J SANTI

A tale of deep, deceptive, drivel finds us floating on the ocean of Tonailia in the calm before the storm. It seemed that years had passed, and not a single person could tell how long we had been gazing at a never ending portrait of blue with delicate, white patches strategically placed on the canvas. Now, I say we were in the calm before the storm, but not due to inclement weather. No. We hadn't seen a storm since knowing where in the Tonailiac Ocean we were. Only blue skies and what appeared to be a never changing arrangement of clouds. The concreteness of it all was mind-bending and we were all going slightly insane from the extreme unease of the situation. It was then, that we saw a boat in the distance. Some began crying, others bursting with laughter and screams of joy. It was truly a sight to see, especially for our bitter eyes. For days we awaited the boats approach, but it just sat there, off in the distance. Some began to claim that it wasn't a boat, even though the silhouettes figure clearly indicated that it was a large ship. We were at our breaking point. Suddenly the two headed love-child born of King Burger and his estranged partner, Steven Marx fell from the sky yielding a stringed instrument of which none of us had seen the likes of before. The two-headed love child (who goes by Phillip) proclaimed that this was an instrument sent from the heavens to help the lords on earth understand their universal duties. None of us, however, could use the instrument, for it requires the use of the opposable thumb. We quickly told Phillip that our master might be of service to him and that he is in the ships cabin, manning the wheel. Phillip walked in to find a sight that he never thought would gain the likes of such a righteous instrument of expression. The old man turned his head toward the cabin door. His long white beard hang down to his waist and his hair black as night in the shape of a perfect globe atop his head. He wore a large pair of sunglasses which egged around the edge of his sockets coming to a triangular shape toward the upper nose. He didn't seem frightened at all, and merely said, "Dig, I'm Noah. Pleasure to meet."