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[sythyry]

[24 Trandary 4262]

I persuaded the seven-winged burning thing to go away. I was not afraid that it would burn Quelldrie House down. I was afraid that someone would figure out that it was an illusion.

Me:"Well. Loukerax, this would be an excellent time for you to go inspect the room in which you will be sleeping."

Loukerax:"Well, if I ain't fighting for love and honor for a couple days, I guess so. Where's that?"

Me:"I ... don't know."

Loukerax:"Seems to me it'd be an excellent time for you to figure that out, lizard girl."

Ghirbis:"What rooms do we have free? Enziet is in the guest room; 'tis already as crowded as crowded can be in Quelldrie House."

Me:"You'd volunteered your room."

Ghirbis:"I had volunteered to find out if he's traff. I am pleased to report my results: he is. I am pleased to end that project in a hurry."

Loukerax:"What's traff mean?"

Me:"Never you mind."

Loukerax:"I ain't taking no more insults."

Me:"I'm traff, you're traff, Ghirbis is traff. It's not an insult."

(Well, of course it is an insult. You can get pretty nicely beaten up if you call the wrong person "traff", even if it's true. You can also get pretty nicely beaten up for being traff, if you're not high enough rank. I was pretty sure I was going to get beaten up in three days, when Loukerax was released from his Word of Honor... (which reminds me, I need to bind The Quick Escape before three days. Having all my tricks in line to get away from the angry Gormoror seems really smart.))

Loukerax:"Right. Damn mysterious lizards."

Me:"Now, bedroom."

Ghirbis:"I volunteer your bedroom."

Me:"I am not sleeping with a Gormoror!"

Loukerax:"You'd rip, lizard girl!"

Me:"I don't mean it that way!"

Ghirbis:"I'm serious. He's not going to sleep in the kitchen or the parlor. I don't want to trip over him!"

Floosh:"Don't you have reservations at ... what's that bed-and-breakfast, again?"

Me:"Huh?"

Floosh:"For the next three days. Two rooms, in case you wanted to bring a visitor or two." She glanced pointedly at Anoof and Narngi.

Me:"Oh! Right! Where did my reservation stuff go? I'll have to track it down ... it got misplaced when I flew out to deal with the nendrai."

Anoof:"Misplaced temporally, I'm sure."

Me:"Exactly. You never know what distortions of space and time might show up in a Zi Ri's bedroom."

Loukerax:"And you want me to sleep there?"

Me:"Um ... don't worry, I'll take them with me." I am such a featherhead at times!

Me:"Narngi, I seem to have these two rooms in a bed-and-breakfast, but there's only one of me. Would you do me the honor of accepting the other one?"

Narngi:"I would be delighted. May I bring friends?"

Me:"But of course, my dear Narngi. But of course."

She put her knife away, and collected Anoof. "Come on! We need to pack."

Anoof:"Are we bringing Enziet?"

Narngi:"No. Our host did not give us permission to bring her; zie specified 'friends'."

Enziet looked ready to bite everybody.

I sent Jarmiet (who I am allowed to send) and Ghirbis (who I am not allowed to send, but it was an emergency) to find a bed-and-breakfast with two suitable rooms for three days. They didn't, but we're staying one night in one place and two in another.

This is going to be expensive.

And it'll be annoying. A romantic getaway for two would be very nice just about now. A romantic getaway for one ... is better than not getting away, I think.

Comments

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Ah, so *that's* why it wasn't technically a holocaust weapon this time.

Why are you fleeing, though? I mean, you sleep in your closet anyway, right?

I guess leaving Enziet, Loukerax, and Ghirbis alone in the house is most likely to result in a non-murderous gormorror when the three days are up.

Oh, wait, and Dustweed. Poor Dustweed!

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

And that's why I wasn't technically worried about burning the house down, either.

Less likely than with me and Anoof and Narngi, anyways. And it was up to Narngi whether she'd invite Enziet or not. She pretty thoroughly Cani'd me that she wouldn't.

[xolo.livejournal.com]

I was pretty sure I was going to get beaten up in three days, when Loukerax was released from his Word of Honor...

If he beats you up, it will be for some offense that you gave him before the end of the three days, yes? Given that he's obligated to follow your wishes during that time, perhaps you should pop back into Quelldrie House just before the end of the three days to ask him to forgive you?

[terrana.livejournal.com]

No one has said it for a while, so I believe I must.

"The Doom!"

[solanth.livejournal.com]

How does one "Cani" someone? Is it just the whole social thing that Cani are always doing and none of us other folk get?

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

I think that would just make him mad. It might help Sythyry's zi-ri cred, though.

[mufi.livejournal.com]

A romantic getaway for one, under these circumstances, involves a getaway from the incipient romance - to whit, that of Enziet and Loukerax..

[rowyn]

I had a dream about you and Esory last night.

[transdraconis.livejournal.com]

I have to wonder what plan B would have been, if the illusory Burning Thing, Seven-Winged didn't do the trick. Or if there was time for Plan-B'ing, for that matter!

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

There was barely a Plan Sh. I suppose I could have used the real seven-winged burning thing.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear... what?

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

You could always have let them kill each other. I mean, he promised not to kill her very much, and she'd probably take a few weeks of misery over a few dozen years of Enziet.

Assuming she's enough of an adventurer to have some bounce spell bound... otherwise she was just being stupid.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

She doesn't have that sort of spell. (I do, alas.) She's just plain being Cani.