade and the power ran away from me like vapor. I quickly placed my hand back down bringing the image back.
I pivoted my hand like it would spin and to my amazement the picture zoomed in on the Second planet from the sun. This one was a light purple with reddish brown continents. I kept twisting, noticing the dust around the planet wasn't dust at all but satellites. I twisted again and I saw a city. It was long dead like the ozymandias poem my dad loves. One last twist and I saw a room. It was dark except what looked like small lights coming from the floor.
When the screen finally finished the transfer it must have turned some lights on because what I saw next had me running. The room was littered with skeletons of...monsters. The like that would never be from anything on Earth. I ran like they were chasing me but that had to have been dead for years…. If not centuries by the look of the city. I cant close my eyes without seeing the Triskelion and the Empty Sockets where eyes once were.
What happened to them?