Chapter 79: Memory Gap

Jimmy woke up. He was stumped, and beyond confused as to what was going on. He had wild dreams, dreams that he knew his subconscious wasn’t even capable of developing by itself, and he did not know why he had them.

All he knew was that he felt abused, and in a sense, overthrown by an entity that he couldn’t have beaten, or even comprehended. He felt helpless.

However, every feeling of vulnerability he had, disappeared within a split second, and was replaced with more confusion, and rage, as soon as he took a look at his surroundings.

It was dawn already. The sun was rising across the horizon, hinting that he had been knocked out cold for at least four hours, maybe five. Gutaxun was walking forward as if he didn’t need any commands.

Furthermore, his ’ball of semen’ was gone. It had either slipped off of his hand while he was asleep, or he never held it to begin with. There was no way to tell for sure, but this wasn’t even the worst part.

Jimmy suddenly remembered that he had Rulya on his lap before he got knocked out. She wasn’t on his lap now, so he frantically looked around, clumsily running up and down Gutaxun’s back, looking for her.

To his relief, Rulya didn’t fall off while the both of them were asleep, no. She was on her pet dinosaur, riding along, perhaps ten meters, or over thirty feet away. She didn’t seem to be in as much panic as he was, which was puzzling, but he was happy that she was okay.

“Hey!” He called out. “How long have I been asleep?”

“You slept?” She asked, confused. “When? You were talking to me a moment ago.”

“What the fuck…” He said, under his breath, and then he raised his voice. “Come up here, Rulya, we’re gonna take a short break. I have a few questions to ask you.”

“Can it wait?” She insisted. “We have to get the survivors back home, and we can talk about your magical, sexy smelling dinos then. We shouldn’t waste time, you said that yourself, and besides, we shouldn’t piss Anna off more than we already did. That crazy bitch almost fed me to her pet when she saw me napping on your lap.”

Jimmy then sat down, held his head, and tried to figure out if he had simply gone insane. He was sure that he wasn’t dreaming, and yet, he had spaced out on vital events that had conspired throughout the time he was ’asleep’.

There were a lot of things being thrown at him all at once. He had multiple, complex puzzles to figure out, except, it was like he hadn’t bought the puzzle at all, so he couldn’t put it together. He didn’t have an inkling of information to work with.

After a bit of begging and pleading, he convinced Rulya to stop, and climb on top of Gutaxun’s back so they could talk some things over.

First, he explained to her that some weird ghost had confronted him last night, yelled at him, and then knocked him unconscious. She barely understood what he was talking about, but she was prompted to believe him, because no one would lie about anything like this, especially Jimmy.

With that said, she started cooperating, and tried to help him as best as she could. She answered any questions he had to ask.

Jimmy asked her to explain everything that had happened ever since she woke up, and she agreed. She was missing out on some details at first, because she didn’t understand the strong gap in memory he was experiencing, so it took her a solid half an hour to explain everything.

Apparently, Anna had beamed down with her pet QT, and said that she had found six survivors. These survivors were old-ish, they weren’t the young men and women the team initially looked for, but they belonged to the tribe nonetheless, so they were given priority, and were going to be transported home today, safe and sound.

However, when she had seen Rulya sleeping on his lap, Anna had gone nearly apeshit, and threatened to kill both of them, but apparently, Jimmy talked her out of it, and calmed her down.

It took some great convincing, but Anna finally believed that Rulya and Jimmy didn’t have sex last night, and that Rulya had just been catching up on her sleep when she was on Jimmy’s lap. Anna was a reasonable person, so she believed them, after almost feeding Rulya to her pet QT, of course. She didn’t break up with Jimmy, but their relationship was a bit damaged now.

’Nothing I can’t fix,’ He thought. ’Apparently I’m good with my words even when I’m not fucking awake? I’m gonna need her to help me figure this spooky shit out anyway.’

As he spoke with Rulya, Jimmy insisted that he had been asleep that whole time, but she refused to believe it. She could even describe what he had said in detail, and remembered his eyes being wide open. She insisted that the small talk he initiated, even minutes before he ’woke up’ spazzing, couldn’t have belonged to an unconscious person.

After that point, there wasn’t any more information that Rulya could share with him. She helped him catch up as best as she could, but that was about it, she couldn’t help him beyond what she had seen herself.

Jimmy was nowhere close to figuring out what happened last night, and to save his sanity, he dropped the topic all together. Whatever attacked him last night, did not want to be found, or understood. The dreams he had certainly didn’t make any sense either, so he was stumped.

Rulya helped him calm down, as she pitched, “This may be a long shot, but why don’t you ask the elders about your mystery ghost when we get back home? Those old bastards sit around in caves all day anyway, so, have them help you.”

Furthermore, she insisted, “You’re saving our tribe with your magic. We owe you everything, and so do those old farts.”

“Hmm…” He stroked his chin, “That actually might get me somewhere, Rulya. At this point I don’t care about the ghost, I just don’t want to be attacked again.”

Afterwards, he asked, “Speaking of attacks, how about you tell me how you felt last night, after I helped you relieve yourself? I know we said we should wait until we get home, but I don’t want a bunch of old men chasing me around, and trying to fuck me. You understand that, right?”

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