The circus caravan stayed outside city limits and set up.
The city folk that would come, were of a strange type, sometimes they seemed to change shape, shimmer a little, and even blend into each other.
Tsurka took a side trek into the city on some time off. Robio Blobbins her male android counterpart. Earlier got a part playing as her male stud in
her dance routine, he wore a top hat, collar and carried a black hooked cane, but else only his metal shell showed.
"clickati clack" was one of the few lines he had made for himself, which when he would repeat them got raving hollers from onlookers.
One of the caravan people had made a grave note of caution not to go into the city.
Tsurka was remembering him now, and as she approached the city with the clanking of steel Robio behind her,
she bagan to hypothesize as to what the gray smokey clouds rising from the city scape were,
every now and again it seemed as though the city skyline changed in some way,
some buildings were gone, others constructed, and a shimmer and it was different.
she approached the first set of sky scrappers, there were no suburbs or low density residence, immediatly she felt a waft of hot humidity on her face.
Robio who had taken off the smile on his face and now held it in his right hand. his eyebrows seemed somewhat furrowed or slanted down towards the
center demonstrating increased processor load, he was thinking.
"bri ku pri bilililibrap" Robio stated, Tsurka intoned still working on integrating datagrams for Robilios native speak.
"ya those clouds eat dust,
but look here's a stream" she emphasized and pointed to the side of a road that had a ditch. There were bright streetlights seemingly designed to
grow vegetation in the ditches at the side of the street. the foilage and atmosphere was that of a jungle complete with squaking of birds and
monkeys.
Tsurka and Robio walked in deeper.
Tsurka looked about as if searching for the source of the calls, perhaps to see a monkey,
she thought she saw a bird of paradise in the palm.
"Woosh" a shimmering wind encased them and there seemed to pixels flying all about,
Tsurka looked about but all she could see was as if a gray dust storm had just encased her. she reached back with her hand to Robio but couldn't get
hold, she looked back.
the dust cloud disapeared as soon as it had appeared, she could see Robio again,
she rejoiced smiled and went towards him,
they both reached their hands towards each other and held them.
Tsurka looked top right,
a yellow brown maple leaf went soaring by Robio's left shoulder.
Tsurka turned about still holding Robio's right hand in her left.
She was mildly taken aback, the Scene had changed completely.
There was still a stream, but now emanating from the middle of the road, but the road was no longer dirt, it was cobblestone, and it was fall, with
many leaves gathered at the side, at the base of tall fall coloured trees, she noticed a pine.
Slowly her eyes traveled to the source of the stream, there was a gray-white fountain,
and on it's edge stood a tall person in a brown black monks robe, face completely hidden.
Before Tsurka could speak, but just as she made a sound.
"You have come" The dark figure raised it's arms, making apparent the wide cuffs.
"halt, who goes there?
be you of my liege?" A knight from tsurka's front left in shining armour on a horse, of a blue and white four checkerboard pattern crest arrived,
pointing a lance towards the monk.
The monk swayed his left hand in a flowing motion
to about waist height under where his right hand at,
with a mild tilt of his head right,
a wind swept the knight disappeared.
The monk retook his pose.
"You have come." he said,
now more assertively"
[edit on 28-9-2009 by lowki]