FRIENDS' HANGAR: Jan, now nearly full size, stands frontally abutted to a scaffolding built into the side of a high cliff. Her feet and tail are partially buried in the dunes of the Lowchank district. At eye level, she can see pine trees, and a bit above that there is only sandstone made deeply groovy by rains. The shadow of the horizon makes a line in the shape of the mountain across her forehead. Reptily stands on the scaffolding shaking out their cape and staring straight into Jan's nostrils, which occasionally emit a welcome and full-body warming blast. Reptily is using their tiny mouth hole to communicate, but Jan, for anatomical reasons, can only speak with her mind only.
REPTILY: Ya, see this flat part on the back of my head? I feel limited by it.
JAN: Oh why?
REPTILY: I just feel like if there was a curve there I'd feel less constrained in my thinking processes.
JAN: That's a K head Chama look at mine!
REPTILY: But you look practically full blood when yer here. I'm pretty much stuck in the fuzzy middle ground.
JAN: Ya yor too big to get in the hygienist elevator. But you skittered up that scaffolding like a dung beetle!
REPTILY: Ya my vestments have been mistaken for an exoskeleton. It's just flocked rayon.
JAN: ...
REPTILY: I wanted to meet here because it reminds me of home. I was born and raised at Friends' Hangar.
JAN: Is that so?
REPTILY: Ya there was a time when I was small enough for the lift and even rather pretty by yor standards. They called me Missy.
JAN: HAHA! I mean, you're still pretty.
REPTILY: Fortunately I have some options like with the head tuft, which is retractable, see?
JAN: Ooo. You know, we all have our unique struggles of difference don't we?
REPTILY: There's no one like me. You can mostly pass on either side of the Crack.
JAN: And it's also not our fault.
REPTILY: On the one hand you can blame the MPS-Pharmsupply merger for our disfigurement, but we also only have them to thank for the Extinction Takeback Agreement and therefore our existences.
JAN: Would you go that far? It was the merger that wiped out K's to begin with.
REPTILY: We were enslaving their people.
JAN: We were being our natural selves in the context of nature. I hate it when the losers get to write history.
BOTH: HAHAHAHAHAHA!
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