Ejira was floating in a blue world. As far as she could see, indigo walls curved away in all directions, overlapping. They were like enormous shells enveloping her. She realized her vision was blurred, so she squinted her eyes.
Clarity threatened to overwhelm her. The smooth walls sharpened, fine details bursting across every square inch. She saw a grid of lines unfurl. Branches subdivided. Squares broke into clusters of smaller squares. Rooftops came into focus, thousands of them. The city lay before her and she realized that she was looking down at it, though it didn't feel that way. To her, it seemed that the sprawling metropolis was laying at a ninety degree angle. It was all blue.
Another massive wall bearing a blue city floated from the right, passing just behind the first. Ejira wondered what the people living in those houses though when they looked up and saw another mass of land flying over them. Her eyes followed the larger roads of one of the cities. She traced it all of the way to a very large building. The building in the center of the city. It was round, and had a domed roof. She squinted her eyes again and saw many blue vehicles moving in both directions along the streets around the large building.
Watching one particular vehicle, her eyes trailed it past the building and around several turns. It pulled into a parking lot outside a blue house near the bottom left corner of the city. She focused harder and could see the vehicle's door open. A person stepped out.
Something was familiar about that person. She couldn't figure out why. The figure moved toward the house's front door, then paused, one hand on the door knob. The woman turned her head to look up. Their eyes met.
Ejira was staring up at the stars, holding the door knob in her right hand. After a moment, she returned her gaze to the door, turned the knob, and opened it. She stepped inside the house, very vision blurring, and closed the door.
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Ejira woke up slowly. Her mind felt like it was in fog, but she shook her head and rubbed her face with her hands. She yawned, then twisted her body to step down from the bed. She pushed her green sheets off of her legs and stood up, resting one hand on the white wall beside her.
She felt odd, like she was supposed to remember something.
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