A Jezter's tale - inside

Mummy!!!

Well, before I knew it, I was ushered inside the crumbling mausolium that was their home.
Unsure of what to expect, but expecting the worst just in case, I was guided towards a large door. The door looked strange; It was wearing a toupee at a rakish angle over its tatty knotting. This door was drunk.
At this point a head appeared, winked at me and disappeared again! I have never shied away from a friendly face, until now. The reason for my rectitude being that the head had appeared through the damned door.grinning head - pissed! I needed a drink! The shambling wreck from outside had read my thoughts, for he pressed a jug of fluid into my hand.
The fluid in question seemed to be moving of its own volition, either that or the jug was moving, somewhat disconcertingly, of its own volition! The contents looked unhappy, I looked worse and the bloody door hiccuped.

"Com this vay", said my host in a hammed up hollywoodesque accent. "Gnnnaahhh dnnthh aaiii", echoed Igor, badly.
This was, obviously, going to be a night to remember. Even if I didn't remember it the damned door would, it was now shedding the remains of its varnish and turning a gentle shade of puce. Having no desire to see a door throw up, I hastened towards the middle of the room we had entered, looked around and immediately attempted to retreat.

The entire place was decked out in pre ancien chic. It was also full of skeletal remains in semi upright positions, dancing. Or at least rattling in time to something, for apart from the dry rustle of decomposing cloth (please let it be cloth) there was silence. No sound of footsteps, no music and no voices.
The only sound I could hear was the rasping of Igor's breath, the very faint shhhhllllshhh of a bat in a cloak and the disturbing likeness of two heartbeats under my ears! Balls got hearts??
I swallowed deeply and almost castrated myself in the exercise. At that very moment an exceptionally cold, clammy hand was placed on my shoulder. Thus instantaneously curing the errant gonad situation; They must have bounced off my ankles.
A sibilant whisper accompanied the hand and said "Vuld you like to dance?". If this was the sartorial bat, I was going to change the habit of a lifetime and hit someone! With this thought in mind, I turned slowly (the testicular arrangement precluding rapid movements) and was confronted by ...... a hand!
This was the everloving limit, a disembodied hand was asking for a foxtrot. How it was asking was the more perplexing question, hands not in general being known to be of a talkative nature when unattached to arms and a body.
I glanced at my drink, tempted to try the vile stuff. It had left; We were both relieved! The mug had also departed, all except the handle which squirmed gently in my palm. I dropped it and it slithered away under a nearby table, the table giggled. I checked my palm. In the corner of my eye, I saw the lone hand disappear the same way. The table giggled again, "Obviously a Queen Anne", I thought.
At this juncture it seemed appropriate to check out the room in general and my host in particular. They'd buggered off, I was alone, apart from a few desultory looking pumpkins grinning silently in the dusty gloom.

"Oh well", I thought, another desultory pumpkin"at least that's over a desultory pumpkin all I've got to do is find the bloody car!". yet another d. p.
With this thought firmly in mind, I turned to the door, flapped gently and flew off into the night. At first this worried me never having flown, unaided by a large mechanical appliance, before. Cabin crew would have helped as it was getting chilly up there, a mist was starting to envelop me and a nice warming drink would have gone down a treat.
The mist was thickening into a real pea souper, "Must be over water", I thought and started to lose altitude. Sure enough, a lake came into view below me. It gliterred eerily in the filtered moonlight, as if faces and objects were under the water looking up.

ram looking perplexedeerie skull and crossbones
As I came lower the images clarified, "So this is where Steven King lives!" crossed my mind. Another thing crossed my mind; My feet were getting wet, then my knees and legs. I'd been right earlier, I couldn't fly!
"Balls", I said and immediately regretted it as they too were immersed in the freezing cold. They promptly did the rapid retreat for warmer climes. Water wings in miniature! I was now totally immersed, wringing wet and chilled to the bone. Yet there was this faintly pleasant stroking sensation on my face. Like a lightly drawn fingernail or a .........

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