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{{a|opcoboone|}}A gunmetal sky was spotting Barrington Road with fat cold blobs as the station clock struck nine. The underground exhaled a gust of sullen commuters onto the pavement. Black brollies bloomed on first contact with the rain. [[Edd Sweeney]] didn’t have a brolly, or an overcoat, and he was late. He sighed, tucked his chin into his collar and began to stomp through the forming puddles.  
{{a|opcoboone|}}A gunmetal sky was spotting Barrington Road with fat cold blobs as the station clock struck nine. The underground exhaled a gust of sullen commuters onto the pavement. A squall of black brollies exploded on their first contact with the rain, like disturbed pigeons. [[Edd Sweeney]] didn’t have a brolly, or an overcoat, and he was, as usual, late. He sighed, tucked his chin into his collar and began to stomp through the forming puddles, not noticing the enormous bird eyeing him beadily from a broken, damp battlement atop a  tenement across the road, or the workmen affixing a new sign to the tired bricks below it: EAGLE DWELLINGS.
 
The morning bugle carried a new billboard: FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLE DISCOVERED. The pa


After a minute, an urgent toot. “Hi, Sweeney, old man!”  
After a minute, an urgent toot. “Hi, Sweeney, old man!”  
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