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Adarin - realizes he's one of the most shut in members of the household. It makes sense, really. He's their shield, if bandits or other nasty people show up it is up to him to keep them safe, like it is up to Jony to make the garden and Kesaven expands the house and keeps it in repair. Besides, where would he even go? All of his favorite people are right here. He'd be lonely if he went on the trips to the market.
So when there is a yelp from downstairs that sounds like it's from Tima, he's in the house and not outside chopping firewood, or at the market. He is upstairs, and he hears it, and he sprints downstairs and prepares to shield and -
And then he is eaten by a giant snake with a mirror for a face.
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in_tatters
ertia
"Alas, I didn't think ahead enough to write a how-to section on the mental tweaking thing. I've never taught anyone to do it."
in_tatters
"Yes."
Walking! Soon they will be down these stairs and at her mother's.
Walking! Soon they will be down these stairs and at her mother's.
ertia
Yes. There goes the last stair. Here is the path into town.
"I'm glad I was pessimistic enough to even include stairs."
"I'm glad I was pessimistic enough to even include stairs."
in_tatters
"I don't think it's pessimistic," argues Adarin. "Preparing for the worst isn't pessimistic. Just careful."
ertia
"Whatever you'd like to call it. I thought I might need stairs, as abhorrent as stair-needing would be. I was right."
ertia
She contemplates this question.
"All right," she eventually says, "why not."
"All right," she eventually says, "why not."
in_tatters
Yay!
He un-hugs after a reasonably appropriate span of time. And smiles at her.
"If there's a way I can help, let me know."
He un-hugs after a reasonably appropriate span of time. And smiles at her.
"If there's a way I can help, let me know."
ertia
"When either of us has momentum to throw around, leave me room? I don't mean, fuck off into somewhere else, you can hang out, but I got used to being the only serious candidate and then the only actual sorceress attached to the place and it'd be hard to collide with a neighbor."
ertia
"I mean, I don't think the territory has anybody immediately adjoining. You can have a castle a short hop upriver," she shrugs, "cover the northeast. I won't mind."
in_tatters
"Sounds good. We can get into a castle contest. I can try to make a prettier one."
in_tatters
"You underestimate my aesthetic abilities," he sniffs. "I'll just have to show you otherwise, won't I."
ertia
They are.
Kithabel manages to make a sort of anemic knocking sound before they actually reach the door. With magic.
Kithabel manages to make a sort of anemic knocking sound before they actually reach the door. With magic.
in_tatters
Adarin carefully stays out of the way and will leave them to their reunion until they require him.