Interesting. Did they want to be in there or were they put in there?
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They started exploring out of curiosity, from the 19th Century (1881) to the early 20th Century, then 21st, then 22nd, and so on, but around the 24th Century their presence was… NOTED, and then 25th Century saw them again, making the world know Time Travel is possible, an arms race was made to try and catch the Time Travellers that ended with an ambush in the 35th Century before they just went MAXIMUM SPEED to try and escape the 35th Century Political Factions, but some of them got inside the Carriage, as the Time Bubble was generated, so they’re trying to kick them out of the carriage, if you fall down from the Carriage, you pretty much appear in the time the carriage was passing through when you fell, so in the soldier from the extract, he appeared in an Ice Age WAY after humanity went extinct
The Bubble can be controlled to reduce speed or even invert direction, so they’re able to go into the past, but they need to make sure the carriage does not fall in hands of the people from the future as they would destroy the timeline, no era can be trusted with such technology, not even their native time (19th Century) so their plan is to destroy the carriage when they can
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That sounds like a twist on The Time Machine, and a time traveling episode I saw on Star Trek.
Pretty cool 
Would they try to destroy the carriage even if they end up stuck in an era that isn’t their own?
Are they able to see (not meet) themselves and their children in the future or it doesn’t work like that?
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I find this funny.
And a good friend of Copteri’s was Lizard Billy Boy who was “the son of a snake and the grandson of a frog” and had “the most insatiable appetite for lily pads”.
It’s just so random and stupid XD
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(This is a single sentence lmao. Ambitious story needs ambitious sentences)
We are water coursing through the land, each a rivulet, unaware of the many other rivulets until a Word binds them together, forms a stream, then winds to a great surge of a river, then the open sea, the swells, a great mass that threatens to break even the sturdiest ship — here, the Word is sung, each syllable stretched out in a sweet melisma that rises and falls and bends around those pitiful souls gathered in the den, finds the right string to strike within each that makes them gush; just yesterday our handsome Ady, having listened to the Word, prostrated before its singer, plead for nothing but to hear the Word, disavowed his wife and child and joined the Merry Band who follow this singer, shouting and dancing in great joy every night as if they had found the greatest boon — there he is now, clouded in opium smoke, right in the front row, unaware of the great scandal he has caused back home, unaware of the thugs his father-in-law has sent to bring him back, and if need be, kill this singer, this enchantress Sweetflower who rather oddly resembles the great beauties she sings about, more, he is unaware of the enemies rising like the tides of the estuary in Souwa where he has followed the Word to, but here, for now he feels elation, he feels a part of the mass, and he weeps.
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That was a lot.
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Well, this is 2, but it makes me laugh.
“Damn it, Luce, all you had to do was ask me to back off!”
“How the hell was I supposed to talk with your tongue down my throat, you madwoman?”
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Australia’s Commandos taught Dov many tricks, and I am learning much from him ~ Freyja.
I thought Commandos were too tough for teddies ~ Krista.
Fear is a luxury when a comrade is hurt ~ Dov.
When surrounded by death, you should take every opportunity to enjoy life ~ Zorik.
But I am lucky you have developed another of Zorik’s habits; saving my life when least expected ~ Karen.
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“She lives at the office and normally orders something for lunch or dinner,” Anjan answered back.
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Today? An homage to The Last Unicorn, that I’m not sure that people will pick up on because the wording is fairly different:
He bet that she had no idea that her confident arrogance would have made her edible even if he viewed her as plain. This kind of woman was the longing and nightmares of his youth. Who was she, to come to him when he was old and jaded?
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I never read that book, but I do love this, especially the last line. (ღ˘ᴗ˘ღ)
It’s seeing this with my kids on repeat:
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It’s things like this that show we are what we consume.
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Smashing the Patriarchy is our Duty-Free Airport Liquor
yes that’s a title.
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That is some title
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Nikki had enough time to think, that can’t be good, before she found out exactly how screwed she was.
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LaFou, I’m afraid I’ve been thinking.
A dangerous past time.
I know.
~ Beauty and the Beast animated film.
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it originates from a surrealist game of Exquisite Corpse, or a mad libs type of thing that inspires chaos and creativity
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The hot bath was ready. Steam filled the room and dew dripped down the wooden walls. A soft, pine scent danced with the flower scents of the herbal concoctions used for baths. Sweet rose was the main one and Pinti’s favorite. She took a deep breath, filling her lungs. Relief and calmness swaddled her like a comforting blanket. From the open window high above, a cool breeze wafted in, carrying the burnt wood scent of the furnace outside.
It’s a paragraph, but I haven’t written like this in a LONG while. Just felt good.
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This, too is a paragraph. (This is my down weeks, so only very minor editing is going in while I post chapters.) Was specifically looking for a place to add in what she’s doing:
All my damn mate had to do was mention it after he assured me of what was real. And it was annoying, as I was carrying a jar of vaseline around randomly greasing doorknobs for a prank. I almost made it so I couldn’t get into the office, if I hadn’t heard the hushed voices inside before I swiped a gob of this hell on the knob. Had to backtrack a couple rooms to find a safe place for the jar before I barged in there, belly greeting the crowd before the rest of me. “What the hell is going on here?”
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