Wow, I haven't posted in a while
. I rescently started a new plotline in a fit of WB on my others, and i'm wondering what you think... (I'm also trying out a new type of character
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I clicked away on my handheld game during the long car ride to the airport. My character’s ship just crash landed on some planet and the game had gone into it’s ever annoying “Please wait” mode. Once it had loaded, I took my character outside to see that the planet was populated by… Sasquatch? I flipped down my game screen with an exasperated sigh, So much for a Cryptid-Free trip, I thought with a shake of my head.
“How’s the new game?” my dad asked from the front seat of our car, “Met any aliens yet?”
I sighed with a glance out the window at a passing minivan with a pony in the back seat. “Yeah, I just landed on ‘planet of the Sasquatch’ “ I said, glancing at him in the rear-view mirror.
“Planet of the Sasquatch, Planet of the Sasquatch! What big feet!” a squawk came from the seat next to me.
I groaned, turning to my African Grey Parrot, “You know, when I named you ’Silence’, I was rather inaccurate,”
“Rather inaccurate, Rather inaccurate! Silence, Silence, order in the court!”
I draped a blanket over her cage in hopes she’d go to sleep. A pointless action considering that we were nearly to the airport. Our destination? A lake in Sweden, in search of the legendary Storsjöodjuret, or “Great lake monster” of lake Storsjon.
yippee…
I should be enthusiastic, but I have a hard time believing that there’s an eighteen foot dog-eel-seal-thing wandering about in a populated lake.
We arrived at the airport a few minutes later. Normally I’d have a bit of trouble getting Silence onboard as a carry-on, but since dad’s boss owned the jet we’d be traveling on, she’d been made a ‘passenger’. A passenger with her own carry-on.
“Nice parrot,” the security guy commented while I waited for her bag, “Silence, right?”.
“Not allowed, not allowed,” she squawked from her cage as I picked up her, and my, newly scanned bag.
“Thanks,” I replied, “Now if only she’d live up to her name.”
On the plane were most of the ‘co-workers’, various trackers, radar experts, biologists, and the one-person ‘tech-crew’, Ronald ‘Ron’ Richardson.
No sign yet of the boss, Gregory Chanute. His last name varies in pronunciation, he insists it’s ‘Cha-noot‘, some people say ‘Cha-noot-ey‘, while others call him ‘Cha-nut‘ or 'Cha-nut-ey'. Our family calls him ‘Chan-ute’. On another note of name, he can’t stand being called ‘Greg’.
I sat down and placed Silence’s cage in her ’seat’. Looking out the window, I spotted his-absence-y. Dressed in a wrinkle free, spotless, white suit, his graying, black hair slicked back like he wanted to impersonate a whale, I was surprised that he would fund- and participate in- a search for a sea monster.
In case you're wondering about Silence's name, Ash (the main character girl) is a fan of Benjamin Franklin. So, upon resiveing a parrot, she named her pet after his temporairy alis 'Silence Dogood' (I may have misspelled the last name
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