Rickshaw Rhythm by V E Wilchcombe EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author:V E Wilchcombe
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At the center of the universe floats a golden clock, and in that clock
sleeps the Timekeeper. Here he lies in a bed made of stardust,
bundled and wrapped up with his tomcat, Tobias. He has not a care or woe
to wake him.
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Since the very first time he set the hands of his clock into motion, the
pulse of its movement has echoed throughout the galaxies and held in place
the realms of both the living and the dead. Only once has it stalled and
changed its cadence. If not for the swiftness of the Timekeeper it would
have been an event of astronomical proportions, changing the universe for
all time. Today, it would do so once more.
This time it is the long hand that stalls. A delay so miniscule that only
the Timekeeper could perceive it. Now he leaps up from his bed as if he had
never been asleep at all. Tobias gets up from the pillows beside him and
stretches out his feline spine. His midnight blue fur shimmers with silver
undertones in the lamplight above him as he sits and stares groggily at the
now prancing Timekeeper.
The old man’s straight gray beard hangs down to the waist of his blue
pajama pants. A night cap of the same ocean blue color is pulled over a
thick braid of gray hair wrapped around his head, and eyes of pure silver
rove around the room in excitement.
The Timekeeper finally stops moving around to lean out his lone front
window. “Toby, quick, bring me my binoculars.”
“Get them yourself, old man,” Tobias replies. His small gray eyes close
as he yawns. “Who in all the galaxies asks a cat with paws to bring them
binoculars?”
“Stop playing around and hurry,” says the Timekeeper impatiently. “I
see it; it’s headed that way,” he says, pointing out to the east.
Tobias sighs and with a twitch of his nose fancy gold binoculars rise up
from a shelf above him and fly over to the Timekeeper.
He snatches them from the air, brings them to his eyes, and leans
forward to peer out into the void.
“All this excitement over a tiny ripple,” says Tobias. He springs from
the bed in one fluent motion and lands on the windowsill beside him.
“Don’t be such a fuddy-duddy, Tobias. We haven’t had a ripple in
thousands of years. And last time it was only because you jumped on the
short hand.”
“I was a newborn kitten. Give me a break, will ya?”
“Pack the bags; we’re going on a trip,” says the Timekeeper.
“What!” Tobias exclaims, his small eyes rounded to their fullest. “Can’t
we just pull it in and go back to sleep like we did the last time?”
“Of course not,” says the Timekeeper. “This one is genuine. A new
galaxy has been birthed from the ether and has anchored its place within the
void. This is a time of endings and new beginnings. We must see the effects
of the ripple.”
“Looks like it’s headed to Starlight City,” says Tobias, his paw raised up
to his eyes as he looks out into the darkness.
“Get a move on it now, Toby, or we will miss out on the start of the
show.”
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