The night-scene took place at the end of a story.
Having cleaned up some sort of menace, a group of five heroes including the dreamer were in Stillwell Sinclair's study -- the menace had been linked to Sinclair, and their investigation had led them there.
A peach-sized metal sphere on the floor appeared to be the main object of inquiry.
On a nearby end table, a small, metallic bird sculpture asked one hero who approached, "Who? Who? <<Identify yourself.>> Who?" The voice came out comically owl-like at first, but the command to identify was brassy and frightening in timbre. There was a sense of consequences if the wrong answer (or no answer) was given.
The hero responded, "Doctor Stillwell Sinclair."
His turned out to be both the right and wrong answer: The man was allowed to approach further, but the metal globe on the floor opened at the same time, releasing a miniature mechanical beetle and several egg-like spheres. The freed objects seemed related to the previous menace, suggesting that the investigative party now faced the rebirth of something terrible.
The man who had used Sinclair's name managed to scoop everything back into the globe and close it, but already the eggs had multiplied. Almost twice as many were scooped back in along with the lone beetle.
Asks the dreamer: How would the heroes deal with Sinclair's interesting toys? And would the prior menace rise again?
1 comments:
hmm i wonder if this is work related? you keep trying and trying to stem the tide but there's always more! =P
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