The Adventures Of Little Sham - Chapter 7 (Part 2)

 

The Adventures Of  Little Sham  

A Novel

by Paul McCann

 

Chapter  Seven

The Land Of Silken Dreams  

 

Part 2

On the outside of the window the moon’s reflection glimmered upon the ocean and from a distance a golden glow shone like stepping stones across the horizon .

He heard the waves crashing upon the shore  and with that sound he heard the wsisper of a voice , speaking to him ‘.

“The sea oh the sea , won’t you listen to me , I’m as deep and as wide as eternity .

After the waves , you’ll hear a sound of my voice , come away ,  lets go , sure you don’t have a choice , to the land far beyond the time that you’re in , go now for its time , let the journey begin “

He slipped on his soft shoes and went quietly doen the stairs and out to the street and on up the road to the storytellers cottage . Going in through front door and across the floor to the room where the treasure chest stood .

Then moving the chest away from the trapdoor, he went down the ladder to the bottom where there was a door . He opened thedoor and went beyond to explore the  winding road that went across to a meadow . in the middle of the meadow to his surprise he saw a great bug open crater with colums of smoke belching out beneath the depths . All around the hole in the ground where cows and sheep , deers and rabbits , ducks and geese and even many birds of the air flew around singing the soft sounds of wonder . All the creatures on the ground stood motionless , mesmerised , and mystified ass they looked down into the deep hole . There aloso some fallen trees on the ground around the hole then Sham heard a noise from deep down in the hole . The sound was of something climbinmg and crawling and calling out in a small voice .

“Hello can you hear me . Is there anybody out there. “   .

Sham approached the edge of the crater and responded .

‘Hello there yes , I can hear you “

Sham made his way over to the crater which looked about fifty feet wide .The as he looked down into the hole , it seemed as if there was no end to its depth . It was clear that whatever had struck the ground must have been travelling  at a very fast  speed beyond our understanding . Somewhere deep down in the hole he could hear a scratching noise that got louder and louder . Then he saw it crawling up the inside wall of the hole . It finally jumoed out of the hole and stood there in front Sham ,The giant hairy spider stood there before Sham and began to shake its lwegs one by one . With his big eyes blinking and winking at Sham and a big smile that stretched out all over its face , the spider softly said ,

‘Hello there I’m Vincy  .“

 He rolled his big eyes and smiled , The spider was three times bigger than Sham who took a deep breat before speaking . He was a little amazrd and astonished , then he replied ,

“ I’m pleased to meet you Vincy , I’m Sham . You’re a little bit bigger than most other spiders that  I have seen before , “

“Hello Sham , well I normally live deep down under the ground with some of my friends and I never usually come to the surface except for now because as you can see for yourself here something big has hit the ground and left thishuge hole .

So I was asked by the undergriound community to go and investigate what happened above here .”

Sham replied ,

“Vincy are there many other creatures under the ground . Are you like an underground detective ?

Vincy said ,

“ Mmm well , lets just say its another world down there , I can’t believe the size of this hole . Did you have anything to do with making this appear here Sham ?

Sham replied

“I just visiting this place Vincy , Its nothing to do with me . Wow look at the size of this hole , this is really something else Vincy . Am I right ?“

The spider stretched each of its eight legs one by one and then said ,.  .

“Well to be honest Sham , yes , this is something else definitely . Where I come from  we all live happlily and peacefully in our own world ,but  this is just something else .

I am feeling a little concerned . Tell me Sham are you afraid , even just a little bit ?”

Sham put up his two arms in the air and started to wave about and said ,

 “What have I to fear except fear itself . “

The spider laughed and said,

“‘Ok that’s good . Just to let you knw that I have these powers you mighjt not have seen before .‘

“What powers are they Vincy ? “

Sham asked

“Let me show you”

Said the spider who projected a bight white light from its eyes followed by a red sweet smelling gas from its  mouth . That made Sham start to giggle and laugh as the big spider spun around and started to dance , The it started to sing a little song ,

“Its much better to wiggle and to giggle when you’re stuck in the middle of a hole ,

If I promise not to tell you , would you tell me not to promise too , just in case we might have to say farewell . Some promises are made in such a hurry , some promises have been broken but don’t worry , I promise not to promise you , a promise that I cannot do so just for now lets go where the spiders dwell”

 Sham was in a fit of laughter that slowly began to leave . Suddenly the spider started to build a strange web made from shinning silk . The base of the web resembled a three dimensional cube that had an archway entrance in the shape of a door that opened up . The Spider invited Sham to enter .

