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Edarial is nine, and he's avoiding his mother again.
Exploring the palace gets old after a while, but the library's even worse, and he suspects that if he spent any more time in his room, he'd scream. So, exploring the palace it is. Berathyme's with him, anyway, so the palace won't be so boring. She tends to make observations he didn't notice himself, and that's always interesting, if not always useful. Corridor, corridor, guest rooms, oh yes that is the closet with all of the uncomfortably looking coats, he'd forgotten about that one. Berathyme observes that they've been used relatively recently, some poor souls must have suffered - and then he opens a door and there's something he doesn't recognize.
He stares at the bar in confusion, consults briefly with Berathyme, and then wanders in.
What exactly is going on here?
royal_obligation
she_sells_seashells
"It would probably also be pretty hard to become king, if you jumped off a bridge."
royal_pain
"Nah, he'd be the ghost king, his rule would be eternal. And occasionally he would poke his head through walls and go 'Boo.'"
royal_obligation
"Woooooooooo, I am the ghost king, here to poke my head through walls and say 'Boo,' and also to help jumpstart the economy, ooooooo."
royal_obligation
"Mind you, knowing them, I would still need to get married. So, some poor woman gets to marry a ghost."
she_sells_seashells
"Anyway - we should work on the phrasebook, I think."
She goes and gets a two blank notebooks from Bar, and pens.
Work on the phrasebook proceeds.
When they've all been in Milliways for a couple of days, forming a clear picture of all the things the linguistically impaired Shell Bell will need to know about Marlatia when she goes there -
she opens her door.
"Mom! Dad! C'mere!"
She goes and gets a two blank notebooks from Bar, and pens.
Work on the phrasebook proceeds.
When they've all been in Milliways for a couple of days, forming a clear picture of all the things the linguistically impaired Shell Bell will need to know about Marlatia when she goes there -
she opens her door.
"Mom! Dad! C'mere!"
royal_obligation
Edarial doesn't know what 'Atlantis' is, but - okay, sure, he'll roll with it.
"We're friendly," he says.
"We're friendly," he says.
she_sells_seashells
"It's magic. I've been coming since I was little. It's what the shells are for."
royal_pain
"But! She doesn't need them anymore, because she found my brother." Zevros points. "Behold, brother. Wave please." (Edarial rolls his eyes and waves.) "Because he is magic and we're rich and he's taken offense to you starving."
she_sells_seashells
"We should all eat, we can talk about it over food, Bar makes the best food, come in come in it's safe."
sundayfish
In inch her parents. They eat the food. They listen to Shell Bell explaining what is going on.
royal_obligation
Edarial is very polite and friendly and will charge a random spell on command to display the glowing eyes. Bizarrely enough, he calls Shark 'sir' and Ranae 'ma'am,' even after the explanation that both he and Zevros are princes.
kindestgarden
"You can call me Ranae," Ranae says after a few iterations of that. "And Shark's 'Shark'. No need to be so formal with us, we're just folks."
she_sells_seashells
"...and if you want people to call you 'your highness' you probably should have told me days ago."