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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!"

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[rowyn]

Your universe seems awfully fragile if any ol' nendrai can break it just by looking for a Cani! How has it managed to last this long?

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Well, not quite that.

The looking part isn't risky at all. Except it's Kennoc, not Mutoc, so Vae has to get Mutoc involved somehow. She was going to make big spikes in the outer surface of the universe to mark the Cani she found. She thought this was a good idea because nendrai (the spell was originally going to look for nendrai) can't see those big spikes without working at it, and they can see most of the other things she was thinking of doing.

It's the making of big spikes on the outer surface of the universe that's the bad idea. 'cause they're weak spots where outside stuff can get in.

And Vae's a lot better with Locador than any nendrai on record. She's this millenium's breed of nendrai, or one of them. Gnarn keeps innovating. Unfortunately.