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CHAPTER 48

  Life is Random

  “Everybody stay still!” shouted the now blind leader of the Klaxworms. “We shouldn't move too fast.”

  “Do you see that?” shouted a voice from the crowd.

  “See what? Most of us are blind.”

  “There's something falling from the sky. A big chunk of something translucent.”

  “Really?”

  “Must be part of the weather around here.”

  “The Grimbat messengers never mentioned weather involving falling chunks of something translucent.”

  “There's probably a lot they didn't mention. Look how crazy this place is!”

  “I can't look! I'm blind!”

  “The falling thing is getting closer.”

  The few Klaxworms who still had vision were looking up at the falling chunk of Glassvexx. They were completely oblivious as to what was about to happen to them in a matter of seconds.

  “Everyone follow me, we've got a lot to do.”

  The droves of Klaxworms began to explore the planet. The chunk of Glassvexx (which was the size of a couple skyscrapers) landed square on the entirety of their population. Not one survived to carry on the species. That was it. Done.

  Although forever gone, and never even known while they were here, Klaxworms are not forgotten. They continue to make their mark on the collective consciousness of the universe. Their story became a popular piece of entertaining folklore. Except as if told through a silly game of Telephone, the Klaxworm story grew inaccurate as it was passed along between planets. The drug-related circumstances of the destruction of Glassvexx garbled the story into suggesting that drugs and Klaxworms were in direct connection with each other. Most versions relate the Klaxworms as the drug overlords who were collectively assassinated after venturing out of their hideout. It is now a popular cautionary story that overprotective parents use to coerce their children into staying at home, as if to say:

  “Don't do drugs and leave home... or you will die.”