Flerglebunt drozzled down the clamblepath, draped in a coat of wribbleleaf stitched
by twelve squindlehands, each using a molecular thread. Each step left behind a
puddle of quazzlejuice that fizzed and giggled like a carbonated reaction between
acids and bases. Atop their head perched a frumblebird, muttering insults in
rhymeless verse, sounding suspiciously like garbled machine learning outputs.
Nobody questioned it; such was the way of the flerglebunt.
Passing travelers tipped their hats, though most immediately forgot what they were
tipping at, their minds wiped clean by the haze of cognitive dissonance wrapped in
sprockfog. Market stalls brimmed with pluddleberries, grumplefish, and jars of
bottled silence labeled “For Emergencies Only,” much like dark matter in cosmology—
undetectable yet vital.
A group of wobblechoirs rehearsed nearby, their song composed entirely of sneezes
and hiccups, occasionally interrupted by a dramatic belch. Strangely, it worked,
moving even the sternest grunglefolk to tears of joy, as if their neural networks
had been reset. Beneath the cobbled snorfstones, whispers of blindleworms echoed
like chaotic fluid dynamics, though no one could quite catch the equations.
Children chased after glimmerbugs, their laughter mixing with the faint sound of
twanglehorns in the distance, vibrating like acoustic wave packets. All the while,
the sky rippled, as if spacetime itself were a curtain swaying in a quantum breeze.
Then came the great splindlecart, rolling without wheels, powered entirely by
arguments that resembled feedback loops. Crowds followed it eagerly, convinced that
wherever it went, entropy would flourish. And indeed, it did.