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The Sound of Silence in Hub City

Jun 28, 2005 16:35

The sparkling hue of the city's lights twinkle from high above the city's rooftops. The hussel and general city noises are heard throughout. Even if you're inside in a sound-proof facility, you swear to yourself thinking-- knowing damn well you've just been jolted, at that second, by some jerkoff with a loud car horn ( Read more... )

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faceless_freak June 28 2005, 17:02:18 UTC

"You sing out in a soprano, Hub City; your song is dead and weak, needing your one-man army, your sole soldier to return and protect you. I understand, dearest Hub."

Regretfully, the Question left another note to Ted, apologizing for his abscence. He had business to take care of, and he was sure that the inventor would understand. He just hated to leave him, of all times.

While he grinding feeling that something bad was going to happen - it wasn't this, no matter how loud Hub screamed to him, something else - he dealt with it. Taking the first train he could to Hub City, he waited.

The trip was a bit of awhile, but once he returned to Hub, he was immediately stepping into the heart of the decomposing city.

"What infection ails you, my shivering and dying urbanian? What terrorizes thee?"

Dead in the streets weren't so unusual in Hub City; coming upon the pair of bodies and hearing their torment, the Question knelt down looking at their death ( ... )