It's a good morning. It really is. Ray got eight or nine hours of sleep last night, and there were none of the freakydeaky dreams he gets around here from time to time. He found his Incredible Hulk slippers right away without having to wake anyone up or step in Cthulhu by mistake. When he practiced his Sumerian in the bathroom, his accent sounded all but perfect, and he could remember all his incantations backwards, forwards, in his sleep, blindfolded, and with one arm tied behind his back.
You probably don't want to know how he tested that.
Anyway, he's not one to waste a good morning like that, so he heads downstairs to the main Bar with a spring in his step and a tune ready to be whistled- those who would know such things might well recognize the sound of "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate", as he's whistling it to himself when he comes in. Today, he thinks, he'll get the install done on Eddie. He'll talk to Andrew or Giles, either one. And- who knows? Maybe he and Sooty and Eddie and Garion will be able to get started on their mission, and he'll have a good crack at going home.
Ah, home. How he does miss the hydrocarbons and volatile organic compounds of New York. It'd do his heart good to smell the city's reek, even if it's not
his New York, and so he opens the front door for a whiff of Central Park West. . .
And for a moment stands there, just
stands there, utterly paralyzed by the sight of what lies beyond, before slamming the door shut and pinning it closed with his back. A quick observer would notice hints of a blackened sky, but only hints. The gigantic white marshmallow LEG filled the doorway too much to make out more than that.
October 5, 2003 was Gozer day.
It's no longer 2003- the clock in San Dimas, as it were, has finally caught up.
Congratulations, Dr. Stantz.. It's a Milliversary retrospective!