Universal Ear

🎥Chapter 26🎥
"Flaming Empathy"
🎧HEAR HOW FIRE FEELS🎧

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Serializing UNIVERSAL EAR: The Curse of the Phantom Tympanum in episodes of several astonishing seconds at a time!

EXTRACT FROM THE SOURCE MEMOIRS:
“For now, I was on fire. The experience of inhabiting the emotions and sensations of the flaming organ drew my attention away from the visitor’s pamphlet and my thoughts.
I sensed that the next organ pipe along from me was being ‘experienced' by Mrs. Coeur.
‘Is that you, Big Hat?’ I parped, using the handle that I had assigned her in a moment of gaiety.
‘How are you enjoying the empathy experience, Tiny Shorts?’ the organ pipe replied, in a breathy tone that was unmistakably that of Mrs. Coeur (her use of the nickname that she had assigned me against my protestations – my shorts fit me very efficiently – confirmed her identity.)
‘I’m very uncomfortable,’ I informed her. ‘My lungs are being seared. The pain is almost unbearable. I also feel humiliation. The very air with which I, a noble organ pipe, used to sing, is now fuelling my own demise; I am performing my own dirge, yet my voice has become feeble.’
‘Ok, calm down.’
‘I don’t see what this has to do with heritage!’ I yelled, pipeily. I thought I saw Mrs. Coeur's pipe shrug.
‘That’s the pipe talking. Careful not to get sucked in – these empathy experiences can be real parasites. Let’s go.’
With a wiggle of her pipey hips, my sense of organness flushed from my system, and I found myself dancing wildly, obsessed with a desire to grow and to consume.
‘Now we are the fire that is burning the cathedral!’ sparked a nearby flame. ‘How are you enjoying this empathy experience?’
‘I’m still awfully hot,’ I told her. ‘But quite smug with it.’
Mrs. Coeur was really getting it on.
‘Let’s burn everything!’ I suggested. ‘I want to burn it all!’”