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Little boy, at a table with his homework, eating a big plate of paradoxes.

Nothing abnormal about this kid.

Except this is a place where everything is pretty gosh darn abnormal.

Let this kid know he needs to work on his ability to blend in.

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"Remember what happened up in Canada?"

".......oh no waaaaay...." Tyler has not yet read the other Lovecraft books, but did a google on Cthulu and decided it was time to hide under the bed with his Optimus Prime doll for a while.

"...how bad is it?"

"The Lemurians said that the being that had originally driven their species to sentience had been sleeping for several millions of years, and that they'd been dedicating themselves to keeping it asleep since about two days after they realized what it was," Ray says. "They contacted us because they don't know how much longer they can keep it from rising."

"....what were they doing to keep it from rising?" Tyler asks finally.

"We haven't got complete specifics out of them yet," Ray says. "They tend to speak in metaphors and we're still working on clarifying those. We're guessing ritual manipulation of psychokinetic energy flows, though."

Tyler tries thinking about how big of a ritual it'd have to be to keep something that big and boogabooga scary asleep.

"............The Gozer twinkie is gonna be a crumb compared to this."

"About the size of it," Ray says. "So that's the big stuff that's been happening in my world lately, really. Well, that and one other thing, but it happened here first."

"What happened?"

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Ray eases the sling off his shoulder and onto the table. Carefully opening it he notes, "She's asleep right now. Mostly asleep, anyway. I don't think all of her brains are ever asleep at the same time. Her name's Jhalak."

"...whoa...what is she?"

"She's an alien from a species called the Jotok," Ray says. "They're five separate individuals that combine into one at a certain age and grow up this way. They tend to imprint on the first person to feed them and talk to them once they've done that. She managed to wander in here and find me, and she's been hanging around with me ever since."

That's...actually kind of cool.

"I'd like to meet her when she's awake sometime..."

Maybe later kiddo.

"No problem," Ray says. "She's never more than a few feet from me at any given time these days. I hope she lets up on that soon, so Romana and I don't have to - well, you get the idea- but for now she's with me pretty much whenever I'm here."

"What does she eat?" Tyler asks. "You taught me that it isn't such a bad idea to have snacks on me at any given time... worked out good with the star lions."

"Fruit, leaves, and other plant matter," Ray says. "Star lions?"

"There's a lady here who was raising these lion cubs whose mom was Leo Minor. I keep jerky in my pockets in case I run into em again. They really like the turkey jerky."

"Oh, okay. That sounds familiar but I can't honestly peg the memory." Ray shrugs. "Well, I'm glad it helped."

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