The Lucky Penny

[Unseelie]

Sydney! Sydney Sydney sydney SYDNEY!
MourningSydney?
Alone...
warm. hurr.

Something..something.
Sleep.

HISSSSS
HISSSSSSS
HISSSSSSSS

Rain and sand mixed in the air, blown by wind and tossed up in the wake of armour, hot bodies darting from softer clusters in the chilling storm. Smaller, brighter pinpricks hovered about the cluster, their centers at about the hight of a human head. One shrieked and died, another flared. Sputters of red flew from one, and then another, and then a third. Two began to move from the far side, and warm bodies sprang up in the interior. Sputters and streams flew through the air, impacting sand and shooting across the feild.

First one lance, and then two, hugely bright beams dancing across the feild, resting breifly on each point of heat. Some fell, peices dropping off, and others lit up the scope, obscuring everything near.

More lights flared overhead...some great blazing flares, whirling around one another, lances and beams darting between them. A light cracked, darkened..fell hurtling to the earth, and the world shook, bits of smoldering blue floating through the air, crashing into the earth. Shadows passed across the sky, dark patches raining fire and thunder and trembling earth...

Triplets...lights, pairs, bounced into one another, panicking and afraid, terrified, terror, fear, heat, cold, light..chaos. The sky rained fire, and silence reached out, surrounding all. Terror fought panic, and little figures lay curled, shivering. There was no light.

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