sometime in 1996 . . .
waterways
I was with a group of people in an empty room, and somehow one of us broke through a wall. we were suprised to discover another room beyond the wall that was inaccessible in any other way. across the ceiling of the opposite wall of this new room was a metal beam painted with yellow and black (construction) stripes. the wall under the beam was made of some sort of stiff foam. we dug through the foam and found yet another hidden room beyond it.
later, our group was swimming along a narrow winding pool that zigzagged over a great distance. having found the hidden rooms, we were trying to find a secret exit in the pool. one guy in the group was younger than the others. he wanted to learn how to discover these secret exits, but no one would tell him. we planned to tell him eventually, but wanted to tease him first by giving him misleading hints.
we came upon a patch of rainbow-colored foam floating on top of the water in one corner. whenever we found an exit, our hair changed color on one side, so we thought that the younger guy might be more succssful if he colored his hair with this rainbow foam. several others placed a pile of the foam on his head and rubbed it in, changing his hair color.
we eventually found an exit that led to a shower in a bathroom of a house. it seemed that the new guy hadn't made it through. in my mind I saw him emerge into a different shower, so he had been separated from us.
every time we traveled through an exit, the first letter of our names changed into a strange character.
I was later talking to a man about these exits, and I said that I wished they were easier to find. he explained that you could see them until 12:30pm. I imagined being on a street and seeing several faint green spots in different places that gradually faded into lines and disappeared.
Again searching for exits, I was in a shower with the water running. I rammed my shoulder into the wall five times and then fell through the wall into another shower. this one was in a dusty storage room. I saw a lawn mower on the floor. I passed through another wall in this room and emerged into another shower with brightly colored tile. I stepped out of it into a small, nicely decorated bathroom. I realized that I was in someone's house and heard footsteps as I quickly stepped into the shower and back through the wall. I was afraid that the wall hadn't closed fast enough and they might have seen it partway open.
later, I was in a crowded place. a mean-looking man with a beard looked at me and smiled knowingly. evidently he had followed me through an exit from another world and planned to cause trouble in my world.
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