Chapter Text
The Star Beagle Adventures
Episode 2 : Astral Traveller
Scene 15: Sprites
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Sprites
A warm, pink glow warped space inside an incomplete space station, the warping evident as walls, struts, flooring, ceiling, furniture and debris flexed and stretched as the glow moved by. As the glowing moved out from an unfinished apartment and into the hallway, its color changed to a combination of orange, red and yellow, which then separated into three amorphous glows as they entered the promenade.
The three glows slowed, moving close to the floor to linger over the corpse of a long-dead cardassian. Then a couple of long-dead bajorans. Each glow gradually fused with one of these, animating long dead, dilapidated muscle and sinew.
Long dead bodies wandered about, limbs dragging, flopping, only playing at walking, like marionettes prancing across a stage. Ill fitting clothing for the brightly glowing, colored sprites. Eventually, one by one, the long dead bodies slid off; the freed sprite warping toward the ceiling - one passing through it. Another bounced off the ceiling back toward the floor. The glow fell apart and dripped in streams that melted the steel flooring. Hissing columns of poisonous steam arose from the holes burned into the floor.
As the glowing strands dripped through the floor, mingling with molten metal, the glows dissipated. Without their luminescence, the interior of the station gradually faded to the deepest black.
Large pieces of metal buckled and collapsed in the pitch darkness. Then the slight rattling of smaller objects… Then silence. A few moments later and low-pitched groaning grew and then gradually subsided…
Astral Traveller