the guy with the case full of monsters.

The lower cluster of lights swarmed and shattered with a pop, much to the figure’s crackling surprise.  He was so surprised that at first he didn’t notice a person appear out of thin air and drop into the sand.

But the dog was closer, and he noticed.  He had also startled, but then immediately hunkered down on defensive alert.  As he crept closer he caught a whiff of soot and fishy salt—strange smells for the desert, he thought with a snort.

[Splitz?] the figure called out, though his voice sounded layered thick with radio or telephone static.  He was still too far back to make anything out, but now he could tell there was definitely something there.  [Splitz, what is it?]

The dog ignored him, and took another snuff at the air—the soot and salt were mostly gone, but there were so many other foreign smells.  Too many to distinguish, but many were from things that were alive and that did not belong out here.  Now that the stranger was in close sight he stopped and growled protectively, the ridge down his forehead starting to show, just in case.

   it took newt a moment to realise that he wasn’t alone. he blinked rapidly, wiping at his eyes with the back of his hand as he pushed himself up to stand with the other. it wasn’t until he was crouching again to dust off his trousers and pick up his case that he noticed the silhouetted man in the hood, and the growling canine beside him.

   ❛ oh- ❜ newt blinked at the man, then at the dog - and smiled. he lifted up his case and straightened out. ❛ sorry. didn’t mean to, um. interrupt your walk, or… well, stroll. whatever you were doing. i don’t suppose- ❜

   newt squinted a bit, craning to get a better look around the area. there was a lot of desert, he observed. some lumpy shapes - rocks, cacti? - and he was almost certain he saw lights in the hazy distance. a town?

The desert surrounding Night Vale was a beautiful place, in its way. Of course it was flat and dry, but it had a tenacity deep in its lines and rock and brush. This buzzed quietly in the heat of the day, but once the sun had disappeared for the day the landscape relaxed, humming with satisfaction that it was still here, against the odds of the universe. And depending on a being’s disposition, it was difficult not to hum along while walking through the desert after dusk.

This desert was also a strange place, even for a desert. The most obvious peculiarity at this time of day were the pockets of lights floating amid the void. Some glittered above a point in the nearby town, others churned low over Raydon Canyon some ways off, other intermittent lights that came and went with no incident. But there were different lights tonight; they sat lower in the sky, shifting and buzzing in odd ways, odd even for this desert. The figure out walking this way had stopped to wonder at them, and paid no mind to the dog that had stopped ahead of him and snuff at him impatiently.

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   when a disapparation was going wrong, you knew it. newt knew it right now, as what should have been a simple trip from outside the docks of new york city to an alley further in the city suddenly seemed to bend and twist reality around him. his mouth opened in a scream, but no sound came out - he couldn’t even breathe, could barely keep a grip on himself, his case. never had he felt so claustrophobic in an apparition - not even when he had first been learning.

   newt was sure it could only have been a couple of seconds before the world opened back up around him again, plopping him hard on a slice of rock and sand. but it felt longer. he was disoriented, nauseous. his hand scrabbled mindlessly across the rock until, with relief, he found the handle of his suitcase and drew it closer. newt heaved in a breath and let out a shaky exhale, slowly pushing himself up to sit.

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