A quiet before a storm. . .

Elrondir

"What are they now?" I ask in a low voice.

The answer I eventually get for that question is . . . .

. . . .

I don't know. Right now I could use some gallow humor right now and say how now I know just why I loathed Tegan's inane expletives (actually, I rather came to loath that Companion of the Fifth Doctor herself but why quibble). Wanted to more than on one occasion on one of the Creator's mercifully short visits with the woman tell her to give it a "Good Goddamn" and be DONE with it!

That or I could have reflected on how yet again how closely in characters analogs can be and how worrisome that can be sometimes to someone like me! After all, while I know that I am not a "villian" or "traitor", there had been that one Military analog of me who'd (for only the best and greatest of "greater goods") go about and try to betray the Military!! Yeah, his actions would have kept Terra Prime quarantined because of the Phage (prolonging the Enemy/Alliance War) in order to avoid the then looming civil war between the Military and the Company, but . . . .

. . . .

Rabbits. This bastard turned them into rabbits. MUNDANE rabbits without a magical sustain matrix for their human minds so that means . . .

And I bet you I know just WHICH rabbits they'd been before I saw them scamper off just moments earlier!!

Oh f*ckit, might as well just say the immediate thing on my mind: "You soulless bastard."

Oh, I said that last part in Elvish by default (vice the "neo-binary" language which had been my birthright as an AI before my elfin rebirth), but . . . . the tone says it all.

The forest seems to go quiet (or more like my friends go quiet as what was just revealed percolates through or stews up within their souls).

Taking a deep breath cleansing breath I turn and stalk over to the side, not trusting myself right now around this . . . .thing before me. Tearing off the rubber gloves, I grit my teeth and shake my head. Frankly, it would take VERY thick gloves indeed--now--for me to use on Pronklezilch if I really felt like carrying out that rather bawdy joke I'd made just earlier.

Whatever disappointment I'd felt in him not having caught the reference (guess that rather anachronistic procedure hadn't mystically reached these shores YET) . . .

Right now the bile I taste supercedes any prior amusement (that I'd had at Pronky's expense) and disappointment, however.

1. Right now, all I am going to do is listen and watch what happens next (and BELIEVE me it ain't gonna be pretty, by how even the Doctor is looking right now)!

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