The Book of Ashes

The dart launched off Plimmer Towers 9:13AM

So yesterday was an eventful day. I got the call, an email as it were, and left my site to come back to work a little early. The day was bright, the wind calm (rare conditions for Wellington), in fact all things pointed towards one occurance. A dart throwing. Jon was full of confidence, his furtherest dart getting as far as you could throw a stone. From my youth I knew I could do better, I had a winner design. So after wussing out on $10 bets I got Mike, Jon, Simon and me to put in $1 each. We accended to the roof top. 31 stories up on a glorious day. Simon disappeared before we even started. Jon called alphabetical order for starting thinking it would some how give him an advantage. I confidently stepped up to the edge and looked down. It was quite far. I unfolded my dart and threw it off the edge. It fell, down, down then flipped and flew along upside down, about 4 stories lower than the top. The dart design is a glider, it doesn't need speed only calm. It has two major weaknesses, first that it dies in any medium to strong wind and second that if not correctly balanced it will turn. Mine was finely crafted but still slowly began to turn back to the building. If it hit the building it would fall. The competition here was for distance. It came round then out past the edge of the building and a current hit it, turning it gently away from the building. My first throw was the winner. It drifted off, slowly turning towards the sea then disappeared out behind the BNZ building. I smiled. No way they were going to beat that. Next Jon threw his dart. It sank like a stone and came back and hit the building. Mike was next. His fell to the same fate. I was back with my second throw. Confidently I stepped up and threw. It fell again like the last one. This time it didn't rise up. A dud. It had a few flutters then kind of regained life, 3/4 to the ground. It picked up and drifted off to smash into the side of a building not far away. Not a good throw but in the end the second best so far. The next two were also duds so I am the legend. None of them believed I could get a dart to the sea but now they know its quite possible