Three Sythyrys in one day!

[sythyry]

Bear[d]ing the Monster [3 Hispis 4262]

Vae:"Hiio!"

Me:"Hallo, Vae. How are you?"

Vae:"The bit of a fret I have on me, Sythyry."

Me:"I'm sorry to hear that. Is it about your bowl and chopsticks?"

Vae:"The yes, the very yes."

Me:"Tell me what happened?"

Vae:"The second day of the week is when I eat an egg from that bowl. The white wine for poaching it, too."

Which is entirely understandable. I gave Vae a book titled Rather Regular Rhoonef, about a Cani girl who wanted to do exactly the same things every day of the week. Rhoonef either Comes to a Bad End or is Disabused of her Ridiculous Fancies, depending on which kind of a children's book it is. I haven't read it in twenty years, and I don't remember so well. Anyone who grew up around here can recite the nine different breakfasts by heart, though: (1) toast and caterpillar jam; (2) egg poached in babywine; (3) porridge sprinkled with dried fish; and so on for two more rhyming triplets.

Me:"Do you do the whole Rhoonef cycle of breakfasts?"

Vae:"Not all; there's no caterpillar jam with me."

Me:"Want some?"

Vae:"And is it good?"

Me:"I don't like it."

Vae:"Not, then. The different jam you must bring me." In case you were wondering about the physical basis for our relationship.

Me:"I'll add that to my list."

Vae:"The peering-about I made, and ... " She started crying, with jagged bits of glass wrecking her eyes from the inside. If I cried like that, I would try not to cry so often. I do not really like the nendrai attitude towards mortal injuries.

Me:Comfort, comfort, what the snurgling feck rackle are you crying about anyways?

Vae:"And will Oixe respect me if a Gormoror brute steals my bowls? And will anyone?"

I comforted her about the head with a big spiky mace. (I have obviously been spending too much time with Gormoror and nendrai -- I shouldn't even think of a metaphor like that.) More specifically, I pointed out that:

The Situation	Vae's Response (summarized)
They probably wouldn't even know it.	They'll find out somehow.
They care about her for herself, not stupid little incidents.	Are you under the misapprehension that we're some nicey-nicey poodlemorph Cani or something?
Well, they'd care about her for her power levels and combat prowess.	Oixe handed me my ass when we fought.
OK, they'll care about how effective you are when you're full-grown and not all begoggled by meeting another nendrai the same age.	You really don't understand nendrai at all, Sythyry!
No, I really don't have a clue about nendrai. Except that I know a whole lot about what primes know about you, like I took a class in it.	Ťãỉł℉ℒįĉķ
No, I don't want those giant waves of effulgent radience flowing out of my crest...	This is interesting information which I will cherish later.
... please? ...	Bring me caterpillar jam.

I hate my job.

(But at least she's not rampaging.)

Comments

[esory.livejournal.com]

Erk.

I'll get a jar of caterpillar jam for you.

They really, really should've arrested Loukerax for taking those. Or at least let you give them back. Ticking off the local nendrai over a bowl and chopsticks -- okay, even if it WAS a gold bowl and chopsticks -- not worth it. O_O

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Outside the city, Esory. Outside the city-state really. Vheshrame law barely makes sense.

Also, as Kaim-Su said so emphatically, we cannot make it illegal to go adventuring against monsters. Not until they don't go adventuring against us.

[esory.livejournal.com]

I know, I know, I know. But it's one thing to say "it's all right if you destroy the wasp nest next to the door" and another to say "it's all right for you to poke the wasp nest with a stick, rile up every wasp in it, and then run away while the people in the house have to deal with the swarm.

:(

And it's not at all fair to YOU! After you SAVED him! *fume*

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

And found him a wife. And put him up for three days, while he chased me and most of my roommates out of Quelldrie House.

But I got a loft (!) out of it.

And, of course, I am now the glowiest-headed Zi Ri in all of Vheshrame.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Oh, and thanks very much for the jam. I would probably put a live scorpion into it.

[zeeth_kyrah]

But that's you. I'd eat the scorpion fried and sell its sting.

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

If you did that, Vae'd think you were flirting with her.

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

...*laughs* wow! thats funny! and actually quite insightful!

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

and quite horrid

[cowboy-r.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it's that I'm a monster myself, but I find the differentiation you people make between primes and monsters to be artificial and even silly. Vae is an adolescent raising herself, and you're surprised that she behaves in antisocial fashion?

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Well, zir entire culture and the divinities that created him intentionally made a big gap between primes and nonprimes. So its like divinely-institutionalized and sanctioned speciesism.

Doesn't make it right, true, but its the society zie lives in!

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

[OOC - World Tree is not my ideal world. It has evilnesses in it which mirror those in this world in a more or less distorted fashion. And, in this case, which are physically true and still wicked. WT monsters are unambiguously psychically and physically distinct from primes, and most of my readers can tell that the way primes treat them is wrong. For human varieties, the psychic and physical distinctions are nothing compared to those of primes and monsters.

[And Sythyry is a product of zir culture. Zie's learning, but it's taking a long time.]

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I wonder what Vae giving Sythyry a glowing head means?

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

Yea, did the spell do anything more than make Sythyry's head glowy?