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Jody readied himself for sleep. A silent

  • Jody readied himself for sleep. A silent and still reprieve (he hoped) from the mad, arbitrary clutter of the world in which he was embedded. Ten silent decades later, Jody awoke t
  • o absolute quiet. Chaos had destroyed itself and now nothing was left. Jody turned to watch a tree fall soundlessly in the forest. Spotting his old Chevy at the levee, Jody
  • say him do a brody. The Chevy spun out of control and flew off the levee into the lake. Jody said, "Woah."
  • "Woah," Ed mirrored, clutching onto the lake. The stood at the side of the water and watched the mechanical hunk sink into the dark water.
  • "You made me angry," the Mechanical Hunk said. "You didn't like me when I was angry. And that's my secret: I'm always mechanically angry!" He kept eye contact with Ed as he slowly
  • Opened up the files containing his personal information, telling him there were still questions about Ed's past. Coffee was served by a robot servant, who came and went without
  • a sound save for its squeaky wheels. "Somebody fix that!" The men sitting around the smoky room glared at the man being interrogated. Ed was close to cracking.
  • The interrogator punched Ed hard and he cracked, from the top of his head to his navel. The truth came gushing out. "Scoop up some of that gunk, kid!" "I can't handle the truth!"
  • "Eggsactly as I expected. You're an egg head through and through. Being the smartest person in the room isn't all it's craced up to be. Is it?" "I don't know what you mean. "
  • "An eggsplanation should not be necessary. I've had un-oeuf of this. Go scramble yourself!" Eggbert was shellshocked.
Started
2013-10-14 22:48:00
Finished
2016-03-26 22:10:29

1 Comments

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    BlastedHeath Mar 26 2016 @ 22:40

    Back to the Egg, it seems.

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