I seriously admire your masterful description of Kevin navigating Lacrasa's exotic geometry! I love thinking about and trying to visualise incomprehensible alien geometry (to be fair, with my lack of mathematics skills, even a tesseract is incomprehensible for me) so that was an absolute treat to read.

I was wondering when the "Mathman" was going to be mentioned or shown. I had a sneaking suspicion that it would turn out to be another name of the Queen in Pink given their personality and design.

Not sure if this is intentional, but I can't help but notice some parallels between Lyndon Johnson's description of the Mothman and what is said about the Queen in Pink. That they're secretly weak and avoid people who they think could be a threat to them. I guess that would tie in with the Mothman being a lie perpetuated by the Queen in Pink, if that part winds up checking out.

Didn't realise the implications of the Queen in Pink reading people's mail until my second read. Guess it's good that they now know Aiken's secret, since without phone calls they aren't going to be contacting any of Aiken's sources.

I'm still not sure what to think about all of the plot twists in the story. I guess it does make the whole thing seem more believable if nothing else. I had been thinking that the Queen in Pink, Mothman, and Edith Daeth's insane prophetic rantings were all completely unrelated phenomenon, and it seemed off that so many paranormal things would be occurring in the same tiny town at the same time. Plus, it seems improbable that a large and obvious target like the Mothman could scatter the pieces of AIken into every home without being seen. Still, the fact that Amy still isn't clear on what happened that night leads me to believe there's another twist waiting...

Was the "it felt dirty, deflated" line meant to be a pun based on the Queen in Pink being a balloon? Either way it made me smile.

I am going to have to assume that Mr. Foster was possessed, perhaps by the Mathman, during his sudden outburst. I must say that while I find the subject of trying to imagine an alien in a space of exotic geometry to be fascinating, I personally feel like this wouldn't have any bearing on their ability to feel basic emotions. It would still, if it survives to reproduce successfully, would need to be wired towards surviving and creating more of itself, which would then give way to similiar developments in consciousness, even if it would be unimaginably complicated due to needing to know how to intuitively navigate its world. Perhaps it would never even become intelligent because it wouldn't be able to have enough energy for sentience due to all of the energy it already needs to burn just to perform basic functions in its crazy geometry...

I love your description of the differences between how a child and how an adult would experience a horror story. I definitely felt that with many of Edgar Allan Poe's works due to how wordy they were. It's a crying shame that an adult can so rarely experience that childhood feeling of being too afraid to turn the lights off at night after reading some horror fiction.

Those last dozen or so paragraphs were beautiful. I am absolutely rooting for Amy in that showdown, even though I recognise that I am being foolishly optimistic. I do wonder a bit if the mutual understanding between Amy and Kevin wasn't entirely the intention behind some of the Queen in Pink's actions, namely isolating everyone from Amy but urging Kevin to visit her.

A few typos I noticed, because I am a persnickety little bugger as always. "in front ot me" instead of "in front of me", "cacophany" instead of "cacophony", and "millions of those has gotta negotiated and measure by understaffed Agricultural Department" instead of something like "millions of those have gotta be negotiated and measured by an understaffed Agricultural Department"?

Excellent work as usual, especially considering how fast you are writing these up!