This is the kind of scene you end up in if you ask to be in my novel, not that Adam doesn't approve of his presence. As usual, not a final draft and may contain rough spots, enjoy the silliness.
Magnis took a big breath of the outside air. “What now?” he asked.
Melanie shielded her eyes from the sun and looked into town, “I’m not a fan of walking. What do you say we find some transportation?”
Magnis put his hand over his eyes and scoped the area. “Is there a place in this dinky town that sells cars?”
A dirty ragged dressed man ran at them from the direction the sun was coming from. “Eve! Eve! Eve it’s you!” Half hunched over, he ran waving his arms above his head right over to Melanie.
“Gah, what the hell are you doing?” The strange man tried to rub his hands on her legs or hug her, what he intended to do was not exactly clear at that point. She backpedaled to avoid his touch.
“Eve! It’s me! I’m Adam. Eve!” He continued to try to put his hands on Melanie and she walked backwards to avoid making contact.
“Get away from me! I don’t know you!” She swung a fist at him and missed.
Ugh, I can smell him from here; this place has a car lot and smelly crazed man, nice.
The ragged man stopped pursuing her and smiled big with a mouth with hardly any teeth.
The look on his face sent Magnis over the edge and he laughed loudly as he watched the scene unfold in front of him. Being so amused, he made no effort to help Melanie fend him off. Oh man, I needed a good laugh after all that has happened today.
Her disgusted look did not seem to affect the crazed man at all. She leaned back ready to avoid him at any second.
“Eve! We have to go back to the garden. It has been so long.” He shook a boney finger at her, “You have been gone too long,”
“You’re nuts! Get away from me or I’m going to hurt you.”
He shook his finger harder at her. “That’s no way to talk to your Adam.” The hunched man lunged forward trying to hug her again. She side stepped him and swung at him again, this time she hit him in the back of the head. She pulled her hand away and held her wrist grossed out as if his hair left some sort of slime on her.
He stepped backwards a single step at a time while making twitchy facial expressions.
“You!” he accused. “You’re not Eve! Not Eve at all!” He dug his fingers into the back of his head and screeched loudly. He then pushed his palms against his head and shouted in a troubled tone, “You made the worms angry!”
Magnis had stopped laughing at this point and made eye contact with Melanie, each of them equally baffled by his behavior.
“The worms are so angry and thirsty! So thirsty! So angry!” His voice got louder after every set of words. “Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. So thirsty and angry, thirsty, angry, and thirsty.”
He flung himself onto the ground doing a somersault towards a nearby house. He crawled rather quickly on all fours over to a rain gutter at the corner of a close by house. He put his face to the end of it and lapped at the end of the rain gutter. When he was satisfied, he put his arms up over his head and ran off in a direction away from Melanie and Magnis.
The two of them looked at each other again. Her stance and the way she held her hands out at her side made him think she looked as though a skunk had sprayed her, that and the sickened look on her face made it hard for him not to laugh.
She smelled her hand and gagged. “I think I’m going to throw up.”
He could not hold it back any longer and broke out with laughter. She glared at him and stuck out her tongue. She crouched down and rubbed the back of her hand in the dirt to try to rub off the stench.
“So…,” he began.
“Say one word about what just happened,” she displayed her contaminated hand, “and I’m putting this in your mouth.”
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