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[sythyry]

Casa Belweldie, part 1 [26 Thory 4261]

I got to the Belweldie's home on time, wearing my best ribbons, each in the right place. That part of the evening worked right, at least.

Ysgwyd's parents are a reasonably pleasant Orren couple, perhaps in their 60's or 70's. [40-50 Earth years.-bb] Hispis Belweldie is a chubby short Orren woman, who could be Floooosh's cousin, or at least a frequent visitor to her bakery. She is an executive in the printing company that prints the Water Tree nonsense. She doesn't look very good in lavender, not even with very glittering lavendar cut-glass ear-crests for extra fanciness.

Thaura Belweldie is a leaner and taller Orren woman, who actually is Flooosh's third cousin or something. I actually have met Thaura before; she is the Greatest Official of Disbursements at the Bank of Teleporting Hexagons, and, a month or so ago, when my usual Official wasn't there, she gave me a substantial sum of my ~mother~'s money. She looks quite good in lavendar.

Also they have a few servants, some of whom were obviously hired for the occasion.

Casa Belweldie is a fairly nice house in a fairly nice neighborhood, two floors, several scraps of yard with some flowering fruit trees, a very dignified statue of a prior Duke skewering a blee on his scimitar in the front yard, a view of one of the nicer public ponds, and so on. I've visited a couple of mansions though -- Tethezai's family and Esory's family, for two -- and Casa Belweldie is not a mansion.

The parlor of Casa Belweldie has copies of several portraits of Vheshrame nobility of previous decades, many of them Orren. None of these are exactly Belweldie ancestors, though Thaura is somewhat related to a few famous Orren who I have never heard of.

Herethroy servants in approximately-matched striped frocks brought us tiny tarts of fruit and eel (made by Floosh, I suspect), as appetizer. Thaura and Hispis carefully avoided a variety of unpleasant questions, such as:

1. What, precisely, is your relationship with our son-in-law?
2. What, precisely, will become of your your relationship with our son-in-law?
3. Where, precisely, is our son-in-law?

We discussed the duke's clothes (they are that polite) and pastries and theatre and banking and such for a while.

And then -- an hour and a half after the time on the invitation -- there was a knock at the door.

Thaura:"Oh, capital. Ilottat is sure to be here now."

She was wrong, though. It was the other guest. Whom I did not know was going to be a guest at all.

Hispis:"Sythyry, with great pleasure I introduce you to my daughter Ysgwyd."

Ysgwyd:"Oh, you're my husband's new chippie? Glad ta meecha."

I did my best to be as polite as possible. At least, I'm moderately sure I said something in response.

Comments

[yotogi.livejournal.com]

Chippie?

I'm not exactly sure how one is supposed to take that.

[redbird]

Someone has been very rude to you by springing that unexpectedly. I just don't know whether it's the Belweldies (if they invited her and didn't tell you or their messenger), your messenger (if he knew and didn't tell you), Ilottat (if he sent her in his stead), or Ysgwyd (if she somehow delayed or intercepted your beloved and came without his consent, or even his knowledge).

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Maybe we'll find out when zie finishes writing up the event?

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

From your previous reports of surprises of this nature... I'm not really so sure.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

'new' chippie implies there were old ones.

Bank of Teleporting Hexagons... Hmm. I wonder if actual hexagons were involved in the process of banking there. Did the hexagons teleport about or were they used to teleport things? I picture a Zork-style adventure game puzzle now involving the rescuing of important articles from such a bank.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Um ... many denominations of coin are hexagonal, and the bank does interbranch commerce, as if teleporting money from one branch to another. Nothing peculiar, I don't think.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Well, then all is explained!

...

[rowyn]

No wonder she likes Khtsoyis. She shares their manners.

Re: ...

[sianmink.livejournal.com]

oh my!

best make sure that Ysgwyd isn't hiding a truncheon behind her back.

Re: ...

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Or possibly the other way around -- I mean, Sythyry is often trying to be more Orreny.

Hmm.

[rowyn]

Sythyry does seem to be mastering the "wild rushing" thing, doesn't zie?

Re: Hmm.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

Re: Hmm.

[rowyn]

*hug*

At least you're not into Rassimel. If you devoted your life to an obsession with just one thing, think how long you'd be at it!

Re: Hmm.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

One of my mother's friends is a Rassimel who learned enough heavy magic to become immortal so that she could perfect the art of weaving. She's eight centuries old, and she is still on plain monochrome cloth. I have a pillow she gave me as a birthing-present ... it's like sleeping on an ocean of cream.

[xyzzysqrl]

What, if I may ask, is a 'blee'?
(I'm late on this one, I know.)

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I have added that to the glossary.