Moments in Life
By Weaver Goddess
Hey all! Just thought I'd do a rather quick series of one shots. Amazing what you can accomplish while procrastinating homework, ne?
Heat
It was a bright sunny day in northern Arizona. A bright sunny day above 110 degrees, that is. A normal occurrence in the Grand Canyon frontier. Of those that lived here, some learned to deal with the heat, and some suffered. The Sinners just so happened to fall into the latter group.
Chrno wiped the sweat trickling into his eyes for the third time in ten minutes. Lucky Aion, he was almost totally unaffected by this ungodly heat that reflected from every rock and seemed to direct its rays at them all. Oh well. At least the young woman sitting behind him was suffering as much as he was.
Magdalene sighed. It was times like this that she wished she had stayed at the order…
Suddenly, a bright red streak whipped past the group, humming as it went and blowing sweltering dust onto them all. It traveled about 200 yards, before swerving and coming back to the group and stopping, still making that peculiar humming noise. It seemed to be a metal box of some sorts, a garrulous red with glass windows on its top half. It rested on four wheels, made of a strange and alien black substance.
Without warning, one of the strange windows sank into the red metal. A face peered out, cool air and weird…music blasting out. It was a human girl, about Magdalene's age. She gazed at the group, and then smiled.
"Sorry about that!" she called, a blush tinting her cheeks. Then, she glanced up at the sun and frowned. She settled back into the inside on the box and muttered, "God, I love air conditioning." She then miraculously raised the window again and shot off, this time without hitting the group with the dust.
They all stared after the box until it disappeared. Chrno shook his head. It had to have been a trick of the heat. Nothing in the world looked like THAT. He clucked to the horse to get it moving again. As they rode off, he swore he could hear a whisper bouncing through the canyon, and by the look on the other's faces, they heard it too.
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