HtH85 – “Aw [___] Here We Go Again!”
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Anno leaves the theatre house. Someone steals Lumi's bike.
Early in the morning, before the sun has peeked out the clouds, a solitary girl with blue pigtails waits on the Bitsborough Train Station platform. The golden pocketwatch in her hand ticks softly, and she looks far away, towards the north-west.
She heard it.
The moment the pocketwatch impossibly struck fifteen.
The sweet whistling of her creation coming to receive her.
Headlights cutting through the morning mist, it cruises not on rails,
but on the same marshwater that surrounds the Silveryn Mountains.
The whistling gains in intensity and whimsy,
waves parting beneath it like the laughing sighs of a maiden singing a monodrama!
Flowing all the way down from the mountains to Bitsborough, and to destinations beyond, the monorail pulls into the station like a speeding bullet! The newest and only form of continental travel without magick. As it does, the wind from the passing silver carriages blows up the puffy back of her black and white Rococo-dress, white lace rippling in the air!
When Anno looks behind with a headtilt, the camera averts its gaze!
The pressurized door of the last carriage slides open.
From within, the tall girl in Hexenhall black and blue adjusts her conductor's hat, not believing her eyes!
"Ei... Eig...??" The conductor-girl scrambles to fix her clothing, a little self-conscious and surprised at receiving someone both important and completely unexpected! "You're... not wearing your mourning outfit anymore! Does this mean you are finally returning?"
The impolite words tumble out of the conductor-girl's mouth, before she covers it up with both hands!
The Eighteenth laughs, the kind when a senior is being overly polite and overly-sensitive.
Anno puts one shrine maiden's clog on the train carriage interior, but she doesn't look back.
Why would she?
All around her, lit up by the lights on the Marshcruiser II are hers.
Every black tile mined from the Silveryn Mountains.
Every little detail in the carvings that decorate the station.
Right down to the cute little seats on the platform.
"Do you need help with your baggage?" The conductor-girl asks, hoping to be helpful.
"I have none."
That she did not.
Her burdens had all disappeared at our theatre house.
When she steps fully onto the train, as if remembering something important...
"Howevér, I'll need a new hat~"
Anno unclips the mourning shawl attached to the side of her head, and without any longing, any regret--- it leaves her hands, flying like a frisbee through the sky!
One door closes, and another opens.
Just as the mourning shawl flies through the air, the passenger who just exited her carriage takes aim at the relic flying across the sky,
"Pow! Ehehehe!"
With a snap of the new, totally unfamiliar face's finger gun, Anno's mourning shawl dissolves in mid-air.
Bright red eyes blink at the impossible sight, then shrugs with her twisting body!
The departing Marshcruiser II blows up her long purple hair, and she holds onto her Frxnch hat, while checking her obnoxiously red flipphone for directions. To be honest, she didn't fancy walking the whole way. Just as she had that thought, it was like the menne gods answered...
For leaning against a wall...
... is a shiny red bike.
Satisfied, she clicks her phone shut, posing with a winking finger for the camera!
"Aw [___], here we go again!"
The troublemaker saunters up to the package-transfer office, where a teal-haired girl with twintails is speaking to a blue bunny in a miniature version of a train conductor's outfit.
"Yes... I would like to check for packages that have arrived for our Theatre House..."
[Ringing of bicycle bells]
"Oh...? That's not...! Hey! That's my bike!"
Before Lumi can even protest, the new girl has already pressed 🔺 to do a little jump on Lumi's bike!
"Imma borrow this for a while! Don't worry, ehehehe!"
Like a malevolent wind, the girl has already sped off into the far distance!
But she didn't speed off in the direction of Bitsborough...
She sped off on a path well-known to our teal-haired actress...
She sped off in the direction of home!
We are trying something different! This is a simul-posting at the same time as the Scribblehub release! Go check out the entire series at this link!
