It was a bright sunny afternoon. Gerry was sitting quietly in the park when a young man, a complete stranger, walked up to him.
"Are you ready to come with us?" he asked.
"I'm waiting for my girlfriend", said Gerry.
"She's with us. You'll meet her if you come with us. Are you ready?"
"All right", said Gerry, at a loss for anything else to say.
Immediately, everything went black. He felt that he had left the ground and was being sucked through a tight tube. When he opened his eyes, he was still in a park, but a different one, with trees and flowers that he could not recognise or name. A group of people stood around him. Their skins were somewhat darker than his, and they were dressed in white tunics.
"Is this him?" one of them asked.
"Yes: I chose him". Gerry recognised Anna, his girlfriend.
"Will he do?"
"He'll have to!"
Gerry looked around. Behind him, where in his town there had been a railway station, there loomed an enormous building. It reminded Gerry of a French chateau, though it was built in an architectural style unknown to him.
"Are we going there?" he asked.
"Not yet. First you must enter the wilderness".
Gerry wondered what could have happened. Was this time travel, a dimension-shift or a parallel universe? Or was it all just a dream? At any event, there seemed little option but to go along with what was required of him.
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