37) air conditioningsecundus_castJuly 30 2012, 22:38:05 UTC
Time: Post-"Secundus 2" Notes: Wondering why a Christmas-themed drabble is in here? As of this writing, I'd just finished watching the TV adaptation of Hogfather. (Very good, BTW. Go watch it.) I decided children in Secundus might come up with some interesting ideas for Santa, and this resulted. The speakers are supposed to be (in order of first appearance): Lorina, Jules, Charlotte (Emily and Richard's adopted daughter, who is probably too old to believe in Santa but is humoring the younger kids), Marty, and Victor.
“So how can Father Christmas deliver all those presents all in one night?” “Papa said that his sleigh might be a time machine, like our train. He can do multiple houses at the same moment like that.” “I’ve always wondered how he handles hot places. He lives at the North Pole, right? Going anywhere tropical must make him feel faint!” “Some sort of cooling system?” “Ooh! Maybe he has something like the device Mr. Carroll built to regulate Wonderland Park’s weather! Only he always keeps the area around him cold!” “. . .Are our children saying Santa’s a Touched?” “It would explain a lot. . . .”
Time: Post-"Secundus" Notes: Dunno how I came up with the idea of "experiment gone wrong" for this, but I think it makes for an amusing drabble. After all, Lorina is a mad scientist -- the occasional accident is to be expected.
“What the - did something die in your room, Lorina?!” “Chester! Thank God, I thought it was Dad for a minute. . .you’ve gotta help me get this cleaned up!” “What the hell did you do?” “I was messing with some skunkweed samples, and I was trying to deodorize them, but I grabbed the wrong thing, and - well. . . .” “Oooh. Yeah, I think we’d better get these out of the house. Or the country, preferably.” “What’s going - yikes! Were you trying to create a plant that makes knockout gas, Lorina?” “Not intentionally! Though - that’s actually a good idea, Vincent. . . .” “Less Inventing, more removing, sis!”
Notes: Wondering why a Christmas-themed drabble is in here? As of this writing, I'd just finished watching the TV adaptation of Hogfather. (Very good, BTW. Go watch it.) I decided children in Secundus might come up with some interesting ideas for Santa, and this resulted. The speakers are supposed to be (in order of first appearance): Lorina, Jules, Charlotte (Emily and Richard's adopted daughter, who is probably too old to believe in Santa but is humoring the younger kids), Marty, and Victor.
“So how can Father Christmas deliver all those presents all in one night?”
“Papa said that his sleigh might be a time machine, like our train. He can do multiple houses at the same moment like that.”
“I’ve always wondered how he handles hot places. He lives at the North Pole, right? Going anywhere tropical must make him feel faint!”
“Some sort of cooling system?”
“Ooh! Maybe he has something like the device Mr. Carroll built to regulate Wonderland Park’s weather! Only he always keeps the area around him cold!”
“. . .Are our children saying Santa’s a Touched?”
“It would explain a lot. . . .”
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Notes: Dunno how I came up with the idea of "experiment gone wrong" for this, but I think it makes for an amusing drabble. After all, Lorina is a mad scientist -- the occasional accident is to be expected.
“What the - did something die in your room, Lorina?!”
“Chester! Thank God, I thought it was Dad for a minute. . .you’ve gotta help me get this cleaned up!”
“What the hell did you do?”
“I was messing with some skunkweed samples, and I was trying to deodorize them, but I grabbed the wrong thing, and - well. . . .”
“Oooh. Yeah, I think we’d better get these out of the house. Or the country, preferably.”
“What’s going - yikes! Were you trying to create a plant that makes knockout gas, Lorina?”
“Not intentionally! Though - that’s actually a good idea, Vincent. . . .”
“Less Inventing, more removing, sis!”
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