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Osirian Connie meets Blai at the Worldwound
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"Huh.  My evils mainly left someone afterwards pissed at me and alive."  Well, by individual instance the sex definitely outnumbers the active harms, but still.

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"I guess some people go in for that kind in Cheliax, but if you're smart you don't go with ones that leave someone pissed off, alive, and able to do anything about it."

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"Oh, and you mustn't have the- um, church stories but not in services?  -a man cheats a dairymaid, she tells her sister, she tells her mistress, she tells her husband, he picks a different supplier, and the first man is ruined, yet never learns he lost that purchase?"

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"Huh. I mean, we've got stories that are more or less churchy but that's not the kind of churchy."

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"Well, yes, I must apologize- I know the churches are different so the teachings are different, I meant- I don't know the Taldane-"  She sighs and scrubs a hand across her face, marshalling her sentences.  "That one in specific is a, a song for taverns actually, it's as much Calistrian as Abadaran.  ...I learned several more verses after I had left my father's house."

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Txell giggles. "D'you have much of a voice? Sounds fun."

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And Txell can get a giggle from her in return.  "It's in Osiriani, I don't know that I can translate the puns, but I can sing enough to teach it and tell you what it means?"

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"And then I can Comp Lang it if I ever have a slot to spare."

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Then Khalida can teach her the chorus, which has a catchy little tune, and gloss the lyrics as 

And the word goes around and around the town,

And the word goes around and around, 

He thought no one should know,

But he didn't know who knew

Because the word goes around and around

"And then if you wish time before the next verse, you can repeat 'and around' as you like, that's the part which means 'and around', and-" she glances at Txell's squad and lowers her voice a little, leaning in, "if you're not in mixed company you say 'tale' instead, that also means 'news' but it means technically 'mouth'."

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A round of giggles about this.

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