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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?
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royal_obligation
she_sells_seashells
"Okay. Because I can't ever be totally sure that my luck with doors will hold and it's not even very good luck, I've gone more than a year without a door before."
royal_obligation
"Bell," says Edarial gently, "I'm not going to strand you in my world and then abandon you."
royal_pain
"You'll be fine," says Zevros. "Really. I'm pretty sure Ari would fling himself off of a tall bridge before booting you out into a foreign country without anything more than a 'bye, bitch.'"
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!"