7x7x7x7 Challenge ACCEPTED.

In honor of my colleagues braving the #Pitchwars waters, @mtelschwilliams  challenged me to take the 7x7x7x7 Challenge in which I post a set of 7 lines starting with the 7th line on the 7th page of my current WIP, ALPHAGOREY'S. Then, I challenge 7 more writers to do the same. 

And now, here are 7 lines starting with the 7th line of the 7th page of ALPHAGOREY'S:

       As Ashley dematerialized, the fireworks window display wavered, hissed, and sizzled into an aura of orange glow.
PUFF! A writhing cloud of yellow corkscrew smoke curled, stretched, then dissipated as a tiny paper-wrapped popper of no extraordinary size materialized.
     With a hiss and a whirr, firey words burned themselves into the window boasting:
      NEW-AND-IMPROVED CORK-ASH-POPPER - LIMITED TIME ONLY!
Alphagorey's shook out its shingles, rattled its shutters, flapped its neat little awning, and settled its hissing self down. 

As promised, I nominate: @bizzycoy @tongawingo @osutein @annsulliva @julieartz @rebekah_kritsch @thethirdmother