"Back to the Present!" or "We Should Have Read Our Emails!"

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 46384

Joan 2

"Seven years. We are very busy, and seven years is nothing compared to the age of the universe whose end you will be able to witness in comfort thanks to our time bubble."

"Well, that'll give us time to catch up on our email backlog," Andrea mutters, tail swishing about in annoyance while pulling her PDA. "Inquirer's and the Doctor's are always eye openers!"

"You do that while I take care of our paranoid android's problem," Solomon adds, waving Marvin over to a bench and pulling out a repair kit from somewhere on his person. "Let's get that diode fixed!"

"Wha, hey you can't do that here!" the manager protests as the former Marquis Freedom Figher/former Star Fleet Engineer/demifox mage removes the panels on Marvin to get to the offending component. "Go see the sights going on outside for entertainment and . . . not make a mess here in the waiting area. Shoo!"

"And just why should we witness seeing the ultimate statement of things having 'moved on' of this universe?" Cuthbert sneers. "The final statement that everything that you've strived for and sweated for in the end won't even be dust in the long run? Why look out the bloody window to see the ultimate irony of EVERYTHING of this particular universe, you sister f*cking idiot!"

This isn't good, this particular slipping back into Midworld idioms that my husband and love is having right now. You've got to remember that Cuthbert and the other gunslingers of Midworld had struggled so long against things "moving on" (a phrase meaning quiet a bit, but ultimately it could mean things going to desolation). I guess that the manager's attitude must have touched a nerve on more levels than rudeness.

I guess that reading about witnessing the end of the universe must be more funny than seeing in person.

. . .

No, it's just the man's attitude. Still, I am NOT liking the storm clouds gathering over Cuthbert's head and even though I've known him as well as anyone could, for a second I would have sworn that he was going to make this day the manager's last day!

It would be so fitting, given that everything going on OUTSIDE the time bubble and our host's rather shitty attitude!

Later, when Cuthbert's a bit calmer he'll laugh about it and tell us how this absurdity is the backbone of this universe. That this at least for every sentient species of this universe.

. . . .

We really should have looked through our emails before coming here. Manfox Fred had been . . . coy on certain details about his time here. How he, his wife, and the newbie Champion he'd been chaperoning did while here. The exact means on how this place works Cuthbert didn't tell us (and later he'll admit the book never told).

. . .

Alright, what does all this mean (besides the manager looking at my husband oddly in askance)?

Besides it meaning that this manager is really annoying us all with his attitude problem, it also means that we've got the making of something REALLY earth shattering, ultimately for this place.

It's the little things that get you in the end. In the end, I'm talking about physics. . . . the rules that makes things work. If just one little things change, it can lead to disaster for the Restaurant! Even if the change leads to something that WOULD have allowed the Restaurant to do the little tricks it does! Meaning that . . .

Well, we'll get to that here in a moment. . . .

The first signs of trouble for the Restaurant was the shuttering, deafening BOOM that announced it's premature return to the present ("our" present where we came aboard her)! That and the ground coming up to greet all of us rather quickly!

"Besides," Cuthbert quips to the manager (over the screaming coming from the dining room beyond), glancing outside after picking himself off the ground. "By my eyes there's only the Frogstar world outside!"

Turns out that the humor was ill timed. Then again, we had no idea how bad things were elsewhere in this place!

  1. We soon DO get to the dining area, but not for a meal. Rather, as for lending out first aid to the most grievously wounded!

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