I'm Lily Madwip, and this is my Odyssey.

I'm still laying on the steps to the library.

There's a cloud up in the sky that looks like a walrus.

Or maybe it's a banana.

I never realized how much walrus' look like bananas until now, seeing a cloud that looks

like both of them at the same time.

I don't think they look quite the same in real life, just their outlines.

Sean the librarian is looking through the windows into the dark foresty guts of the library.

He's watching in case cartoon pilgrims come charging out to kill us.

I feel bad for him because librarianing is his life, and now a bunch of lost settlers

have run him out.

I hope the forest doesn't spread too outside the library.

A shiny red car pulls up, lasting heavy metal music.

The window rolls down slowly, and my brother roger pokes his head out, drinking something

I think is probably alcoholic.

Even if he weren't dead, he wouldn't be old enough to drink.

But I don't say anything because it's not real alcohol anyway.

There's a breeze blowing.

Do you know how I know?

Because I can smell Roger and his booze from all the way over here on the steps.

Roger looks at me laying on the library steps, burps loudly, and clears his throat.

Lily?

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