From: Shard Fields or Megasomething <goola2u@aol.compostheap> Subject: [PW!] Lost Causes (was: Re: That Shalt Be King Hereafter) Date: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 6:39 PM Sorry, bit distracted... >Her gaze fell on a signpost that marked the route, and she >hastily looked away. Neither Sneakers nor Kiniro knew yet that she >couldn't read. "Well you know," she told the Meowth "That I don't care >for names or places..." > Sneakers gave the air a hasty whiff, as though he'd just realized he'd forgotten to do something most humans would just puzzle at. In fact, however, this action was quite understandable, and the results were made all too clear. "This is someone else's territory," warned Sneakers. "Someone, from the smell of it, that isn't to be messed with." As if on cue, a rusle arose from a nearby patch of grass. "That's him! That's the exact same odor that's marked here!" shouted Sneakers. The rustling, and the odor, drew closer, and closer, and closer, and finally... an overly cheerful Gloom popped out. Sneakers was obviously blushing from humiliation, despite the fact that, in theory, his fur should have obscured it. "Gloom!" said the smelly weed happily. It had not seen another living thing in Goddish knows how long. It never would again. Sneakers launcher himself at it, with the forcity of a tiger and ripped it into salad. "That's for making me look bad! As for you, Murasaki, eat this." "WHAT?!?!?" said Murasaki, in a tone which is best left to the imagination. "You heard me, miss tough gal," said Sneakers, "eat the Gloom, if you're really so tough. Bet you can't eat the Gloom without flinching. I know you want to. You were almost ready to eat ME for a moment!" "I DON'T ACCEPT HANDOUTS!!!" said Murasaki. Sneakers instantly realized that he'd screwed up. "You're not starving to death," shot back Sneakers, in that smugly superior fake Brittish accent he had been working on. "I'll shove that Gloom down your bloody throat if I have to!" TBC... (A different kind of survival horror ^_^) .sig not included. Shard Fields on AGNP Megasomething on ATT