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Stone city
Last night, I dreamed…
I dreamed of a stone city.
Not only houses and buildings were built of stones but roads, hedges...also. Even furniture, decorations, flowers... all were carved of stone in the most precise details. The inhabitants walked in long and gray hooded coat, most of them ignoring me. On the great wall around the city, there were a lot of stone antiques but the most remarkable things were hundreds of dried corpses stuck in coffins hung on its surface. The deformed faces of those zombies showed that they might have died in agony. The scene was so freakish and somehow looked like an exhibition about ancient monuments.
I was so amazed at what I saw. I did not understand why I ended up in such a bizarre situation. The gray sky screamed at me and the cold wind taps at my face. I felt anxious when other people noticed me as I looked so out of place. Then an unknown girl whom I could not see her face clearly came and helped me to disguise as an inhabitant of the stone city. The girl told me she had a feeling that some unwanted thing might happen soon. Suddenly a group of men in armors appeared and tried to catch us. We ran as fast as we could until the girl said she was at her limit. She hid me in a coffin right before the men caught up. While being dragged away, she cried out loudly for me:
"They are our enemy. They have captured all of our friends and you are the last. They are malicious so don’t let them caught you!".
Shivering with fear under the black blanket in the coffin, I wondered why the unknown girl did so much to help me and why the men in armors chased us. The desire to find out the truth no matter what urged me to follow them. I came to a large square where many black-soldiers were patrolling. In the middle, other prisoners were confined in a huge-stone-cage, all bloody and beaten. Then I noticed that most prisoners had long and yellow hair except the girl who helped me. Her hair was short and white. Afraid that I would be noticed, I hid behind a fire tower made out of a huge rock. From that distance, I could see black-soldiers brought the white-hair-girl to the scaffold and tortured her.
The screams of tortured prisoners echoed nonstop, making me terrified. When the black-soldiers beheaded some of the prisoners, I was so scared that I ran away without looking back. I only stopped to catch my breath after knowing that there were no one after me. Then I found myself on a stone bridge crossing over a green river. After resting for a while, I looked down the bridge and found on the nearby riverbank a couple of vendor who invited me to their meal with gestures. Unfortunately, coming down was impossible as I found a labyrinth lying at the end of the bridge. I could not locate its entrance and exit so I gave up. Not knowing what to do next, I stood alone on the stone bridge, exhausted and depressed.
I was still there when the sun slowly set down. Everything around became darker and darker. When the sunlight had reduced to a weak beam hovering on the horizon, the huge stone watermill blocking my sight from the left riverbank started moving magically. The irritating noise of water falling down from the watermill somehow sounded like the laugh of Mephistopheles(1).
And thus the dream ended when the last reddish beam of twilight dissolved into the air.
(1) - Mephistopheles is a name given to one of the chief demons of Christianity appearing in European literary traditions. (from Wikipedia)
@ Kal_Kally: Thanks for beta-reading for me.
Being forgotten in a desert all alone forever maybe is the most terrible punishment that we human couldn't bear. 
