User blog:Habrish/The Habrish Diaries 8th Entry

Everyone was wearing mask and dancing so beautifully. A masquerade ball was the perfect place to meet my informant.

I spied her across the room. A vision in blue in a ever changing kaleidoscope of colors. As I made my way toward her I was bumped and tussled here and there by the myriad of dancers weaving their way around the ballroom.

At last I reached her, sweeping her into the crowd of dancers, we twirled and promenaded for a bit. Then I pulled her close, she smelled of roses. I whispered in her ear,"You said you had the answers I seek."

Before she could answer she was whisked out of my arms by another dancer. I grabbed for her hand and missed. A woman in a white dress wrapped her arm around my waist and pulled me into a dance. I tried to follow the other pair of dancers as best I could without causing a seen. They were already halfway to the door before I finally untangled myself from the woman in white and started half running toward them. I lost them in the crowd. They were gone. Just like that.

I ran outside looking up and down both sides of the street. At first I didn't see anything because of the thick fog that was rolling in from the Docks. Then I caught a brief flash of blue headed toward the Train Station. The for was becoming heavier and heavier. I could only tell I was still headed for the Train Station because how earie the whistle sounded in the fog.

The fog was so think now I couldn't see my own hand in front of my face. How was I going to find anyone in this? Just then I ran full force into something. Son of 🤬! That hurt. What was that? I bench? As I bent down to get a better feel of what I ran into someone hit me in the back of the head.

"Hello, hello," someone was whispering to me. Was this even real?

Helen was shaking me awake. "You were having a bad dream, anything you care to share?"

"No."

"Okay, then supper is ready, I though we could eat out on the veranda."

"Give me a minute, and thank you for being so gracious."

Helen nodded and walked out of the room.