Six Sentence Sunday
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valarltdFrom Tall Dark and Wriggly
Buy Link: http://www.stormmoonpress.com/books/Tall-Dark-and-Wriggly.aspx
From "Chained to the Wheel":
The Immortals answered his summons.
One by one they approached the door and shed the skeletal disguises they wore on official business in the larger Net, taking on their true avatars. He required the skeleton look—a sort of company uniform—but each runner was free to individualize it, whether Horus' nightmare of half-rotted flesh or the Datazon's clean lines, Clarion's burned horror or Swift-Current's almost-cartoonish creation, with its bright yellow eyes and cheerfully bony smile.
The skeletons, coupled with EIT's wheel-within-a wheel logo and his own Net appearance on a wheel of fire, were his little joke on his name. Some few got it, but no one dared laugh or call him out for bad allusions.
"What news on the Rialto, children?" he asked as he always did, once they were assembled.
Buy Link: http://www.stormmoonpress.com/books/Tall-Dark-and-Wriggly.aspx
From "Chained to the Wheel":
The Immortals answered his summons.
One by one they approached the door and shed the skeletal disguises they wore on official business in the larger Net, taking on their true avatars. He required the skeleton look—a sort of company uniform—but each runner was free to individualize it, whether Horus' nightmare of half-rotted flesh or the Datazon's clean lines, Clarion's burned horror or Swift-Current's almost-cartoonish creation, with its bright yellow eyes and cheerfully bony smile.
The skeletons, coupled with EIT's wheel-within-a wheel logo and his own Net appearance on a wheel of fire, were his little joke on his name. Some few got it, but no one dared laugh or call him out for bad allusions.
"What news on the Rialto, children?" he asked as he always did, once they were assembled.
