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[sythyry]

In Which I Save The Universe [27 Trandarh 4262]

Loukerax:"Yum, gingery!"

Vae:"And really? Not like ginger should my home smell, for none was the ginger I used in its making."

Loukerax:"Hey, it smells good!"

Vae:"The happiness is on me to hear that, but not like ginger...?"

Me:"I think it's galangal, not ginger."

Loukerax:"Galangal, ginger, what's the difference?"

Vae:"The galangal is more ... " She looked perplexed for a minute, then asked me in the Nice Language, "How do you say 'bdresia' in Ketherian?"

Me:"I have no idea. You'd have to ask a Cani."

Vae:"The yes! The Cani will I get, to show you off the spell I was going to show you off!"

She created a very complicated thing that would sweep across the countryside and make a huge spike on the outer husk of the World Tree universe near each Cani that it found. I didn't follow all the details, and I was using the Eye, but I think that Prof. Gostegg would not be too unhappy with me for figuring it out as well as I did.

Me:"Vae? I don't think that's a good idea."

Vae:[holding the spell]"And why not?"

Me:"It'll make lots of weak spots on the edge of the universe."

Vae:"And why lots?"

Me:"There are lots of Cani around here."

Vae:"Yeek! Yes, lots! The very bad idea!"

She turned the spell into a fresh rainbow. I will count this as me saving the world.

Loukerax:"Oh, nice rainbow. You do know how to decorate a galangal pod. Root. Whatever."

Me:"Vae? Why were you going to show me off that spell?"

Vae:"The other nendrai will I go a-questing for! Peers! Playmates! Boyfriends!"

Loukerax:"Aw, that's sweet."

Me:"Do you think that's a good idea?"

Vae:"And what wrongness could come of it?"

Me:"Well, you might irritate them, by poking them with odd spells."

Vae:"Not such a bad spell is it! The harmless look it has."

Me:"If the subject is looking carefully when it happens to show up. If not, you might annoy someone who doesn't look carefully."

Vae:"... oh ..."

Me:"And you might poke a few holes in the edge of the universe."

Vae:"The just a few of them! The other nendrai would be near them too. If any horrors come, the other nendrai can fight them!"

Me:"Do you think that's a good way to greet another nendrai? 'Here, have a cosmic horror to fight!'" I was only 18/19 sure that that is a bad way. Nendrai can be pretty freaky now and then.

Vae:"Not ... not always a good way."

Me:"And you might induce some other nendrai to come here."

Vae:"The yes! The very yes!"

Oops.

Me:"They'll stomp on your territory. They might take your things!"

Vae:"The not so very yes."

Loukerax:"I'll fight them off!"

Comments

Re: Loukerax the Strange

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

Okay then ... more than simple sexual attraction and love. Enziet doesn't seem very much at all like an ordinary Cani. Loukerax seemed like a pretty typical Gormoror at first, but the more I see of him, the less typical he seems. Delframber was considerably more socially ept than a normal Ktsoyis. Zi Ri are so rare that I'm not sure anything can be considered "typical" for them en masse, if ~mother's~ occasional appearances and histrionics can be taken into consideration, a case could be made for the digression there as well. There's a pattern here, I think, of variation outside the romantic.

In other words, a traff person would still be traff, and still unusual, even if they weren't acting on their erotic and romantic desires.

Re: Loukerax the Strange

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Now I feel exceedingly suspicious of many of my friends, and of myself.

Re: Loukerax the Strange

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

I should perhaps have mentioned that I *like* strange people, and indeed, am often bored by ordinary people.

On the other hand, some of your acquaintances do bear watching ... though that doesn't seem to correlate closely with their being traff. Just with their being in proximity to you.