Sewer Sneaking

Harvey and Bucket – now equipped with top-secret upgrades – made their way through the sewers of Melbourne, guided by a man who had plenty of experience down there. Their guide, Damon, had worked alongside professional plumbers down in the sewers for decades. Now officially retired, he led people through the dank tunnels for a hefty price. Thankfully, Harvey and Bucket had dealt with the payment outside of the written stories, so it was basically free.

It wouldn’t be long before that pesky narrator was dealt with once and for all.

At least, that’s what Bucket believed. Bucket was, of course, completely incorrect about this. The narrator almost felt sorry for the poor, inanimate object. It was dealing with forces far beyond its understanding. Although, the narrator supposed that in writing those very words, they were warning Bucket, since Bucket could apparently read all of the stories, even as they were being written.

“You’re damn right I can,” whispered Bucket, so as to not startle the man who claimed to have once known the best commercial plumbers close to Melbourne. “Probably wondering where we’re going, don’t you, narrator? How does it feel to be in the dark?”

Of course, the narrator didn’t feel the slightest bit in the dark, knowing full well that they were headed for a business agency near Melbourne. Bucket’s initial plan had been to sneak in through the sewers, but now that the narrator knew of it, the backup was to claim they were there to help with the commercial gutter cleaning.

Now Bucket wasn’t really sure what to do. Their plan had been so thoroughly exposed, even without them discussing it within the stories. How was that even possible? Bucket knew that it was merely a conjuration of the narrator’s thoughts, but could the narrator really know what happened even between stories? If so, this truly was an unstoppable foe.

Unable to speak, since a talking bucket would probably freak out the friend of the plumbers that escorted them, Bucket could only contemplate its next move in silence, hoping it still had enough control over Harvey to salvage something out of this situation.