“So you went into the void sim to the immediate west of Mos Ainsley, then were kicked out as zero became one and ended up in Mos Ainsley instead.”
“You cannot stay in the void zone. You must return to One.”
“Tell me now this works? How is Mos Ainsley the moon to Jeogeot and how does it correlate to The Moon of Jeogeot?”
“There is a purse,” then says Karoz. “A Curse Purse. On an island. Grassy knoll nearby.”
Baker Bloch had a hunch. “Is this island the same as Muff-Bermingham?” Turns out he was correct.
—–
“Karoz, it is said that Journal 1, which may be the same as Old Mabel’s Journal *4*, is located on this Muff-Bermingham. You and Baker Blinker almost found it last November when being ordered there by Wheeler. But the great Green and White wars started on that island, er, planet.”
“Both,” Karoz clarified. “Space wars, yes. But not ‘Star Wars'”
“But this war also started here in Collagesity. When the Facets tried to forcefully get the Lucky sign from resistant Furry Karl, who then pulled out his Treeshooter, as he calls it. His gun.”
“We’re going on quite a tangent, but yes Baker Bloch. All that is correct, once more.”
—–
“Is Journal 1 the same as Journal 4?”
“You know it is (Baker Bloch).”
“Lucky, the village, is the same as the audiovisual synchronicity “Dark Side of the Rainbow.”
“You are telling the story, but, yes, as I understand it, they are the vesica piscus as one. Two Lucky villages, the circumference of the second is the center of the first. Unch lies on the circumference of the original, the one with the Lucky sign in its midst still. The second lacked the sign. The great robolution had already taken place. Treestock. ’68.”
“I don’t know what a lot of that means,” admits Baker Bloch.
“Neither do I.”
—–
“Back to Sapphire, Karoz.”
“Yes.”
“Hold on just a minute. Let’s order some coffee.”
“Sure.”
—–
“Tell me about your grandparents, Karoz.”
“You mean Sapphire’s mom and dad?”
“Yes. Do you have other grandparents? I guess on your father’s side, obviously.”
“Mossman. I am part or perhaps half moss. I know [delete name].”
“Interesting… forgot about that. Is Gene Fade your father?”
“Yes.”
“How did that work? I think I recall the Gypsies keeping him in a cellar for a play thing.”
“Haha. Yes. That was their story.”
“Such a hunk.”
“Haha.”
“Can you tell me more about the Mossmen, then, Karoz?”
“A bit. I wasn’t raised by Gene Fade, but he created me. He also created Bracket Jupiter, who was king of the Comma Islands.”
“So Gene Fade is a user. But he is a toy avatar as well.”
“He is both.” (pause)
“How can he be both?”
—–
“Back to Sapphire, Karoz.”
“*Yes* You are asking too many questions I simply can’t answer. Ask about Sapphire. The Gypsies and Gene will have to wait. Arab back to Baracuda (Karoz spells this out).
—–
Into the night they went. The Blue Feather restaurant and bar had long closed. Discussions were spiraling around the truth but perhaps not getting much closer to the center than where they began. Weary, they decided to call it quits. But first thing the next time they would speak of Sapphire and Yeot and Yd Island and how she got to Norum and what happened to her when the Lindens came and she became the Lapis and the Lazuli both.
Sunklands 