Elegant Surroundings Will Soon Be Yours

(WFSC Writing Prompt)

Closed eyes; imaginary droplets (chocolate) fell noiselessly to the table; coming off the very end of that white strip protruding from the cookie; a peaceful silence suddenly broken by a soft haunting melody. I opened my sleeping eyes to find a fortune cookie. Pulling the fortune (already half out) I read the words before they all dripped onto the table "Elegant surroundings will soon be yours". Where had this cookie come from? Who left it here? Was it for me? Why had the words been dripping from the paper? Where did they disappear to after falling? Whatever do you suppose this could mean?
The words had been slowly dripping from the paper yet they remained, still in their entirety as I held the little strip. Elegant surroundings will soon be yours (the 's' trailing and running to the very edge). I read the words over and over again.......once in my hands the dripping had stopped.

I blinked & it seemed I had floated across a misty space taking me inside the most beautiful room I had ever seen.

Gold glistened from trimmings on furniture - an elaborate armoire, a grand dressor with mirror, tall set of drawers; the bed was draped with a velvet burgundy bed spread & floral skirt which rested on a thick rich burgundy carpet; huge fluffy pillows covered with blending floral print lay invitingly at the head. Two armchairs matching the small cherry oak table between them sat close to one side of the bed and a soft plush footstool covered with the same burgundy color as the spread, beckoned feet to rest upon it (a pair of sore tired feet like mine).

Paintings on the wall framed in ornate glittering gold captured my gaze as it slowly moved from beautiful country scene to portrait of a lovely young woman to an abstract.....strange combinations yet all fitting together somehow. They belonged here in these elegant surroundings.

Soft velvet drapes in rich burgundy hung from ceiling to floor; as I moved one aside, placing the folds over the golden tie back on the wall, it was apparent they covered windows which took up almost one entire wall of the room.

Looking outside I could see the long driveway winding through the beautiful red maple trees whose leaves had begun to fall & cover the ground with a cloak of red. They fluttered about slowly in the little breeze. Beyond the drive I looked out at soft rolling hills for as far as the eye could see.

This was a place fit for a queen I thought at about the same time as I noticed in one corner of the room a small wooden stool holding the most elegant crown. It glistened with hundreds of gem stones set in shining gold. What an odd place to keep such a beautiful crown and what elegant surroundings these are, I was thinking.

Again I heard that same soft haunting melody as I opened my eyes slowly, looked around and realized I was actually in my own bedroom in my own home snuggled down under my own covers.

Sliding from under the covers I glanced towards the corner of the room where my eyes fixed on the little round table standing there. It held a black mug full of chocolate drink (once steaming hot I think, now cold), one lone fortune cookie (its fortune sticking part way out) and a single playing card. I walked slowly towards the strange collection almost reluctantly picked up the cookie & pulled the fortune from it. "Elegant surroundings will soon be yours" it said. I pondered the situation for a few moments, then smiling placed the cookie & fortune down (atop.......the Queen of Spades) right next to the cold chocolate drink.