Day 56: Undertone


"So what do you think of that one?"

"A mole. Look at how he peers around like that. He definitely looks blind."

"Well, the one over there is a turtle. Just look of how he pulls his head in every time his wife scolds him."

"She looks like a squirrel, all quick movements and chittery voice."

"That one, the one from the USA, looks like an owl, looking around with that dead expression and blinking."

Neo-Queen Serenity caught her husband's eye and smirked lightly, the undertone of her friends' voices still somehow reaching her. They'd been fed up with doing all the boring things themselves and had forced the Senshi, all of them (except Pluto, and the others felt themselves envious of her duty to the time gate for once. Even that had to be more interesting than this), to attend this dinner. They'd known if would be dull, but hadn't bargained on the games the group would come up with to keep them amused.

That was just as well. Endymion wasn't sure he'd have invited them if he'd known they were going to do such potentially lethal things as start a whispered chorus of "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" just as he took a spoonful of soup.


The game is shamelessly stolen from Mercedes Lackey's Arrow's Flight novel. I did not think of it on my own.