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Twilight and Ink Spot-- for that matter, everyone in the square---

stared as the strange contraption rolled into sight. It was about as

tall as a pony, three times as long and twice as wide, and covered

entirely in cardboard spray-painted silver. There was a raised conning

tower of sorts near the back. It was lit from within as well as without;

There were portals and windows cut in various places covered in colored

cellophane where the light shone through, and the outside was studded

with blinking lights, apparently abducted from some unsuspecting

Hearthwarming Eve tree. Tubes, dials, gauges and meters studded the

outside as well. Both sides had bright red arrows , one labeled "the

past" and pointing back, one labeled "the future" and pointing forward.

The arrows labeled "past" were blinking---- quite clever how the red

lights illuminating them blinked sequentially, Twilight thought idly.

The finishing touches were two backlit clock faces fore and aft whose

hands, Twilight noted, were spinning backwards, and a spinning bubblegum

machine light atop the roof. Fog billowed out from under the skirting

around the base, and strange bongs, twangs, and other indescribable

noises, like a sci fi foley artist had gone on a bender, emanated from

the two Victrola horns jutting like smokestacks from the roof.

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