The Sweet Madness of Miss Pomni

Pomni opened her eyes and found that she woke up in her bedroom, there was an insanely dear half-drunk cup of tea on the nightstand, and there was not a single damn lake or amusement park outside the window. “Am I already awake or not yet?” - Pomni thought. Hearing someone's breathing, she realized that she was not alone here. Turning her head to the side, she saw a man’s profile on the next pillow, faintly visible behind a shock of luxurious cowboy hat - and with a strange mixture of horror and joy she realized that it was Gummigoo in front of her. “I’m hallucinating,” Clownness Pomni decided unequivocally. She pinched herself until she was bruised, but neither her house nor her boyfriend disappeared. Pomni tensed, trying to remember what she did yesterday and how she got to life like this. "So. Yesterday I, Ordinary Miss Pomni, being sane... But exactly sane? Okay, to hell with it... Yesterday I sat here and wrote down options for Exit from the Circus... Holy asteroid louse! I found Exit! It’s written in my notebook!!!" Pomni wanted to shout "Hip-hip-hurray!!!" and jump on one leg, but she was afraid to wake Gummigoo - he had a painfully satisfied smile in his sleep. Instead, she quietly crept into the kitchen to please her lover with breakfast in bed. On the kitchen table lay a crumpled note, for some reason sprinkled with sawdust. Pomni unfolded it and read it, hoping that this was the text of the Exit. But she read something completely different. REMEMBER, POMNI YOU GOT WHAT YOU WANTED I'M LEFT FOREVER YOUR MIND Pomni groaned and collapsed on the floor unconscious...