Endless Planes

[Being the delightfully delirious chant on the entities known as the Endless]

Listen. It’s the whatyoumacallit, chant, it is.

I know things. In my head. And it’s not just the things written in the book that Destiny’s reading all the time, it’s also other things that aren’t in the book because there are things that aren’t in the book whatever Destiny says.

Anyway, I used to have a doggie once. And again, only later.

The things? Yeah, and ice-cream. Why would I be talking backwards? Fun it is? More I know don’t in to like talk I colors better. Yeah, they’re neat, but they’re not all mine you know. Some of them are Dream’s I think, and some are just pretending. The backward talking people I mean, yeah, the Xaosmen. I used to pretend I was a gazebo once.

Anyway, the I can tell you things. But most are in the book, not that it matters because you don’t know them either I’d say.

It’s that there’s like seven of us, or there used to be but now isn’t any more, because some went away and some died, but there sort of still is because some are also here again. Sort of. And we don’t need worshipers, like the cat lady, or Ishtar, or Loki or that guy with the horns and tentacles and the thing that goes like this way? Yeah, them. Well, we don’t. We just stick around and stuff. Like anthropomorphicly personifize, you know? Stuff.

Like for example, there’s Despair. She’s got this hall with mirrors and smoke, and she’s got this hook thingy, like a ring. And she’s a little chubby most of the time. And someone else used to be her, but now isn’t and she got to be her. Yeah, mirrors, and they show people who, like, come to her, or are going to come to her, and she watches them despair. And she cuts her self with the hook ring thingy then. What? Well, I guess around Gray Waste or so. But I think she also likes Pandemonium. I like Pandemonium too. There are doggies there that howl at the moon which isn’t there.

Then there’s Death. She’s nice. She talks to me nicely when others are angry. She has this Ankh thingy, you know like pharaohs and suchlike. And she works, a lot. The others, we just pick and choose, but she’s on the job all the time, I guess that’s why she doesn’t have a realm, always on the move, and anyway she smiles nicely. And she takes you by the hand when she’s supposed to.

Now, Destiny, he doesn’t take anybody anywhere, he just has this book, and he reads from it. Or writes, I forget. And walks in this garden that’s also a maze. It’s chained to him, the book. And the maze garden is supposed to be connected to every other maze or something. What? Yeah, the Lady is nice. But she’s not Endless, you know. Anyway, Destiny seems to think that everything is in the book, what was and is and will be and won’t be and was. But it’s just that it’s not. But he gets upset when I tell him, so I don’t. Often.

Who else, yeah, Desire. He’s a she. Or it’s the other way around. Or not. And he’s got this cigarette lighter and she’s always lighting cigarettes, I mean all the time, you wouldn’t think he smokes at al, just eats them or something. Desire took me home once when I wasn’t feeling good. His home is called Threshold and it’s like her only bigger, and she lives inside. In where the heart is supposed to be, or the brain, or something. What? No, I told you we’re not powers, and Desire’s not dead anyway, it’s just that his realm is built to look like her. Yeah, on the Astral, why not. Is this a cookie?

And Dream, he used to be scary, only later he wasn’t because I got to know him better and he changed, he hardly ever wore that ugly godsbone mask any more. He’s got a big realm, it’s like what you would call not a demiplane but a plane only you shouldn’t, because a demiplane is also a plane even though it’s demi. And there’s all sorts of things in the Dreaming, and it’s changing all the time, only a little by little. And Dream dresses in black and he’s awfully serious most of the time, only he let me drive that one time so it’s all right. I like him. But he went with Death and now he’s someone else. And doesn’t wear black. But he’s all right too, I suppose.

And there was this other brother, but he left and I went to search for him with Dream and we went all over this Prime world and Dream let me drive, but I said that already, and we found him. Destruction I mean, not Dream. But he wouldn’t come back with us. Destruction I mean. So he went away, and took his sword thingy, and gave me a doggie. He’s called Barnabas. My doggie, not Destruction. I lost him once, but then I found him. Barnabas. I miss him. Destruction.

And then there’s me. I used to be Delight but now I am an excellent driver. Delirium. And this is Barnabas. We are in Limbo, most of the time. Slaadi are mine. Do you like slaadi? I like slaadi. It’s like when you make frogs, only bigger.

And that’s it.

Now where’s that ice-cream?