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[sythyry]

Wait a Minute...! [24 Trandary 4262]

Anoof:"No, she won't marry you. She's engaged to us."

Loukerax:"Well, then you'll just have to disengage and retreat, then, won't you?"

Narngi:"Gladly. She's no end of trouble. She's a horrible woman. She doesn't talk. When there's something important to be discussed she doesn't even write about it until everything's been decided, and then she argues with the decision. She doesn't clean up after herself. She farts when you go down on her. She makes these horrible scent sculptures and bites you if you open a window. She's sulky and bitter and rude."

Enziet bristled and growled and bared her fangs at Narngi. I am pretty sure this is a rudeness for Cani. I would guess that it's somewhere between deliberately stomping on one's tail and deliberately stuffing a leech down one's bodice. But it might be between tying one's shoelaces together and disintegrating them entirely. Cani manners are endlessly subtle and endlessly incomprehensible to lizards.

Loukerax:"That's no way to speak of my fiancee!"

Narngi:"I'll speak of my fiancee in whatever way I please!"

Me:[quietly, from under the couch]"Please stop bickering."

Loukerax:"Not when she's my fiancee, you won't."

Narngi:"You barely know the girl. I've been living with her for weeks."

Loukerax:"Hah! Liar! I know for a fact one part of it is false!"

Narngi:"OK, she doesn't fart every time, but more than twice and more than thrice."

Enziet punched Narngi in the muzzle. Something in Narngi's face cracked audibly. I'm pretty sure this is a deliberate rudeness for Cani too, somewhere between setting one's tail ablaze and slicing off the top half of one's ear.

Anoof and Floosh dragged Enziet off of Narngi. Ghirbis -- who, like any good Rassimel, is particularly good at healing magic -- applied cloth and ice, but not healing magic, and didn't notice that Enziet had broken some bones or other crunchy bits.

Me:[quietly, from under the couch]"Please stop fighting."

Loukerax:[After he stopped cheering for Enziet.]"Unhand my fiancee, and we'll be off."

Anoof:"Actually, no, you won't be. You gave your Word of Honor to stay in Quelldrie House for three days."

Narngi:"And she's not your fiancee."

Loukerax:"But you just said you were breaking off the engagement!"

Narngi:"I said no such thing! I said I wished I could break the engagement."

Loukerax:"Allow me to provide you with a perfectly good excuse for breaking it. We shall duel for her hand. The first one to die cedes her claim to Enziet."

Narngi had a metal-edged knife that Anoof had given her as an engagement present, which she drew and pointed at Loukerax. Loukerax had just his claws and teeth, but claws and teeth longer than my foreleg, and he showed them all.

Me:[quietly, from under the couch]"Please don't duel."

Narngi and Loukerax ignored me some more, circling around each other. That is very rude by Zi Ri standards, somewhere between writing bad love poetry about me and posting it on a bulletin board at school, and socializing with me but pretending I'm the same size as everyone else.

So I caused a seven-winged burning thing to show up in the middle of the room. Which did get everyone's attention.

Comments

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Hah! That was a great and very diplomatic answer to your predicament! :)

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, seven wings is a very odd and lucky number, Where do you stick the seventh wing? Or is it more like some fancy radial fin?

... and do you name your burning thing? Do other people have nicknames for it?

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

The seventh wing is on the other side from the other six, of course.

I don't have a name for it. Other people around here say usually call it "Sythyry's seven-winged burning thing", but of course it's not mine really.

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

ACK! Why in the world did you do THAT?

You'll never get your deposit back if you burn down Queldrie house!

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

[Sythyry grins and points to zir spell list.] I did think of that, actually!

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Are you sure you can conjure up enough water for the job though?

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

Speak softly, but carry a seven-winged burning thing?

Sythyry, you ARE turning into a diplomat!

[terrana.livejournal.com]

Please forgive the asking of a short question with a potentially long answer, but I have been wondering: what does the seven-winged burning thing actually look like?

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

It's a coily tangle of purple and green flames, about, oh, twice as long as me and correspondingly stout. It has six smallish fan-shaped limbs on one side, and one very large fan-shaped limb on the other, whence "seven-winged". I'm fairly sure that it has a head on each end, though it's pretty hard to tell with seven-winged burning things.

It is artificial: an elemental, not a monster. So it's not doorwaying to create one in a city.

It's not technically a Holocaust War weapon, but I really don't want to have to explain that to anyone.

[terrana.livejournal.com]

Could be awkward indeed.

For some reason, I always imagined it to be bigger. Can't think why now. Oh, well. Thanks for answering.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

It's always moving around frenetically, and it set a lot of a city on fire for me once.

So it looks and acts a lot bigger than it is.

Some of my relatives are like that too.

[terrana.livejournal.com]

Given your relatives' generally sorcerous reputation, I'm not surprised. And I bet they do it without resorting to Mutoc Corpador either.

[rowyn]

Narngi and Anoof really ought to count their blessings and let Enziet and Loukerax have each other. I forget, who's the Cani with choof on this subject in their marriage?

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Narngi and Anoof have been trying to get rid of Enziet since she got engaged to them. Havune has affan in the matter, though.

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Havune's used duels to settle matters of love before, hasn't he?

[justicezero.livejournal.com]

Errrgh... i'm sure he'd rather people not remind people of his duel with Spirshash, if i'm not confusing names again.

[waywind.livejournal.com]

Villagers used to set a pack of dogs to fighting with a captive bear for entertainment. (Entertainment of the villagers, not of the bear or dogs, none of whom enjoyed it much.) They called it bear-baiting. Apparently something similar happens on the World Tree, although not prearranged.