Reality - Ch. 8

Okay, let's go then.  Are you all right?  We can stay a bit longer if you still feel unsteady.

So we'll go over to the wall pictures over there.  You see they're the same as the one's in Arch's pub.

I'll keep you steady while you touch that photo again.  Because I'm holding you up we'll both get transported back to Arch's place.

When I look back at that bar I thin-
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What the?

You didn't touch the photo of Peter Cook and Spike Milligan did you?

You didn't.   Now we're somewhere else.  Not in Arch's pub.  Boy, he's gonna be seriously PO'd.

God knows where we are now.  Looks like we're in a prison.

Strangely, there's a barmaid over there.

Hang on while I'll go and talk to her.

Can you stand without me holding you?  Good.
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Well, the good news is we're not in a prison.  We're actually in a pub in the vault of what used to be a bank.  The pub owners have kept the vault bars and cages for atmosphere.

Oh how the English language is so hard sometimes.  Bars to drink in or bars to imprison you in.

The barmaid did tell me where we are but I couldn't understand much what she said.  It was her dialect plus she was often speaking a different language as though I should understand her.  It could be Gaelic she was speaking so I think we're somewhere in Scotland or Ireland.  Maybe.

But I don't know what year we're in.

Nice place wherever we are.  Very quiet though.  It's a bit weird with all the cage bars around.  But as I've said it used to be a bank.  I think that's what she said.  Otherwise it's a bit disturbing.  I suppose some people might like that but...

We'll not talk about that.  I've still got the nightmares.

Oh, you were looking at the photos on that wall back there.  Were you trying to work out which one you actually touched?

What do you remember?

What do you mean you don't know?  You weren't looking?

And some reason there isn't the photo of Peter Cook and Spike Milligan on this wall either.  We need that to get back to Arch's pub.

Okay, let's look outside and see where we are.  We'll look for newspapers to find out when and where we are.

As long as this place doesn't turn back into a bank. 

I shouldn't have mentioned that should I?