As you fall into sleep, you have that not uncommon feeling of missing a step and falling. This time, you continue to fall. for what seems like hours, you go down, down, down, with no ground in sight. There is no up, no down, no left or right, there is no anything.
Out of nowhere, you feel a slight tugging at your wrists. Something come to stop your decent? To save you from whatever lies below? You look up, and there around you are three ginormous black birds; silver tipped wings lightly brushing your sides, stirring a breeze to chill your lightly clad body.
You are transfixed, watching these monstrous creatures as they so calmly and quietly pull you through the air from one nothingness to another, when you feel another tug at your wrists. You look to the forward leading birds but they haven't changed. Their speed is the same, their direction, as far as you can tell, is the same, they haven't moved to what seemed at the moment to be up and down. Confused, you relax, again looking at the birds on their steady flight, wondering absently where you might be going. Then you feel it at your ankles, a harder pull than last time, and outward.
Bewildered now, you watch as your legs move apart, the birds moving formation as necessary to continue their flight. There is nothing for a moment, no feeling as you soar through nothingness, and you once more relax into a state of relaxation and carelessness. Then you feel a sharper tug, this now at your waist, and you see nothing, of course, that could be causing it. The tugging continues, and you begin to squirm. Finally the birds look at you, as if to reprimand you, their cold black marble eyes staring into you. You ignore them as the tugging at your waist moves to your chest, and squirm harder, relentlessly trying to pull away from the flock, to free your arms and stop the pulling that has now lifted your back to a slight arch.
"Oh god woman, don't start this now."
You jump at the voice that seems to come from somewhere distant, yet so close. Squirming harder, you feel a sharp slap to your thigh.
"Stop moving dammit."
You cry out at the quickly receding pain, and suddenly realize you're not flying, you're still at home in your bed, right where you know you'd be. you start to sit up- that's when you see the ties, securely pulling your arms and legs to the four corners of your bed, as the birds had flown with you only moments ago. You pull frantically at your bindings, and feel pressure on your shoulders.
"I would stop now if I were you."
You finally look next to the bed, pulling your eyes from the silken rope twisted and twined between your wrists and the bed posts. The lights are dim, but you can still see him fairly well. He is tall, much taller than you; his skin is not dark, but its tan is deceiving in the faint light. He is strong, too strong, you think, as you look from his thick muscular arms to his hard, faintly defined chest and abs. In fact, he looks good, you think, wondering at his dark charcoal eyes and his smile, not there a before but building up now as he sees you watching him. You look away, cursing yourself for encouraging him, but still in awe over his picturesque appearance. Angry at yourself now, you yank at your bonds, pulling this way and that, trying to at least loosen the knots holding you there.
His smile fades, and he pushes down your shoulders, saying quietly, "You will stop pulling, now."
"Fuck you," you say, and you continue to pull at your wrists, forgetting your ankles as he steps closer to you, now standing against the bed, looking down on you.