Lightning

The storm started suddenly. Only moments before I had been playing in the garden, and now black clouds covered the sky. The wind jerked the branches of the trees, and the first drops of rain fell heavily on the ground. I ran towards the house, but then.... the sky was torn by a flash zigzag, and the thunder until it shook the ground beneath my feet. And suddenly everything was gone. The house - gone. The trees - they were gone. The road, the garden, the whole countryside - gone. I was standing on something that was neither grass nor pavement. It was a dark, shiny surface, as if someone had created a floor out of pure night. I looked around. There was no sky. Above my head was something that looked like .... swirling stars and nebulae, as if the whole universe had been turned upside down. Am I still on Earth? And then I heard a voice. - You are here. Finally. I turned around abruptly. In front of me stood a figure, but I could not see her face. Her body was like a shadow, but outlined by the light of lightning. - You have to find your way back ... before it's too late. Before I had time to ask "too late for what?", lightning cut through the sky above my head. And then something started to happen to my hands.