Moons of Jupiter by V R Tapscott

Author:V R Tapscott [Tapscott, V R]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-04T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Metamorphoses

Olive, Bailey and Georgia stepped out of the door of the RV that Olive had constructed.

It was quite a device, covered with stainless steel birds, bees and hummingbirds and all sorts of that sort of creatures. As it moved, every part of it moved in some way, each piece linked together in some way with fine wires, bicycle chains, or even fans that interacted with wings. It was a true work of art, and when Olive parked it, it had been mobbed with people just looking at it in general.

Olive had built it all by hand, a labor of love that she’d put together in the last year. She’d actually started with the concept of having it ready for the Burning Man plans for the previous year, but so many things had happened that she wasn’t able to finish it in time. So, her theme was a bit off, but the work was so amazing that if anyone noticed, no one said anything. Of course, some would say that even though her theme was from the previous year, it followed the current year’s theme even more closely, being a show of how the interaction of all things creates life. Whatever it was, all art seems to be welcome at Burning Man.

The girls had thrown themselves into creation of costumes that were as brief as possible and yet covered all of them completely. Olive had designed fabrics that adapted to the weather and sunlight, so while they all appeared to be nearly naked, they were so wind and weather resistant that they could stand in a sandstorm and be just as content as sunning on Jane’s deck. Essentially, an invisible skinsuit with wings.

So, as they walked, they each resonated with each other’s costumes and with random brushes against other people, their suits reacting with ripples of color and texture that you would have had to have been dead to ignore.

The Burning Man festival has been covered in enough magazines and journals across the world that it’s pointless to say much about the event itself.

Of course, the function of a costume is to be eye catching to other people and usually you don’t even notice your own costume after putting it on and being in it for awhile.

A woman on incredibly tall stilts walked past, her pantlegs flopping around her bird-sized legs. Olive remarked, “Did you see that one? She has to be 20 feet tall. She must have had to practice for weeks just to learn how to walk on those!”

“Uh huh. And the people driving a kaleidoscope. And the giant bike.”

They rode off into the desert on matching bicycles, looking at the giant Burning Man construction being readied for its conflagration. Each year being burned and each year being reborn from the ashes of its construction from the year before. Metaphorically speaking, of course, since one of the main points of the festival every year is to leave nothing behind.

Olive gave a giant grin to Georgia and Bailey. “I’m

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