AtDDtA(15): A Strange Magenta-and-Green Aura

[Dave Monroe]

On 8/6/07, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> "... the youngster was shaking violently now, his eyeballs, jittering
> in their orbits, gone wild with fright.  Around the edges of this
> form, a strange magenta-and-green aura had begun to flicker, as if
> from a source somewhere behind him, growing more intense as he himself
> faded from view, until seconds later nothing was left but a kind of
> stain in the air where he had been, a warping of the light as through
> ancient window-glass.  The bottle he had been holding having remained
> behind, fell to the floor with a crash that seemed curiously
> prolonged.
>    "'Rats,' muttered Darby, watching its contents soak into the
> sawdust, 'and I was hankering after a "slug" of that stuff.'" (AtD,
> Pt. II, p. 409-10)

Oops, sorry, pp. 410-1.  Mea culpa, mea culpa ...