If I Didn’t Stop John
could not have depicted yon mountains- How far up does that thing go?
- blowing smoke rings
- this is not a wine for drinking
- lumpy inside the pants
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If I didn’t stop John from using an escape pod, there would be no way to make him restore control of the vessel. We would cross into Harmonian airspace and start a war. My best hope was that Mother was with him, slowing him down.
None of the escape pods had jettisoned by the time I reached them. That was the good news. The bad news was that I had no idea where John was, if not in an escape pod. I was about to turn back when I heard bickering from one of the pods. I peered in through the viewport and saw John and Mother facing each other, framing a jagged, snowy mountain range through their pod’s windshield. Had I been the most talented painter in the world, I could not have depicted yon mountains more aptly as a metaphor for the conversation I was overhearing.
It seemed that John’s sabotage panel on the dance floor had disabled the escape pods along with the airship’s main controls. Mother’s temper was sorely elevated. One might ask, about her temper, “How far up does that thing go?” and I could tell you truthfully, “All the way.” I remember more than one occasion when she was blowing smoke rings out of her nostrils, and once, from her ears.
I didn’t want to, but I rapped on the glass. If the look on Mother’s face had been wine, the label would have carried a warning label like “this is not a wine for drinking, it is a wine for cleaning battery terminals.” For the first time I noticed that John was not angry. His face bore the look of someone who was feeling lumpy inside the pants, and probably smelling up that escape pod.
bonus points for using them in order