‘Welcome to my world Sham . Let me show you around .“

Shma went inside the door where there was a large room . Once inside the room

Sham watched Vincy continue to make pathways through funnel  shaped corridors

That took them both down into a world of wonders . All around them were the sounds of birds singing , the sights of bright lights flickering and an awesome sense of wonder drawing them deeper into a vortex of silken threads that was spun at an amazing speed with the precision of an gifted engineer building frameworks from  a strange kind of plastic elastic stands that made a web like castle dwelling palace .

.Sham had a very  peaceful sense of trust and peace that came over him and he smiled at Vincy and  said ,

“Either you’re just a dream inside a dream or the biggest daddy of all the daddy long leg dreams the world has ever seen but this is definitely the strangest place I’ve ever seen  .”

The spider lifted up two of his front legs and reached out an lifted Sham up . The looking directly into the Shams eyes and said ,

“Thank you for for being here and welcome to the land of silken dreams . “

Now in that moment the two had become new friends and the spider brought Sham  inside the world he lived . He pointed to around to the roof that with a simple click of the spiders legs an opening appeared revealing a large movie picture screen from which a sequence of images started to appear that showed a colourful  story and Vincy smiled at Sham and said ,

“So I mean there was I ,  just minding my own business , when all of a sudden this extraordinarily polarized uninvited ultra-galactic storm erupted from within the deep core of a vortex never seen here before in this world . Then from within that vortex there came a mustering of small clusters of comets that spun with an awesome speed around and around orbiting this world of ours that was impacted by a fusion of energy that hit the world above us and opening up a huge crater on the surface with a ground shaking and breathtaking changes in the making for every one who lives here and above , “.

Sham was impressed and replied ,

“So this is what happrned then to your world ?”

“That’s right little Sham my young friend . This is a recording of what just occurred .

,Most of the inhabitants here in the land of silken dreams have now gone into shut down node until my return and advice about what we need to do . “

The giant spider replied .

“Are they all spiders who live here ?”

Sham asked .

The spider smiled and said ,

“Well as far as I know there two other dwellers here . The moles who lend their time to tunnelling through time and King Rat and his servants who collect everything that is worthwhile collecting .  “

Sham smiled and said ,

“Is it possible for me to meet any of the them while I’m here ?“

Sham asked and Vincy replied ,.

“Well as I said before I can’t promise anything but let mr see what I  can do ?

‘So how long have you all lived here?”

Sham asked and the spider said ,

“Oh well that is a very long story and as  you see we have already been here been coming here for a very long time it would be difficult to say for how long because no one really knows and  no one except you has ever seen us before  . “

The spider replied .

Sham nodded his head and said ,

“Tell me about King Rat and some of what he collects .“

”Well Sham , I’ll tell you what , I’ll take you to where’s he’s at and take him from his shut down so he can tell you himself  about all the different regions and  different things he collects from there , like the purple sector where  there’s not enough room for anyone else to get through and scavange except for the rats who live there . Then there’s the red sector where the lava rock and hardbacks moles  live , Their job is to tunnel their way through time into undiscovered zones below and above “.

“Well that is just brilliant and how do you manage to survive here ?

Sham asked and the spider reolied ‘

“We have one communal food sector here in our world that we call the life centre

Sectoir , It seems to thrive by itself . There are  plants and other essential resources that we all need to survive .So we all well nourished . Its always been here,. No  one knows where it came from or who created it  .“

Said the spider

“What is your role here Vincy?”

Sham asked and the spider replied ,

 “Deep in the earth I where I came from and that is where I firm seen the glow worms there among the ores and rocks . My original role was to gather seeds and bring  small seedlings and transplant them into the life centre in the land of dreams .

Where a purple slight shines down around that sector helping everything to grow and over a long perios of time everything has grown much bigger and become much different than it original was below earth in the land of silken dreams ..”

 

Shma replied .

“ So is that why you became a spider bigger than those above on the surface ?”

 

The spider replied ,

“Actually the spiders that once lived here have all gone and I’m all the only one that remains here . I was told that they returned above to the surface where they shrunk in size in a very short time .”

Sham  said ,

“Could  you take me to meet King Rat . “

 

 

End Of Part 2

 

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