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[sythyry]

Planning...[15 Trandary 4262]

You need to read the previous entry first.

The next day, after class, I headed out to my part-time job and full-time doom. I received a small pot of slightly Herbador-flavored honey (worth eighty lozens, retail, to an enchanter or tree-mage), and gave her in exchange three paper cones full of toasted spiced seeds (worth, in total, almost half a lozen) and a used copy of a book of Aradrueian children's poems titled Now We Are Nine (worth a lozen new, and probably half that used). If one measured the result as if it were an encounter between lovers, Vae got far and away the better deal.

Afterwards, we talked, and I suggested my latest insidious plan.

Vae:"There'd be such a happiness on me for the helping of you! The tail is at your service, like."

Me:"Oh, thank you, Vae."

Vae:"Only, you mayn't have The Conversation with me this time, for it's you who were asking for my help."

Me:"Of course not!"

Vae:"The it's my payment, like."

Me:"Cheap at twice the price!"

Vae:"The excellent! You mayn't have The Conversation with me next time, either."

Me:"Well, OK."

Vae:"The Conversation doesn't do any good, does it?"

Me:"Well, no."

Vae:"Done, then! And where shall I go? And what shall I do?"

So I told her.

Vae:"Not a bit of harm do I see in that!"

Me:"No more do I."

Vae:"It's forward I'm looking to it!"

And she skipped off to home. I didn't know a lizard could skip. I certainly can't.

Comments

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

Oh, oh dear.
I go away for a bit to revel in the cani-ness of having ArakinUk AND Paka in the same place at the same time and I come back to this. Besides the omnipresent doom, did I miss exposition or are all us monsters as blind and guessing as me?

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

[You may have missed the entry I posted last night]

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

I saw it, and I'm still clueless. That must be what makes it insidious, though!

[vernononfm.livejournal.com]

I, too, read that entry, and saw nothing of any plan involved. Then again, it seems zir plans seem to be created instantaneously, without revision or improvement, and usually (if unintentionally) ending in doom. I suspect this is another of such plans.

[esory.livejournal.com]

I'm not a monster, and I saw the previous entry, and ... well ....

Oh dear.

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

... Yeah... Syth, you might have left out the part where you send the monster off to a far away land to drive cani roommate back home to deal with monster, where the roommate gets turned into a 5 part musical.

[waywind.livejournal.com]

Now We Are Nine wouldn't happen to involve a child's adventures with a Gormoror-like golem, would it?

[kris-schnee.livejournal.com]

I didn't know a lizard could skip. I certainly can't.

Just ask, and Vae will fix that!

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

It's not broken.

[zhaleskra.livejournal.com]

Why should we Zi Ri skip when we can fly? Sythyry could learn to skip if zie wanted to and first zie'd need to get better at walking on zir hind legs.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Walking on the hind legs seems to fit your conformation better than mine, Zhaleskra.

[zhaleskra.livejournal.com]

True and I suppose it's possible to skip in quadrupedal mode too. I wonder how that would go: step forward with a rear foot, then the opposite front foot, jump, flap wings?