DIRECTOR GENERAL
MODO DE PROCEDER EN RELACIÓN CON LOS MENORES A EFECTOS DE EVITAR CONDUCTAS IMPROPIAS
Dennis stood up and looked around again, “We better get moving, we need to find the way out.”
“Can you transport yourself to the surface and find out where everyone went?” Cassidy asked.
“I could, but I don’t know if I could find you again once I got there, let’s look around a little first.”
“What if we run into more of those things?”
“I don’t think they will be much of a problem, let’s head straight back down the cavern.”
Cassidy stood up and both of them walked back down the path they came from. The walls didn’t look familiar heading the other direction and it seemed like they were walking in circles. “I have an idea,” she said. “Let’s yell and see if anyone answers.”
“Go ahead,” Dennis said.
“Hey!” Cassidy yelled. An echo called back and nothing.
“Is there anything I can do for you?” a voice called out from the dark. Cassidy and Dennis froze in shock hearing the voice, it sounded like it came from a few feet away, but no one was there. “Who are you?” Dennis asked.
“I’m Jack, and who are you?” Jack asked. “Dennis, and this is Cassidy,” Dennis replied.
“Glad to meet you, what do you need, are you lost?”
“Yes, we came back to the main cavern where we started from and we can’t find anybody. Either they all left or we are in the wrong spot.”
“This is the right spot,” Jack replied.
An awkward silence followed. “Where is everybody?” Cassidy asked. “They are all here, you can’t see them, and they are in the walls.” “What?” Cassidy asked.
“They moved into the walls.”
“Like ghosts? They were all alive when we left them.”
“They are very much alive, but they have shifted into a different dimension. Now they share space with the walls, and all solid objects. They
are here now with you and me, they pass through you and you can’t feel them. They are like ghosts, yet are not.”
“Is this some sort of sixties drug rush you’re on?” Dennis asked. “Close your eyes and look, tell me what you see,” Jack said.
Skeptically, Dennis closed his eyes and tried to see what Jack was talking about. “Do you mean with my mind?”
“No, you will see them in real time, for real, keep looking.”
Then the images popped in Dennis’s eyes. He could see them faintly in the darkness “What the hell?” he said and opened his eyes. The images of the men faded away and Jack stood before him again. “What happened to them?”
“It happens all the time, it has to do with the makeup of the rock and landscape. It will shift back again. You notice it because you left when the shift occurred, and now you came back before it shifted back.”
“Why didn’t it affect you?” Dennis asked.
“It did, I live in all dimensions, I see you and them at the same time. “Then you can see them walk right through us.”
“Yes I can, and I never get used to it.” “So they will shift back?” Dennis asked.
“Yes, but you won’t notice, you and they are shifted, it is very difficult to shift you back into the same dimension. It would be like trying to sync two wind up watches in two different cars driving two hundred miles an hour. It can be done, but may take a thousand attempts.”
“Are we also out of sync with the people on the surface?” Dennis asked.
“Yes, you may never see the people you know again, you may be forever lost in space and time.”
“Are there more like you?” Cassidy asked.
“Yes, there are many like me, we may be your only contact with anything human again.”
“You are scaring me,” Cassidy said. “All we did was go for a walk.” “This place is like a giant electromagnetic time warp machine, any variation from the norm can send you into a place you can never return from.”
“So now what do we do?” Cassidy asked scared and shaking. “I can take you to my people,” Jack replied.
Later that day, after a long walk through the tunnels, the three entered a chamber populated by people dressed like Jack. They were in long brown robes and looked like monks. The chamber was set up like a little town with small buildings stuffed between the walls.
“This is where you live?” Dennis asked. “Kind of cramped.” “Yes, but it is all we’ve known.”
“You should get out more.”
“We do occasionally, but we don’t find anything on the outside that we can’t find on the inside.”
“How about a little sunshine?” Dennis joked.
“The sun’s rays actually harm us quite badly, we can only go out at night.”
Cassidy scanned the small village and shook her head in disbelief. “I can’t believe this is going to be my life from now on, I can’t live like this.”
“Oh, it’s not as bad as you think it is, you will get used to it,” Jack said. “Used to what?” a voice said from a figure walking towards them
dressed in brown robes. “What is Jack telling you?”
