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Chapter 19: The Misery of Light and Darkness
Timmy was utterly bored of Genie World. Yeah sure, it was cool at first, but after a day, the novelty wore off. Tootie, Chester, and AJ were not in Genie World. His back-up friends, Elmer, and Sanjay weren't there either. His parents didn't live there either. Instead, Genie World was filled with millions of genies that he didn't know.
Sure, the genies were nice to him, but that was all they were. Nice. Just nice. They weren't his friends, they weren't his family; they were just nice, awesome magical creatures that he didn't know very well.
In addition, as if the lack of his friends and family wasn't enough, his V-cube, and Crimson Chin comic books were not in Genie World. They were at his house, on Earth. He tried asking the genies to GONG them up, but their only reaction was to ask him what all that stuff was, causing Timmy to walk away in exasperation.
He also discovered that all the food was intangible, just like some illusion, even if the genies GONGed it up for him. He wondered if intangible food was a magical creature thing.
Maybe he really was in an illusion. Maybe he was inside the Eliminator. Maybe he was hallucinating. Maybe he was in the Darkness.
Timmy didn't know what "maybe" was the correct one. All of them sounded plausible – slightly – though he'd expect the Darkness to be more, well, dark. Not for it to be a bright, Arabian-style wonderland, full to the brim with genies.
And if it was an illusion, who made it, and why did they?
It couldn't be the interior of the Eliminator, since that sounded like a tight fit.
Timmy laughed at himself. He knew fairies, and genies, yet he thought that the size of an Eliminator's interior was relative to its exterior. He knew fairies, and genies, yet he expected the world to be a logical place, where two plus two would always, and everywhere equal four, and large worlds wouldn't fit inside sentient robots.
Logic could just be an illusion, just the intangible food of Genie World. Illogical things could happen everyday, and only get logic ascribed to them, because humans wanted, and needed it.
An illogical world. That sounded fun, and disastrous!
Timmy decided to stop pondering philosophical questions, and start thinking of a way to escape Genie World, wherever it was.
Genie World seemed to be infinite, and had nowhere that it would be possible to fall off, so those methods of escaping wouldn't work.
He didn't see any portals, or Eliminators, so he couldn't use them either. The Darkness wasn't there, so he couldn't go into it, and use it to escape. None of the genies were able to GONG him to Earth, no matter who, or how many times he asked. He might have just been too rude about it, though he doubted that was why they didn't. If he was rude, they'd probably would have wanted him to leave their sight immediately, and would gladly GONG him there.
Timmy sighed. Was he to stay in this place forever, without his friends, or/and family?
He hoped not, but hoping hadn't changed anything yet.
Timmy Turner's plight was splitting the Darkness' heart in two. Not literally, of course. If the Darkness' heart was literally splitting, the Darkness would end up becoming a dead, black hole. One probably wonders how a black hole could possibly be dead, but no one has got an answer to this question yet.
It wanted Timmy to become its friend, but both Timmy Tiberius Turner, and Norm the Genie made it clear in their minds that they had no desire to befriend it. If the Darkness had tear ducts, and clear fluid in its body, that revelation would have drove it to tears. Without them, it had to rely on senseless destruction to get its feelings across, and get them out.
The senseless destruction only served to make millions more people, and creatures hate it, which only increased the Darkness' sadness, and anger.
One act of hate can doom two worlds, but heartbreak can be just as, or even more effective.