Night Light
Shaenon: A page from the Narbonic story I did for the upcoming Couscous Collective anthology ILLUMINATION. More on ILLUMINATION, and other Couscous stuff, to come soon.
Channing: Oh my crap, The Helenchild is adorbs. That’s… about all I have to say right now, other than it’s good to hear that Blossom is still alive and well.
zomg, Rosalind! *dies of cute*
Don’t eat those marshmallows!
But who would dare bring Blossom forth?
Someone with a little too much flexibility, methinks.
clearly they’ve met mom!
(TUNE: “The Yellow Rose Of Texas”, traditional)
There’s a little girl named Narbon,
Who’s come to spend the night!
Her friends are in the corner,
They’re cowering in fright!
‘Cause her acid-spitting pony
Got loose and ran away!
And the frightened friends of Rosalind
Just hope they live ’til day!
Judging by those shadows, her friends look like they’re about to jump through a portal and they don’t care very much where it ends up.
Yup, I am regretting my inability to purchase these books. One day…
At any rate, this looks like it will be hilarious. I’m pretty sure those are flammable, radioactive, poisonous and exploding marshmallows though.
Or possibly have an amusing hint of mint.
What will Li’l Hell…en do to those poor marshmallows? Science, of course!
Seeing as she isn’t mad yet, my guess is that “Science” in this case means setting up an overly complex system for getting the marshmallows perfectly roasted, but will end up setting the house on fire.
Actually, it’s entirely possible this particular Narbon is part of the control group of clones released into the wild to slowly go mad (and later be hunted down and vivisected). So, all things considered, all bets are off.
That doesn’t look like a lil’ Helen clone. Looks like a lil’ Rosalind.
Even worse…it could be Narbon Senior when she was young…
Kyooot!
What’s the worst that a surprise from Helen Narbon could involve? Heh heh heh.
The best part about the infamous Narbon “Heh heh heh” (patent pending) is that it automatically makes any statement entirely rhetorical.
All marshmallows are made with gunpowder, right?
Don’t be silly, Marshmallows are never made of Gunpowder! They’re made of fluffy, fluffy Nitroglycerin.