"That is...." Burgandy paused. "That is....an excellent question! You know, umm, I was just about to keep looking when you guys pulled up, I assure you," he lied shakily, almost through his teeth. "Because they kind of gave me the slip, but oh, not for long..." Burgandy quickly noticed his story was falling apart, though he couldn't just outright admit being lazy to Lt. Colonel Entaru. Entaru did not have the power to demote him...but he did have the power to seriously damage his life and job in other ways. "Now what say we...get moving on this job, eh?" Hurriedly slipping on the gasmask and tightening the straps, Burgandy gave a strangely nervous smile.
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Moon was lost in la-la land before the armored car pulled up outside. Her own, personal, so very eccentric, kind of la-la land. Her telepathic connection to Atreyu had been lost. And she didn't even notice. Through her body coursed mercury, and her nose and mouth were filled with a sickly sweet smell and taste similar to an exotic type of fruit. When she at last used her eyes for their purpose instead of for imagining she had x-ray vision, and got a good look at the new Reich arrivals across the street, the first unfortunate, off-kiltered thing to cross through her mind was: *gasp!* What great timing...look at this! One...and two...TWO of them! I think these people would really like to meet you, Mr. Fire Poker. Or...*hiccup*..should I say, their brains would like to meet you!!!!
The hiccups had came without much warning and were nothing more than an annoyance. Lovingly, she ran her shaking hands over the iron weapon, and wondered if scattering brains would resemble cotton candy....no, no, nooo...*hiccup* brains are too cushy for that.
She squealed with positivley adorable giggles when the fire prod became animate and talked to her: BAM BAM BAM!!!! Just run up and hit the fools! BAM BAM BAM!!!!
Oh *hiccup*, you aren’t being very nice Mr. Fire Poker…
Then she grew woozy, light-headed, and lost both her balance and her grip. The rusty fire prod slipped from between her tiny fingers, and squealch-like sound rose up to Moon’s perked ears as it impaled her foot. It wasn’t much of an injury, in fact, it was barely even a cut…but Moon didn’t see it that way:
“OOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWoooooWWWWWWWWWoooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!”
Her cry was so unholy and loud that even someone living a few blocks down would have heard it, not to mention those people currently only a block of cement concrete and asphalt away. She had never been so loud in her life. An embarrassing new personal record to never tell Atreyu about.
You betrayed me, Mr. Fire Poker. You betrayed meeee….
Moon backpedaled in the hopes of relieving her foot without actually using her hands, and soon tumbled over onto her back when she tripped over an upturned coffee table.
Magical stuff, that mercury.