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[sythyry]

First Date, or not [25 Consimbs 4162]

I did my best to track Zanniajaia down the Dissection of Spells examination. I used cunning. I used a pack of mighty-nosed Cani. I used location spells. I used spies. I used (or abused) my connections in the City Guard. I used Prince Nestrune Kreslink, but he didn't help much. And whaddya know, I caught her.

Well, it wasn't that hard, though she did leave the examination a ninth of an hour before I did, and I did ask Narngi which way she had gone.

And we chatted about the examination for some short while. Mostly we agreed. There was one theoretical question about offworld magic (as seen from Vheshrame) -- I thought that it would be cryptic, and Zanniajaia thought it would be just as detectable as ordinary magic. We looked things up in some books. She's probably right, except in the case of offworld magic from demigods and such, which could get very confusing. I hope this question never ever becomes practical.

And then I asked her to join me for dinner at Ghu Navage Ghu.

And she said yes.

The yes!

Well, she actually said, "Sure, why not?"

Is that less enthusiastic? Or just an ordinary thing to say? [The translation is accurate; it could be either. -bb]

Is she traff?

How hard would it be to make a device that told whether people were traff without use of Mentador? (Um ... the very hard... I suppose you'd need to snoop back in time and read and interpret the whole life story. And that would only work if there was much evidence for it too. Very hard, and probably illegal.)

Aren't traff-folk supposed to get to recognize each other?

If there's a secret traff tail-wave, I wish someone would let me in on the secret...

Comments

Recognition signals

[allessindra.livejournal.com]

The problem is that they go in and out of style -- remember the professor and the jacket?

I'm minded of an old lover who had a single earring. Invariably, someone would ask him if he preferred same-gender lovers (something that is as unwelcome here as being traff is, there). When he said no, they'd comment that that was what the earring meant, didn't he know that? And then he'd go on about how it was a sailor thing, originally, but the meaning changed from port to port, so that in one town it was the right side that meant same-gender, and the next town down the coast it was the left, and etc. They'd eventually break into his long monologue and ask him why he had an earring in *that* ear, then? And his answer would be, "because it matches the fall of my hair, see, ti doesn't part in teh center, it parts to this one side, and..." and he continue to blither at them about the way his face was visually constructed and how the earring fell into that composition till they walked away in annoyance at him and his vanity.

He usually only had to do this once per workplace...

Re: Recognition signals

[waywind.livejournal.com]

Perhaps Sythyry could conspire to create a secret traff recognition signal, quietly and sneakily spreading it through the gossip at certain bars.

Maybe the traff signal would be three differently-colored circles arranged in a vertical line... hmm, no, that's a different kind of traff signal.

Re: Recognition signals

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

[Bard smirks!]

Re: Recognition signals

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Ah, the mighty power of vanity!