As copies of himself sprouted out of every part of his body and performed their mesmerising dance, they formed into a giant Cyriak that was simultaneously across the road, under the road, and was the road itself; all eventually resolving itself into Cyriak just being across the road. But that's how he crossed it, not why. Thankfully at the end we see that all this was just a convoluted way to get to the pub.
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