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Chapter 39: The Scenery of the Crime, Spooky Suspects
Doctor Bones stared in dismay at the vaguely cartoony map on the mirror. A blinking smoking coffin was their position, a section around the coffin was coloured in blue, and marked as ‘possible area of lab’. There were a few other large icons on the map, such as a giant snowman, a pale pumpkin and what looked like a glowing ball with little paws and big eyes.
The four lands of Miracle. So called because many did not believe they existed, and those that had been there didn’t really believe either.
They were too absurd. They were supposedly carved out from the wastelands!
In the first place, if the voidspace between dimensions is like the void between worlds in some dimensions, then the wasteland is like the land of a world. In theory one can just walk to different dimensions by going through the wasteland, but the wasteland is where things are forgotten, where things get lost. Nobody understands how the four lands were carved from the wastelands, connected yet different.
Others have tried to reproduce results that the mythical four travellers had created. All failed, and so they named the lands the products of Miracle, the Third Magic. But there is more to the name. Magic in the four lands just works. Any magic can work. When Law functions has little reason or rhyme. The magic of the four lands defy explanation. The magic of the four lands is alive.
The magic is truly wild.
The four lands can be quite hard to leave, and when one leaves… well some say you become a little bit less real. Others argue that you become more real, and thus the less real dimensions don’t cope as well with your presence.
Of course, the main issue for a lot of beings is that like the food dimension, it is a very very silly place.
“The water is chocolate here. The snow is sugary here. It isn’t like the food dimension though.” Miss Fern said, getting excited.
-Hold on now, we need to prepare for…-
Miss Fern was already gone, moments later an image of her waving came up on the mirror.
-Guess I better get out too-
When he got outside, Miss Fern was still dashing about. She seemed quite energized by the elconic air. While she was bouncing about and trying to see “If she could see the chocolate river”, Doctor Bones was taking a closer look at the impact site of where the coffin had landed. A massive purple rock. They had shattered a massive purple rock and the coffin was lodged deep within it. Broken bits of the rock were scattered everywhere.
A ghastly moan came up from the air.
Our two dimensional interlopers froze.
-THAT HURT. OW. OW OW. I FEEL LIKE I’VE BEEN MINED-
The voice continued to complain.
Then Doctor Bones was alarmed as the fragments of rock that had broken off the larger rock began to roll around and cry out in pain.
“Talking rocks!” Miss Fern exclaimed
-Talking rocks!- Doctor Bones confirmed.
-Owowowowow- Went the talking rocks.
-HEY LITTLE GUYS THAT JUST CAME FROM ME, CAN YOU SEE WHAT STRUCK ME? IT HIT MY BACK SO I CAN’T SEE-
“Rocks have a front and back?” Miss Fern questioned.
-I guess, might just be this one though- Doctor Bones shrugged.
The smaller rock fragments stopped rolling and then turned this way and that, they spotted Miss Fern and Doctor Bones.
-There’s a pair of dodgy creepy types on top of you Papa-
-Hey, look here, the weapon of the crime! there’s a creepy coffin stuck in Papa’s back!-
-Think they’re related?-
-Well they are both creepy-
-I think they’re more spooky than creepy-
-Totally spooky-
-Hey Papa, there’s a pair of spooky things on your back, I think they hit you with a spooky coffin!-
-They must have some evil spooky plan!-
-Maybe you guys should stop saying spooky-
-Spooky spooks! We should avalanche them!-
-Hey maybe they’re completely innocent unrelated spooky people-
-Doesn’t seem likely does it?-
-Nah, look at the guilty grin on that one, and that other one’s face looks like she’d sell her papa for food-
-Evil food eaters!-
-Maybe they eat rocks?!-
-Was that the spooky plan, to eat rocks?-
-NOBODY IS EATING ANY ROCKS TODAY-
The whole purple rock shuddered and shook and the smaller rocks having no feet, lost their footing and rolled off. Doctor Bones and Miss Fern weren’t doing much better though.