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[sythyry]

Rhedwy's Nose [21 Thory 4261]

Rhedwy:"Sythyry, you now smell much luckier than you smell last week."

When she says that, we are sitting at the Enchantment workbench, having discovered that both of our weeks' work has failed. This is not unusual -- it happens about half the time, for novices. My grandparent a while ago promises to teach me how to do it better, when I am good enough to learn.

From the too much conversation with Rhedwy I decide to write like a Sleeth today. If I can manage it. I'm sure I'll slip up and use past or future tense somewhere or other. Probably I should just write down the conversations. Um, I mean, probably I am just write down the conversations.

No, I can't talk like a Sleeth.

Me:[peering mournfully at failed enchantment step]"I have not noticed this, yet."

Rhedwy:"You smell like sex with a male Orren."

Me:"I do?"

Rhedwy:"Yes. A male Orren who likes cloves. Certainly he has sex and certainly he gets those scents on you. I think you also have sex with him. But I do not before now smell last night's Zi Ri sex, so I do not know for sure. You have some behavior that brings new smells."

Me:"Oh, dear."

Rhedwy:"You are unaware that you have sex with the male Orren? You are not very perceptive, even for the Zi Ri, but I think you should know better!"

Me:"Oh, dear, I have just told every Cani between Quelldrie House and here about what I was up to last night. And my lover is trying to keep it a secret."

Rhedwy:"He should be more trying then! There are only so many male Orren who like cloves."

Me:"Oh."

Rhedwy:"Still, I cannot instantly guess who it is!"

Me:"I am glad to hear that. He is even more glad to hear that."

Rhedwy:"He is listening now?"

Me:"No. I suppose I shouldn't even say that much, but not."

Rhedwy:"There are not so many Orren men in this room! And he does not smell now of cloves."

Me:"Well, it's certainly not Irigatur."

Irigatur looked looks then up when I said his name.

Me:"Sorry, Irigatur, nothing, nothing."

Rhedwy:"I must do research to find out your lover, Sythyry!"

Me:"I rather wish you wouldn't."

Rhedwy:"I shall try out every male Orren until I find out the one who smells right!"

Me:"I very much wish you wouldn't. Besides, he's not transaffectionate."

Irigatur:"I'm certainly not transaffectionate. And I don't have time for any new lovers anyways. I got another husband three weeks ago, and the first two are still jealous of him."

Me:"I know, Irigatur. You brought the leftovers to class and we had a spare party for you, remember? We're really not talking about you."

Irigatur:"Oh, no problem! I haven't been getting much sleep lately. Somehow!"

Rhedwy:"He is not transaffectionate?"

Me:"No -- he mentioned that a few times. He's not."

Rhedwy:"You are then an Orren? He is then a Zi Ri?"

Me:"I am then the exception."

Rhedwy:"Rrarhu, I am sure I am then the other exception if I ask!"

Me:"Don't be silly, Rhedwy. Or rude."

Rhedwy:"I think this is a splendid occasion for the grooming of my tailtip, and, if the Alzagond does not come soon, almost it is as good for the grooming of my flanks."

And she started licking herself here and there, and ignoring me, until Prof. Alzagond came by and made some useful but hideously annoying suggestions about doing enchantment.

Comments

[dracosphynx.livejournal.com]

Obviously it is time for some useful Destroc Airador spells to do something about the scents!

[kistaro]

Shouldn't that be "And she starts then to lick herself, [...] until Professor Alzagond comes then by and makes then some useful but annoying suggestions about to then do enchantment"?

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't Anoof have warned you about this?

[redbird]

It may be time for Ilottat to choose a new scent--unless that would give away even more to his housemates.

Hmmm. sythyry, if you want to help keep this a secret, maybe you should make a point of being seen in public drinking wine or cider mulled with cloves. Or buying cloves at the spice shop.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

If I had not been up so late last night, I would have bathed. I didn't have time though.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

He did, actually. I was up too late last night, and forgot to bathe.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I cannot speak Sleeth properly!

[dracosphynx.livejournal.com]

Not enough time? Creoc Tempador!

[bluedeer.livejournal.com]

Or perhaps pass it off as a new cologne of some sort, some exotic fragrance 'Sex with an Orren'. It's all the rage in some obscure far off land nobody has heard of. Perhaps with a dash of cloves.

However, a Cani's nose seems to be unfoolable! Perhaps a distraction of some sort might throw her off the scent, as it were. Perhaps a dabble mingle amongst some fruit of some sort, preferably a citrus? That might confuse Rhedwy's olfactory senses to make her think you'd been having relations with a melon instead of an orren.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Rhedwy is such a charming cat! *purrpurrr*

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Ewwww! Stinky zi-ri!

[esory.livejournal.com]

Sythyry ...

It's not just that Ilottat is treating you badly -- though he is. You are not treating him very well, either. He's said that he wants to keep this a secret, yet here you are writing about it in your journal and you know that I've read it on occassion, as well as Floosh, not to mention a veritable ocean of monsters and-who-knows-who else. You've told six? eight? people directly. Even when Anoof warned you of the smell issue, you forgot.

You don't want to keep it a secret, and Ilottat desperately does. Please ... do try to talk to him. Find out why it's so important that he would be goofy enough as to pretend not to recognize you in public. Perhaps if you understood better what the consequences of this tryst are for him personally, it would be easier for you to accept his wishes.

Or to break it off.

I know, it's none of my business. And I ought to sit by and watch the two of you tear each other apart and politely say nothing while I pretend not to notice but ...

Sorry.

:(

[striderhlc.livejournal.com]

OOC, I have to say: Rhedwy has rapidly become one of my favorite characters in this story, along with Sythyry zirself.

- HC

[devon-alek.livejournal.com]

I may be a monster, but perhaps I can give you a little help with talking like a Sleeth. As I understand it, it's not that they don't use past tense words, but they avoid them as much as possible.

So, perhaps, "At that moment, Irigatur looks up" would work better?

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

OOC, I am delighted. In part 'cause she's the only one who I recycled for A Marriage of Insects