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milliways_bar2016-05-24 04:44 pm
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Outside, on the beach, there is a storm. It's only a spot of one, really, but the crack of lightning is hard to ignore. From the rain, only a second after it starts--and it started in a downpour, dark-skied with heavy drops leaving dimples in the sand and the incessant distant roll of thunder--there steps through a young man.
Ganymede comes into Milliways like stepping through a tear in a fluttering curtain, seeming to straighten from an unknown weight as soon as he clears that invisible threshold, and immediately the pattering rain stops. In the middle of throwing a stone to skip across the water, his arm still swings and the pebble simply tumbles in the sand until it rests half-buried in the grains. He looks up, face wet from the rain and clothes beginning to stick to his body, and his gentle huff of breath turns into a laugh at the last second. His travel has been quick and painless thus far: of course the interruption would come sooner or later.
He supposes going back to the city can wait.
Ganymede comes into Milliways like stepping through a tear in a fluttering curtain, seeming to straighten from an unknown weight as soon as he clears that invisible threshold, and immediately the pattering rain stops. In the middle of throwing a stone to skip across the water, his arm still swings and the pebble simply tumbles in the sand until it rests half-buried in the grains. He looks up, face wet from the rain and clothes beginning to stick to his body, and his gentle huff of breath turns into a laugh at the last second. His travel has been quick and painless thus far: of course the interruption would come sooner or later.
He supposes going back to the city can wait.