Saturday, 8 February 2020

From Empty School Ground to Crowded Campus (night of 08/02/2020)

Night-time. I head back into the grounds of Abbotsfield School. I am sleeping the night here. I have the feeling that I might be some kind of security guard - though I know it is not normal procedure to spend the night here. Walking across damp and surprisingly long grass - looking into the windows of the empty buildings (and there are more buildings here than in waking life). I think of all the empty corridors, of what it would be like wandering the whole campus at night. I suppose I could do it, after all, I do have access...
Inside. I am vaguely surprised to see so many people about. It now doesn't feel like Abbotsifield but Worcester University Campus. There are lots of people about... Perhaps they are here for some kind of vacation courses? A conference? I try to move through a gap between pillar and wall but have to walk through people sitting on a bench area instead.
I think of the upper floors - of the times I have walked there before - (old recurring dreams, unsure if my dream-self thought of them as dreams or memories) - bright and haunted, full of hospital machinery. Perhaps I shall walk there now? There will be no lectures up there - of this I am sure, and there will be plenty of people on the lower floors to make the whole venture seem less frightening that it might otherwise be.
I join the shift of people move down corridors, and up stairs. So many people.
They all seem to know where they are going.