Didn't expect such strong reactions.
New chapter.
CHAPTER NINETEEN:
Keeper of the Nexus
Odie could only manage a few remonstrations and recriminations, each weaker and more feeble than the last. Only this time he knew it, no matter how much he tried to suspend his disbelief and lie to himself about it. He had lost this battle, though he still thought that Patches was guilty -- he still cared more about being right than the justice he pretended to want for the victims' families.
As forthe victims families, the whole closure argument that Odie touted was also a.load of bunk. The families just chalked it up to a wild animal attack, and did their mourning. They never knew or realized that the attacks were due to the actions of a single animal, as all of the victims were attacked in heavily forested areas, where wild animal attacks were not too uncommon. They all just assumed that their loved ones just had an unlucky roll of the dice.
They did what they needed to set their loved ones' affairs in order, and what they needed to do in order to move on. But they would do alright, despite the tragedy.
***
Cloak was standing in the middle of a court room, with a myriad of working Walkers behind him, as a thick, stout walker -- Cloak thought he looked like asinine-form Realm Walker was speaking to the judge -- an elephantine Realm Walker in a royal purple cloak with subtle black accents.
"-- Well, why not?" he was saying, clearly replying to an unheard comment. "This session is an absolute joke anyway. It's obvious that the nomination should go to Shill."
"Oh, please. Are you just completely bonkers?" a female serval-form Realm Walker said. "Servator is the only logical choice, and sensible decision."
Then the right side of the room exclaimed, "Shill!"
The left answered with, "Servator!"
"Shill!"
"Servator!"
Then the song started, Shill, an asinine (or donkey-like) Realm Walker like her supporter, sang:
"Please vote me the Keeper of the Nexus.
I wanna be the Keeper of the Nexus!
Their skinny white bones are mine to own,
To do with as I see fit!
Give him to me and I promise my love won't quit!"
But Servator, a gray tomcat, interjected.
"I disagree about the Keeper of the Nexus.
It should be me who's the Keeper of the Nexus.
It's not a game for an idiot dame,
Who can't even hear her boos!
If Shill wins, then we all surely lose!"
Cloak announced himself, through song, representing the working Walkers:
"Don't we get a say in the Keeper of the Nexus?
I'll make you all pay for the Keeper of the Nexus!
All my rage is bound up in this cage held back by these taxing bars!
I'll never get rid of these mental scars!"
The elephantine judge broke down in song, singing:
"I don't care who's the Keeper of the Nexus!
I'm losing my hair over Keeper of the Nexus!
A mountain of stress is crushing my chest!
I'm going blind in one eye and it's all because of that stupid guy!"
He pointed at a mongoose-form Realm Walker who looked like a very . . .
special Gumshoos. His name was Buffoon. Buffoon said, while eating nachos he got from somewhere, said, "Don't worry, I found some nachos! Yuge!"
The judge took the nachos away, and hit Buffoon on the head with his gavel, with a small protest from the latter. Then Shill began to rap -- giving a perfect example why older people without the necessary rhythm should never rap.
"Time to break it down, old-school style!
The Nexus is the corner in my square!"
Servator countered:
"The Nexus is the chocolate in my eclair."
"The Nexus is the freshener in my air!"
"The Nexus is the conditioner in my hair."
"The Nexus is the picnic in my bear!"
"The Nexus is the cushion on my chair."
"The Nexus is the renaissance in my fair!"
"The Nexus is the seriousness in my stare."
"Calling you a sexist is completely fair."
Servator took on a heavy-lidded look, and sang:
"Somehow, I knew you were gonna go there."
A chorus of voices when up:
"We all need a Keeper of the Nexus!
I wanna see the Keeper of the Nexus!"
Buffoon sang above the others:
"I just want some nachos."
Cloak sang:
"All this singing is driving me nuts!"
The chorus of voices sang again:
"Why not just cut the Nexus in half?"
Buffoon sang over the others:
"Now I miss my nachos."
The elephantine judge sang:
"My ulcer's eating away at my guts!"
The chorus of voices sang:
"That would be a real, big laugh!"
Shill sang:
"I totally hate
That we have to debate
That whether it's me or you!"
The chorus of voices sang:
"It's obvious to everyone here,
It's obvious to everyone here,
It's obvious to everyone that -- "
Buffoon interjected, "I have to go poo-poo!"
Everyone stopped singing, as Cloak awoke, cold and clammy.
"What?" Cloak muttered, somnulently.
