Whilst Darken was unveiling the true plan within plans that was being orchestrated thanks to Hugo's potential 'Inside-Man' Intentions…
Itvasme was arriving with her special delivery for Ice Queen Sally - in addition to all the Amazonê and Téamu impulse buys, there were also useful items they had brought along, that might come in handy during the showdown and encounter…
An Epic undercurrent of dramatic 'Duel of the Fates'-esque music began to play…
We cut to Sally, Tristen and Rowena suiting up, putting on their special footwear to allow for maximum mobility on the slippery ice…
They rummage amongst the piles of stuffs until they pull out some satisfying implements…
Yes, this will do!!!
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And then a gentle fade-cut to Itvasme and the Dark Rizzards as they also make their final preparations before aiming to storm the Central Convenience Store…
With lots of lip licking and satisfied murmurs of anticipation and approval, they also pull out various 'useful implements' with an assortment of self-satisfied smirks…
The scenes intercut between the two sides 'getting ready', one with a luminous blue aura and colour correction, the other with a dark, reddish, sinister one…
After a while, the two sides are running out of stuffs to do, and the 'getting ready' just consists of them doing similar movements and various mundane expressions like their eyes opening as if pleased, content, satisfied, determined, lip licking, pants straightening, stockings getting pulled up and smoothed, buttons getting done up and adjusted again and again, shoelaces getting tied, untied, then tied again…
"Uh…"
"Again!! Keep going!!! Keep making preparations!!! This is good stuff!!!"
Author continued stretching the scene, even though it was clearly time to move on.
Sally, to her credit was an impeccable actress, having won numerous Oskars and Akademie Awards as mentioned, and basically looked dazzling and thoroughly convincing in every shot, but after a while, the music was still going, but Tristen, Rowena, Itvasme and the Dark Rizzards were looking increasingly wooden and frozen -basically, they were running out of 'getting ready' actions to do!!!
Author was conducting the scene like a mad conductor, oblivious.
"Continue!!!"
As the music and the intercutting sped up, All the characters did their best to match their increasingly sh*tty and same-ish actions (except for Sally of course, who continued to look fabulous, full of elegant poise and the perfect FL looks of determination and conviction), whilst in the background, the rest of the cast were stumbling, tripping, and struggling to keep up.