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bubbleblower‘s prompt, after In the Shadows (LJ) and directly after Shadow of a Doubt (LJ).
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It wasn’t until a week later – when I was certain I wasn’t the only one seeing the shadows and ghosts, and when we’d determined that they were all over the City but, so far, nowhere else in America and, as far as we could tell, nowhere else in the world, either – that we really started noticing the other things.
Shadows, okay, it’s pretty obvious when a shadow points back at you. Ghosts, same thing. When they’re stealing the laundry off the line and the hot dogs out of the street vendors’ hands, obviously there’s something there doing something.
The old lights made them go away, but the old fluorescents were making people call-it-sick-we-can’t-say-crazy, and those of us who got paid to do those things made a unilateral decision that shadows pointing at people weren’t as bad as shooting sprees, and left the daylight bulbs in. We were starting to get used to the shadows and ghosts – except when they were stealing our lunch – by the time we noticed the statue.
The street-vendors were really corridor-vendors (but that sounded stupid), gathered in courtyards in the ‘plexes. Eight of us electricians met for our lunch-meetings in the same courtyard, hanging around the base of some famous chick. It wasn’t me, this time, thank god; it was Andy who noticed that the chick, who had been standing reading a book, was now writing in the same book.
Once we noticed that, well, we started looking at other statues. The ‘plexes were dotted with the things like sprinkles on cookies, and when we started asking the locals, it turned out, yeah. No-one had noticed, but they’d all started creeping, changing position. Must have taken weeks – in the week while we were asking around, the famous chick’s finger moved an inch.
They moved so damn slowly, it took us another month to realize they were trying to tell us something.
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It could have been Weeping Angels. Thank you for not being Weeping Angels.
Oof, no. Not going to do those.
yay =D new statues moving concepts much more fun anyway!!
*grins* yes, yes they are!!
i wish statues were not so bloody expensive…
*giggle* I once thought of getting a statue commissioned of my social group’s favorite slut. She really did have a lovely body.
mmmm =) yay! yeah…i want[ed] 3 large statues for our gardens…the cost is a bit erm…well…im looking into possible alternatives 😉
Yeah a little hrrrm, I can see that.
Did I meet that person? An answer by email is fine.
A statue writing in its book has the lovely feature that there may eventually be a whole message to read, rather than having to’ve been watching the whole time. Also, this is getting seriously weird.
🙂 yes, hoping there will eventually be a message. And yeah, it is. I like it when stories do that to me!
I’ve read all three of these and I love the way the story’s unfolding. I hope that you continue with these long enough for us to see what the statue is writing in the book. 🙂
*nods* me, too; I’m waiting to see what comes to me next on this!
Oh wow, it gets creepier! Ye gods. One of my favorite games has talking statues… not the same thing, really.
Well, it’s the hallowee’en episode? Dr. Who has moving statues, too..
Weeping angels! ;-p
Indeed How do I not have a Dr. Who Icon?