Ray laughs and reaches up to pat the little alien. "We'll be there soon, I promise," he says. "This is farm country. You're going to like the choices here. Ecto? Is there more information than that?"
"Yeah, I got Uncle Peter to send me a fax," the car says. "The cops in Port St. Helena, Oregon, found two guys tied up in a cove that the local drug dealers tend to use. Somebody'd caught 'em and roughed 'em up pretty badly, then tied them up with kelp. When they picked the guys up off the sand there was a rock underneath them that somebody'd engraved with the words 'The Great Lemurian Empire requests the human ambassador's presence. Accept these in good faith.'."
"... ya-huh," says Ray, expression simultaneously thoughtful and disturbed. "And they didn't think this was a practical joke?"
"Not once they brought the kelp to the Port St. Helena Marine Science Center," says Ecto. "Turns out it's from a species that only grows in really deep Pacific waters off the coast of Asia."
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Date: 2008-06-16 05:42 am (UTC)"Yeah, I got Uncle Peter to send me a fax," the car says. "The cops in Port St. Helena, Oregon, found two guys tied up in a cove that the local drug dealers tend to use. Somebody'd caught 'em and roughed 'em up pretty badly, then tied them up with kelp. When they picked the guys up off the sand there was a rock underneath them that somebody'd engraved with the words 'The Great Lemurian Empire requests the human ambassador's presence. Accept these in good faith.'."
"... ya-huh," says Ray, expression simultaneously thoughtful and disturbed. "And they didn't think this was a practical joke?"
"Not once they brought the kelp to the Port St. Helena Marine Science Center," says Ecto. "Turns out it's from a species that only grows in really deep Pacific waters off the coast of Asia."