“He says we’re trapped here,” Cassidy said almost in tears.
“What? What are you telling these people?” the man asked. “Don’t listen to him, Jack likes to make shit up, you don’t have to live here.”
“He says we’re time shifted, or something like that. We’re stuck in some off dimension only he can see.”
“Is that right Jack? Did you tell them that?”
Jack hung his head like he had just been caught in a lie. “Maybe,” he replied.
“Jack here is sort of the local problem child. He gets into a lot of trouble and making up shit is one of his specialties.”
“So we’re not trapped?” Cassidy asked all happy now. “No, you can leave whenever you want,” the man replied.
“Then where are all the men who were in the cavern when I came down from the
surface? We went back to find them and they were all gone.” “Jack?” the man asked, “What did you do?”
Jack tried to turn and avoid the question. “I’m talking to you!” the man said louder.
Jack turned back. “I didn’t do anything with them. They were in the wrong cavern and I didn’t tell them. I let them assume they were gone.”
“Why?”
“So they’d follow me here, why do you think? Now leave me alone!” Jack snapped back like a spoiled teenager.
“Ok, now that I know what’s going on I think I can help. The cave in that caused this whole thing has been cleared, you can now get to the elevator and get back to the surface. I’ll take care of Jack here.”
“How do we get to the elevator?” Dennis asked.
“Go back down the tunnel you came from, take the first right, walk about three hundred feet and the elevator will be on the left side,” the man replied. “What a fuck,” Dennis said looking at Jack who was now staring at his own feet. “What were you going to do with us?”
Dennis took Cassidy by the hand and led her out of the chamber back into the hall and followed the man’s directions. It only took twenty minutes to find the elevators.
“What are we going to do when we get back to the surface?” Cassidy asked. “Get the fuck out of this place, what kind of town separates it’s women and men like this?”
“But we can’t go back to where we came from, they’ll take me back to South Dakota for execution.”
“There must be another town around here, a more “normal” place. We just have to look for it.”
The two got on the elevator and hit the button for the surface. It zipped upwards at a very fast pace and in no time they were on the surface in bright sunlight. To greet them were a group of very sexy women holding guns
pointing at them.”
“Now what?” Cassidy asked. “What did we do this time?”
One of the women stepped forward and pulled on Cassidy’s jumpsuit. “Why does it say prisoner on the back of your jumpsuit?”
“You just noticed that now? After you put me in that hole to save your men?” “You didn’t save anyone, they cleared the cave in at the entrance. All you did was take a free joyride.”
“You think that was a joyride?” Cassidy asked.
‘“Tell me why it says “prisoner” on the back of your jumpsuit? Did you escape from somewhere?”
Hesitant to reply, Cassidy tried to change the subject. “I like your nails,” she said.
“I did them myself,” the woman replied. “Now where are you from?”
“I found this jumpsuit on the ground, I put it on because my pants and shirt were dirty.”
“That is a pretty lame lie,” the woman replied.
“It’s my story and I’m sticking to it,” Cassidy replied. “Unless you have a better one, I’ll be on my way.”
The woman conversed a bit with a few other hot women and it seemed a decision was made by all. “Take off your clothes,” the woman said.
“Why?” Cassidy asked.
“We need to see if you have any identifiable marks.”
Cassidy looked at Dennis for support, he shrugged his shoulders and gave no answer. “I’m not taking off my clothes, I have rights.”
“I don’t know where you think you are missy, but the only rights you have are the ones we give to you. Now strip or I will have you stripped.”
Cassidy paused for a moment looking at the group of women who were staring her down, looking at her like she was some sort of criminal. She then pulled each sleeve off and pushed the jumpsuit down over her hips and let the slide down to her ankles. She was nude.
“Do you ever wax?” the woman asked. “Turn around slow,” she demanded. Cassidy stepped out of her clothes and turned in a circle letting everyone get a good look at her naked body. Normally this would be a good thing for her, but in this circumstance, being that it was all women, it was anticlimactic. “How is that?” she asked holding up her arms.
“That’s fine, put your clothes back on,” the woman replied. “What? You’re not going to rape me?” Cassidy joked.
“Rape is no joke, now get dressed.”