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Captured by wild Bertha

When about 2/3 of the trip to the only city frogs can pronouncegif was completed, the by now rather pale pilot turned to Jesper and said:
"If you wonder why I'm in a cold sweat and deadly pale..."
"No, I don't", Jesper interrupted, "I'm reading my diary and are trying to remember something I wrote yesterday.
"Oh! Anyway, I have very good reason to feel this way. A reason of decisive importance for you too!"
Jesper still read his diary, but nodded absent minded to the pilot to pretend that he had heard what he just said. Even though Jesper clearly displayed his lack of interest, the pilot felt obligated to continue:
"I've realized five facts, that combined are somewhat fatal... Those facts are:

But besides that, and that a tornado is reported in front of us, and that I really need to pee, everything is fine."
"Well, if you continue to sweat like this, you probably loose so much fluid that you do not have to pee", Jesper consoled,
"Probably. But what about the other things I said?"
"I'm not that good at combining facts... Could you please use plain languish."
"We are going to die!"
"That's more like it. No room for misunderstandings", Jesper said, repeated the words the pilot just said to himself, and fainted.

The little plane, with the pilot close to a nervous breakdown and the fainted passenger, suddenly started to spin around with an enormously high rotation frequency. The plane was trapped in the eye of a huge tornado, that by the way was named Bertha. The centrifugal force inside the plane was very strong and pressed the persons inside the plane against the side doors. If the doors hadn't been carefully locked both the persons inside the plane would have been thrown out. The doors hadn't been locked carefully, by the way... at least not both of them. The passenger door opened and the passenger, that besides forgetting to lock the door had forgot to put on his seat belt, was thrown out of the plane.

The plane was kept in the center of the tornado for 2 minutes before it finally came loose. Jesper, on the other hand, stayed in the eye the tornado for more than two and a half hour while Bertha moved in over Australian land. By this time the wind velocity had slacken so much that the gravity force acting on Jesper finally became important. From an altitude of about 1000 meters he fell precipitately towards the ground. At that moment Jesper woke up. His head felt extraordinary dizzy and everything seemed to spin around. Feeling convinced that he had an 'endlessly falling dream', he stayed totally calm as he finally ended up in a container situated in an industry area.

The container Jesper just landed in belonged to a company called `The world's softest pillows`. The secret behind the unusually soft pillows was a down picked from a special breed bird, that came from a cross-breeding of humming-birds and ostrich. Besides having extremely soft and large down, the down was extremely fast growing and the average size birds could be picked of all their down once a week. The down was keep in huge containers before it was put inside pillows.

Due to all the extremely clever plot and unexpected new turns in the story so far the awake reader might now expect the unexpected; to find out that container Jesper landed in was empty, or even better, rented to 'Sharp Nails Incorporated". However, since Jesper in that case would have been very flat or enormously pierced, the container actually contained the soft down indicated earlier. The owner of 'The worlds softest pillows', a man called Al, had observed the spectacular entry of the unexpected visitor. After fetching a ladder he climbed up the huge container and looked down into it. After observing the bold dizzy man for a few seconds Al screamed:
"Jesper! Where did you come from?
"Tibet? No, LA? No, it might have been from the moon around Bleep."
Since Jesper still was very daze, he didn't recognize Al as one of his ex-stepfathers. Al was not just a stepfather to Jesper, he was actually one of Jesper favorite ones, the seventh best according to Jesper's own top ten stepfather list to be precise.

Al helped Jesper up from the container and down to the solid ground. By this time the image of a spinning surrounding inside Jesper's head was about to slow down. This helped Jesper to finally identify his stepfather.
"Al, my almost favorite dad. I'm sorry I didn't recognize you sooner. I felt so dizzy, it must have been from the jet lag from the trip from.... the place I came from."
Al didn't give a reply to Jesper since he suddenly remembered something that had happened earlier. Instead he said:
"The strange looking woman was right. Even though I saw it with my own eyes I can hardly belive it. How could she have known?"
"The strange looking woman?", Jesper wondered.
"Yeah! She came to me half an hour ago, and claimed that you should appear on this exact spot within an hour. She therefore insisted that I should move my largest container with down to this spot. Normally 'Sharp Nails Inc.' keep their container here."
"How could she know that?", Jesper asked.
"Well, I don't know. She claims that she is psycic, ant that she always can sence where you are, and will be. She called helself Olva, or something like that. Do you know this strange looking woman?"
"No, I don't know any Olva. However, there is something very familliar about this woman."

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Thu Feb 26 10:10:12 MET 1998