by AndyDufresne on Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:56 pm
Day Four
As the glowing orb grows in size and climbs high into the new morning's sky, the remaining residents of Finn Rock all slowly awake. Houssam stretches in the sunlight and tosses a backpack over his shoulders. Trestain slips on a heavy coat and thrusts his hands into his pockets as he heads towards the Town Center. Wicked quietly rises and starts off into the direction of the Town Center. She mutters to herself under her breath, and a few faint curse words and 'monkey' dribble out of her mouth. Freetymes races up ahead to catch up with Houssam but as Freetymes gains on Houssam, Houssam's pace quickens until he's running a near dead sprint. Xenhu and Bogusbet stroll side by side nonchalantly chatting about about a great string of poker hands from the day before during one of their many games. By the time a few of the first people arrive at the Town Center, Moz and Machiavelli are already mulling about under a large tree. Moz carves his name into the stripped bark and on the trunk's otherside Mach knifes a heart and inside a sweetheart's name. As Reverend_kyle arrives at the Town Center him and Trestain slip away into a side bakery. Wicked, Bogusbet, Xenhu, and Freetymes each journey off into a cardinal direction. Wicked sees a pack of wild dogs roaming the streets and picks up a small piece of wood for protection. The dogs stop in midstride and look toward her. As a nervous twitch she strums her fingers the wood. One large dog starts to move toward her. After a moment a few more follow. She slowly backs away but the wild dogs start to close the gap between them quicker and quicker. Wicked makes a mad dash for a side building. Unfortunately, the door seems to be locked. With all her might, she smashes a window with her wooden club, and crawls in just as the pack of dogs lose interest. Bogusbet, thinking ahead, chooses to search in the general direction of a small furniture store. He approaches the store front glass, looks around for any watching eyes, and tosses a few rocks through the pane. He steps over shards of glass and a few chairs. In the back of the store, he eyes the fruit of his search. After a moment Bogusbet sinks into a large recliner and turns on the back massager. Bogusbet closes his eyes and begins a take a nap. Xenhu seemed to get side tracked also. He wanders aimlessly down the aisles of small movie rental store, randomly picking off interesting looking titles. After a few minutes of careful shopping he arrives at the front desk and reclines in a chair behind the counter. As he pops a movie into a VCR he places his feet upon the counter and settles in for a nice stay. Last, but not least, Freetymes grabs a small bicycle and peddles off down an alley. He zips through an alley past many trash cans and dumpsters. While trying to pop a wheelie his back tire catches something and locks up. Freetymes is hurled end over end over the handle bars, landing in a small pile of soggy waste bags. He rubs his head and removes a few pieces of trash as he looks back to see what caused his crash. Caught in the chain, he can see a severed arm. Freetymes carefully reclaims his footing and investigates further. Next to his bicycle and the arm is a leg and part of a torso. He brings his hand to his head as if saluting the sun, and views the alley. Further on down a head and another arm rest against the brickwall of a building. Freetymes removes his coat and sweatshirt and sickingly wraps each found body part in his sweatshirt which he laters places in his zipped up coat bundle. With slow and careful footsteps he heads back toward the Town Center to dump the remains for all to see.
On the dying and dull brown grass rests Master Bush, Sadier Warner (Healthy -- Mason), in many pitiful pink pieces of flesh.
Now lets get the day going!
--Andy