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We all know about the multiverse, at this point--to explain the obvious isn't as interesting as what happens when the wires cross twice, or three times, or more.
So the impossible happens three different ways:
The first time, it's when the Barge loses its grip on Edwin. But he doesn't get slingshotted into the Dreamlands. No, he goes a little sideways, and ends up just as dazed and remembering just as much nothing. Except this time, he comes around in a crater not far from the Embassy. His fuzzy thoughts tell him it's very odd to land in the center of a crater. It doesn't occur to him that he might have put the crater there.
The second time, it's a different godling, who was never Edwin. He's Yellow, just Yellow, a little taunt that nags him even as Kayne cracks open a window in the universe and throws Larson through it.
Kayne's aim is poor. Larson, eyes gouged out, Yellow still locked in his mind, slams back into reality almost at Maddie's doorstep. He is clearly human. The passenger trapped in his mind is just as clearly not.
The third time. he's taken back the mantle of the King. He's had his rages, his pained tantrums, and nothing got better. All that happened was that he ended up with a prison full of corpses and no one to rebuild Carcosa.
He's tried everything else, so this time, he tries to change. He manages pretty well, he thinks. He doesn't understand what to do with the lives he saves, so he lets them go. It's not like keeping them will accomplish anything.
He does it to himself. Not on purpose. But the Plateau of Leng has the thinnest air between the Dreamlands and other places. Some more human, some decidedly not. It's a bad place to practice using his powers. It's also the only place he knows he won't be seen by anything.
Unfortunately, a poorly-placed crack in reality drops him through and into a ragged heap literally at Maddie's feet.
Though with his size it's more like someone dumping a theater's entire stage curtain in front of her.
So the impossible happens three different ways:
The first time, it's when the Barge loses its grip on Edwin. But he doesn't get slingshotted into the Dreamlands. No, he goes a little sideways, and ends up just as dazed and remembering just as much nothing. Except this time, he comes around in a crater not far from the Embassy. His fuzzy thoughts tell him it's very odd to land in the center of a crater. It doesn't occur to him that he might have put the crater there.
The second time, it's a different godling, who was never Edwin. He's Yellow, just Yellow, a little taunt that nags him even as Kayne cracks open a window in the universe and throws Larson through it.
Kayne's aim is poor. Larson, eyes gouged out, Yellow still locked in his mind, slams back into reality almost at Maddie's doorstep. He is clearly human. The passenger trapped in his mind is just as clearly not.
The third time. he's taken back the mantle of the King. He's had his rages, his pained tantrums, and nothing got better. All that happened was that he ended up with a prison full of corpses and no one to rebuild Carcosa.
He's tried everything else, so this time, he tries to change. He manages pretty well, he thinks. He doesn't understand what to do with the lives he saves, so he lets them go. It's not like keeping them will accomplish anything.
He does it to himself. Not on purpose. But the Plateau of Leng has the thinnest air between the Dreamlands and other places. Some more human, some decidedly not. It's a bad place to practice using his powers. It's also the only place he knows he won't be seen by anything.
Unfortunately, a poorly-placed crack in reality drops him through and into a ragged heap literally at Maddie's feet.
Though with his size it's more like someone dumping a theater's entire stage curtain in front of her.
