Patricia Williams
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I'm given a bit of time off while the Counsel discusses what they heard. Obviously, I set up my eyespiders on them. You could say I bugged their meeting, even. C'mon, it's common sense when dealing with elves here. There is a damn good reason why local euphemism for treachery is "elven courtesy". Though, now that I am running what they say through translation, I am a little disappointed. And more than a little relieved. Apparently, I have been rolling natural twenties on a whole bunch of intimidation…-
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I'm kind of... annoyed with myself right now. Giving mental trauma to wives is NOT how this harem is supposed to work. Honestly, I should have taken the fucking cue from the fact Moon Unit was not cool with it. Because, out of all of my wives, Moon Unit is unquestionably the most worldly and used to bloodshed of all sorts. The rest are way less prepared. Lily-Anne was very much sheltered. Oh, she got a good education on how to deal with violence, but all of it was theoretical and playacting. She never…
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Waking up the next morning is much nicer than going to bed was. All of us were slightly ticked off about the lack of sex last night, soo... Let's just say we caught up on that in the morning. Not too much, for obvious reasons, we still have things to do and sights to see and elves to bedazzle. Though I kinda want to drag them all into bed for the next day or two, now. Oh well, something to do on the airship when we're doing the long flights, I suppose... Still, with all the teasing and pleasing, it is…
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Klaus panted from exertion, still clutching the bloodied knife tightly. The person before him had just lost conscience, and that meant that interrogation was over for the day. Or for good, really. If he were to be entirely honest, Klaus received all the information he needed within the first five minutes of it. The next ten were spent cutting the strips of skin off the incompetent idiot. He briefly thought back to the conversation. This was the person who conducted the observation of their patsy making an…
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The remainder of the day is spent on settling within the new treehome. While none of us are particularly inclined to move to Evergreens "So... what exactly is going to happen tomorrow?" - Lily-Anne ventures after a while. Moon Unit shrugs. "Alyssa had already staked her claims pretty thoroughly, so... not much." - she proffers thoughtfully - "Just in case, the first thing we need to do tomorrow is to have all three of you ask of Alyssa what she considers you to be. For reasons that are many, treeborn…
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Dweezil was right. Pretty much the entire clan turns up to gawk at the zeppelin. And there's a circle of unaffiliated just behind the glade's perimeter. Three layers deep and several layers tall. And I suspect it wasn't even moreso simply because everyone who didn't have anything vitally important to do turned up to look and there were simply no more elves to thicken it even further. Bridgit, Lily-Anne and Roxolane disembark by the ramp. I've decided not to give out the fact that Bridgit can teleport. Just…
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Ok, so... what exactly is this jackass on about? Foul murder, is that it? He's here with the body of the guy I just shot, but I notice he neither recovered his own people from the forest, nor bothered to find the remains of unmourned Romeo. I can see why he wouldn't want to do first - explaining what the fuck was he doing with a couple archers and capture specialists in the woods would be a pickle, and Moon Unit would be perfectly within her rights to cite self-defense and throw the accusation back at the…
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Thankfully, we are left alone for a good long while after the whole brouhaha. More than enough for Moon Unit to stop looking a little unhinged, though she still steals little side glances when she thinks I'm not looking. Bother bother bother bother. I think my behavioral baseline is slipping a bit. At least, around people I trust. Which is kinda annoying when it dips beyond their tolerance margins. Still... Some useful data had been collected. "Out of curiosity, would it be surprising to you to learn that…
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"...All I'm saying, be very cautious." - Moon Unit repeats - "Keep weapons handy, spells on the fingertips and eyes all around. There were a lot of sore tempers over me leaving, and some of them are right bastards who won't think twice about harming any of you to get at me." "So, to sum it up." - Lily-Anne pitches in - "You and Alyssa go first, assess the situation groundside, make preparations. In case you two deem it safe enough for us to descend, Bridgit and Alyssa will transport us down by magic.…
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This... was a disaster. Somewhat predictable one, in retrospect. But... still... Just... HOW!? Salaadin grasped his temples, rubbing at them in a futile attempt to stave off the headache borne out of poring over the documents and listening to testimonies. Horrifying bloodchilling testimonies. He grew alarmed over the lack of communications with Alamut. Even if the target was not easy, they should have reported SOMETHING by now? At the very worst, the failure to do anything meaningful, if no better news?…
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