Tickled Squirrel March 2015 | Page 23

Isaac still not fully accepting this ran to his dad’s van, grabbed the rope out of the back, tied it off and then proceeded to climb through the hole in the floor and down the stairs. Eventually he appeared in front of his aged father and after a lengthy embrace, Isaac had a selfish thought. He turned and fled down the stairs again making sure he took the rope with him, he emerged in the middle of the field where the house would one day stand. Next to him he saw his father sat there. Helping his dad to his feet they then both clung onto the rope and pulled themselves back into what would be a stairwell but in this instance a portal opened. To both of them it felt like a mountain climb, constant forces pushing against them. Both Isaac and William emerged at the top of the stairs to see an elderly William looking horrified as he started to decay in front of them. Back into the stairwell they went again, then again until they emerged back in 2015, hom