RE: The Hills Outside of Town
05-03-2016, 07:29 AM
Spoiler
You've been dreaming of birds since ... you don't know ... sometime when you were a kid maybe? The dreams started to get really bad around puberty. You would lie awake at night just wishing you could be a bird.
Sometime later you became an ornithologist. Unfortunately you're not an inventor, this whole CRAPPY LIFE that DOESN'T LET YOU BECOME A BIRD just drags on and on, and once you had that wonderful dream, the best one, where you really did become a bird, you built something that let you do it and ate it, but in real life whenever you look at a pile of gears it's just a pile of gears and it won't be anything else.
But now this CRAPPY LIFE that DOESN'T LET YOU BECOME A BIRD is starting to be the most bearable that it's ever been, because this godforsaken whatever this crap place is Hills Outside of Town is filled with the craziest birds you've ever seen.
Like that big bird over there. It's totally crazy! You're terrified of it, but you feel so much longing. You walk towards this bird, giant and colorful, feeling it was your destiny somehow to come here, and you don't know or care what will happen, you just keep walking.
***
You are the assistant.
This crazy ornithologist hired you to come out here. Now he's walking towards a terrifying giant bird. "No!" you yell, but he doesn't seem to hear. The bird swivels its head, looks directly at him, and snaps him up.
What do you do?