Spaceships in the snow [Open]
The Christmas lights in the Botanical Gardens and the park were impressive, but Vandal Savage wasn't much of one for sentimentality. He was drawn to blinking lights of a different kind.
His heavy feet crunched through the fresh snow as he approached the improbable array of spaceships in the park. There was the elegant and mysterious simplicity of a classic flying saucer, the lovable dilapidation of a well-used cargo transport, and the weird majesty of a massive vessel whose purpose he could not even venture to guess.
"What I wouldn't give to take a look inside these machines," he marveled aloud.