Part 4

Back at the counter upstairs, the Innkeeper was smiling as she returned to her spot at the counter. “You give Hamlin the message?” he asked her.

“Of course I will have. He knew the time will have eventually come.” she said in her sing-song voice, having become once more unstuck in time. “The time and date was going to have been set long before you began to ask. Why question?”

“Some of us experience time linearly, Eigen.” he indignantly replied.

“One thing I will need to know, why name it ‘The Hissing Lobster’?” Eigengrau asked, looking at him quizzically.

“Why not?” he replied with a laugh.