Mermay: The Date

[aldersprig]

Percival looked at the clock.  The day was right; the calculation was right; the ball was the perfect setting.
It had taken a little doing.  Yes, the Club had a ball like this once per year.  Yes, they held it in this place, the Grand Promenade, as it was called, right on the water.  These thi

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Comments

[kelkyag]

Thaaaaat's a thing, yes, oh dear. I'd lean toward Things Unspoken over SCIENCE! but either could work. Would Victorian Fairy City be Fairy Town in another city and/or elsewhere in that world? That could work, too, and suits the prompt image.

Really, Percival, did you not think this through at all ...?

Nits: "Oh, don’t trust that cake, m’lord.": cake -> clock
"The waiter passing by pressed a glass of sherry into ...": Either add "and" before "pressed", or put commas before and after "passing by"
"It’s always gone two minutes slow": Given the context, I think the clock is fast rather than slow?
"And from behind the had of her dance partner?": had -> head

[kelkyag]

Probably not Gwendoline's original hair style.

[aldersprig]

*giggle* No, but maybe now. :-)

[sauergeek]

I. Er. Um. WTF?

Depending on the nature of these Creatures — and right now they're looking like something out of either Lovecraft or bad anime — they may be indiscriminate, or they may target the Important Person in the room. Percival, you presumably know more about these than we do. Did you just make your sister a target?

[clare_dragonfly]

Ooh, fun. I wonder what purpose he may have for the manifestations. And whether Gwendoline had a shrewd idea of what was going to happen...