Chatterbox: Inkwell

Stories from scenes!

So
the idea is my sister (CaptainRead) and I make up a scene and you the
reader make up a story from it.

Me:
“No not you, admins, the other chatterboxers!”

Admins
(what I think you might say): “Why not? We are just as entitled as
you kids!”

Me:
“Well, I don't make the rules, The Most High Editor does.”

Admins
(?): “How do you know one of us is not The Most High Editor?”

Me:
“Because if you were The Most High Editor you wouldn't be arguing.”

Admins
(?): “Good point.”

Sorry
for the segue, now for the scene.

It
was a darkish, misty day, with tendrils of fog creeping into the
strangest places and sitting in them like contented cats. There was
one such tendril of fog stretching itself out along the dark brim of
an old dented bowler hat, worn by a tall man with an old-fashioned
ponytail and a scar on his chin. The fog-cat could hear the man
muttering “This time, this time I will not fail, this time,
everything shall be restored to what it once was.” What a
mysterious utterance that was, thought the fog-cat lazily, in the
manner all cats have of not seeming to care very much even when their
curiosity has been peaked. The tall man was striding quickly towards
a huge wrought iron gate – wreathed with many of the fog-cat's
brothers and sisters – and as he neared it his pace slowed, and he
slipped through the small space between the two gates quite
hesitantly, as though worried that he would be accosted by some mean
old gatekeeper. The gatekeeper, who may or may not have existed, did
not, however, appear, and the mysterious man stared across the long
lawn and old-fashioned drive at a huge mansion with an abandoned feel
and only one lighted window, which was on the second floor. The
fog-cat stared at the house apprehensively, thinking that it could
have belonged in a haunted house exhibition, and quickly made the
wise decision to abandon the somewhat comfortable bowler hat rim and
head back to the gate to play hide-and-seek with its numerous
relatives

P.S.
(from CaptainReed) This was John's idea (both the scene and the
game), but the scene is in my own words.

P.P.S.
Have Fun with this!