The Game at Carousel: A Horror Movie LitRPG - Chapter 134Book Five, : The Barker

... quite hard to conceive of a world that does not know the Sweepstakes, but you'll find we do dream of such a place. Perhaps our obsession with worlds like yours stems from some subconscious desire for the lives we were never allowed to live—the blissful ignorance… but to understand the Manifest Consortium, you must understand the Barker.”

We sat on the bench, and as she spoke, the cold air stopped bothering me. I felt a gravity in what she was saying even before she got to the details. I ...