Tomorrowlands Drabble

The story behind the cut-tag started out as a Tomorrowlands universe drabble. I don't think it ended up going into that universe at all, especially since no one in this story actually transforms--which is rather one of the points of the universe--and much of it is directly taken from my thoughts as I drove around town this evening.

I was sitting and thinking about how so many things in modern daily life often seem extraneous to me--television and its programming, for instance, are concepts which I could happily live without (and often do).

I was also wondering my perennial wonder, which is something like this: "I've met a lot of dragons; will I ever just happen across one which I recognize, somehow? Will that be a relief?"

Tonight I added the following thought: "What would be some of the reasons why I wouldn't run across them?"

One of the more interesting reasons that turned up was "because they ran into someone else first."

( This might be a bit disturbing for some people. )