A Massively Messy Messie Mess

Chapter 4 - Lonely Boy

He was sitting on the bed in his new room, staring at the words laid in front of him. Rereading them over and over, a million thoughts racing through his head, he tried deciphering who they could belong to.

After he and Maggie had arrived in this town rather abruptly, she had just as quickly dragged him away from the crowd to her house, throwing him into this room and telling him to get comfortable while fucking off outside. Despite his lack of need for rest, he refrained from following her to demand answers, his attention caught by a letter resting on the bed. Upon realizing it was written in Latin, he seized it and settled in, beginning to read:

IESSIÓ MI CÁRÓ

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Cv́RÁ VT VALEÁS IESSI MI CARE

MY DEAR JESSIE

THOUGH THERE IS MUCH YOU WISH TO ASK, LEAVE THOSE QUESTIONS FOR LATER, FOR THERE ARE OTHER THINGS YOU MUST TEND TO FIRST. HEAD TO THE STORE THAT YOUR FRIEND ALREADY KNOWS; THERE YOU SHALL FIND YOUR THINGS SAVED FROM THE FIRE. IT HAS NOT ESCAPED MY ATTENTION THAT THE MATTER OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO YOUR BELOVED PET TORMENTS YOU, BUT WORRY NOT, FOR HE IS WELL AND SHALL BE SO WHILE HE TENDS TO THE THINGS THAT WERE ASSIGNED TO HIM. NOW HENCEFORTH THIS SHALL BE YOUR NEW HOME, AND SO YOU SHALL PROSPER IN IT. I HAVE LEFT YOU FOOD THAT SHALL NOURISH YOU FOR AS LONG AS YOU NEED IT TO. IT IS NOT AT ALL SURPRISING THAT YOU CONSIDER HER AN UNPLEASANT COMPANION, BUT I URGE YOU TO ASSIST HER NEVERTHELESS. SHE STILL ASSUMES THAT SHE ALONE CAN CARRY OUT THE TASK ENTRUSTED TO HER, BUT SHE HAS BEEN MISLED. MOREOVER, CONSIDER WHAT THIS NEW LIFE MEANS; NEVER AGAIN SHALL YOU RETURN TO THOSE YOU LOATHE, BEING A LONELY BOY. THERE IS MUCH YOU DO NOT YET KNOW ABOUT THIS WORLD YOU WERE SUDDENLY THRUST INTO, BUT YOU WERE BROUGHT INTO IT TO FULFILL A GREAT PURPOSE, AND WITH THOSE COMRADES BY YOUR SIDE YOUR JOURNEY SHALL BE MOST FORTUNATE. I CONCLUDE THIS LETTER BY ADVISING YOU TO STRONGLY AVOID BODIES OF WATER ENTIRELY FOR THE TIME BEING.

TAKE CARE, MY DEAR JESSIE

While he could not grasp all that the letter detailed even after multiple rereads, it nonetheless clarified much to him. When the voice had told him his dog was "gone from this world", it had been literal rather than euphemistic; Valentinus was fine, and supposedly on a mission of his own. So when he had run inside, that was why... Well, at any rate, he trusted that dog to see to it that he would succeed in whatever it was he was tasked with. Jessie only hoped he would see him again.