Genre - Action/Adventure Action - Setting an alarm Word - Hero Piercing eyes scan its domain warily, never straying from the perch. A tail flicks with deadly laziness at the wind. The hero remains unnoticed, hidden from sight beneath the parapet of an adjacent tower. The beast guards the target. A piece of mystical technology, said to measure the flow of time through the ether, and respond to it. A magical artifact the hero has been commanded to control.
It can’t be reached from here. The yawning chasm between the two towers must be forded, yet not a speck of coverage to hide from the beast’s watchful glare. Is there no hope? But the hero has a secret weapon. A marvelous contraption of illusion. A distraction. It casts an optical phantasm on the far wall beside the tower, enrapturing the beast. A head raises. A leg. A monstrous paw lined with jagged claws reaches out and the beast is moving. Now’s the chance. The hero dashes out, silent as the dark, across to the other tower. Up to its peak, all while dancing the illusion out of reach of the slashing claws of the beast. The artifact is riddled with strange keys imprinted with a long lost language no living being knows. The language of time. Buttons are pressed, and the symbols of light change. It speaks in beeps, though it has no mouth. A distant voice calls out, “It’s Sunday, did you set your alarm for school?” “Yes, mum.” “Is Mittens in your room?” A glance at the beast. “Yes.”
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