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Shadow Todd

Chapter 1: No Place Like London

A thick fog rolled in from the ocean, clouding a dark and dirty city, covered in darkness as the pitch black sky loomed overhead. A bow of a sailing ship pierced through the mist as it sailed down a river into the city. The fog cleared slightly, enough for a white hedgehog to stand on the side of the ship and gaze in awe at the city’s many twinkling lights and a large bridge, that was made up of two levels, open so as to allow the ship to pass through.

White Hedgehog: (sings) I have sailed the world, beheld its wonders. From the Dardanelles to the mountains of Peru, but there’s no place like London.

A black hedgehog with red streaks in his quills appeared at the white hedgehog’s side and glared at the city.

Black Hedgehog: No, there’s no place like London.

The white Hedgehog turned to him, his face full of concern and confusion.

White Hedgehog: Mr Todd?

Todd: You are young. Life has been kind to you…you will learn.

Todd walked to the side of the ship in an almost hypnotised walk and stared out at the city with a look of hate and contempt.

Todd: There’s a hole in the world like a great black pit, and the vermin of the world inhabit it, and it’s morals aren’t worth what a pig could spit, and it goes by the name of London. At the top of the hole sit a privileged few, making mock of the vermin in the lower zoo, turning beauty into filth and greed. I too have sailed the world, and seen its wonders, for the cruelty of men is as wondrous as Peru. But there’s no place like London.

A few minutes later Todd and the white hedgehog stood near a brick wall beside many small houses as the sailors unloaded barrels and boxes from the ship onto the cobbled dock.

White Hedgehog: Is everything alright Mr Todd?

Todd stared silently at the city, and then, almost as if waking from a dream, he replied.

Todd: I beg your indulgence, Silver…My mind is far from easy…On these once familiar streets I feel…shadows..everywhere.

Todd looked around the darkened streets, the houses and roads looked totally black due to the lack of light and the black and grey storm clouds that flowed through the sky above. A small clap of thunder was heard as Silver replied.

Silver: Shadows?

Todd: Ghosts…There was a barber and his wife, and she was beautiful. A foolish barber and his wife, she was his reason and his life, and she was beautiful. And she was virtuous, and he was, naïve. There was another man who saw, that she was beautiful. A pious vulture of the law, who with a gesture of his claw, removed the barber from his plate. Then there was nothing but to wait, and she would fall, so soft, so young, so lost and, oh, so beautiful!

Silver:…And the lady, sir…did she succumb?

Todd: Oh, that was many years ago…I doubt if anyone would know…

Todd turned, hesitantly, to Silver.

Todd: I’d like to thank you, Silver. If you hadn’t spotted me, I’d be lost on the ocean, still.

Silver: Will I see you again?

Todd: You might find me if you like.

Todd turned to look at the city again.

Todd: Around Fleet Street, I wouldn’t wonder.

Silver smiled and held out his hand.

Silver: Until then, my friend.

Todd simply marched away, leaving Silver alone. He snarled slightly as he quickened his march into the sinister, foreboding streets.

Todd: There’s a hole in the world, like a great black pit, and it’s filled with people who are filled with shit, and the vermin of the world inhabit it.

Description

Shadow Todd

Chapter 1: No Place Like London

A thick fog rolled in from the ocean, clouding a dark and dirty city, covered in darkness as the pitch black sky loomed overhead. A bow of a sailing ship pierced through the mist as it sailed down a river into the city. The fog cleared slightly, enough for a white hedgehog to stand on the side of the ship and gaze in awe at the city’s many twinkling lights and a large bridge, that was made up of two levels, open so as to allow the ship to pass through.

White Hedgehog: (sings) I have sailed the world, beheld its wonders. From the Dardanelles to the mountains of Peru, but there’s no place like London.

A black hedgehog with red streaks in his quills appeared at the white hedgehog’s side and glared at the city.

Black Hedgehog: No, there’s no place like London.

The white Hedgehog turned to him, his face full of concern and confusion.

White Hedgehog: Mr Todd?

Todd: You are young. Life has been kind to you…you will learn.

Todd walked to the side of the ship in an almost hypnotised walk and stared out at the city with a look of hate and contempt.

Todd: There’s a hole in the world like a great black pit, and the vermin of the world inhabit it, and it’s morals aren’t worth what a pig could spit, and it goes by the name of London. At the top of the hole sit a privileged few, making mock of the vermin in the lower zoo, turning beauty into filth and greed. I too have sailed the world, and seen its wonders, for the cruelty of men is as wondrous as Peru. But there’s no place like London.

A few minutes later Todd and the white hedgehog stood near a brick wall beside many small houses as the sailors unloaded barrels and boxes from the ship onto the cobbled dock.

White Hedgehog: Is everything alright Mr Todd?

Todd stared silently at the city, and then, almost as if waking from a dream, he replied.

Todd: I beg your indulgence, Silver…My mind is far from easy…On these once familiar streets I feel…shadows..everywhere.

Todd looked around the darkened streets, the houses and roads looked totally black due to the lack of light and the black and grey storm clouds that flowed through the sky above. A small clap of thunder was heard as Silver replied.

Silver: Shadows?

Todd: Ghosts…There was a barber and his wife, and she was beautiful. A foolish barber and his wife, she was his reason and his life, and she was beautiful. And she was virtuous, and he was, naïve. There was another man who saw, that she was beautiful. A pious vulture of the law, who with a gesture of his claw, removed the barber from his plate. Then there was nothing but to wait, and she would fall, so soft, so young, so lost and, oh, so beautiful!

Silver:…And the lady, sir…did she succumb?

Todd: Oh, that was many years ago…I doubt if anyone would know…

Todd turned, hesitantly, to Silver.

Todd: I’d like to thank you, Silver. If you hadn’t spotted me, I’d be lost on the ocean, still.

Silver: Will I see you again?

Todd: You might find me if you like.

Todd turned to look at the city again.

Todd: Around Fleet Street, I wouldn’t wonder.

Silver smiled and held out his hand.

Silver: Until then, my friend.

Todd simply marched away, leaving Silver alone. He snarled slightly as he quickened his march into the sinister, foreboding streets.

Todd: There’s a hole in the world, like a great black pit, and it’s filled with people who are filled with shit, and the vermin of the world inhabit it.