The students are nearing Shadow Valley. It has been established that Shadow Valley is the place where all shape-shifters take human form and are at their weakest. Shadow Valley is the only place that can support the particular type of food these particular shape-shifters need in order to continue their lives as shape-shifters...eat ordinary food, remain a single shape. One of the shape-shifters, a combination crow-bear or crow-human or crow-creature (depending on which storyline) has stolen a powerful necklace from Violet. It must be retrieved. If one says "Have you seen my mother's handkerchief?" to a shape-shifter in its human form, it must respond somehow. If the response is in words, the speaker is not the shape-shifter that stole the necklace, but do not believe any words spoken. If the response is silence, do not speak, for then the shape-shifter thief must hand over the necklace in a container. Do not open the container, do not speak until the necklace has been given to Violet or all will be lost. I prepare for the impending student arrival by draping a drab sheet around my body. I step out.
Students: AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
I hold out my hand.
Students: AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
I walk closer, the draping sheet barely disguising my realtrue self. The students continue to freak out. All but one:
A: Wait? Why am I afraid? She looks like the Mother of Jesus!
Wh? Ha!
A: Mother of Jesus! Mother of Jesus! Have you seen my mother's handkerchief?
Posted by Ida at August 15, 2005 04:23 PMI love this story more than anything I've heard all day.
Posted by: freesia at August 15, 2005 05:22 PMAnd henceforth, we shall call you "Mandy Cohen". Wait. Nevermind. That was Brian's mother's name.
Posted by: KING COMTE I at August 15, 2005 09:21 PMYou know how on some personality tests, at the end of a funny or sad story one the questions is, "Did you notice the improper grammar?" I always answer yes.
Posted by: ian at August 18, 2005 10:39 AMLike in your comment?
Posted by: ida at August 18, 2005 01:10 PM