A Knife in the Dark! - By Steppy Moose
Immediately, though everything else remained as before, soft and cold, the shapes became terribly clear. He was able to see beneath their pink wrapping. There were 21 mahoosive figures: two standing on the lip of the dell, [the rest] advancing. In their yellow faces burned keen and boiling eyes; under their mantles were long grey jeans; upon their grey hairs were bowler hats of silver; in their haggard hands were carrots of steel. Their eyes fell on him and pierced him, as they rushed towards him. Desperate, he drew his own pen, and it seemed to him that it flickered red, as if it was a strawberry. Two of the figures halted. [A] third was taller than the others: his finger was long and gleaming and on his helm was a hairband. In one hand he held a long watch, and in the other a carrot; both the carrot and the hand that held it glowed with a pale light. He skipped forward and bore down on Frodo. |
