The Magical Barometer

I was trapped in a strange, magical world, that could have been a ski resort if it weren't for the orcs, unicorns and other magical creatures living there. Some of the good creatures were on my side, but the evil ones had control. I knew that in order to escape, I had to create a magical barometer, which required a powerful spell from one of the tomes in the library. However, this specific spell book was placed alone on the highest shelf, which stretched like a plank through the top of the ceiling, and whenever someone came close to touching it, the red guardian would awake and beat them down forcefully.

This guardian was an orc, not much unlike Rehgar in his heavy armour, with stark red markings on him. Unlike the blue guardian, who looked exactly like him but with blue markings, he had a sense of trouble and was very quick to act. He often mocked the blue guardian for being so slow and called him something like the "slow guardian", which in turn made the Blue Guardian very angry.

So, in order to create the magical barometer and to escape from the fantasy world, I needed 1) a barometer and 2) to bring down the tome quickly without the Red Guardian being able to react.

I thought about how to go about it all and decided that the quickest way would be through a flooding spell, which would summon a gargantuan wave of water. This wave would carry on into the library, carrying with it some of my animal friends. Among them would be an egret who, as the waves subsided, would carefully pick up the washed down barometer from the floor and hand it over to me, replacing it with something else in the process. This egret was fierce, black and looked very much like an evil creature, but it turned out to be on my side. To get the tome down, one of the smaller animals would ride the wave into the library and as its peaks reached the highest shelf, the little fellow would reach out and exchange the tome for another book in the library.

The plan carried out flawlessly, and as I entered the library after the mayhem, the Red Guardian had not yet noticed the replaced book and barometer. Probably because the chaos all around. I quickly grabbed the book and barometer and started reading the spell. The barometer and the air around it got a golden glow as small magical glyphs materialised and started taking their place upon the device. This, however, caused enough of a stir for the Red Guardian to take notice. He came storming into the room, saw me and started dashing for me with his weapon raised high. But he was too late. As I finished the final incantations the floor around him turned into molten rock and he was drawn down into a surge of lava.

The Blue Guardian came in, late as always, but I was already on my way out on a small cart, together with my friend Martin. In order to get the magical barometer to tune into my own world, I had to attach it to a flowering arrowroot plant, which in turn was sat in a vase. I had to wind up the barometer and then try and direct the plant in the proper way, like an antenna. When it was in the right direction I could hear music playing, and it grew stronger as I found the right frequencies. We continued through the town on our cart, trying to work out the device. Sometimes the music grew stronger, and sometimes it faded. The plant was getting torn from all the fidgeting and nothing more would happen.

It didn't want to work and the whole dream turned into a ski vacation with Martin and a couple of other friends, possibly Julia and her friend Andrea. Martin didn't want to go down the same slope as they did. Or the whole thing started with that dream. Anyway, the fantasy part would make a good book, I think.