Roger Zelazny - Amber 08 Sign of Chaos

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The beer was good and there was even a free lunch. The demons

tormenting the red-haired woman tied to the stake had been so

shiny they'd hurt to look at.

Gone now, but the whole thing had, been beautiful. Everything

was beautiful.

When Luke sang of Galway Bay it had been so sparkling and

lovely that I'd wanted to dive in and lose myself there. Sad, too.

Something to do with the feeling.... Yes. Funny thought. When

Luke sang a sad song I felt melancholy. When it was a happy one I

was greatly cheered. There seemed an unusual amount of empathy

in the air. No matter, I guess. The light show was superb....

I sipped my drink and watched Humpty teeter, there at the end

of the bar.

For a moment I tried to remember when I'd come into this place,

but that

cylinder wasn't hitting. It would come to me, eventually. Nice

party....

I watched and listened and tasted and felt, and it was all great.

Anything

that caught my attention was fascinating. Was there something

I'd wanted to ask

Luke? It seemed there was, but he was busy singing and I

couldn't think of it

now, anyway.

What had I been doing before I'd come into this place? Trying to

recall

just didn't seem worth the effort either. Not when everything was

so interesting

right here and now.

It seemed that it might have been something important, though.

Could that

swimming inside my head, too.

I suddenly recalled a picture of me. On a giant card. A Trump.

Yes. That

was how I'd gotten here. Through the card....

A hand fell upon my shoulder and I turned. It belonged to Luke,

who grinned

at me as he edged up to the bar for a refill.

"Great party, huh?" he said.

"Yeah, great. How'd you find this place?" I asked him.

He shrugged. "I forget. Who cares?"

He fumed away, a brief blizzard of crystals swirling between us.

The

Caterpillar exhaled a purple cloud. A blue moon was rising.

What is wrong with this picture? I asked myself.

I had a sudden feeling that my critical faculty had been shot off

in the

war, because I couldn't focus on the anomalies I felt must be

present. I knew

that I was caught up in the moment, but I couldn't see my way

clear.

I was caught up....

I was caught....

How?

Well.... It had all started when I'd shaken my own hand. No.

Wrong. That

sounds like Zen and that's not how it was. The hand I shook

emerged from the

space occupied by the image of myself on the card that went

away. Yes, that was

it.... After a fashion.

I clenched my teeth. The music began again. There came a soft

scraping

Something about this place was messing with my head, and it

seemed impossible to

consider the process while I was a part of it. I had to get away in

order to

think straight, to determine what was going on.

I was across the bar and into that interface area where the

painted rocks

and trees became three-dimensional. I pumped my arms as I dug

in. I head the

wind without feeling it.

Nothing that lay before me seemed any nearer. I was moving,

but--

Luke began singing again.

I halted. I turned, slowly, because it sounded as if he were

standing

practically beside me. He was. I was only a few paces removed

from the bar. Luke

smiled and kept singing.

"What's going on?" I asked the Caterpillar. "You're looped in

Luke's loop,"

it replied. "Come again?" I said.

It blew a blue smoke ring, sighed softly, and said, "Luke's locked

in a

loop and you're lost in the lyrics. That's all."

"How'd it happen?" I asked.

"I have no idea," it replied.

"Uh, how does one get unlooped?"

"Couldn't tell you that either."

I turned to the Cat, who was coalescing about his grin once

again.

"I don't suppose you'd know--" I began.

"How does it work?" I asked.

But he was gone again, and this time the grin went too.

Contagious trap? That seemed to indicate that the problem was

Luke's, and

that I had been sucked into it in some fashion. This felt right,

though it still

gave me no idea as to what the problem was or what I might do

about it.

I reached for my tankard. If I couldn't solve my problem, I might

as well

enjoy it. As I took a slow sip I became aware of a strange pair of

pale, burning

eyes gazing into my own. I hadn't noticed them before, and the

thing that made

them strange was that they occupied a shadowy comer of the

mural across the room

from me--that, and the fact that they were moving, drifting slowly

to my left.

It was kind of fascinating, when I lost sight of the eyes but was

still

able to follow whatever it was from the swaying of grasses as it

passed into the

area toward which I had been headed earlier. And far, far off to

right--beyond Luke--I now detected a slim gentleman in a dark

jacket, palette

and brush in hand, who was slowly extending the mural. I took

another sip and

returned my attention to the progress of whatever it was that

had moved from

flat reality to 3-D. A gunmetal snout protruded from between a

rock and a shrub;

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