the Guardian - Part 4
As the squirrel and the salamander headed south, Florae took a closer look at the small craft they were in. It was constructed of wood and painted dark blue. On the floor of the boat at their feet were several excited clams, who seemed to be chattering amoungst themselves. They were dressed in smart grey business suits and colourful power ties. "They're just along for the ride," explained MacAbre.
They floated lazily in the current. On one of the unused oars were engraved the initials TWT.
"Now that we're underway, I need to explain a few things," said MacAbre. "The bridge that you are to guard is not ordinary. There are only three like it in the world."
"What makes them special?" asked Florae.
"If you will permit me to explain," interrupted one of the clams, "you are to protect it from unauthorized access. and help members of the organisation to use it. And in that vein, I will need you to sign some papers."
The clam turned out to be a lawyer named Smitty, and the papers were all sorts of legal boilerplate. "Smitty" sounds like a fun name, but the clam was actually as fun as the boilerplate. Clams don't tend to have much of a sense of humor, anyways.
It was several hours before all the papers were signed and all the legal matters explained to Florae, who insisted on having all the legalese explained to her by Smitty. She had learned to know what your signing from a book deal that had gone sour a few years before. It turned out she was supposed to be IN the stew.
Florae turned to MacAbre at this point, by which point they were well out to sea. "Now, I want to know what the bridge does, and how a small squirrel is to protect it."
"I can answer your second question now," replied the salamander. "You are going to receive certain powers which will make up for your lack in size."
"When will I receive these powers?"
"Right now," said MacAbre with a glint in his eye. Suddenly the salamander kicked Florae hard with his hind legs, and she found herself bobbing in the undulating Pacific waters.
Which way should the story go? Is being stranded in the ocean a trial to gain her powers? Or is MacAbre just being a jerk? Leave your comments!
posted by Briam at 4:26 AM
5 Comments:
Well I'm back from hiatus. I've been reevaluating the blog. I was lamenting with dodgers the other day that I enjoy writing so much more when I don't have to, and trying to post every day was sapping the fun for me. He suggested that I didn't need to post every day, and maybe I could cut back on the quantity of my posts in order to imporove the quality of them. Sound advice, dodgers. It also gives people more time to post comments and ideas so I can try to incorporate more ideas.
You are very right, blogging every day can get tedious. And I can't imagine trying to write a story every day, so major props to you.
Very wise advice from dodgers, I will have to ask him for to back me up when I take my next hiatus.
I think that while on writing hiati (that's plural of hiatus, not the central american country of Haiti) you should just post a picture of funny animals every day so visitors won't get out of the habit of checking the site regularly and laughing at animal humor.
I would suggest you start with the Slowskies from that DSL commercial. Turtles ill at ease with really fast internet connections are hilarious.
And I think MacAbre is a punk.
Or the pinching crab from the Honda Element commercial!
"I pinch."
You do pinch, ll, and you pinch hard.
Good idea (read that "i-dee-ur"), ll, i'll have to implement thst post haste.
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