It was a duskynoon, the sort of duskynoon you only get when the gathering moons posit there moon merits on the opel sea, and holly fish rise to the surface looking for lemter berries carried from the upper rivers on Nemptay.
After a long a hot day exploring Temday mine, Ozwomp appeared at Zonders Milling House with a bag of pollyrocks to trade. Zonder was pleased to see pollyrocks, because he had not seen a pollyrock in quite some time and was hungry for their tangibility. "Oh YUM, Oh Happy Day, Yes this will do nicely, Oh My Indeed" sang Zonder as he gobbled them up. After he was finished, Zonder slumped in a heap of pebbles and dust, contemplating the Topsy Hills and all the good things they could provide. Soon night fell, and he dreamed that a vast cone was traveling through space. In his dream Zonder swam to the cone, and there, finding a door in its base climbed inside to discover it was filled with crumbly tasty Lorbulons.
Waking from his dream he jumped up and looked at Ozwomp, who was still standing next to him, and said "Ozwomp! Wont you please go to the city at once and bring me Lorbulons from my favorite vending stall in the south district". Ozwomp waved his arms in excitement, he had never been to the city before and this seemed like a good opportunity.
Spinning around four times and waving his arms as fast as he could manage, Ozwomp watched the world around him dissolve into a bluey haze. Globs of matter and hyper patterns floated past, while light beams gleamed between them. Through the mists of space and time Ozowmp could see into every world and every reality as it flickered past, he could watch as events caught and buzzed on the electric rip-currents of time. Soon though, shapes began to recompose themselves, energy become order, and realities began to coalesces into semi-stable forms. Before he knew it Ozwomp was standing in the center of a great city, omni-orbs and uni-orbs floated in every direction, and a police cube rotated slowly making beeping noises that echoed off the towering zone blocks filled by the busymakers. Overall it was an awe inspiring sight and Ozwomp jumped about in excitement at this grand adventure, thinking "Wow where am I now!".
A squeeky grumpy sounding voice answered from below his feet "Efficient, Effervescent, Obsolescence, You are in the City you goof, and I am late for the important business". Ozwomp looked down and there was a tiny angry looking plattyhoop at his feet. It continued barking business words at him, "Sunset, Dynamism, Apparent". Ozwomp jumped up and down and said business phrases too, "Liquidate, Equivocate, Exponent". The plattyhoop looked very pleased and said "Yes this is good business, come with me, you have a new job".
Ozowmp was very excited to have a job so soon after arriving in the city, and he followed the plattyhoop to one of the zone blocks. As they approached, the towering block seemed like a perfect flat plane that stretched as far as the eye could see. Uniform and flawless, it reflected the stars and the distant rings of Ampaplex, and glowed as if day and night came from within and without its surface. "We are very late" the plattyhoop gasped as he looked at the imposing wall of infinity. Just as it seemed like they were about to walk right into the wall, an opening appeared before them. Inside the opening was a sea of clouds and lightning, giant cogs rotated, operating machines beyond the limits of description, and among the cogs, two figures were approaching them. As they got closer Ozwomp was shocked to see it was himself and the plattyhoop as they would be years in the future. The plattyhoop looked vast and round. Ozwomp knew plattyhoops grow in size with age, but this was the largest he had ever seen. Ozwomp's own counterpart had not aged one day, because Ozwomp's do not age, however he was holding a spiky purple stone, which he handed to our Ozwomp before waving his arms and vanishing.
The plattyhoops danced, looking at Ozwomp they said "Thank you for doing good business with us, we had a big life! We encountered many situations, and did the best we could!". As they spoke they started to spin around, slowly at first, then faster, and faster. The wind they generated started to whip the clouds up into a great storm that creaked the vast cogs, lightning sparked all around, and Ozwomp started to get worried that this might not be such as easy new job after all. With nothing to hold onto Ozwomp found himself blown backwards, he grabbed onto the edge of the zone block's doorway, but it was too slippy and he fell out of the door with a great bonk.
Looking up in surprise, Ozwomp noticed around him was was the hazy morning mist of Nemptay. The zone blocks and bustling omni-orbs were nowhere to be seen, but Ozwomp could make out the morning chorus of the holly fish, and the crunch of lemter berries, and the warbling of Zonder's Mill.
Zonder approached and said "I have been waiting an epoch for my Lorbulon, give it to me now Ozwomp, I have a great hunger!". Ozwomp handed him the spiky purple stone and Zonder gasped "A fine Lorbulon, this will be good to eat", he continued to say "Lorbulon" over and over as he walked into his milling house and shut the door.
Ozwomp thought this had been a very interesting adventure to the city, and he wondered about its citizens and what they might be doing at this very moment. He didn't know where the city was, or if it ever was, or if he could ever go back. The truth was that like all time and all places, it existed once forever, and there are endless forevers to be.
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