Another crate thumped to the floor in front of Drakken. Shego waved away the latest cloud of dust and sneezed. "Doctor D, isn't this kind of overkill? I mean, look at all this junk. It's like the Mummy's garage sale rejects." A thin layer of dust coated both Drakken and Shego, and the air was musty from the contents of long-unopened boxes.
Drakken just smiled his lopsided grin. He wasn't ready to gloat. Yet. Just a few more boxes, yes, just a few more...
Burly furniture movers continued to haul in boxes and crates of all shapes and sizes. The lair was getting stuffed to capacity, and beyond. Every nook and cranny had some sort of container we
Stars shone brightly in the crisp spring air, competing with the waxing moonlight to light Kim's path up Mt. Middleton. The snows had mostly melted and the pines gave off a fresh scent that should have lifted anyone's spirits, but Kim barely noticed as she trudged up the scree slope. Monique quietly shadowed Kim's footsteps, watching her friend anxiously.
It was almost midnight. Ron's message was due any time.
The two women crested a small rise that led onto a grassy plateau. The back of the mountain shielded them from most of the wind as they settled onto the damp grass, legs crossed underneath their homespun dresses. The stars blinked abo
Kim Eternal Chapter 2
Rocks skittered under Kim and Monique's feet as they descended Mt. Middleton toward rolling foothills. Spread out below, the verdant countryside had long been reclaimed by nature, with the help of Kim and a few others. Only a few dozen people continued to live in or around the area that was once Middleton; the town itself was long gone, no more than a memory, not even a scar in the land. Houses carefully built of wood and stone dotted the clearings and hilltops, with no evidence of human civilization other than wood smoke drifting from a handful of chimneys in the valley below.
No roads, no noise, no pollution. There w
KP Eternal, Chapter 3
"How dare you?" Kim icily asked the man standing a few feet from her in the spacious, sunlit room.
She stood ramrod straight on a marble floor, head low, eyes blazing, fists clenching and unclenching. Her breathing came in shallow pants, her jaw locked and shoulders clenched tight. She couldn't remember being this angry in a long time. A very long time. She'd gone past red-hot anger and out the other side to intense, icy fury. She waited impatiently for somebody else to speak. Monique was nowhere to be seen; she'd been escorted elsewhere.
The small, well-dressed man stood at parade rest, apparently letting Kim's anger