I Got This One In the Bag

Teenage Years of Jesus: The Great Camel Race, Continued...

I’ll cut to the chase here, which as you know I almost never do, my routinely random raconteur ramblings being what they are.

It worked; the charming Wakhmut beguiled the devil’s son—and it turned out that Luke’s plan was as devilish as one might expect a plan hatched by a devil to be.

The plan was to conceal a time bottle on the camel’s body.

Now, I’m sure you don’t know what a time bottle is, so I suppose an explanation is in order.

A time bottle is a wee little invention created by the demon Ink, whose well-known penchant for tinkering occasionally comes up with ideas that would been better off left, for lack of a better expression, in the bottle.   

Time bottles were originally designed to keep genies in. Derived from the original time device dated to the War of the Bonfish (and related to the famous AI Time Machine Wells herself!) , these nifty little bottles allow the user to take a genie and stick it in the bottle and keep it in a state of suspended animation for as long as you like. Genies are highly perishable, you see, and they may spoil on you at any time, at which point they go rogue. The magic of a rogue genie is a very bad thing; keeping them fresh is thus a priority.

How do you tell if a Genie is bad? You smell it. If you’re a dog like me, you can smell a bad genie a mile away. For humans, it’s a lot harder. Time bottles are pretty airtight so it takes a close inspection by we dogs… but we can tell, only just.