Mongolia

Date: 2/6/2021

I went to buy toy gun and the boss told me about quitting the shop, he brought up his remaining stock of weird guns that shoot darts in rounded leathered ball, and some robot dolls too. Few of his son were busy renovating the shop front, sort of to convert the shop into abode. Guns on the dining table, I tried some of them and walked after to retrieve the darts. I run into a pile of blanket and a girl was calling my full name under it. It wasn’t fair that she know my name and I didn’t even know her I protested. She just shrugged me off. I kind of liked one of the gun with wooden built, it’s an air rifle, it feel solid under my grip. The boss said he wanted RM250 for it. I had to try it outside the front yard. Retrieving the darts made me walking across ditches and animal pens. Pig pen, cow, even monkey and rhinos. I lost my way around until I came out walking on streets with setting like 50’s in old movies. With kids chiming patriotic slogans on a square with school built around sundry stores and old eateries. I felt like my presence wasn’t very welcome. Before long one of the kid shunned me to the door out the village and latched the fences behind. It was a back door and it was also a dead end trap that was not going anywhere— just out of the village, in a tight corner that does not lead anywhere. Lucky my scrawny limbs can squeeze through the mesh to unlatch the fences. Soon I am walking back into the village again, this time a lady was trying to help after hearing my predicament about getting lost after lunch stroll, and she told me that this is indeed Mongolia. She picked up some joss paper and burning on the square and into trance she hopped around with deity possessed on her to answer my queries. She inferred that I am to wait until her aunt return from work just shortly. Her aunt came in and summoned another deity to help, the tomb on the square I can read with inscription that says— God of Future. I woke up from the nap and I was salivating all over my bedsheet, what a strange dream.