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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. 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.
{{a|opcoboone|}}A gunmetal sky was spotting Barrington Road with fat cold blobs as the station clock struck nine. The underground exhaled: a musty gust of sullen commuters spilled onto the pavement, prompting a squabble of black brollies. [[Edd Sweeney]] stood under a dripping eve. He didn’t have a brolly, or an overcoat, and was, as usual, late. He sighed, tucked his chin into his collar and began his scuttle to the office. Neither he, nor of the brolly-weilding pigeons about him, noticed the great bird perched atop the broken battlements lining the tenement across the road. Nor did 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
The morning bugle carried a new billboard: FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLE DISCOVERED. The pa
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“File that one in the circular filing cabinet,” quipped Roly. He pronounced it ''sahcular''. “I had one earlier” — ''ahleear'' — “this week that properly cratered. Client was a ''total''” — ''taytle'' — “wally.”
“File that one in the circular filing cabinet,” quipped Roly. He pronounced it ''sahcular''. “I had one earlier” — ''ahleear'' — “this week that properly cratered. Client was a ''total''” — ''taytle'' — “wally.”
Roly gets acosted by some brutal rentseekers in an alley. barber sees it, goes down and pulls some legal ninja moves.