A drabble, a short 100 word bit of writing, using 5 words she gave me. Since I couldn't get started writing on my own. It stars Fors, and some mad scientist type, either the Kook who's been in a couple stories, or another generic one. No cut, 'cause it's only 100 words long. And I might expand it, or work it into something else later on.
"No objections to tea with a fanatic, then?"
"So you're a fanatic, huh?" I asked.
Tea was delivered from slender tubes that twined with the tangle over the laboratory table. My host pulled aside a curtain. "Imagine a lake out there, filling the entire horizon, created by we impertinent mortals, its power harnessed by great water wheels!" he declared.
I left the tea where it was, since it was steaming purple. "Harnessed for what?"
"Why, to power my army of kinetically powered soldiers!"
Y'know, I don't think they really want to take over the world, I think they just want attention.
Bed now.
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