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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

[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.