pandion | eek, monsters

Time goes by. Trouble keeps right on bringing desserts (and once a quiche and once a loaf of bread with nuts in it). The Swans are uncomplaining. On Christmas Eve he brings two kinds of cookies and an astonishingly edible fruitcake and stays overnight on the couch. (Andi, self-servingly, got him a little box of assorted Genuine Maple Products. Bella got him an inexpensive yet adorable miniature sewing machine.) Robin comes over too, Christmas day (Andi gives her a packet of guitar strings and sheet music for assorted Green Day songs. Bella gets her a tiny tape recorder.)

School is back in session in January, after New Year's. (The twins set off small fireworks in the driveway - well, Andi does. Robin is invited to this event; Trouble is not, it somehow does not seem wise.)

Now it is the first weekend after the resumption of school.

Robin's supposed to be over any minute for practice for Nameless Band Which Kind Of Needs A Third Person But Bella Doesn't Want To. Andi taps out beats on her drums. Taptaptap. Taptaptap-kish. Taptaptap. Taptaptapkish.

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instar

"So if one of us goes there - broken door on the shop - would you expect an ash pile or any smears where the guy got vaporized?"

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hold_infinity

She hesitates, then shakes her head again. "No. I don't know. It didn't look like anything - fell, after. He was just gone."

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instar

"Did the monster talons leave marks on the sidewalk?"

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hold_infinity

"I'm not sure. They might have. Not big ones, anyway, not that I could see from where I was standing."

From:

instar

"What kind of shop is this?"

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hold_infinity

She shrugs. "It was closed, lights off and everything, they all were. I didn't turn back to look at the sign."

From:

instar

Bella starts writing things down.

"Is there anything else you haven't mentioned?"

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hold_infinity

"I don't... I don't think so," she says.

From:

instar

"Do you know what time this happened? Can you go into more detail about what the alien sounded like? Or the weapon - what it looked or sounded like?"

Edited Date: 2013-09-04 09:31 pm (UTC)

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hold_infinity

"It was made of shiny metal," she recalls, "and it tapered almost to a point but sort of blunt, and it made a sound like - like a screamy whoosh. And there was a smell after it fired. Kind of a burning smell but not quite. The monster's voice was very deep and kind of growly, but it didn't sound like an animal, it sounded like an angry man muttering to himself. Except the sounds weren't quite right. I've no idea if he even could speak any human language, with that mouth. And it was, I don't know, a little after midnight."

Edited Date: 2013-09-04 09:38 pm (UTC)

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instar

Bella takes diligent enciphered notes.

"I don't suppose you've told your mom or anything."

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hold_infinity

"The hell would I do that for? I didn't even go home, I went straight to Ethan's."

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instar

"Whose parents are likewise in complete ignorance, I assume?"

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hold_infinity

"Yeah, of course."

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instar

"If Charlie were - but he isn't. And I don't see Renée being very useful here either. I suppose we could tell Trouble."

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hold_infinity

Robin considers this notion.

From:

palmofyourhand

"No harm in it," says Ethan. "...Probably."

From:

instar

"Well, I don't know what use he'd be, but one thing I definitely don't expect is for him to decide unauthorized that the situation would be better if forty more people knew about it."

From:

palmofyourhand

"Yeah, you've got that dead right," Ethan agrees.

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instar

"And then he'll know to - I don't know. Avoid that intersection at night? Go looking for that intersection at night? I actually don't know, maybe we'd better not tell him."

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palmofyourhand

"There is that."

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hold_infinity

"We can tell him, though," says Robin, "if we think of a way it would help. Help what, I don't even know. I just saw some stranger murdered by a, a demon. What's going to help with that?"