Now Miss Maggie O'Toole
the anthro fox vixen who was the Guardian of the Musical Instrument
Challenge
stood there briefly at the end of the evac tunnel with her
50 Chicken Orchestra.
Up ahead sat the Tiamats Last Laugh
which to the off realm Guardian
looked all the world like a
WW2 rusty Quonset Hut
a mile long and a fifth of a mile wide
with 20th century jetliner wings attached
atop of which were perched
26 19th century Dutch
windmills spinning
furiously
with no signs of jet engines.
At the front of this huge Quonset hut perched the pylon and flashing command saucer
that anyone
familiar wit the
Star Trek franchise
would recognize
as the front end of a 23rd century starship.
This would edifice sat
on rather huge railway
undercarriages and the skid rails
led to the surface.
Miss Maggie ,and for that matter
most of the more educated cloud plane
folk such as Sera the Witch
recognized Tia Mats Last Laugh as a Absurd Tech
Hypergalactic Cruiser
from the 49th century from the realm
adjacent to the cloud plane
realm
Certainly not the one those tens of millions
of barbarian demon vampire werewolves
were coming from but the 'neighbour' on the other side
of the cloud plane 'house'
A realm of golden fleeced and golden feathered anthro
sheep and eagles.
General Aeyrie himself,adopted
into the Sky Kings family
was actually a golden feathered anthro eagle.
Miss O'Toole could see young ewe lamb
stewardesses barely out of the flock
directing the refugees onto the huge craft.
Wisely Maggie transformed
her sheep stomach bagpipes into a fiddle
and was about to board
when she realized
some of the chickens from her Band
weren't around.
So motioning most of the Band members to go in with
a small group
of Russian speaking minotaurs
Maggie the Vixen and three
of the Chickens left the boarding line
and rushed back to find
the missing
trombonist,3 violinists and the bugle player
It was going to be difficult to play
Boogie Woogie Bugle Player of Company C with the ndrew Sisters
unless they got the bugle playing hen back.
So off they trotted back into the evac tunnel.where they met
Sera the Witch,99 Ancient Greek Sailors,Chirp,pet 'C' and a still speechless Nat.
Further behind they heard the 'CLUNKKK" as Aeyrie sealed off the heavy wooden doors.
Reassuringly Maggie could
hear the General shushing
along her chickens.
Along the side tubes leading into the main
evac tunnel
various cloud folk from the surface were
appearing.