… does this new development, these — *Residents* — mean, Hucka D.?
Hucka D.:
They are your Residents. They are the center of an illness.
bb:
It’s going to freak Edwardston out.
Hucka D.:
You better find out his reaction.
bb:
Right.
—–
This day Edwardston Resident makes the decision that he’s going to use the teleporter again to see more of VWX Town.
A female voice behind him: “Residents.”
“Did you *say* something… er (checking title of object again)… Wyn??”
But the conversation, if you can call it that, appeared to be over. “Residents?” Edwardston then thinks, walking toward the teleporter. “Is that me and this Wyn?” The idea flitted through Edwardston’s mind that they were destined to marry and share the last name. Indeed, when he found the woman cutout in his inventory several days back, he thought that maybe Baker Bloch had placed it there to give him an Eve to his Adam, a perfect soulmate. He had even talked to her sometimes, but never had she spoken back. Is the object instead channeling another soul?
“How about you, Philip Linden?” Edwardston asked the other figure in the room. “Do you want to say something this morning as well?” But Philip remained silent.
Big Head Philip.
After checking outside the house for anything new (and seeing nothing) he uses the teleporter to head toward the City Hall again. He didn’t specifically remember the teleport option labelled “City Hall 05” from yesterday’s travels — he remembers “City Hall 01-04” options instead. Maybe it was just bad memory. He’s still very new, he said to himself in his mind. Maybe Baker Bloch relabelled the floors while he was asleep, he then thought. Maybe the bottom floor was now “City Hall 00” instead of “City Hall 01”. He’d read about that numbering problem somewhere — what to name a ground floor.
He takes a deep breath, selects “City Hall 05” from his options, and hits the teleport button…
“OMG, what *is* that way up here?”
Then he recognizes the object and quickly teleports back to his home, breath all panicy now. “That *cat*!!”
—–
Hucka D.:
See?
bb:
And if that cat’s way up there on top of the new 5th floor of the City Hall, then he’s going to start asking himself what took the place of the cat on the Confluence Place. It’s actually the very same cat moved directly up, but let’s not bother with that now.
Hucka D.:
Let’s not bother now with that.
bb:
He’s going to find The Residents.
Hucka D.:
And think Baker Bloch is insane — mentally ill — at the core of it.
bb:
*Is* he?
Hucka D.:
Of course not. (pause) I don’t think. But, anyway, the conglomeration of *eyeball* objects is suppose to represent insanity. The Residents directly took the place of The Cat.
bb:
Edwardston *must* simply enter the east side of VWX Town now.
Hucka D.:
Simply *must*.
bb:
Tonight?
Hucka D.:
Let us talk about this [ instead]. The City Hall has been extended up a floor, and topped with the same cat that use to lie directly below on the Confluence Place. The Confluence Place has been remodelled, enlarged. It is a place of *memory*. A third stream now comes from within and not from without.
bb:
The backing waterfall.
Hucka D.:
Right. Confluence Place has everything it needs in itself now. It doesn’t need Edwardston Resident.
bb:
Not sure I follow you, Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
It already has Residents.
bb:
But I think we spoke before…
Hucka D.:
… before spoke…
bb:
… about The Table House the City Hall now completely arches over to reach the space of Confluence Place.
—–
Edwardston walks out of the house toward the Confluence Place to look for the cat. Something else is there for sure.
The cat is not even within Edwardston’s vision range atop the City Hall’s new, 5th floor. “Could it have, I don’t know, *flown* away??” he asks himself. But, no, it’s still there. Invisible to him, but there.
“Blocked from going in!!”
—–
“Even if he wished to,” Hucka D. added.
Sunklands 