Floaters and Fallers
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 23993
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Even as Fred huddled on a support beam of the wooden bridge that spanned a
mass of machinery, even as that same machinery - wider than a field of
wheat, deeper than a storehouse of corn - belched forth pink and grey
fluids and smokes and skulls, he saw a figure floating some yards below.
It looked to be humanoid but very thin and very tall. In fact, its neck
was as long as Fred's lower arm! It was clothed in only a loin cloth of
rich purple. Fred had never seen such a creature, had never heard tale of
such a thinge. He was very happy that it had not seen him as he did it.
Fred was even happier when he saw that it floated right into an open door (of sorts). He noticed that there was a small walkway below him and to the left, it was a drop, that was for sure, but he felt certain he could make it. Besides he had little choice, even as he pondered the jump he heard yet another gaurd thump across the bridge and felt the vibration. The gaurds were odd creatures, fleshy but the color of stone. They had great big heads with four great spindly legs extending therefrom, no neck, no torso, no arms, just their head and legs. Gaurds were frightening monsters who enjoyed to either talk a person to death or eat them (depending on their mood). It is said that the Common word guard which today means "a watcher and defender," originated as "those who oppose the gaurds" in other words a guard was an anti-gaurd! Fred hoped that the dim lantern-light was not betraying his sense of distance, and with one last thought of hackleberry pie (and don't ask me why he was thinking about that) he lept from the beam, sailed through the air, and...
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