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Up in Heaven Clytemnestra, Aldi and Lego saw (in forest glade pool) that Codswallop was down on Earth and present at the scene of the fire – sat weeping in her mantle of ashes beside a kitsch supposedly Persian Streetfood truck, her fine clothes damaged, her heart in disarray, her face and hands blackened by her many fruitless efforts to enter the blaze.

When they saw her in that place they guessed right away that her daughter Valiant must also be there nearby and their hearts surged or fell or skipped beats and somehow, somehow that was the straw that broke the camels’ back or whatever and finally rang the end of all their pledges to stay out of Earth forever and ‘letting things be’ ©.

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Everyone knows full well the end parts of the story.

How Clytemnestra, Lego, Addidas and Aldi raised an army of the Gods to descend immediate to Earth and to Endland (sic). How at the shore near B_________ Soyuz, Carthorse and Agemamenon caused the sea to rise up directly and extinguish the flames, a tidal wave of ocean engulfing not just the Wheel of Misfortune but much of the rest of the Olde Endland Amusement Park and indeed much of B______ itself. How Monroe herself was either killed in the blaze or in the ensuing flood or else took the chance of them to slip out and slip away under cover of fire and water and night and what people called confusion.

How in the sodden wreckage, charred and broken they found a shelter in the form of a temporary cabin or office-like portacabin structure and how within it they truly feared a grave. And how when Codswallop and Chlamydia tore off the door to that place, away from its hinges, their hair tangled, faces so mad with grief and rage that it broke men’s hearts to see them, they found instead inside, still living, Valiant and Plaster, the two kids curled together in the wreckage of that cooling furnace, reading still, together, from that found book The Old Gods of Endland.

How Codswallop wept for joy and sorrow and then again for joy and how she held them, her daughter and also her not-daughter Plaster who would later be her daughter. And how Promestheus turned up also, having been otherwise detained for entire of the previous months for a reason that is not recorded cos of legal injunction, also weeping, and then holding Valiant his daughter and also Plaster his not-daughter who would later be his daughter.

How the Gods warred with Endland on account of this whole story. Seeking vengeance or legal compensation for the deaths of Artemis and Meth Head and Centrifuge. It was pretty much irrational but that’s how it was and the court cases dragged and dragged right on.