"Jef-fwey. What's yos?" Geoffery looked to the woman with a sad, but curious look, "Way-o did you escape fwum?" The child looks at the doggy, and sees it start to cringe and writhe, "Wut's wong with Sparky?" Even though the doggy's on his side, his legs are moving like he's running.
The man finds himself in the middle of clearing. The town he was once in was gone. The woman and her "brother" named Wolf were nowhere to be seen. He looked around but nothing was there. No trees, no mountains, nothing. He could only see grass in every direction; perfectly green at all at the same length, not a blade of crabgrass anywhere. No flowers, no bugs, just grass.
"Hello?" The man started to walk in one direction, but it seemed like he wasn't moving. No matter where he went, the landscape was the same. "The hell, what is this?" He broke into a run, but the scenery remained. "Where is everyone, everything? Where's the snow? Where's the village?" He stopped on a dime and did a 225 degree turn and began running to what was his right. He ran and ran. Suddenly the grass was gone. It was replaced by cobblestone. He looked down at his feet and immediately smelled burning wood. He smelled the scent of cedar in flames. He quickly looked back up and he was at the outskirts of a small town, staring at a burning house. His burning house. "KYLE!" The man ran towards the building he began to hear his son's faint voice, "Daddy, daddy, daddy where are you?"
"I'm coming Kyle! I'm here! Hang on son!"
"Daddy!" The child sobs, "Daddy!"
The man reaches the house, turns the handle, and storms into a stone room decorated with trophies of war and family crest above a fire place. "Wha- where?" He sees a man's silhouette in front of the fire. "Where's my son? What happened to my wife?" A deep voice comes from the silhouette, "Your family is dead." The words cause the man's heart like it gained 20 tons and it fell into his stomach. He whispers, "No..."
"Yes, your son, your wife... and her child."
The man shoots a confused, terrified look at the silhouette, "What? What do you mean 'her child'?"
"Your wife was pregnant." The four words stab the man's heart and leaves him feeling cold and empty. He stares daggers at the silhouette, "Why? Why did you do this?"
"Why? I ordered you to do a simple task, and you wouldn't do it."
"You told me kidnap a child! I could never do such a thing!"
"You owed me a child, so I took a child, your child."
"AND MY WIFE!"
"Your wife was in my man's way. She decided her own fate."
"Damn you! Damn you to hell!" The man runs straight at the silhouette and falls into a hole. He falls what seems like forever; screaming and crying the whole way down.
Back in Geoffery's home, the man shifts back into a human and wakes up still screaming with tears running down his face. "...aaaah-ah!" His arms spread out to keep his balance, he looks around scared. Everything is a blur, he stops and looks at a figure, it comes into focus as the woman he helped earlier. He wipes his face with one slow swipe of his hand, and looks at the rest of his surroundings, "Wh-where am I?"
Geoffery shrieks with glee and surprise, "Sparky's re-oh!"
