Paco the Pocket Llama – Chapter 2.3
Paco awoke the next day and had to poop. Upon visiting the toilet (which he had to share with all six of the acrobatic quintuplets) he discovered that it was halfway to diarrhea. Gross. But he was not deterred. He left a note for the elephant trainer telling her that he had secretly loved her, even if she did have the clap, and snuck out before anyone else was awake. He did not want to see them tortured or bribed or both by The Overly Large Retail Corporation & Spa®. He knew what he had to do. He had to keep traveling, not staying anywhere too long, and try to find a way to get The Overly Large Retail Corporation & Spa® to lose interest in him.
He went to the bus station where he spent the next 2.3 days panhandling, trying to get enough money to buy a ticket. When that didn’t seem to be getting him very far, he spent 2.3 days whoring himself out to other beggars. When he realized that none of them had money either and were promising future payment he would never receive, he finally spent an additional 2.3 days whoring himself out to passengers with first class tickets. But then he had enough money to get himself almost to Mars, had the train actually gone there.
He got a train to the next town. He figured that he’d stay there for a while, then double back, and keep The Overly Large Retail Corporation & Spa® off his trail for as long as possible. On the train is when the first dream happened. It almost seemed real at first. Johnny was there and was telling him that he knew about the plot against Paco, and had faked his death so that he could help him without The Overly Large Retail Corporation & Spa® knowing he was still alive. They had far more money and resources than Johnny and Paco, so Johnny had to be tricky. Johnny also confirmed the danger to Paco should he be subjected to the tests needed for his cloning. He then told Paco that he had a plan.
The dream had seemed real, almost too real. But when he awoke Paco knew that the dream could not be true. For one thing he had watched as they had cremated Johnny’s body, so there was no way he could have survived. But what really confirmed it as a dream was the fact that as he finished talking to Paco Johnny had begun to dance on a stripper pole, and had slowly morphed into the elephant trainer. Paco had known Johnny long enough to know that he did not have the power to morph into anyone, let alone Paco’s love interest. So Paco knew this was just a dream, but seeing two of the people he had cared for most in the world, and knew he would never see again made Paco sad and he proceeded to cry.
