You decide that you'd better get back on the trail of Cletus the hunchback before it grows too cold, so you rush (cautiously!) back to the room with all the cages, the last place you actually saw him.
It turns out your mad rush was all for nothing, as the first thing you see upon entering the room is Cletus standing a bit too close to the big lever for your comfort.
"I had a feeling you'd be back," Cletus says, leaning casually on the lever with one elbow while carefully inspecting the fingernails of his other hand.
"I can't let you have the money, you know," he says calmly, still ignoring you and gazing wistfully at his nails, which you now notice are meticulously manicured. "Not after all the crap I had to endure, being employed here as 'the amusing hunchback'! The jokes made at my expense! The ridicule I've faced! The footrubs!"
He now looks up at you with a cole stare.
"Look, let's not be unreasonabe here. Maybe we can work something out," you say, taking a careful step forward.
"Ah ah ah!" he warns, wagging a finger at you. "You think I'm dumb enough to fall for that, you've got another thing coming!" And with that, he accidentally puts too much weight on the lever, pushing it down and opening every cage in the room.
"Shit," he says, eyes wide in terror.
You look anxiously at the cages, waiting for untold horrors to emerge from within. Finally, from one of the cages a hideous beast appears!
Then another and another, and pretty soon you have a bunch of adorable, mewling, fluffly little kittens all around you.
"Awww," you start to say, only it's completely overshadowed by the loud "Aiiiiieeeeeeeeeeee! I have a thing about caaaaaaaaaats!" from Cletus as he tramples over you in sheer terror, breaking your spine in the process. As you lay there paralyzed, you start to ponder at what point the cuteness of a kitten ends as many of them gather round and slowly peel your flesh from your body with their affectionate licking.
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Reader Comments
One of the best Destiny Books so far.
I'm still loving this. It doesn't need to make sense.
Now I feel bad about my meat lips.
I think it was a musical. My family watches it every year.
"GET OVER HERE, YOU WEIRD LITTLE MAN!"
kidding aside, awesome work.