Sherman Chex is around halfway through the book.

  He is bored out of his mind. It’s not the most fun book to read in one sitting.

  He looks up at the clock, it appears to have moved only a little bit forward, just about thirty minutes. Of course, it didn’t only move so little, he’s just been reading for several days straight. He decides to continue reading.

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  Sherman Chex remembers immediately why he stopped reading. It’s an incredibly lousy book.

  He decides to stand up and walk outside. Nobody’s to be seen. The town is still completely dismantled from the episode he was in. It seems that the status quo of “Jenny’s Town” is shifting for the time being.

  It doesn’t quite matter to him, as Sherman Chex won’t make another appearance on the show. As he walks around, he makes his way to the fountain. It’s a large circle, with a statue woman singing in the middle. A snake wraps around her, as if it’s trying to choke her. The fountain’s water comes from the snake’s mouth.

  Chex is enamored with this design. He loves snakes. It’s like his eyes are glowing.

  He reaches out to touch the snake.

  Once he does, the fountain starts to spin and starts to elevate. Once the fountain has reached the top of its elevation, a door is very clearly there.

  Chex looks into the sky. The two moons of Columbia stare back down at him. He waves at them.

  “Hello! I hope you two have a wonderful day!”

  He opens the door and walks down the staircase behind it. It’s an incredibly long staircase. After a while, he gives up and begins to walk up the stairs.

  Once he goes back up, he’s suddenly at the bottom of the stairs. Incredibly peculiar.

  Sherman Chex turns around and sees another door.

  “Hello, door!”

  He opens the door and is met with an orange hallway. It’s another incredibly long hallway, like those he saw at The Orange. He looks into the ceiling and sees moonlight shining through.

  Though, there’s simply no way actual moonlight could shine through, being so far underground that there would have to be so much material between the top of the corridor and the surface.

  The ceiling, just like those at The Orange, is a stained glass mosaic. Though, this one is certainly strange. It’d be difficult to pinpoint what it really is. Thankfully, Sherman Chex recognizes it from the museum he first appeared in. He recalls what it was while he walks down the hallway.

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  The piece was certainly the most prominent one. It sat in front of a bright light, such that it projected beautifully onto the opposite white wall.

  Looking at the wall, it became more clear what it depicted. Considering the special treatment this piece gets, it was likely to be one of the more amazingly symbolic ones. It must have had some sort of divine significance that’d be easily understood by anyone.

  It was just an orange hand with an orange eye in the palm.

  It was titled Strange Thing.

  As the museum’s curator was having his life ended by a thing that wasn’t a bear, the man with orange hair, who later decided to go by the name Sherman Chex, was observing the other art pieces.

  He understood most of the others, but this one simply stumped him. What exactly is it? It just doesn’t make much sense. Though, nothing really made sense to him at that point. He was a man who appeared once a piece of glass fell into dirt.

  He decided to assume it was invented just for the art piece.

  As Chex reaches the end of the hallway, he notices that the door has a snake design on it. It appears to be a portrait of the snake from the fountain, though only the snake. The woman that the snake coils around doesn’t make an appearance on the door.

  There’s no doorknob, so he just has to knock on the door.

  Knock Knock.

  There’s no response.

  Knock Knock, Knock Knock Knock.

  Nothing. He wishes he took the book with him so that he could continue reading.

  Knock Knock.

  Nobody’s coming, so he decides to leave. As he turns to leave, he accidentally bumps into the door again.

  Knock.

  The door swings wide open, and the entire hallway tilts as if to pour him out of it. As such, he falls through the opening where the door was.

  When he lands, he finds himself in front of a gigantic snake.

  It stares directly at him. Internally he is ecstatic, though he doesn’t show it. He reaches out his palm at the snake.

  “Hello!”

  The snake licks him. Unfortunately, Sherman Chex is made of dirt, so this completely disintegrates his body, leaving the “piece of glass” lying on the ground.

  After a few minutes, Chex finds himself reformed near one of the cave’s walls. The snake continues to stare at him.

  “Hello, what exactly is happening here?”

  The snake doesn’t respond. How would they, anyway, they’re just a snake. Of course, there has to be some way for Chex to understand, otherwise he wouldn’t keep trying to talk. He isn’t quite foolish enough to talk to things he can’t understand.

  The giant snake begins to slither through the cave, which is also gigantic, otherwise the snake wouldn’t be able to move. Chex follows quickly. He’s lagging a bit behind, considering he’s following an enormous animal, so it slows down so that he can catch up.

  Eventually, they reach a very spot where there is a distinct split between the cave and a circle of grass. The snake turns Chex to face the wall such that he doesn’t see.

  “Okay, you can turn back around now!”

  Chex turns back around, and suddenly the giant snake is gone! Wow! What a shock. This is insane. Instead, notably staying away from the edges of the circle, is Jenny.

  “Hi! Welcome to my home!”

  “Oh, hello! What happened to that giant snake?”

  “Are you stupid?”

  Sherman Chex doesn’t quite get it.