<meta name="LineWrap" content="true"><TITLE>SR_Bk1 0123</TITLE><A HREF="SR_Bk1-0124.txt">Next (Page 124)</A><BR>"<P><P>"Yes," Darnazy said, striding across the room to the breakfast table. "Hello hello hello all! Mind if I storage my stuff here for a time?"<P><P>"Go right ahead," Snoppy said.<P><P>So Darnazy backed up, turned around, and carefully lifted the entire assembly off of him. Then he gingerly lowered it to the ground, where it stood, a portable junk pile.<P><P>"Have the big seat, won't you?" Evelyn offered, gesturing to a giant chair near the table.<P><P>"Thanks you," Darnazy said, carefully sitting in the mammoth chair.<P><P>"What brings you out so early in the morning?" Enc asked.<P><P>"Callin'," Darnazy answered.<P><P>"Good reason," Enc replied with a touch of sarcasm.<P><P>"You came at a good time," Evelyn said, glancing from Darnazy to Snoppy. "Snoppy was just telling us how he's gonna get married soon."<P><P>"Wha? Oh! My dear fellow!" Darnazy said.<P><P>"Ain't got no one yet," Snoppy said, looking down and shaking his head. Then he looked straight at Darnazy and continued. "That's why I'm playin' with the notion of using the chonk to get over to Marriage Town and take me a wife."<P><P>Darnazy smiled, but then wore an exaggerated perplexed look.<P><P>"Snoppy my good man! With lovelies such as these sharing the Stadium, surely you need look no further than here!"<P><P>The two girls gave Darnazy a good-natured 'are-you-kidding?' look.<P><P>"Yes yes yes," Snoppy said in an embarrassed manner. "That's a thought that has certainly crossed my mind. But the thing is..."<P><P>The girls eyed him in humorous expectation. He continued.<P><P>"Well, how could I choose? They're both so lovely and sweet and wonderful. It'd be as near to impossible as a thing can be. And to boot, if'n I did take one of 'em, that'd leave the other in an awful state..."<P><P>"There's always bigamy," Evelyn said with a wicked smile on her tattooed face.<P><P>"Yes! Group marriage!" Enc said. "The three of us could get married--but hey!--why stop there? Darnazy could join us! And we could all sleep together in a really big bed!"<P><P>Snoppy put his hand to his forehead and shook his head, smiling. Darnazy broke out into a thunderous laugh.<P><P>After a few transcendental moments of this, a distant sound of dot matrix printing was heard.<P><P>"Oh crap," Evelyn said.<P><P>"What?" Enc asked, having just drank some juice out of a tall glass.<P><P>"Teletype," Evelyn responded.<P><P>"Darn it!" Snoppy snapped. "Everytime I wanna get myself married... hey?"<P><P>He turned around to see several strange flying things enter the room from the stairway. There were three of them, with more coming. Each was a long, slender rod with other rods sticking out of it in a variety of directions. On the rods were black, white, and gray little spikes. The things were also covered in mysterious glyphs. On the whole, they looked quite aerodynamic.<P><P>A red one and a yellow one were already in the room, and a pink one and black one were just coming up the stairs.<P><P>"Ah! Aha!" Darnazy exclaimed.<P><P>"What the hell?" Evelyn said.<P><P>"Damn unpredictable..." Snoppy mumbled as he stood up and grabbed a big metal pipe that was leaning on the wall. The girls also stood up. The flying things were now almost across the room, making a wide berth around the four people.<P><P>"I like these!" Darnazy said. "Mascara from The Arpotruning Miller."<P><P>"What?" Enc said incredulously.<P><P>"An obscure arm of research," Darnazy said, wiping his sweaty brow with a 'Winter Stadium Them' linen napkin. "Pay no heed."<P><P>"Whattaya know 'bout these things, Thonc?" Snoppy yelled.<P><P>"Just a cursory theoretical passing..." the huge man responded.<P><P>"But are they dangerous..." Enc said, her voice fading as Snoppy leapt forward.<P><P>"Fuck 'em!" he yelled as he bounded across the room and bashed the yellow one with a tremendous blow.<BR><A HREF="SR_Bk1-0124.txt">Next (Page 124)</A>