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fandomtownies2011-06-18 10:15 am
lockestheway) wrote in fandomtownies2011-06-18 10:15 am
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Causeway, Late Late Friday Night into Early Early Saturday Morning
They arrived quietly in the night. Not... really at the causeway, as such, but a hundred feet or more along the line of the lake. In horsedrawn-carriage, because the steam vehicles they had experimented with were as of yet too loud.
Two men disembarked from the carriage, and quietly peeled open the back. One by one, they let the metal within come alive: one tiny spider first, then another, then another, and then the bigger ones, their clunky metal 'feet' thunking onto the ground.
Their path had been carefully programmed in some time earlier. Across the causeway, into that strange city that held so much valuable technology... and other treasures their makers probably couldn't even dream up. All they needed to do was... make sure the current inhabitants realised they might want to move elsewhere.
And so the spiders poured into the city, exploratory-- for now.
It would be different when the sun came up.
Two men disembarked from the carriage, and quietly peeled open the back. One by one, they let the metal within come alive: one tiny spider first, then another, then another, and then the bigger ones, their clunky metal 'feet' thunking onto the ground.
Their path had been carefully programmed in some time earlier. Across the causeway, into that strange city that held so much valuable technology... and other treasures their makers probably couldn't even dream up. All they needed to do was... make sure the current inhabitants realised they might want to move elsewhere.
And so the spiders poured into the city, exploratory-- for now.
It would be different when the sun came up.