“Where’d your pupil go?”
Wheeler:
Ah, there you are. Perch. How have you been Perch my old friend?
Carr (shaken):
I… I’m not Perch any more.
Wheeler:
I know. The whole assimilation thing. So you want to know about Jorondip, eh?
Carr.:
I didn’t say that.
Wheeler:
On and off. Black and white. I took over. I simply took over. And I took over the thing taken over. I’m just that powerful. Do you know who I am?
Carr.:
Um, you said you were me.
Wheeler:
You’re scared, huh? ‘Fraid I’ll take over *you*?
Carr. (meek; lying):
No.
Wheeler:
Well I can. I *will*. But not just yet. When Spider talks then that’s the End of Days. BoBylon realized. You understand me Perch?
Carr.:
I can’t reach those memories.
Wheeler:
I’ll have that eye and I’ll have you and everything else in this town.
Carr. (grasping):
Spongeberg. Spongeberg can stop you.
Wheeler:
No. Not even Spongeberg The Destroyer can stop me. I’m him as well!
Carr.:
No. Need… Asprind.
Wheeler (more of a whisper):
I’m even… this town. I’m Second Lyfe itself now. My Second Lyfe. *My* Second Lyfe.
(Carrcassonnee has no answer. “DEMON,” she thinks)
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