So John wracked his mind for a solution
and obviously the book had to have hd something
to do with it.
John had been blessed with a photographic memory since
he was little
and so she sat off in the corner of the cave and closed
her eyes and recalled each page of the book
that she had opened and flipped through the pages
earlier.
Though the pictures of monster girls had been all fine
and dandy,there had been pages with black and white
photographs and
printed pages
and slowly John
concentrated on the black and white
photos details
and remembered seeing
the photos had shown men in lab coats sitting beside
old 1950s and 1960s
era lab electrical equipment.
After some work John realized
the book was actually
a journal of some Campus experiment from decades
earlier that involved cutting edge dimensional research
hallucinogenic drugs
and monster girls.
So John opened her eyes,to find
Aaron staring at her
"Well?" said Aaron
Slowly John got up and looked about the cave
and finally saw it
a modern symbol carved in the cave wall
just like one she'd seen in the book.
Carefully she moved deeper into the cave,Aaron
following till
she came to the next symbol
then the next
and finally came apon a back room
filled with what looked like a roomy telephone
booth with a junkyard sized
electromagnet sitting
atop it.
Various cables,thick and dusty
ran from the device
and headed into another room
where sat a huge but silent
generator
tables and chairs and boxes of supplies
and the book,sitting by itself on a pedestal.
Trembling John picked up the book and opened
its pages.
There was printing and black and white photos
but more importantly colour images
of Aaron and his dorm
room
with Aaron on the bed and John holding the
book.
So John carefully placed a claw
on that page
and there was a flash of light
and when he and Aaron
could see again
they were back in their dorm room once more
and themselves again.
Everything was normal and both college students
put the weird episode behind them for the
next two months,not daring
to jerk around with
fate again.
They did their schoolwork
got C's B's and A's
and
then
came the Campus riots...
It was hard for John and Aaron to ignore those
riots
because rival groups of womens groups
chanted and protested in front
of the Deans office
waving banners
with a black scaled dragon and a red skinned demon girl
on those banners.
Clearly if the two boys didn't want to go back to the
other world
the other world was
coming to them