Shades of Unreality

What if you returned from the Land of the Dead to experience the 21st Century?

How would you feel?

Lady Cecylee Neville has been dead for some time, last closing her eyes in 1495. But now it is May, 2015, and she wishes to celebrate her 600th birthday.

And so she resolves to go on a long and perilous journey, whisking herself forward to the 21st Century to see for herself how matters stand.

By turns enthralled, terrified and puzzled, Lady Cecylee finds herself grappling with dishwashers, robots that clean rooms, two stuffed toys and...herself.

Is any of this real?

Is she quite real?

Enjoy a short story which deals with ontology, or what it means to be real...