Continued from Ohm-Coming
Scene 1: Well Come
The Nother Witch recoils in horror as she stares at the long-rumored Geni-Oz.
Nother: A bloody sheep!
Which Witch shakes her head.
Which: Not quite. A lamb, I think. Spotless and pure.
Nother: Except for the gory knife sticking out of Him!
Contraption: [to the Lamb] Are you truly the Geni-Oz we’ve been searching for?
The lamb does not speak. But Ang and Sweetums answer the question by prostrating themselves in worship before Him. The Witches look at each other and follow suit.
The Contraption — the assembled shards of psyche — are too rigid to bow low. Instead, they ask:
Contraption: [respectfully] How can this Lamb free our brother Shylock from the Mirror of Imagination, so he/we can wed the Nother Princess?
The Nother Witch gives a start to hear herself called a Princess.
Ang shakes his head sadly.
Ang: As he is, Shylock can never escape. To get free, he must become… something else [looks meaningfully at Contraption].
Contraption: Are you saying we must go in after him?
Which: No! You too may become trapped forever.
Everyone starts talking at once. They are interrupted by a voice: low in volume, high in pitch, yet somehow as massive as granite.
Lamb: I will take them. You must trust me.
They all fall silent. None dare disagree with the finality of that voice.
The Lamb limps slowly forward. He pushes Contraption right up to the edge of the mirror. He picks them up in His mouth, and hops into the mirror…
Which implodes!
Scene 2: Through the Looking Glass
The Lamb alights on a featureless grey plain. His arrival has shattered all of Shylock’s illusions, leaving him disoriented. There is no sign of Contraption.
Shylock: Who… what… where… how?
Lamb: Peace. Do not be afraid.
Shylock: [reflexively] I am not… [cowers back; realizes what he is doing] … afraid [finishes lamely].
Lamb: I have come to restore you to your true self, and your true love. But before I can do that, you must face your greatest fear.
Shylock: [bitterly] That I am unworthy to be loved?
Lamb: [definitively] No! That you are worthy to be loved. Infinitely worthy! Because I have loved you with an everlasting love, purchased by My blood from before the foundation of the world!
Shylock: Bullsh*t! If I am so lovable, why am I trapped here, alone in my illusions, a mere shadow of myself?
The Lamb does not reply. Instead, He reaches back with His mouth and plucks out the knife which had skewered Him. He advances toward Shylock, who skitters back in fear.
The Lamb stops, and tosses the knife at Shylock’s feet.
Lamb: If you would know the truth, cut me open and find out.
Shylock hesitates. Then suddenly, a feral rage takes hold of him. All the anger, fear, loneliness, and self-loathing he had carried fills him with inhuman strength and unholy purpose.
He grabs the knife, and viciously slices the Lamb in half.
NOTHING happens.
Literally. The entire universe disappears. And is replaced…
By NOTHING!
To be continued
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