flying, chapter 9... finally!

[miriam_e]

My apologies that it has taken so long to get this written. One of the books I'm currently reading is H Rider Haggard's classic, King Solomon's Mines (more of his books here). A long, interesting part of that story is the journey that the characters take, and it also reminded me of something said by Joss Whedon's character Shepherd Book in the superb TV series Firefly when asked by Kaylee why he doesn't care where he's going. He answers "'Cause how you get there is the worthier part."

So I wrote in more detail about how Christine gets to the next part of the story. It was only briefly covered in my notes, but doing this let me write about a number of points mentioned in my notes that I might not have otherwise been able to cover. However it took longer than I thought it would. This chapter is already the longest so far and I'm only just getting to the main point, so I decided to simply make it an extra, inserted chapter named "Earth". Oh by the way, I have added a logo at the top of the index page too (and one at the top of the "Prescription" story also).

http://miriam-english.org/stories/flying/index.html

It has been so long since my last chapter that this time I'll remind you of what has passed before, in the manner of television shows.

NOTE: Don't read the following if you have not read earlier chapters. These spoilers will ruin the story for you.

Previously on flying:

Christine is a schoolgirl who often has flying dreams. She meets another girl who is able to move through solid objects, but Christine fears she is trapped in a dream because both abilities defy physics. They are pursued by people who eliminate Christine by ejecting her from the world, which turns out to be not the real world. but a virtual one. In Crossroads, a virtual world that serves as a kind of index for all the many virtual worlds she is met by Webster who helps her. He takes her to Indigo who fits her with knowledge about how things really are. Now she wants to visit the real world.