Interlude 5: Present Day, Present Time...
Restoration at 23%...
[Music Begins Here... Komme, Susser Tod]
Broken glasses and a torn scarf. A skipping 45.
A kiss before dying.
"Did you find what you were looking for?"
Gold cursed with the stain of blood.
"It's almost time for the kids to go."
The weight in his hands.
"If all of those parallel universes, parallel times and choices and possibilities were train tracks, Miss Holloway, the nexus where you arrived... the funny little bar with everyone talking at once about homosexuality and pastries... that's the train station where you get a free transfer. Grand Central Station, even, a big wide open arena where everyone from different trains are milling about to stretch their legs,or switch trains. Trying to pick a better world, which is all we ever want."
"This world... Patchwork Earth... this is the part of the line where all the trains derail and crash into each other."
The far-off lights of the funeral bonfires. Reflections in a broken window.
Night falling.
"Did you know there was a big crash... I guess it was this ship that went through the multiverse. And it crashed pretty bad. There was a book that was kinda sorta named after the ship. Called 'Tears of the Phoenix'..."
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Somewhere in summer, a man woke up beside a burnt out fire and cried.
[Music Begins Here... Komme, Susser Tod]
Broken glasses and a torn scarf. A skipping 45.
A kiss before dying.
"Did you find what you were looking for?"
Gold cursed with the stain of blood.
"It's almost time for the kids to go."
The weight in his hands.
"If all of those parallel universes, parallel times and choices and possibilities were train tracks, Miss Holloway, the nexus where you arrived... the funny little bar with everyone talking at once about homosexuality and pastries... that's the train station where you get a free transfer. Grand Central Station, even, a big wide open arena where everyone from different trains are milling about to stretch their legs,or switch trains. Trying to pick a better world, which is all we ever want."
"This world... Patchwork Earth... this is the part of the line where all the trains derail and crash into each other."
The far-off lights of the funeral bonfires. Reflections in a broken window.
Night falling.
"Did you know there was a big crash... I guess it was this ship that went through the multiverse. And it crashed pretty bad. There was a book that was kinda sorta named after the ship. Called 'Tears of the Phoenix'..."
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Somewhere in summer, a man woke up beside a burnt out fire and cried.