“Listen to them – the children of the night.” What do you know? Drac actually says this in the book. Bela wasn’t ad-libbing.
Yes, all answers are true. Wonderful Marion’s Sopwith Camel was a familiar sight cruising the skies above San Simeon. She hosted merry steamroller races. And rollerskating parties? Forget about it. The best. A jewel of a human was Marion.
Marion: a. possessed the world’s largest collection of steamrollers. b. wore gloves with some sort of odd fringed cuffs. c. roller skated from the castle to the beach every year on Aardvark Day. d. built from scratch and flew her very own Sopwith Camel. e. did more than one of the above.
The loon felt more than slightly out of place when he joined this crowd of concert goers crowding into the stadium to see Frond Astaire dance and Doris Daisy sing. Good show, though. Triffids know how to party.
When Charming Eggfellow was finally elected to Congress after many failed previous attempts, he was most grateful to his puppet masters. After all, they allowed him to stay up late and everything.
The creeper of the night shook his shaggy arms and clenched his shaggy fists. From the shelter of the dense hillside wood he glared down at the distant campfires scattered about the plain. Soon enough the descending darkness would be terribly shattered. And the creeper of the night would be fed.
His rage passed description – the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted. Apparently Smaug, the plutocratic dragon, is nothing like his cousin Puff.
Although Slim and Eleanor teamed up to win an impromptu beach volleyball tournament, Eleanor’s tight schedule had her flying off to work in a coal mine, and she had to regretfully decline Slim’s invitation to join the post volleyball mumbletypeg romp.
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