TheBanyanTree: Faery Tale

[David]

There’s a difference between your run of the mill highway demon and a 
railway demon. Both live under bridges, of course, but that is where the 
similarities end. Highway demons don’t awaken until after midnight while 
train demons run the gamete of varying schedules, if they keep one at 
all. It’s like the city mouse country mouse story. The highway demons 
are an uptight version of the railway demon, often living in groups 
under the same bridge.

The railway bumpkins live alone or as couples, never in a slithering 
group of shadow regularly found crammed right under the road waiting for 
the sound of the traffic to cease before they crawl out into the early 
morning when traffic is much slower, ascending from their cramped hiding 
places to the foot of the bridge before beginning the few hours of 
mischief that can be attained before sunrise.

In the nicer areas, or even not so nice, where one might find a railroad 
bridge, a more sophisticated version of the highway demon resides. 
Mischief is low on the priority scale. They are more social among the 
spread out population. Polite with each other sans the pack mentality 
that is common with the highway hood rat crowed.

The top shelf demons are found over seas under train viaducts that have 
many centuries of age over the farther western bridges. An eloquent yet 
far more lethal, aged, and experienced type of demon, having access to 
ancient secrets not available to the brutes on America’s highways.

This is why the childhood game of raising your feet while crossing a 
bridge came into being. So as to not be stolen by a wild pack of highway 
demons.

Dave Seaman