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[sythyry]

A Young Person's Garden of Horses[15 Trandary 4261]

Strenata:"I'm very sorry, Sythyry, but I won't be able to go to the Yistreian Chorus tomorrow night after all."

Me:"Pity, that, but I suppose I should be glad that you told me today rather than tomorrow late. What is it? Riding with Nestrune?"

Strenata:[not smiling]"That's tonight. No, I have been summoned home by my parents for a formal dinner with their superior officers."

Me:"Superior officer?"

Strenata:"They're in the City Guard. The quiet side of it."

Me:"Oh. Strenata? May I ask a bit of a rude question?"

Strenata:[curling her tail around herself and bristling rather a lot]"I might not answer."

Me:"Fair enough, I suppose... why is it that you sometimes cancel evenings out with me, but never with Nestrune?"

Strenata:[relaxing -- relaxing? I do not understand Orren!]"La, that! It speaks well of you, Sythyry."

Me:"And how does it speak well of me, that you will break a date with me but not with Nestrune?"

Strenata:"Not so much Nestrune as Shadowfrog."

Me:"Shadowfrog...?"

Strenata:"My charger."

Me:"Strenata? Please explain?"

Strenata:"Oh, simply that I can tell you why I am cancelling an engagement, and reasonably trust you to understand, but I cannot to Shadowfrog. So be grateful! I consider you more intelligent and reasonable than a horse!"

Me:"And Nestrune...?"

Strenata:"Truth to tell, he is more intelligent than a horse. Still I do not cancel engagements with him either." (Which is to say, I presume that she considers him less reasonable than a horse.)

Me:"I suppose I shall take that well enough. Shall we perhaps find some other way to enjoy each others' company sometime in the next few days?"

Strenata:"Certainly! There's a recital of Peculiar Instruments over at the school of music, the early afternoon tomorrow."

Me:"Peculiar Instruments?"

Strenata:"They aren't explaining. But my sources hint that at least one of them involves a barrel of boiling water."

Me:"It must take rather a lot of skill to strum a barrel of boiling water. Very well then!"

Strenata:"But no food afterwards! I must be able to devour my part in front of the city guard."

[Poll #184659]

Comments

[stryck.livejournal.com]

Enamored of the horse, and entirely too practical with Nestrune.

[greenreaper.livejournal.com]

She is all of them, at one time or another. That's just how people are. :-)

[cowboy-r.livejournal.com]

It is the nature of women to be inscruitable, and efforts to scruit them are doomed to failure... yet it is the nature of men to try.

And the gods laugh.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Hermaphrodites, co-lovers, and both-females too ...

[melskunk.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of a phrase one of my friends said, though I suspect he got it from somewhere else, he's rarely very witty "I don't understand women, but they understand men well enough."

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Hmm... one wonders what the corresponding groupwide remarks are in gay and bi setting.

[sianmink.livejournal.com]

Strenata is being rather consistant, at least in a way possibly only scrutible to fellow mustelid-types.

As far as the explanation, it seems rather believable, actually. one must take care when dealing with royalty, right? (I wouldn't, but I'd likely get banished as a result. feh.)

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Well, Nestrune is royalty, but royalty of a neighboring city. Strenata is Vheshrame born and bred, so she's safe from many things he could try to do if she annoyed him.

... But I rather wish she would try.

[mmsword.livejournal.com]

I suppose this is why one needs to swear off Orrens forever weekly. Strenta just has different priorities at the moment. If I may offer a plot of interesting plottingness...

Your mother gave you plenty of money to buy bound spells with. As you mused earlier, that could enable you to perhaps pick up, in the interest of your Corpador class, a copy of "Cloak of Another God". Now.. using said spell WOULD enable a certain Zi Ri to do things like ride a charger. All in the pursuit of an education, mind you.

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

And with another corpador spell of similar complexity, Sythyry might be able to create a charger to ride, as well.

[alari.livejournal.com]

I think I picked half of those. O.o; I don't think she's being any of the mean ones, but I do think she's both a source of happiness and misery to you, though she probably doesn't want to be. Also she seems quite inexplicable so I pick that, now that I'm finished I see aparently everyone else did too. :> I would have picked Inconstant as well but I mis-read it as something else. O.o;

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

She's competant, and continent, and confident...

[bookwurm.livejournal.com]

"...my sources hint that at least one of them involves a barrel of boiling water."

Are you familiar with the works of the monster, P.D.Q. Bach? That sounds like it may be related to one of his compositions.