"What, y'afraid I'm gonna bite ya or somethin'?" He asked her with a laugh as his fingers worked over the controls of the game, hitting the buttons a bit too hardly to be considered adept at it but maneuvering through the area he seemed to be in passably well before his thumb shifted and clicked the pause button, the screen growing still immediately. The controller was set down, and he kicked his feet up on the table and looked to her with a raised eyebrow.
"Nah, barely a peep from th'boss other than t'tell me about some old lady a while back who'd probably have keeled over after I shouted boo. I'm all for vacations, but seriously-if I'm gonna have m'self a vacation, I'd rather do it in that nice French mansion o'his. Think I should call 'im, see if he's got somethin' new?"
Johnny was always the talkative sort, or at least the fairly cheerful sort as he knocked back the rest of his drink and tossed it for the garbage can, bouncing it off the little net of the hoop that was suspended over it easily.
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When it begins, you will hear the sound of children screaming-as though from a great distance. A smoking orb of nothing will grow above your bed, and from it will emerge a thousand starving crows. As I slip through the widening maw in my new form, you will catch only a glimpse of my radiance before you are incinerated. Then, as tears of bubbling pitch stream down my face, my dark work will begin.
I will open one of my six mouths, and I will sing the song that ends the Earth.
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