An Interview with Bimb
[Interviewer]: We have with us today a man known simply as Bimb, one of the main characters in the fantasy novel, The Spaces Between. Greetings, Bimb!
[Bimb]: Hello.
[I]: So, Bimb, you go by just Bimb. Do you have a last name?
[B]: Last...name?
[I]: Yes, like Zhyfrael Lynnheard... or Kahl Reustien...?
[B]: Fa.
[I]: Excuse me?
[B]: Fa is my Fa. I'm just Bimb, and there's Fa. Oh, and Ma, too, but Ma cries a lot. She cries too much. Do you have any more spicy drink?
[I]: I—what...? Oh, yes... here. Now, Bimb, it's true that you can talk to the dead, is that correct? Have you ever read The Necroscope?
[B]: I don't read. Fa reads. He reads big words. Zhy's Fa is dead...I talk to him.
[I]: And what does he say, what do you talk about?
[B]: We talk about music and travel. I play the sutan—a ten-string one. It is hard to play ten strings, Fa says, and it makes me happy to play it. I can play and then I talk to Zhy's Fa. He is nice, but sad.
[I]: Why is he sad?
[B]: Because Zhy is almost dead, he says. He says Zhy drinks all the time. He wants Zhy to be happy. I love my Fa. Zhy loves his, too, but Zhy's Fa can't talk to him to hear it.
[I]: Are there other dead people you talk to?
[B]: ... There are some. They come and go. I like Zhy's Fa best.
[I]: Do you love your mother?
[B]: She cries all the time. Do you want to hear my sutan? I can play it very well...
[I]: Perhaps later, after the interview.
[B]: I have to go pee. Do you have more questions?
[I]: I—well, just one perhaps. What do you know about demons or the Knights of the Black Dawn?
[B]: Fa says demons are made up by the Elders. He says they are not real. I have never seen the night, it is dark.
[I]: It is a different kind of Knight... a Knight is a type of soldier.
[B]: I see the Counsel Guard come around, but they walk by our farm. We have seven hundred thousand, four hundred and thirty six turnips. Three are broken.
[I]: So... you've never seen the Knights who fight demons?
[B]: Fa says demons are made up. I love my Fa. Can I go pee now...?
[I]: Yes, I suppose so.
[Bimb]: Hello.
[I]: So, Bimb, you go by just Bimb. Do you have a last name?
[B]: Last...name?
[I]: Yes, like Zhyfrael Lynnheard... or Kahl Reustien...?
[B]: Fa.
[I]: Excuse me?
[B]: Fa is my Fa. I'm just Bimb, and there's Fa. Oh, and Ma, too, but Ma cries a lot. She cries too much. Do you have any more spicy drink?
[I]: I—what...? Oh, yes... here. Now, Bimb, it's true that you can talk to the dead, is that correct? Have you ever read The Necroscope?
[B]: I don't read. Fa reads. He reads big words. Zhy's Fa is dead...I talk to him.
[I]: And what does he say, what do you talk about?
[B]: We talk about music and travel. I play the sutan—a ten-string one. It is hard to play ten strings, Fa says, and it makes me happy to play it. I can play and then I talk to Zhy's Fa. He is nice, but sad.
[I]: Why is he sad?
[B]: Because Zhy is almost dead, he says. He says Zhy drinks all the time. He wants Zhy to be happy. I love my Fa. Zhy loves his, too, but Zhy's Fa can't talk to him to hear it.
[I]: Are there other dead people you talk to?
[B]: ... There are some. They come and go. I like Zhy's Fa best.
[I]: Do you love your mother?
[B]: She cries all the time. Do you want to hear my sutan? I can play it very well...
[I]: Perhaps later, after the interview.
[B]: I have to go pee. Do you have more questions?
[I]: I—well, just one perhaps. What do you know about demons or the Knights of the Black Dawn?
[B]: Fa says demons are made up by the Elders. He says they are not real. I have never seen the night, it is dark.
[I]: It is a different kind of Knight... a Knight is a type of soldier.
[B]: I see the Counsel Guard come around, but they walk by our farm. We have seven hundred thousand, four hundred and thirty six turnips. Three are broken.
[I]: So... you've never seen the Knights who fight demons?
[B]: Fa says demons are made up. I love my Fa. Can I go pee now...?
[I]: Yes, I suppose so.
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