Hours later, Sigils was exhausted and asked Biffle, "This isn't working. Are we getting close?"
Biffle reassured him, "Yeah. Just another right, then a left, another left, and a right..."
Sigils groaned. "Are you sure you know where we're going? We seem to be moving away from Headquarters," he said as the sky brightened, signaling morning.
"It's morning," Sigils noted. Defeated, he groaned, "I can't take much more of this—"
Just then, they heard voices from some weather factory workers.
"Throw 'em!"
"They sound like Ian's sons. Let's go talk to them!" Sigils declared, recognizing the voices, and ran towards them.
"But Sigils, we're almost... ohhhh." Biffle groaned.
Later, Sigils found SSundee's two sons, Colton and Simeon, vacuuming up weather orbs from the shelves.
Sigils approached them and asked if they knew how to get to Earthly Sun Island, but it did not go well.
(Also let's just pretend Simeon can talk in fluent English)
"Hey, um, I need to find Earthly Sun Island..." Sigils asked, but Colton and Simeon ignored him and continued vacuuming old orbs.
Simeon pointed to the orbs. "Look at this. Four years of a flood."
"Yeah, looks pretty faded," Colton replied. "You know what? Save a year of the flood and get rid of the rest."
The memories were vacuumed up with a 'zoop!' sound.
"Hey! You can't throw those away! Those are perfectly good orbs!" Sigils protested.
"Whatever, you're not the boss of us! Forget 'em!" Colton said, vacuuming up the memories behind Sigils and sending the orbs shooting out a sewer pipe into the darkness of the Forgotten Weather Dump.
Annoyed, Sigils demanded, "Hey! Bring those back!"
"They're in the dump. Nothing comes back from the dump," Colton replied.
"Yeah. Look, this is our job, okay?" Simeon added.
Colton explained that when Mother Nature doesn't care about certain weather, it fades, confusing Sigils.
"It just happens to the best of them," Colton said.
Suddenly, Simeon pulled a weather orb from a cart and added, "Except for this bad boy! This one will NEVER fade."
Sigils immediately recognized the orb as the one rumored to be Mother Nature's response to a girl's love advice query, which had been mistaken, causing repeated thunderclaps.
"Isn't that the girl who asked Mother Nature if her love life was the one for her?" Sigils asked.
Colton replied conspiratorially, "Sometimes we send that one up to Headquarters for no reason."
The boys started playing the orb repeatedly, causing Sigils to roll his eyes. "Yeah, yeah, we all know that part. Okay. Yup. Real funny."
Colton and Simeon decided to send the orb to Headquarters just for fun. Simeon tipped the orb into the inner workings of the shelf.
"FWOOM!"
It shot up towards Headquarters. Henwy and Nico were having a peaceful morning when the orb dropped into Headquarters, playing at full volume.
"God, give me a sign if he's the one!"
"BOOM!"
Henwy recoiled in shock. "AHHHHH! This again?! Get it the fuck away!" he yelled, annoyed, while Nico rolled his eyes and continued reading the newspaper.
The two walked away, laughing and chattering, and Sigils followed behind them, now annoyed. "Hey! Do you know how to get to Earthly Sun Island?!" he asked again.
YOU ARE READING
Tempest Tangle
General Fiction(Cover by me!) The Regulars. They were in charge of controlling the weather and are also blessed with elemental bending abilities. They have their own islands as well, just in case they weren't well so that the islands can control the weather for th...
