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We rode for several more minutes then, much to e, open rooround coed me and pointed to a ros above us, like the observation areas seen in soures, a crowd I wondered if they had paid for tickets to this Many people in the front row of the observation deck were pressed nakedly against the glass, producing a squished scrotuhtmares Just below the ere clear vats, like man-sized Mason jars They lined the walls and each were filled with deep red fluid I was about to ask the h another door and urged us to follow We went through a hall, past another door, then the stench hitin h and came out onto a catwalk, suspended in a dark space that seeo forever in each direction I stepped out and stopped I cranedup and up and up, then looked down I could see neither the top nor the bottorew before ewhat only a select few have seen You are looking at the ultimate manifestation of Mr Rooney’s creation, which now stands as the absolute wisdoth in all of existence John, David,of the story at this point When I try to bring up an ilob of stuff that collects in the kitchen drain, the rease and hair washed by years of filthy dishwater It was like someone collected all the drain sli the size of the Statue of Liberty, then brought it to life with the psychotic energy that fuels lynch mobs There was so much to Korrok that it was ians and fibers and dangling, club-ended li orifices and slimy orbs and dark, black bulbs with colors that moved on the surface like the rainbows in an oil slick Every inch of it wasI stared and stared and stared, found my brain couldn’t contain it all

And then, in hter of a child

Welcome, said the alien voice in my head It sounded like a toddler Your wiener is even sht, Is this Korrok?

With a tiny change in your brain chemistry, I could make you a child molester

What do you want? I asked it, in , black cocks So we don’t have that in colanced over and saw that John and the large ht, Get out ofto

I AM KORROK In the ht in a posthole and the bone snaps like a twig The splinter juts fro onto white fur It is stuck like that for three days Finally, a wolfher pup in her jaws She lets the pup feed off the goat, gnawing bits of fur and skin and tearing at oat feels it and screaoat nor the wolf nor the pup understand their place in the s I AM KORROK

Fuck off You’re just so, fucked-up , loud, childish laugh

David Wong, son of an insane prostitute and a ed Amway salesman There are worlds and worlds and worlds, an infinity you cannot grasp You could travel from one to another to another and findlike stars in the sky froive birth totirelessly toward it They bring ive In this place, seven billion men bear my mark And of the limitless infinity of worlds, I rule over almost half of them

And then I saw, for the first time, the way the darkness in the chamber moved The black shapes, the shadowswirled in this place, covering Korrok like sh him, in and out of every orifice and fold of skin His dark disciples I heard a sound and realized I was being talked to froreatest good for the greatest people," he was finishing "So you understand When Korrok judges, there is no question All of the human minds who have ever lived in history, all of your thinkers and writers and phi los o phers and teachers, could not equal even one node of Korrok’s neural web We have learned this the hard way"

I looked down at Molly, then sort of nudged her belly with eKorrok showed us the way to your world, opened lines of communication We could not cross to your plane ourselves We tried Oh, did we You see, when a man is transferred to the other plane, the body arrives But only the body, walking aimless like a cow The person becomesdetached in the transition But nonetheless, orked tirelessly to create in your world e have here, in preparation for the glorious day e could overcome these obstacles and set our own feet on the land and see your sun with our own eyes"

The large man put a hand on irl, Amy Sullivan She is known because she was the first step She was successfully transported fro anywhere in between and without harm Your people did this Korrok showed them the way With that, we kneere close, could see the faint glow of the sun signaling a nen Gentlemen, with your arrival, that dawn has come What one man can do, other men can do, and you will show us the way to pass froood And it is impossible for it to be otherwise Korrok told us you would be honored, and well you should be"

Theup in the darkness He said, "You cannot begin to calculate the wisdoeniuses You see, in our world, whenever a ence, he shares his wisdoreater Watch"

A thin structure eed from the wall about two stories above us It tilted down and seemed to have no steps, as if it were a chute of so like a beak opened on Korrok at the end of the chute A fatHe wore the sa roo his bones in a wet, red spray