Jack’s diary had been left behind in the blistering cold, one that a normal rabbit could easily survive. The rabbit that had dragged him from his position up into warmer shelter knew this and realised that something was undoubtedly wrong.



Jack awoke inside a small cave with a fire burning a few metres in front of his warm and comfortable feet. He sat up and looked around, balancing himself on his front paws that palmed themselves onto the stony floor behind him. He gazed up at the ceiling, which in places looked damp and distressed. He looked around and saw a rabbit standing before him. It wasn’t the same rabbit who had brought him here.

‘Who are you?’ Jack said out loud, wincing from the brightness of the fire. He couldn’t really make out the face of the other rabbit.

‘Do not fear me friend,’ the rabbit spoke, ‘I can see that in your eyes you are deeply afraid. No harm will come to you here.’

‘Where am I?’

‘Inside my abode, the North-east mountains. My name is Talec, a member of the Long Patrol. According to the rabbit that brought you here you are not usual.’

‘How did you figure that?’

‘You would normally be able to withstand that storm with your fur. Most rabbits can. You however did not. Do you know why?’

‘I think I do…’

‘What is your name my friend?’

‘Jack Goldhorn, a…’

‘Rabbit?’

‘No, not as long as I have been…a human.’

‘…I see.’

Jack got up after realising his head didn’t hurt and he was able to stand again.

‘Who brought me here?’

‘A friend.’

‘Is he still here?’

‘…No…he left after relieving you at my home. He has now gone back to his.’

‘I must thank him.’

‘I doubt you will ever see him again.’

‘I don’t…’

Talec got up from the small wooden chair he sat on and walked over to Jack, examining his eyes and ears, ‘You seem normal to me.’

‘I do not feel it.’

‘Why were you out in the mountain range?’

‘I came to find shelter. I heard you lived here.’

‘Do you know me from somewhere?’

‘No I do not. I hardly know anyone.’

‘You say you were…a human?’

‘Yes, in a different…world.’

‘Planet Earth?’

‘You know of such a place.’

Talec laughed and walked over to a bookcase near the back of the cave. He pulled out a large book that Jack was convinced it was the Bible. Talec walked back over whilst flicking through pages until he came to an atlas section of the book.

‘Is this your planet?’ Talec asked as he showed him a double page spread of Planet Earth.

‘Yes, that is it! You know of it?’

‘I have been there…oh dear…I should not have said that to such a stranger.’

‘Indeed I am.’

Talec was glad he never brought the subject of Earth up again, yet he knew that Jack was deeply thinking about it. Talec then went back to the book and flicked to another double page, this time of another planet. He showed Jack the picture on it.

‘This…my friend…is the planet that you live on now…’

‘…Wow…’

On the double page spread was a worldview of Planet Carrottus in all its glory. It was truly a magnificent sight of circular clouds and the shiny blue colour of the water down below in the depths of the planet.

‘I never knew such places existed…’ Jack said.

‘Well start believing, Jack, because you are living on it. Welcome to Carrottus.’

‘Um…thanks.’

‘How long have you been here on this planet?’

‘About fourteen years or so. I was young when I first arrived, as if I missed the first years of my new life.’

‘Nobody remembers their entire childhood…’

‘Yet it is strange Talec, for when I was a human I can remember things you think I could never relive. I remember when my mother first clutched me in her grasp. I even remember being in her womb!’

‘Oh my god…’ Talec said, ‘You remember all that?’

‘Yes! I can relive an entire day, even if you said one out randomly to me.’

‘There is an explanation, Jack, I might know what has happened and who you are…’

‘What do you mean?’

‘Come with me, Jack,’ Talec said, ‘We’re going on a journey!’