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joel was floating somewhere. he felt light, and a squirming feeling crawled into his head. lizzie, jeremy, the universe, and now, her. iris. it was vitally important he let her in.
joel woke up and immediately jumped out of his bed and put on his hat. he didn't even think as he flew over to spawn.
bdubs was confused to be honest, why had joel called him, etho and skizz here? and impulse, but he wasn't technically called here, skizz just brought his dippledop along.
joel stepped up onto a rainbow stage with a rainbow book in hand. "my friends, i've met someone very important to me, she's like my sister! her name is iris and she's a goddess. i am currently lucky enough to hold her in my body! i know this sounds insane, but it's the truth! behold!" joel waved his hand, and suddenly a deep sense of giddy excitement filled everyone standing there for a few seconds. "now, will you join me in spreading iris's message of unity, love and welcoming more hermits to the church until eventually all shall know her- yes bdubs?"
bdubs looked up to joel. "joel, this sounds like a cult." joel's vision turned into a glare. "you're clearly not ready to be part of the church of iris yet bdubs. go home. maybe you'll understand eventually. but you certainly don't now. but etho, skizz, impulse and me, we get it, don't we? we understand something no one else does at the moment. hermits are special. especially us. but soon all of us will get it like we do, because we're cool. you wanna be cool, don't you?"
skizz smiled awkwardly. "uhh, yeah." joel clapped a hand onto skizz's shoulder. "come on skizz, let's leave bdubs to his life, after all, we can't force someone to join us." and with that joel led the three men off, leaving bdubs behind.
iris's voice echoed through joel's head. "my champion, go clear out a space for our worshippers to congregate, for i, your sister." joel nodded, and went to build the temple.