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Fill: Challenge #412 (DW)
I did ten minutes on that Ben Franklin fic I told you about. It's not really going where I want it to go, so I probably will throw this out, but I did do it, so here it is. This was probably more like twenty minutes, and I removed the part before the "..." because that had already existed.
"...Mr Winslow said it wasn’t the first, though. One of his farmhands, Joseph, had seen one just like it two weeks earlier. The next was a week later, down by the docks. They’ve been getting more frequent, three in the last week, all in the early evening and all within town, though this is the first one that had the audacity to enter a dwelling.”
“‘Audacity’?” Frowning, Nyssa considered the word. “That implies some amount of intention. Do you believe that these lightning balls are intelligent?”
Ben laughed. “You must allow this old bookmaker his flights of fancy. I suppose that as a scientist, I should strive to remain rational and neutral, but I often cannot resist embellishing a story with a clever turn of phrase.” He bowed to the girl. “No, I do not believe that lightning or electrical fire is in any way intelligent or even possesses an awareness.”
“Perhaps not normally,” mused the Doctor, “but this phenomenon is far from normal. From what Mrs Thurston told us, it lasted a number of minutes, seemed to follow Mr Thurston as he walked, and changed its behaviour when it entered the house.” He gestured at the walls and furnishings of the hallway, then at the small spot of soot he and Nyssa had been inspecting when Ben arrived. “And it took some amount of care not to harm its surroundings. I think we should keep an open mind as we investigate.”
"...Mr Winslow said it wasn’t the first, though. One of his farmhands, Joseph, had seen one just like it two weeks earlier. The next was a week later, down by the docks. They’ve been getting more frequent, three in the last week, all in the early evening and all within town, though this is the first one that had the audacity to enter a dwelling.”
“‘Audacity’?” Frowning, Nyssa considered the word. “That implies some amount of intention. Do you believe that these lightning balls are intelligent?”
Ben laughed. “You must allow this old bookmaker his flights of fancy. I suppose that as a scientist, I should strive to remain rational and neutral, but I often cannot resist embellishing a story with a clever turn of phrase.” He bowed to the girl. “No, I do not believe that lightning or electrical fire is in any way intelligent or even possesses an awareness.”
“Perhaps not normally,” mused the Doctor, “but this phenomenon is far from normal. From what Mrs Thurston told us, it lasted a number of minutes, seemed to follow Mr Thurston as he walked, and changed its behaviour when it entered the house.” He gestured at the walls and furnishings of the hallway, then at the small spot of soot he and Nyssa had been inspecting when Ben arrived. “And it took some amount of care not to harm its surroundings. I think we should keep an open mind as we investigate.”
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( I have heard there is an actual phenomenon called Ball lightning. Which is what I thought when I read it)