gone_byebye: (grr)
Raymond Stantz ([personal profile] gone_byebye) wrote2005-10-09 12:59 am

For the crew arriving from Milliways:

The door from Milliways opens onto what would ordinarily be a picture-perfect day in early October over Central Park West. The air ought to be crisp and clear this high up. Certainly the view of Central Park, its leaves beginning to turn all kinds of colors, would support that...

... only anyone who actually pokes a head or hand or limb out the door will feel that it's not. It's warm- unseasonably so- and the air is tight somehow, shivering against the skin. There's an unpleasant, greasy feel to it, a sense of something about to precipitate out of nowhere at all. And far, far overhead, the sky roils and writhes in livid bruise-purple colors, torn open in a ferocious act of metaphysical savagery.

Looking up for too long is probably not a good idea.

[identity profile] ucav-tinman.livejournal.com 2005-10-12 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
As the lion tumbled Eddie pulled out and turned, aiming with bullets purchased at the end of the universe - at least that was one thing the lion could claim. The phrase 'I came from the end of the universe to kill you' could truly apply.

Too bad that, soon enough, the lion would not have the ability to recount that tale. Eddie fired. He'd had enough dodging and playful pursuit. Things were getting worse. His sensors told him that much - while he'd been fending off aerial attack, things had progressed.

[Targets will soon be destroyed. Fifty over one-hundred at current. Next orders?]