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[sythyry]

Chaperone to Monsters [27 Trandary 4262]

I persuaded Vae that inviting her peer nendrai to Vheshrame Mene or anywhere close would be a bad idea. This is certainly true from my point of view. At best, more nendrai showing up here would mean that I'd have more dangerous ambassadorships. At worst, I'd be executed for conspiring with dangerous monsters.

Vae:"The wonderful plan! The other place is where we go to seek other nendrai!"

Me:"Um ... that's ... not a wonderful plan. Especially if there's a 'we' involved."

Vae:"Not, not, you must come, Sythyry!"

Me:"I'd rather not."

Vae:"The chaperone is very important!"

Me:"Don't you want to wait until you're sexually mature?"

Vae:"Not, not! And how would it look if I did that? The quest for a boyfriend it would look like! The over-eager virgin girl, like the butt of fun in the cautionary stories you gave me last week!"

Me:"Instead, what will it look like?"

Vae:"Cute! The cute young girl with the mighty mighty tail, is what I will look like!"

Me:"Leave the Gormoror here, at least."

Loukerax:"And miss a great adventure?"

Me:"And miss a great tea party. What we don't want here is a great adventure."

Loukerax:"Evil lizard, to thus deprive me of a chance to be a greatness of a hero!"

Me:"And Enziet would bite me if I let you die. Or get changed into a mushroom."

Loukerax:"I will come! I insist on it!"

Vae:"Not this time, O Gormoror! The easier chaperone will be Sythyry."

And that's how I wound up in a very nice and somewhat abducted gazebo, floating fifty-seven thousand miles not-quite-above Vheshrame, doing my best to be civil to more nendrai than I really enjoy dealing with. Fortunately, the chaperone is not supposed to be the centerpiece of the encounter.

Comments

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Was this a gazebo of Vae's devising, or a pre-existing Nendrai hangout up where no one else would think to look?

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Vae stole it.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Good luck on your not-adventure, Sythyry!

[denaist.livejournal.com]

Not-adventure, pah! Is should be time to get Vae with boyfriend!

Loukerax is protect you--convince him. Flatter him.
You cannot stop him, hrau, so is being useful instead.

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Leaving him trapped in a galangal root won't work?

[denaist.livejournal.com]

(He scratches behind an ear, trying to look thoughtful.)
I suppose... but if he wants out, is going to eat his way out, heroically.

But is not one paw, nor other paw, nor other other paw. Vae and Sythyry is gone already.

[mattlazycat.livejournal.com]

…doing my best to be civil to more nendrai than I really enjoy dealing with.

Surely one nendrai is more than you really enjoy dealing with, oh Zi Ri. ^.^

[goodluckfox.livejournal.com]

Wait, 57k miles *above* Ketheria? Thats... I think that's over Ketheria, which is on the top level of branches. Isn't that higher than the top of the World Tree? Sounds more like halfway to one of your weird little moons. (it's about ten times farther to our large moon, and a voyage of 3 days that's so expensive it damn near bankrupts an empire.)

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

That's what we get for killing all the Nendrai. No one to teleport us around!

[rowyn]

Remember, never, ever, kill off all your demigods! They come in handy. Well, unless they destroy your universe trying to find a boyfriend or a Cani or something. But such are the risks one must take.