Sunday snippet 3/15: Distraction Display ("Silver" series)

I've now posted 133k words in this series, four complete stories, and I'm still working on it. My friend is grumpy about my wordcount, ha. So far I have
- "Sound of Silver", main installment, September 2014, 96.2k
- "Shovel", prequel, October 2002, 3.4k
- "Adjusting Masks", sequel to the first story, September 2014, 13k
- "Family, Home", prequel, Christmas 2004, 20.6k

I'm currently about halfway through another prequel, "Distraction Display", set in May of 2005. I'm nearing 7k, so if I'm about halfway, that means it'll probably be ... 30k by the time I finish, honestly, knowing me. A snippet is below. Once this story is in place, I think I'll finally be able to tweak the actually-29k surreal sequel piece and post it.

Still having fun, which is what this is really about, so I'm happy.

( Snippet )