VAGABOND FUGUE Gypsy D. Sideshow
Chapter 7
The Vagabond Fugue Sophia my darling, tell me what happened when we were found by the clown king and it all went black. Why do I feel like I am in a womb-like dream? or cannot remember how we were guided into that room... that place where I gave my submission in that shadowy corner? Sophia, if you are there- on the other side of this water-tank dream….tap for me….a hollow morse message coded against the shell of my body… The turbined whir and whine of thoughts from the back of my skull…lost…. a gap of input…a canyon…. Fugue. Tell me again what we came here for. A brother? Identity? Love? All I know is that I need your fingertips at my temples… my head is aching inside with fire. Help me to follow these bread crumbs of light….synapses firing, misfiring… tonguing the empty space.. the ache.… when they trapped us in that room…what did the clown king say again? I have only the dim memory of it. The poetry. Words coming in verse… reverse…
Sit. Relax, If I wanted you dead, you would be already I would turn you over to these tar-shadow men and the Lady of Tentacles. Instead, know who I am, both here and to the outside world. I am the maker, the pixel world creator and I am on your side. In the palm of my hand is a treasure. The key to what you have lost. Your memory. Identity, the jewel to make you the savior of our world. This is your body. Broken. Take and Eat.
With this light, find Romero, your lost brother. Absorb him back into your body.
On his own, his organic form was lost in translation. He is a fragmented file, a rogue code, corrupting and infecting. He is nature in an unnatural world, and he does not belong.
Splintering off from you, he fell like Lucifer from the stars. Cratered into a dark sky city, corroded it like Wormwood. The city now desolate where no digital soul dares to tread.
The Lady of Tentacles …she found him. She took Romero and holds him captive.
Find him. Save him. You will save us all‌.