TheBanyanTree: Mad sheep 3

[Peter Macinnis]

Priscilla and Myfanwy walked through several rooms, then Myfanwy stopped 
at a door with a flashing green light above it.

"I want you to close your eyes, hold onto my fleece, and walk through 
with me. Keep your eyes closed until I say."

"Why do I need to do that?"

"We're going to cross a dimension that isn't ripe yet, and in my 
experience, the sight of a green dimension makes humans feel very ill. 
Trust me in this: we aren't really sheep, you know."

Priscilla did as she was told, and felt no more than a slight 
temperature change and the sense of a feather duster being poked up her 
nose, pointy end first.

"You can open your eyes now, but best not to look back—it's dripping a bit."

"If you aren't sheep, what are you?"

"In simple terms, we're 3D manifestations of higher dimension beings 
which have been shaped by morphic resonance to fit within the 
existence-scale of your puny 3D minds."

"You mean even minds can have more dimensions?"

"Yes, or less. Lots of people have 2D minds, usually because Gordon the 
Goth Goat has taken a disliking to them. Make a note: it's best not to 
cross Gordon, and it's even better not to cross in front of him when 
he's rolling something heavy, because it leaves you feeling, well, flat. 
He's the same sort of being as us, but we're shaped by morphic 
resonance, and he's shaped by murphic resonance."

"Like potatoes?"

"No, more like the Law of that name. Hermione was giving Bill 
Shakespeare some ideas for sonnets one time, and accidentally let slip 
something about the quality of Murphy, and he wrote the line down and 
used it later. Luckily, Bill got it wrong and talked about the quality 
of mercy, which was easier to explain, though there's a critic who has a 
theory that it was meant to be the koala tea of Mersey. Anyhow, we're 
not sheep. We just look like them, and that occasionally makes us do 
sheepy things."

"What was Hermione giving ideas to Shakespeare for?"

"Oh she was only young, then. Lots of us have a pet human to play with 
when we're young, and most of them don't even know we're there. Some of 
them see us, and we're behind 93% of all cases of invisible friends. 
Even we can't account for the rest, but come in here, and you'll be able 
to see the Library of Lost Manuscripts."

It only took one look for Priscilla to be convinced she had made the 
right choice.

-- 
Peter Macinnis, boutique word herder & science gossip,
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