Chapter 14.
Obviously, the two were not going to run anywhere. Where could they run to? There was nothing around them but sand. And then this tree. How had it got there? What happened? It was all a bit bizarre.
"I know what you must be thinking," Lord Loss taunted. "Where are we? What's going on? Why is there nothing but desert, and then this tree? How could we be such foolish idiots in coming here?" Lord Loss hissed.
"We came here because we wanted to!" screamed Grubbs.
"We came here through love," Bobby said, a little more calmly than Grubbs. "Love. A feeling you'll never know for as long as you live, you selfish, evil twonk," Bobby spat at the demon, as he climbed down the tree with Norah still in his arms.
"Those are strong words, my old friend Bobby. It has been a while. How are you coping?" Lord Loss sighed pitifully, as if Bobby had lost something important in his life.
"It was your fault! You! You killed her!" Bobby screamed at Lord Loss. Grubbs was confused. Killed who? What was going on? What had Lord Loss done in the cloudy, mysterious past of Bobby? Then, a sudden thought occurred to Grubbs. If Bobby was Grubbs, and Grubbs was Bobby, then who was Norah? Obviously, Norah was Bobby's wife, but then surely that means Grubbs has a wife too, or will do in the future anyway. Who was Norah? Had he met her yet? Maybe her real name isn't Norah, and he has already met his future wife. It was frightening, yet intriguing to be thinking about such a delicate subject. But for the time being, he had to get back to reality, and see what was happening with Bobby and Lord Loss, so his thoughts and dreams floated away.
"So you took her from me, cloned her, then killed the real version. So the Norah in your arms now isn't the real Norah? She's dead?" Bobby was asking Lord Loss suspiciously.
"Yes, that's right," Lord Loss sneered. I knew you'd search for her, so I left various clues along the way, to help you track me and her down. And eventually you found us. That was over 500 years ago. And here you are again, chasing us, and again, you've found us. Talk about déja vu, huh?!" Lord Loss remarked, as if all this was so funny to him, which, to be fair, it probably was. "And then, the deal. The deal you and me made, that changed your life, and the life of poor, young Grubbitsch over here," Lord Loss turned his pitiful gaze towards Grubbs for the first time since they had arrived at the tree. "Come on, Grubbs. It's time you found out the secret of your past," Lord Loss gestured to Grubbs to follow him west. Lord Loss started walking. Bobby gave Grubbs a nod, and Grubbs followed. Where was he going? How could he find the secret of his past out here in the middle of the deadly demonic desert? Then, as if in answer to his rhetorical question, Lord Loss' palace appeared out of thin air, right before their eyes. The webby, wonderous home of Lord Loss. They entered. This was it. The truth was coming.
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