The Storyteller (Part four)

He took another long drink and remained silent for a moment while staring into his glass. "This is where it really starts getting weird." he finally said with a chuckle. "When I came too..." he flashed a silly grin at me, "I found myself laying under what I thought was a pile of blankets."

"I started trying to crawl out when I realized I was completely naked under there." he continued. "I was still disoriented and couldn't understand why I would be laying naked under such a huge pile of blankets."

"I began to panic when I realized I couldn't just poke my head out from under the covers." he said. "Finally I gave in to the increasingly urgent need to escape and rolled over and started crawling on my hands and knees."

"When my head did pop out into the open air I slowly got to me feet." he paused and lifted his almost empty glass.

After a moment he sat his glass back on the table and turned turned in his chair to look at me. "I was still there." he said, "Standing in the collar of my shirt and coat."

"Standing where?" I asked, trying to visualize what he was telling me.

"I had somehow shrunk to only a few inches tall." he said wide eyed. "And I was standing in the collar of my shirt staring down the length of my cloths. It was like looking across a football field at a huge pair of boots laying on the ground."

I laughed at the visual he produced in my mind's eye. Only it was me standing there buck naked looking across a pile of giant cloths at a huge pair of boots.

"It really wasn't funny." Ben raised his voice a little, bringing me back to the moment.

"Sorry." I said, "I was just trying to visualize you standing there naked in the collar of your shirt."

He took a small sip of his drink and glanced at me from the corner of his eye.

"So what did you do then?" I asked."Weren't you cold?"

"I really hadn't noticed being cold yet." he replied. "I was just so mesmerized by it all."

"I turned to find my ball cap laying upside down. It was so large I could have used it as a tent if it had landed right side up." he laughed. "And that berry bush... it was larger than the largest oak I've seen."

I could just imagine how large that bush seemed... and the trees that stood around it must have been gigantic. I've never seen the giant redwoods but I can imagine the trees, from his perspective, had to appear to be much larger.