Rinnibree

Chorus--Kairos “Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.” --Ovid Scene: A clearing.  Trees surround the grassy bank of a pond.  A marble sundial stands to one side. A CLOAKED FIGURE with a scythe enters stage left.  He is lit from above by a spotlight, and his face is kept in shadow.  He crosses to the sundial and takes something from the top. From offstage, a clock strikes midnight.  He turns to address the audience. CLOAKED FIGURE: Toss a pebble into a pond. He does so.  There is a loud *splash* CLOAKED FIGU

It was a dark and stormy night. (Well actually since space is dark anyway , being a vast void with only a relatively small amount of its volume being allotted to those light producing bodies known as stars, and the term night (as well as day) really depends on being planet-bound, as does weather of any kind; the phrase "dark and stormy night" isn't really accurate.) (It does help to set the mood, however.) In any case a flock of telepathic space turtles were on their millennial trek across the Sol system when one of them sensed something Evil.  He (if telepathic space turtles have gender as we know it) turned to his mother (or equivale