Chapter 19: Skyfall

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- 5 HOURS AND 30 MINUTES REMAIN -

The two angels had flown ten thousand feet high. The aura of the team seems calmer than before, for the clown in the group got himself invested in reading the changelog.

"Louie?" Iggy asks but to no avail.

...Err, too invested.

"You think that changelog has something to do with the mystery he's talking about?" Pickle questions Iggy.

"Probably. I mean, he's reading the newer pages quite slowly, it's like he's searching for something..."

Louie carefully identified the lines written on the paper part of the changelog.

His eyes are looking sharply at that one line in the bottom of the page.

"Removed Gaia..."

A glimpse of her unidentified face looks at Louie.

"...Gaia?" Everyone in the group asked.

"She was my previous client, a precious friend of mine." He says, caressing the page on the book.

"Woah, Louie sounds pretty down right now." Pickle remarks.

He browses to the previous pages. His eyes dilate, having seen something that he never knew was a thing...

"Update 168 wasn't before Update 169..."

"Then what?" Iggy asks.

"It's... Update 168.1."

"Huh? That's weird; they never do decimals." Royal says.

"Couldn't that have been an emergency patch?" Lorde thinks to herself.

"I don't know." Louie replies."It's to restrict us dream creatures to the dream world..."

Louie identifies the date gap between the two updates...

"And all of this took place within ten days..."

"That's SMOKINGLY showing signs that it was intentional." Pickle shares his opinion.

"I know, but for what? For those ten days, I was stuck inside my birthplace, waiting for something, anything to happen..." Louie exclaims.

"Then I just find out that Gaia's gone." He added.

"So that's why you're going to the heavens, it's to fill in those lost ten days and finally have peace." Iggy realizes.

"Yeah... That sums it up just right." Louie says in a bittersweet tone.

Just a few yards ahead lies the view of the magnificent recreation of Mount Sinai, whose ground is made up of solid cloud.

"That's Sinai hill over there." Lorde tells Iggy and Louie. "You better update the changelog now or you won't be able to come in."

"Right." Louie says, keeping his composure intact.

He takes the golden quill and blows the cartridge to push the remaining ink inside. Louie takes himself to the golden page in Update 170.

"Here it is..." 

He taps the tip of his pen into the page...

And begins writing strokes.

His sunglasses drop slightly as he focuses on the page...

A few more seconds of silence and he finishes.

At the bottom of Update 170, it says:
"Dream Creatures and Ancient Beings can now enter heaven."

A golden aura bewilders Louie.

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