Sunday 20 July 2014

Episode 10 - Chapter 70

 Fiona doesn't really understand what it is she's seeing when she looks at Strauss. Of course she can see the tall thin creature adorned with a cowl and full length cape. Beyond that she sees the three midgets: Larry, Curly and Mo, the self-styled comedy trio, balancing precariously atop each others' shoulders. But beyond that, there's something else, something she hasn't seen before, that her mind doesn't quite know how to interpret. There's a hint of tension in the figure before her, as if all three of them are part of a tightly wound mechanism. And then there's the colour,s as if a cloud of red mist is hanging around them, what a new-age type might call an aura, deep and vibrant and to her, very very alarming.

“What are you?” she asks them, while her hands busy themselves with affectionate cats. To her senses, the cats are just that: two female felines. Fiona knows how they see themselves: tall, thin, regal, beautiful, human. But to her they're just cats: cute, fluffy and totally self absorbed.

“M'lady,” Strauss replies, “We are what we've always been, and all that we've ever claimed to be.”


“No,” she says, “There's something about you, something different.” Suspicion tugs at her mind as she speaks. “There's something you're not telling me,” she says, “What are you up to?”

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