THOOM

[sythyry]

*THOOM*

*THOOM*

*THOOM*

It's the agreed-upon date night for the other room. Havune is off we know not where, doing we know not what with or to we know not who. Yarwain took Thery to a student production of Fessisandra and Ulute, and then returned here. However, sometime Thery's bed, which is as old as my sister and in considerably worse shape, got slid next to the wall. They haven't realized it though. They are distracted.

*THOOM*

*THOOM*

*THOOM*

Dustweed is, predictably, rather annoyed. It is now well after the middle of the night, but one cannot expect Rassimel to understand such things. She and I are putting together a special Date Night treat of vodka, scullcap, and earplugs.

"Bad enough that we're all gummed up in chastity, without having it hammered into us," I said to zir.

Zie shrugged. That is a complicated and a peculiar gesture from a Herethroy! "You're better off than me."

"Can't you get your parents to arrange a marriage for you? I hear that noble Herethroy do that now and then."

*THOOM*

*THOOM*

*THOOM*

Zie must have been in a terrible temper, that late at night with all the thumping. "I asked. They only would do it the wrong way -- and it was that or the academy, not both."

"The wrong way? In an orifice which, by design, is normally only used for 'out'?"

Zie laughed a bit. "Basically. As a female."

"That does sound a bit unnatural. Besides, female Herethroy don't always get married, do they?"

"That was their point, exactly." Zie -- not she, but zie -- finished zir vodka, poured zirself another chaliceful, finished it off at a single draught the way that Herethroy can, and stood up. "I should be drunk enough to sleep now. G'night, little scaly thing."

"Um ... g'night, Dustweed."

*THOOM*

*THOOM*

*THOOM*

Some nights, late, I manage to have no favorite roommate. This is logically impossible, I know, and during the day I cannot do it. At night, awake, drunk -- each one is strictly more annoying and distressing than the other two put together.

I shall blame Havune for this. If he were here, he would pay attention to where the bed was.

I'll bet a taptet that he moved Thery's bed over for some reason, and she forgot to move it back...

*THOOM*

*THOOM*

*THOOM*

Comments

[aureth.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. I, thankfully, never experienced this during my student years.

[greenreaper.livejournal.com]

((Does Slythry know about both-females? Zie doesn't seem to have picked up on the reason every other Hetheroy seems to hate Dustweed, or why zie doesn't have any bed-mates . . .))

[greenreaper.livejournal.com]

((Sythyry, even ;-))

OOC: Yay!

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

((And the prize goes to greenreaper, who figured out faster than the Zi Ri!))

((Let me know if there's any chance we'll be in the same place -- I did get sent to Hursley a few times a couple years ago, and it could happen again -- and I will give you the Ceremonial Mug of I-Made-It-In-The-Pottery-Studio-Last-Summer +3.))

Re: OOC: Yay!

[greenreaper.livejournal.com]

((Alas, I'm fairly static here in Bath [not too far from Hursley, but still a way aways], although I do usually spend time in Canada [Toronto] during the summer. Perhaps you could email it? *g* ))

Poor Sythyry

[verse.livejournal.com]

There are times when I am rather happy to live alone, in my small cozy loft, with only the occasional sounds of the grocers family, which lives below me.

Maybe next time you should cast Quiet the lover's bed instead of getting drunk?

Or come visit me, my window is always open.

Re: Poor Sythyry

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

[Sythyry smiles]

Actually there were only five or six THOOMs, followed by some embarrassed giggling and the grunching of the bed being moved away from the wall. Dustweed and I tried to go back to sleep, but couldn't. About the third part of an hour later, we got up and had our vodka and all.

But -- where do you live? Who are you? (IC)

[koogrr.livejournal.com]

You sleep in the same place every night?

How predictable.

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

So, uh, aren't taptets like, civilized people? How many do you own?

Or do you mean that you know one who's also a bookie? }:)

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Well, they are sort of vaguely civilized, I suppose. I picked the expression up from Thery, who, so far as I know, doesn't have any taptet either.

[greenreaper.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but they're really tricky . . . you'd only make a bet with one if you're sure you would win it.

[esory.livejournal.com]

Well, Dustweed made the right choice with the Academy, I daresay.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I think so. Zie's probably less unhappy here than zie would be in a Herethroy village. And zie can even probably find more perverts for love and/or physical affection. Pity zie can't stand them.

[stickseed-doom.livejournal.com]

Based on what you write here, I believe Dustweed would have been a great deal happier with my parents. Zie can have them; I'm sure zie would be at least marginally less of an embarrassment than I am, so they might even find the arrangement agreeable.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Alas, it is somewhat late for that. Still, how did you embarrass them? I find that a great many of my friends are various sorts of embarrassment to their, or at least to their less sympathetic aunts, coaunts, and uncles.

[stickseed-doom.livejournal.com]

It's really a bit of this and that. They didn't approve of me wanting to be an adventurer, I may have sponted a few things that weren't very well received, having too many cley and not knowing better, and that was just on top of the embarrassment that comes from having the wrong sort of child who refuses to stop being quite so wrong to the best of her ability. When they sent me off to the city they were all too happy to see the back of me.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

A story I know fairly well.