Newly Discovered Realm of Rhythm and Magic

By Jon, Kevin, Rialto (written 4/22/08)

A mysterious, dark figure stood clandestine in the shadows, waiting for the time to come…Fate shifted her weights and for a moment the impossible was granted a pass to the world. She took the thread, so long her responsibility to tend and eventually cut, and tie a neat little knot, restoring the life she had dutifully severed. Fate came by the way of a brazen grizzly bear, escaped from the nearby zoo, which picked up the scent of the figure in the darkness. Silently the figured reached out its proboscis and drank the bear, finding its gamey texture most unwelcoming to its other-worldly pallet.

“Stop!” screamed Fate, “That bear was my brother from another mother, and the only link to my mysterious past!”

As the deflated bear carcass flopped haplessly on the ground, Fate was exposed, no longer hiding behind the beast, with dagger in hand.

The stranger then, newly possessed of a supreme vigor, opened a portal to a realm of rhythm and magic, engulfing Fate and transporting them both to an unexplored land where the stranger removed his face. Frightened by the sudden burst of activity, Fate also removed her face, revealing a bloody pulsating mass of muscle and tendons; her face unfortunately was not designed for easy offness.