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[sythyry]

Ginger and the Tail of a Snake [24 Consimbs 4261]

I moped in Seeks-Harps' stove for far too long, then dashed to a store and got five pounds of candied ginger, and usd my damnable The Swift Swift Shadow with the Strong Strong Tail to tow it behind me. (Yes. Damnable. It cost me my boyfriend already, and I've only had it four days.)

Vae:"Hiio, Sythyry!"

Vae teleported around me many dozen times very fast, so fast I couldn't really see her clearly. She wasn't showing off as much as she could have been, though, since it was a single twelve-fold spell rather than twelve individual ones and a time-manipulation spell so she could cast them very fast. She could do it that way. She's done it before. This time she wasn't trying to intimidate me. I think she was dancing.

Me:"Hello, Vae. You look happy."

Vae:"Oh, the yes! The there's a big happiness on me."

Me:"Why's that?"

Vae:"The I've figured out what it is that I do not like about myself!"

Me:"I beg your pardon, Vae?"

Vae:"It's my arms and legs that I hate!"

There are times in ambassadoring that only the wittiest, subtlest repartee will do. This was obviously one of those times, and so:

Me:"What?"

Vae:"It's my arms and legs that I hate!"

Me:[in the Nice Language, just in case she'd gotten the Ketherian wrong]"You hate your arms and legs?"

Vae:"The yes, the yes! See?"

She stopped teleporting around. Specifically, she transferred the teleport-around spell to a bluebottle fly. (I don't know what happened to the fly. Can a fly get space-sick? Probably not ... considering what they eat, I don't imagine that nausea is permitted to them.)

Vae had, indeed, removed her arms and legs, and streamlined her body considerably. She was a sixty-foot whip of a snake, with an extremely cute forkytongued face and a plain emerald-green-on-slightly-darker-emerald-green diamond pattern in her scales and not much else by way of features.

Me:"That's straightforward and elegant." As I said that, I knew despair, for I had not mentioned the need for such gentle replies in my Nendrai Ethology exam yesterday.

Vae:"The truly! Try it!"

I would rather not have tried it, actually. Unfortunately, I can't resist Vae's tail. But it was definitely time for The Conversation again.

Comments

[dracosphynx.livejournal.com]

Yay! Small Blue Cave Snake!

Just think of the excuse for homework this gives the SBCS: "Until this wears off, I will not be able to use a pen. Or much of anything else."

[galis.livejournal.com]

Just remember that Vae's probably the only person who can change you back without irreparable harm (I think). So make sure she changes you back BEFORE the conversation, or she might be distracted by crying sharp glass tears and end up mixing up your fore and hind limbs.

[kistaro]

That gives new meaning from the saying "can't tell his ass from his elbow", actually.

[bluedeer.livejournal.com]

I suspect Vae's a rather cheerful sort of critter once you really get to know her and forgive her more eccentric tendencies...much like a puppy, but deserving of affection all the same.

I like Vae. I dunno why. :)

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Much like a puppy the size of a whole city-state. Cheerful and eccentric and bouncy and insanely dangerous.

Her charms are distinctly lessened when she turns you into a snake, for one example.

[dracosphynx.livejournal.com]

How does that lessen the charm? :)

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

I think that Our Illustrated Guide means to say...

Her charms are distinctly lessened when she turns you into a snake without warning, without permission, and without a convenient way to return to your previous state.

[kistaro]

And to that end, could you perhaps spend a bit of cley in the here and now to save yourself a great deal of voice in the future by pre-recording The Conversation into some form of enchanted talisman that, upon command, would repeat The Conversation, saving you the trouble of repeating it approximately three times in one-third of a day?

[bluedeer.livejournal.com]

But...even puppies can be trained. :)

[striderhlc.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you could merely explain to Vae that primes tend to panic if somebody takes their limbs away without warning them first?

- HC

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Vae: "Oh! Nobody told me that before!"