His eyes began to flutter in the soft humid breeze.
After a few seconds, his eyes finally opened all the way......to see bright blue skies, with only a few sets of clouds, staring down at him.
"What the....." Shawn wonder aloud to himself, completely bewildered.
The last thing the exhausted recruit remembered was being fitted into his uniform, and then falling asleep inside his barracks in that said uniform.
But now here he lay......in what felt like sand, underneath a brilliantly blue sky.
"Dreaming mate, you're just dreamin" he whispered, before sitting up.
Ahead of him was the Ocean....it was transparently clear, and a mixed shade of bright green and blue, like the waters off the coast of Florida, or in the Caribbean.
"Well then, it's official......i'm definitely dreaming, because these sure aren't the waters of jolly ol' England"Shawn sighed and removed his hat, so that he could run his fingers through his
combed back hair, before swiftly popping to his feet, and then brushing the sand off the front and back of his
blue and white dress uniform"Dreaming myself onto such a beautiful scene........fully dressed as such, eh? You've gotta be kidding......" He'd put his hat back atop his head, and walk along the shoreline for several minutes, before finally spotting a grand mansion a hundred or so yards inland, and making his way towards it.
"That letter i signed......." he said to himself as he cautiously made his way up towards the large front doors.
Shawn would knock loudly twice, but after receiving no response, the young man would decide to just try his hand at opening the doors himself.
Much to his surprise, they were unlocked, and so he made his way in & shut the door behind him.
The entrance lobby was grand.......the floor made of marble, the walls at LEAST seventeen feet high, and the luxurious stone staircase in front of him was gigantic........but to Shawn, it was only somewhat impressive, seeing as how his mothers status had garnered him entrance into places in his country FAR grander.
"The woman......or goddess i should say, was real?" he thought, before walking to the foot of the staircase.
He wouldn't make it more than a step or two up before hearing a womans voice call out - causing him to stop in his tracks, and look up to the top of the staircase.....
Shawn could tell there would be a choice to go either left or right once he reached the top of the staircase, going to two different wings he guessed...........but what he wasn't sure of, was which way the womans voice came from. So after finally walking up to the top of the staircase he decided to call out';
"Ello? Is.....someone there?", before taking his hat off and placing it
under his arm........just in time to hear another womans voice.