Patchwork Universe

Yarrow · Posted: 01 Mar 2004 12:05 am Post subject: Departing misteriously

As she came out from the Foundry the old woman glanced uneasily at the partially rebuilt craft she had named a Skayak.
"Don't think my nerves are up to it, not at my time of life," she muttered to herself. "I'll come back for it later."

Peering at the activity around the craft she noticed a distant figire of a man in overalls but shook her head at the idea of approaching him.
"I'll catch up with you later, when you won't be persuading me to drive that infernal machine out of here," she said to herself.

And trundling off with her trolley she crossed the scrubland at a surprising rate for so bent and aged a person. Before long she had arrived at the mists and aimed her trolley into them.