"Well, it's something I'd been thinking about for a long time, remember. Like when I'd felt like I had explored every inch of Fraggle Rock that there was to even see."
He breathed out a sigh, the breath pluming at the end of his snout and then buffeting backwards. "I had felt a little lost, because what does an explorer explore when there's nothing left? But the Storyteller told me about a trip that not even Uncle Matt had finished, so I set out on it with my friends. It was supposedly an impossible quest that no one had ever completed, to find nothing less than the meaning of life itself." Weak, humorless chuckle. "We had different levels of confidence about this a'course, but to me this sounded like just what I needed.
"We struggled a little to make it, but eventually we got to the outskirts and found a literal point of no return, with a map and a message carved on a wall. 'To learn the secret you must walk alone, and never return to all that you've known. This map is but the first of many more. Each map found, the further to explore. The meaning of life awaits those who pay the price. A lifetime of wisdom for a lifetime of sacrifice.' One by one the others decided that the Rock needed them more than they needed the meaning of life, but in the end... I continued. Wembley was there at first, but then even he realized he had to go back. I pressed on for a bit, but then... I decided, too, that I had to go back, and I did."
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He breathed out a sigh, the breath pluming at the end of his snout and then buffeting backwards. "I had felt a little lost, because what does an explorer explore when there's nothing left? But the Storyteller told me about a trip that not even Uncle Matt had finished, so I set out on it with my friends. It was supposedly an impossible quest that no one had ever completed, to find nothing less than the meaning of life itself." Weak, humorless chuckle. "We had different levels of confidence about this a'course, but to me this sounded like just what I needed.
"We struggled a little to make it, but eventually we got to the outskirts and found a literal point of no return, with a map and a message carved on a wall. 'To learn the secret you must walk alone, and never return to all that you've known. This map is but the first of many more. Each map found, the further to explore. The meaning of life awaits those who pay the price. A lifetime of wisdom for a lifetime of sacrifice.' One by one the others decided that the Rock needed them more than they needed the meaning of life, but in the end... I continued. Wembley was there at first, but then even he realized he had to go back. I pressed on for a bit, but then... I decided, too, that I had to go back, and I did."