Plant Fiction

Lord Samuel Keaton refuses to take part in any Christmas festivities, the memories of a tragic and terrible event a few years earlier haunting the festive season. Miss Clara Covington has loved Lord Samuel Keaton ever since she first set eyes on him. A long-time friend of his sister, Elizabeth, Clara yearns for something more than friendship with Samuel.

Lord Philip Keating is hosting a house party, which includes his particular favorite, Miss Ada Rivers. He finds her attractive and witty, and is hopeful that she will accept his request to court her once they return to town. Miss Ada Rivers has loved Lord Keating for a long time and is hopeful that he too, is beginning to care for her. She accepts his attentions happily, whilst her mother vastly approves of the connection.

Holding onto tin helmets, obscured vision through suffocating gas masks, tumultuous clouds of debris tumbling through a convoluted, mid-night sky from above, the girls scampered from installation to installation, from shelter to shelter in an attempt to, time the speed and distance of descending shells with a futile delusion of child like imagination.