A Tragedy
Sydney, Australia - Day 17
Something terrible happened today. I...I don't even know how to write this, but I am going to try. Katie and I performed another routine of packing, scrumptious meat pie eating, rock stacking, returning our muscle car rental, and all the normal airport stuff. After security, we burned up the time by shopping around. As I was gazing around at the wares, out of the corner of my eye I thought I saw a monster. My heart fluttered as anxiety bubbled inside me. I shook the thought out of my mind and carried on. A few moments later, I was in line to board waiting for Katie to join me. Scanning the crowd I saw Katie turn the corner, blood drained from her face and her eyes wide and telling of horrors seen. "Are you OK?" I asked. "I...I..." Katie struggled to get it out. Before she could describe the terrible thing she must have witnessed, general boarding had commenced and we were herded to our seats. Anxiety grew in my belly as my eyes were drawn to the front of the plane. Shaking with fear, I tore my eyes away and pleaded with Katie to tell me what she had seen! But before she could muster the courage to tell her tale, a howling reverberated through the fuselage. Frozen by fear I couldn't look away as the beast entered the aisle of the plane. It was covered with dirty blonde feathers, stained with blood. A beak protruded from its knobby head between black soulless eyes. It grew nearer and nearer and my heart sank. How could it be?? Endless possibilities upon countless decisions had brought all involved to this very moment of reckoning. And then Georgia took her seat right next to us.
