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The breeze was heavy and hot. The curtains shifted barely in the dusky light and then ceased their movement. What could they do? The fires raged across the city and all communication had been knocked out. Jim envied his neighbors who seemed to know something and had left a week ago.
Red and dusty. Dan was so tired of the constant red hues and pervasive dust. Mars. Better than the Moon his brother had said but he wasn't here and the Moon had full biospheres now so what did he know, really? Dan had at least been to the Moon and knew the difference but he knew that Jared was just trying to comfort him.
The puppy forgot he had brothers and sisters, bouncing off of them as he heard the food being poured into the metal bowl. They became a blur as he ran and slid around a corner into the kitchen. The Woman Alpha giggled and snorted as the pack closed in on dinner.
The steps swept up away from Alice as she entered the foyer. Her skirts looked drab against the sparkling white marble of the floor. As Master Ewan entered the room she instinctively dropped her eyes in deference. "Good afternoon, Abby." Alice bobbed a curtsey, "The name's Alice, Sir."
Eddy swirled the odd, brownish pink liquid around inside the beaker. When he looked around at everyone else's project, their liquids were bright blue or vivid green or bubbly pink. What had he done wrong? Then he saw Frank watching him intently, a sneer on his thin lips.
She stepped through the arched doorway, brushing debris from her gloves onto her riding skirt. A sound startled her and she glanced to were the altar once was, now a pile of rubble. From behind the rubble stepped an astoundingly white wolf.
The battery fell out of its receptacle. Joe scrabbled to grab it as it rolled underneath him. The scruffy wood of the floor was caught up under his nails and he inhaled in pain but the urgency drove him to push on, and finally he caught the battery and locked it in to place, whipping the flashlight up just in time to catch the motion of a shadow disappearing into a doorway.
The pup pie snuffled underneath her mother's flank all the other puppies were successful in finding a teat but the lost one kept going the wrong direction. Jim picked her up gently and nuzzled her back in to the throng at the mother's belly.
The arched entrance to the shattered chapel was covered in misty moss. The fog that had seeped through the moor also seeped in to Aeryn's bones. She shivered and placed a gloved hand on the stone, stepping over rubble to enter the hollow chapel.
The boy fell from the tree and rolled around in the dirt screaming. Bob rubbed his head and looked back at his wife. They'd found the boy living in the woods deep in the forest of Montana. There were no wolves, he was no Mowgli come to life but there was no doubt he had never been among people.
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