I glanced into the open kitchenette at one end of the trailer, then turned and walked down a short hallway to the other end. I pushed through a closed door leading to what had to be a bedroom— —and stopped.
I was suddenly looking out over a snow-dusted field, a range of mountains spiking into a stunning violet sky from the horizon....It was like that end of the trailer had been chainsawed off to reveal the outdoors, only if that had really happened I would’ve only seen the neighbor’s rusty trailer and an abandoned Oldsmobile floating among the weeds. What I saw instead took my breath away. I stepped backward into the hallway, dizzy, disoriented, afraid I would be sucked in somehow.
It took almost a minute to realize what I was looking at. It was a painting. A floor-to-walls-to-ceiling mural. He had painted the walls, the trim on the windows, the damned glass in the window. He painted over the curtains, painted the carpet, painted the sheets and wrinkled comforter on the unmade bed so that, when viewed from the doorway, the effect was beyond photographic. There was a half-full water glass on the nightstand, and a sprout of ice-coated weeds painted on the wall continued on the nightstand and onto the glass. There was a little crack in the glass and the artist incorporated it into the painting, the fracture becoming a glint of sunlight off an ice-covered leaf. The effect was too much. It gave me a heaviness in my gut like the first time I saw a skyscraper when I was a kid.
Picasso could not have done this, not if he had a lifetime to devote to it. Step on that carpet and disturb the texture, or brush against the comforter and the effect would be ruined...
...I don’t know how long I stood there, absorbing it, overwhelmed by the details. There’s a deer, complete with little hoofprints in the snow. A happy little cabin, the family in the yard...As I took in those little details, my amazement began to sour, congealing into a cold dread. The cabin on the mountainside, that’s not a little tree out front. It’s a makeshift cross, with a man hanging from it. His legs have been cut off. The woman standing next to it...look at the infant in her arms. It has a single, curved horn coming out of its skull. And unfortunately for the old man, the baby still looks hungry. The frozen pond in back, those aren’t reeds sticking up through the ice all across the surface. Those are hands....
...I closed the door, deciding to never open it again....
Wong, David (2009-09-23). John Dies at the End (pp. 90-91). St. Martin's Press. Kindle Edition.
"Fools! Can you not see the sky is blue?
Red means order, red means the righteous Judgement of Rabum Alal. But blue - blue is an abomination. It means Chaos...Infection.
Blue means Mapmakers, and they do not use incursions the way they were intended.
I will show you...
See...This is not an Earth...It is some dead other thing.
It used to be an Earth. It was Earth...Before the Mapmakers.
They devour everything on the planet. They harvest it....They suck the life from Earth and leave just enough of its heart behind as fuel for when they detonate the world.
It's how the Mapmakers mark new territory. They wait for an Incursion between Universes, when one Earth touches another.
Then the Sidera Maris they left behind, their bridge builders, hold the Incursion Point on the new Earth. The dead world they came from is intentionally destabilized.
And when an Incursion occurs...a piece of the world is pulled free...crashing down to the other Earth. This serves as the trigger for the detonation of the dead world. Causing it to ignite what remains of the core and destroying the planet.
This would seem to mean the new earth is saved...but the fragments of the dead world actually serve as a marker. And then the Mapmakers come, homing in on those markers...No matter how little of the remains there are.
They evolved in the Multiverse and move between universes at will...Their dead worlds finding healthy new worlds to be devoured. They make maps...and rob the Wheel of those that would be tested by it..."
-New Avengers (2013) #6
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