<u>A note left at the end of the world:</u>
I can explain everything.
(either:
"I fell, somewhere around here. I fell on the floor face down. I can’t quite picture how it all happened, but I remember seeing the " + (either: "concrete", "tarmac", "grass", "mud", "puddles") + " close up. It may be then that I closed my eyes. It can be so quiet for days on end! " + (either: "I heard messages, secrets.", "I think I heard a prophecy, but I keep forgetting it.", "I was told how to get to a place other than this.") + " I took notes of course. If I'd just had a little while longer I think I would have figured it all out, but it never got dark again, so I left.",
"I was trying" + (either: " to do something special.", " to make something beautiful.", " to make a statement.") + " I used what I could find to build it. I know what you’re thinking! How dare I take those stones! I didn’t know they used to be a house. I didn't mean to make a dam, but very quickly there was a river flowing, pulling all sorts of things along with it. I saw " + (either: "sheets of blank paper, thousands of them.", "strings of tangled electronics.", "dasies, the tall kind that grow by the roadside, tangled together with knives and forks and spoons.") + " I stood right there fishing them out as they went by, but the level was rising so quickly my feet could barely hold the ground. The river got too big and too fast. It took everything with it.",
"Things around here have been going downhill for a while, " + (either: "but I've been coping alright. ", "I thought I was the last one left. ", "but maybe it's for the best. ") +
"I was making maps to make sure I had my routes, but someone started messing with it all. One minute I was making my way through a car park, and the next I'm " + (either: "in an alleyway, and all the windows and doorways are bricked up.", "in a glasshouse where nothing makes a sound.", "in an impossibly massive chamber, filled with dust and sunlight.") + " I can't help you. I don't know where I am.")
You have to understand, I didn’t mean for any of this to happen.