Saturday, October 28, 2006

Chapter 5 - The Town of Distant Relevance (2)

The cobbled streets were noisy and lined with multi-coloured stalls where merchants were all trying to sell their wares to no avail.

“How much for that brass chandelier?”

“Now that’s a relevant question, dearie. Sorry, can’t answer, you know.”

Two streets up Dexter and Sinister turned left and immediately saw what the sailor meant with “funny building, can’t miss it”.

A cone-shaped building towered awkwardly up into the sky and what seemed like two wings protruded haphazardly from the walls. The building was painted a bright blue and had yellow circle-emblems stamped here and there. An imposing painting of a man strapped to a curious device filled most of what could be seen of the wall. The man appeared to be in agony, yet smiling. Under the garish colours it was difficult to spot any doors or windows.

After a while they did spot a low door under one of the wing-like structures and made their way there. Large, soothing letters proclaimed this architect’s nightmare to be “Hucklenose’s House of Healing – For those with TTD and any other D”.

With some trepidation Sinister opened the door and dragged Dexter in with him. Dexter seemed to know that he might be cured of his guilt in there and tried to resist, even spraying Sinister with some of his Disgusting Liquid and kicking against the doorway. But Sinister would have none of that. With a shove Dexter was propelled into Hucklenose’s House of Healing and into a dimly lit waiting room.

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