Kijji's Journal, Entry 10
Sep. 8th, 2009 09:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothI’d just finished squishing Raspberry’s body into shape (although herethroy don’t even *have* a tail!) when the conquering heroes returned from the depths of the cave.
None of them felt especially heroic. Candyice and Rydia were exhausted and relieved to be alive, Tell-tail was ashamed that they’d killed the monsters without trying to talk to them first, and Darreth was drooling over the treasure they’d recovered (the monsters had glassy chitin, and they’d harvested a few pounds before the next group arrived to chase them off) and trying to scheme how he could keep it all for himself.
So they sat on the boat and argued. Darreth wanted to stay until they’d collected enough to make them ll rich – he pointed out that as soon as they went home they’d have to give up the airship to Jepa’s family. Rydia and Tell-tail tried to argue against that in different ways and ended up arguing with each other, instead. Candyice got fed up with the whole thing, and banged on the door into the ship’s hold. “Raspberry, are you okay?”
I dimmed down my wings, and folded the extra pair of arms close against my body. The hold was dark, with the wings mostly hidden, so she didn’t notice anything was wrong as I let her inside, and locked the door behind her. “I had a nightmare,” I said, in more or less Raspberry’s voice.
“Yeah?” Candyice asked, bored, looking around for somewhere to lay down and rest, and settling for the pile of blankets and clothing that Raspberry had been sleeping on earlier. She tossed her clubs and staff in the corner, and started taking off her armor. “Well, it was probably better than facing those damn Nrex.”
“I should have come with you,” I said, echoing a vague thought I’d seen in Raspberry’s mind before she went to bed.
Candyice snorted. “Why? We’ve got caves near the village, same thing only without the stupid glass bugs.”
“I should have come with you, because maybe I’d still be alive,” I said, spreading my wings, illuminating the hold enough for her to see the extra limbs and spikes, which I hoped would be recognizable even without the tail.
Candyice swore, recognizing that she was in for a fight and not really thinking of anything else right away, which was kind of a let-down – I’d been hoping for horror! She only got hold of one of her clubs before I was on her, and her armor was half off, and a herethroy body is a lot stronger than a fox! But she had a cley left, and used it to teleport to the boat’s deck, where she started screaming at her screaming companions about a more urgent situation than the airship *or* the Nrex.
None of them felt especially heroic. Candyice and Rydia were exhausted and relieved to be alive, Tell-tail was ashamed that they’d killed the monsters without trying to talk to them first, and Darreth was drooling over the treasure they’d recovered (the monsters had glassy chitin, and they’d harvested a few pounds before the next group arrived to chase them off) and trying to scheme how he could keep it all for himself.
So they sat on the boat and argued. Darreth wanted to stay until they’d collected enough to make them ll rich – he pointed out that as soon as they went home they’d have to give up the airship to Jepa’s family. Rydia and Tell-tail tried to argue against that in different ways and ended up arguing with each other, instead. Candyice got fed up with the whole thing, and banged on the door into the ship’s hold. “Raspberry, are you okay?”
I dimmed down my wings, and folded the extra pair of arms close against my body. The hold was dark, with the wings mostly hidden, so she didn’t notice anything was wrong as I let her inside, and locked the door behind her. “I had a nightmare,” I said, in more or less Raspberry’s voice.
“Yeah?” Candyice asked, bored, looking around for somewhere to lay down and rest, and settling for the pile of blankets and clothing that Raspberry had been sleeping on earlier. She tossed her clubs and staff in the corner, and started taking off her armor. “Well, it was probably better than facing those damn Nrex.”
“I should have come with you,” I said, echoing a vague thought I’d seen in Raspberry’s mind before she went to bed.
Candyice snorted. “Why? We’ve got caves near the village, same thing only without the stupid glass bugs.”
“I should have come with you, because maybe I’d still be alive,” I said, spreading my wings, illuminating the hold enough for her to see the extra limbs and spikes, which I hoped would be recognizable even without the tail.
Candyice swore, recognizing that she was in for a fight and not really thinking of anything else right away, which was kind of a let-down – I’d been hoping for horror! She only got hold of one of her clubs before I was on her, and her armor was half off, and a herethroy body is a lot stronger than a fox! But she had a cley left, and used it to teleport to the boat’s deck, where she started screaming at her screaming companions about a more urgent situation than the airship *or* the Nrex.
