Chapter 4 – Part 5

Now you have some idea of my power, said the Grim Guider. And yes, the events you mentioned are due to time twists.
And what are time twists? I asked.
Time twists are obviously orchestrated by me. They occur when I take a certain element of the world and revert it to how it was many years or even centuries ago. But these time twists can only be seen be seen by you. That is what caused the rather delicious situation when you and Angela saw a different person standing in the same place and doing identical actions. However, your perception of the person standing there was affected by the time twist that brought Peter Blank into the present. When you looked away I shot him back into the past, and Mr. Parker returned. It was simple.
I was stunned by the idea. Why hadn’t I thought of that? It was entirely plausible, and it was simple enough to work easily without making a large error. So you used a time twist to change the floor in my room? I asked.
Yes, I simply reverted your carpet floor to how it was several years ago when it was a wood floor. It was very amusing to mess with your mind like that.
A pang of anger quickly flared up inside of me, but it was quickly subdued by something else. And I assume you did the same thing with the door? I asked.
Exactly, said the Grim Guider.
So, you could technically change anything in the entire world to how it used to be? I asked in awe.
I suppose so, answered the Grim Guider. That answer frightened me.
But what is the point of all of this? I asked. This was the question that was really on my mind. Why are you doing this?
That, said the Grim Guider, is for later. Much later. If you are perceptive, all might become clear in time.
So what’s next? I asked. Are you just going to keep doing these things to me, changing my world around until I become crazy? That prospect was not very inviting.
Of course not, replied the Grim Guider. That would be exceptionally cruel, and would become rather boring for me without your knee-jerk reactions. No, I have some instructions for you to carry out tomorrow.
What are they?
The Grim Guider did not answer as immediately as I was accustomed to. Instead of answering, he stepped up onto his pedestal. He raised his arms toward the exploding sky. His cape billowing furiously in the rampaging wind, he looked back down at me. In the morning you will know exactly what to do.
And then the Grim Guider shot up into the sky, a funnel of wind surrounding him. He ascended toward the endless sky until at last he was lost in the infinite blackness.