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neverbelievedintheend) wrote2014-01-20 12:17 pm
neverbelievedintheend) wrote2014-01-20 12:17 pm
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Hong Kong's harbour is very nearly fogged in.
In the old days, the average temperature in the city was around fifteen degrees C this time of year, and January the driest month. But it was chill and wet and foggy when Pentecost left for Alaska, and there's mist swirling about the blades of the Sikorsky's rotors as it touches down. It's soaking wet out there.
(Stacker Pentecost, name to the contrary, has never been a religious man. But he remembers how King David mourned and wept endlessly when his child by Bathsheba fell ill, hoping to move the almighty powers to spare the child.)
(He remembers what made the king's weeping stop.)
(They have a week left.)
There's a bump as the helicopter touches down. Time is moving again, and they're going to be greeted.
In the old days, the average temperature in the city was around fifteen degrees C this time of year, and January the driest month. But it was chill and wet and foggy when Pentecost left for Alaska, and there's mist swirling about the blades of the Sikorsky's rotors as it touches down. It's soaking wet out there.
(Stacker Pentecost, name to the contrary, has never been a religious man. But he remembers how King David mourned and wept endlessly when his child by Bathsheba fell ill, hoping to move the almighty powers to spare the child.)
(He remembers what made the king's weeping stop.)
(They have a week left.)
There's a bump as the helicopter touches down. Time is moving again, and they're going to be greeted.
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There's a clatter of massive metal unlatching, and the doors slide open on lights and sounds and- there, in the distance- Jaegers.
"Welcome to the Shatterdome."