Hmmm. This is too much fun....
Jul. 22nd, 2009 05:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tree_and_leafFrom the introduction to the latest insane crossover of dooooom.
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But none of that acquits me from my suspicion that, in not trying to investigate Devil’s End sooner, I was guilty of a lamentable degree of sloth. Of course, when I said something to that effect to Jon Darrow – it was almost the last conversation we had – he had looked like an irritated vulture, and said, “What do you think you could have achieved? There was nothing really wrong at Devil’s End until that mountebank stirred it up.”
“I might have had some better idea of what was going on,” I muttered, but I could see that Darrow wasn’t convinced.
And certainly, I suspect that had I known what was coming, I wouldn’t have believed it.
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There's 1200 words more where that came from. And we haven't even got to the plot.
Help?
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But none of that acquits me from my suspicion that, in not trying to investigate Devil’s End sooner, I was guilty of a lamentable degree of sloth. Of course, when I said something to that effect to Jon Darrow – it was almost the last conversation we had – he had looked like an irritated vulture, and said, “What do you think you could have achieved? There was nothing really wrong at Devil’s End until that mountebank stirred it up.”
“I might have had some better idea of what was going on,” I muttered, but I could see that Darrow wasn’t convinced.
And certainly, I suspect that had I known what was coming, I wouldn’t have believed it.
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There's 1200 words more where that came from. And we haven't even got to the plot.
Help?
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Date: 2009-07-22 09:40 pm (UTC)