Time Distorted Dilation - Gatekeeper's Labyrinth

Ghan and Markus were at the new event center in the city of Myd'raal. They were attending a new type of hobby convention that broadcasted radio shows as well. The shows talked about different games and collectibles and it was all very interesting. Ghan and Markus were at the ticket booth when they realized that the show was nearly over and they went back to their seats to finish up the live show with friends. After it was over Markus was able to speak with the event planner and main person in charge for this hobby show. They talked about possible future events and it was all very interesting. Ghan and Markus left the event center and went their separate ways, since Markus lived in the city and Ghan was visiting with friends. Markus began to walk towards Mountain street, or where Mountain street used to be. He passed by a highway section and seen Vincent in a van with his family. Markus waived them off and continued his adventure into the commercial and industrial combination of businesses area. Markus found a path through the back of a renovation site for a new shop, the construction workers did not seem to mind. Markus kept on through and ended up rounding a few sharp corners and made it out to the main drag of the street.   The next few scenes were blurry and seemed to have happened over several days...   Markus met up with some friends that lived in the city; they had been discussing time distortions and dilations. It was so engaging that they had experienced one at the same time. Markus departed with his friends and began to head home. As Markus rounded a corner he noticed that another time dilation was beginning to happen. Every step Markus took, he ended up several years into the future, but it seemed everyone had passed through it with Markus in their own way. Markus imagined a coastal area where it was mild and you could see icebergs off shore several kilometers out. There were some small peaks that had snow caps along the shoreline, and the icebergs were almost like tundra's stretched across the horizon. Markus began to wander up the coastline and ended up at a simple family's home.   They were friendly and welcomed Markus as if he was an old friend. Markus talked to them about his recent experience, even though it may have sounded odd to them. They were simple and nodded in agreement and asked to take their kids with him when Markus headed back. He reluctantly agreed but it seemed to be the right thing to do. Time passed normally for a few days...   Markus was heading out with the kids and waving goodbye to their parents which Markus had become fond of and attached to. He began walking down the driveway, Markus and two of their children, a boy and a girl. Markus did not remember their names. As they approached the hedgeline of trees at the end of the drive, another time distortion was beginning to take shape. This time it was much more noticeable as the changes were made. They had just watched a tree grow ten feet in a matter of moments. Markus grabbed both of the kids' hands; they were probably around 13-14 years of age. Markus began to run and the kids were able to keep pace with him. The hedge seemed to grow longer as they headed back towards where their house used to be. Somehow the distortion was able to make the trees more in front of them and pointed them in a completely different direction. They kept on moving keeping pace with their speed.   The three of them had very little equipment to handle but they used every part of it as this distortion kept getting worse. Markus and the kids kept their speed up and it seemed to make the distortion longer once Markus noticed this, they ran through underbrush, breaking branches with their hands. They made a right turn and ran off into the wildlife; they avoided the cat-like animal that was a crossbreed between a bobcat and a lion. They made another turn to the left and ran into a bear, Markus had a small knife with him, as he got closer still running, drove the blade into the bear's chest, and they zoomed right by the dead corpse. Once they slowed down their pace, they noticed that the distortion was slowing down as well and that they were not even out of breath. Markus and the kids kept a jogging pace. They rounded another right turn and came across some sort of giant forest-like creature that seemed to have been dead for some to be completely removed from its main corpse but laid nearby. They were not able to see the face, which in Markus' opinion was a good thing.   Markus and the kids slowed their pace once more and the distortion of time stopped. They found themselves on the outskirts of a town, that Markus assumed looked very much like an environmentally friendly city. Markus walked with the kids towards the center of town and reached a City Hall. They stopped to take a break and have something to eat. Markus mingled with some locals near a bulletin board and discussed the previous events in a subtle way as to not give them too much information as to whom it happened to. The locals grasped the concept very well and reassured Markus that they experienced something similar before but talked about it as if it was a past-time.   Markus thanked them for their input and turned back to the kids. They were adjusting well and had already made a new friend that Markus recognized as his nephew. Markus' nephew did not seem to recognize him though... They began to talk about similar interests and found a topic that had both two different ideas as to what it meant. Markus' nephew declared a Google search challenge as a little competition between Markus and his nephew. They both pulled out a cell phone, Markus' being of an old school design, coming from Markus' nephew's point of view and his cell phone being more recent design. The did their search. Markus' nephew found his word before Markus; but Markus read his definition before his nephew. With this competition over it only left the four of them more confused than anything. As they put their cell phones away, another person to whom Markus was related to showed up. It was his eldest brother, he came to pick Markus and the others up, and he seemed to not have aged at all since last Markus seen him. Markus and his brother got into an argument and Markus stood up for himself and degraded his brother a little, but it was enough to put him in his place. Markus' brother waved it off and the all headed to his car.