(In which Bard struggles back towards consciousness)

[sythyry]

Casa Belweldie, part 5 [26 Thory 4261]

Ysgwyd:"Hey, Ilottat, you and your chippie wanna go out for a drink with Delframber 'n me before we head off for the night?"

Ilottat:"I'm sure we would be opgetogen, delighted."

Delframber:"The delight ... is entirely mine ... or at least ... a sufficient quantity of it ... is mine ... to entirely fill me."

Ysgwyd:[twining three tentacles around herself]"C'mon, traff shoggie, you don't need to talk all fancy. I don't think my mothers are coming out."

Ilottat:"If, indeed, they remain cosciente, conscious, instead of having fainted themselves or each other."

Delframber:"I enjoy ... and even relish ... the opportunity to ... speak as other primes. It is ... less than wholly polite ... in my ancestral home."

Ysgwyd:"What's this 'ancestral home' stuff, Frambie?"

Delframber:"A very generous ... description of ... the apartment ... we have lived in ... these last eight years."

Ysgwyd and Ilottat laughed. I did too, after a minute.

Ilottat:"You had mentioned a boisson, a drink? I fear that I could indeed wish to use one. It has been a frightful few minutes."

Ysgwyd:"Let's go to Across Saga, then."

Ilottat:"I should rather not."

Ysgwyd:"Well, your other choices are dockside bars, or places that an Orren with elegant clothes and aristocratic manners would not be welcome. To say nothing of a Zi Ri!"

Ilottat:"Ah, diorthoste, correct. Though, Sythyry? Do you mind changing to, well, another shape?"

It turned out that I didn't mind not looking like me, if I was going to go out carousing with a Khtsoyis.

Ysgwyd:"Not an Orren though! You and Ilottat would be laughed out of Across Saga."

Me:"What is Across Saga?"

Ysgwyd:"Traff dive."

Ilottat:"A place where those unfortunate enough be interested, well..."

Delframber:"A cafe where such as us can be comfortable."

Ilottat:"I am not transaffectionate, as a rule!"

Ysgwyd:"Sythyry, I gotta tell you about the best time that Ilottat and I made love."

Ilottat:"There is no angen, no need, for you to tell such stories."

Ysgwyd:"Lying side by side on this bed, with him looking over my shoulder at Zi Ri porn, and me looking over his shoulder at Khtsoyis porn."

I must consult Flooosh for proper etiquette after such revelations. Or, perhaps monsters are more aware of these manners. My own mother's lessons seem to have generally left it out.

Comments

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

*nods* Delframber seems easygoing and open about things. Although I wonder if the pauses in his speech are because he is shy or because he is not comfortable with the language they're speaking or the customs they're following currently.

Sythyry, would you mind elaborating more upon that point?

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

It's because Khtsoyis have very small lungs, so they have to breathe every few words. They make dreadful singers. Why the gods involved build them this way is a theological question open to discussion. But it's just a physical thing.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Floooooosh is right about it. She is particularly emphatic because Orren have the greatest lungs of any prime species. They can talk for minutes on end without taking a breath. Or, in Ilottat's case at least, they can do other things as well.

Oh, dear. Have I been spending too much time with Ysgwyd?