Entrance to the Unknown I am alone. There in no-one within sight of me, in front or behind.

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Jack Colman                Original Writing Coursework

Entrance to the Unknown

I am alone. There in no-one within sight of me, in front or behind. I don’t know how I got here, or were to go from now.

All I know is the well known myth about the woods that lies ahead of me, were ‘He who enters shall never return’. I stand, shivering in the crisp air, next to a gloomy neglected barn. I enter the deserted storeroom, hoping to come across some resources which will help me through the cold, dead of night which lies ahead of me.

I scatter around, clearing dusty shelves and wading through cobwebs. I stumble over a small metal object, which rolls towards the far corner of the barn and down a set of steps. I crawl through a small hatch, to discover it was a rusty old oil lantern. The lantern was still intact, but without any source of fuel. I desperately needed to find some sort of ignition and paraffin for my lamp.

By this time, my eyes were becoming inflamed due to the vast amount of dust and soot present in the barn, and my sense of stability and direction had deteriorated. I could no longer continue to search the barn so I exited through the brittle rotten doors, and broke into the garage next door. I found it contained a tractor and trailer. I decided to wait here till the sun had risen and I was able to carry on with my ordeal.

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When the morning had arrived, I gathered my belongings and found an external water pump in the far meadow. I stored as much water as I could in a small container and detached a pipe from the back of the pump. I then took the pipe back to the tractor and siphoned out some fuel, which I could use in my lantern. Inside the cabin, was a small satchel bag. I opened the bag to find a worn-out map, with routes, trails and co-ordinates on, along with a compass.

By this time, it had occurred to me that ...

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