This story arch is going to take a dark turn. Last time I touched a sensitive topic in my comics, I wrote a trigger warning in the blog post the week before. This time is similar, but it doesn't concern only the next comic. In fact, this is a warning that there will be no more trigger warnings from now on. The simple reason for this is that I can't keep this standard. I create my comics on a tight time schedule and while I sometimes plan ahead, I often don't know what's going to happen next and I need to use the inspiration when it comes to me. I feel like having to plan ahead for every darker turn has a negative impact on my artistic vision.

This webcomic is not a mass-media product. I never had the intention to appeal to a large audience. It's a project purely born from passion and as such I want the story to go where social-media friendly storytelling wouldn't dare to go. I want it to be dancing on the edge of the abyss. I want it to show that beauty and humor can even be found in the most ugly facets of life. I want it to teach the true fearlessness towards negative emotions that nihilism enables. All of this is only possible if I don't have to cater to sensitive readers.

So, if you are not feeling up to this, if you're going through some tough times right now or if this prospect simply doesn't sound appealing to you, that's totally fine. I will not think less of you if you don't want to read my comics because of that. In fact, I will never hold it against anyone if they don't want to read my comics or blog posts for any reason whatsoever. I create them because they bring joy to me and publish them because they might bring joy to other people as well. If that's not what's happening for you, don't read them.

On the other hand, if you're as excited as I am about a more unrestrained dive into the shadows, this story arch will be for you. I really haven't planned much of it and couldn't tell you what is going to happen, even if you put a gun to my head, but I'm sure that the decision to allow myself the freedom I wanted for a while now will certainly unleash something great. I can't promise that it will be next week already, though. I don't want to build up too many expectations right now. As I said, I'm not sure what will happen next but I have some loose ideas. Inspiration is a wild and uncontrollable beast. So, let us see together what the future will bring for Chicken and their therapist. I hope it will be interesting.

Panel 1:
G and H are talking at their usual table.
G: You know how there’s numbers that keep going after the decimal point? You could take all the numbers you ever say in your life and concatenate them as decimal digits of a new number. You could call it the Chicken number.
Panel 2:
G: Wouldn’t that be a super fun way to define an irrational number?
H: I’m pretty sure it would be a rational number, though.
G: What? Do you have a proof for that?
Panel 3:
H: Well, I mean, at some point I’ll ...
H's therapist interrupts them
T: Ahem. I’m still here, you know?
G: Oh, get lost! We’re having fun here.
T: Fine. I’ll try to escape alone then.
Panel 4:
The therapist now walks alone through the strange land in Chicken's mind.
T: Oh no, this is bad. Now I’m all alone in this strange place. How will I ever get out?
Panel 5:
They meet the fortune teller
F: 221712781155141219325631677721634250100105191012835050100301111000 ...
T: You! You seemed to know stuff earlier. Please, help me.
Panel 6:
F: Oh, I don’t know anything. I’m only imaginary, just like you. We are projections of real people in Chicken’s mind. Sorry you had to learn it this way.
Panel 7:
T: crying But ... if none of this is real, what’s happening to Chicken, and I mean the real Chicken, right now?
F: I can show you, but it’s not pleasant.