A Feast Awaits
We stood, with the Captain, on the windswept bow of our newest ferry. The deepwater transport pulled into dock directly below the hand of Great Onyx - the grandly mysterious behemoth that guarded the restaurant's entrance.
"How many cars can this thing carry across the bay... say in twelve hours.?"
The Captain took a moment.
"If it's calm, two hundred vehicles ... close to a thousand units."
Just then, the screaming whine of the huge metal crushers made us all jump.
Noticing the units' startled faces, peering through their windshield windows, I remembered Pappy's rule: calm kills make for tender meat.
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One Word Slip (October 2018 Challenge)
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