Side Quest 22 and 21

[aldersprig]

Twenty-Two: Lost and Found

“Why her?” The Diamond Raven shifted so he was standing almost between Raizel and the Left Hand. “Why this stranger on the street?”

 

“Because she’s not a stranger, is she? She’s the one that everyone’s been muttering about. She’s got you, which is interesting in and of itself. She’s made it through some pretty strange things, and I just saw the two of you put off a deserter, and almost nobody has managed that. He’s been following people around and sticking to their sides like burrs. And yet he wanted you, when he wanted nobody else, and while he was there, something magical answered your question, which I’ve never seen happen before.”

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Twenty-One: Pssst

“I don’t think she really wants the kitten gone,” the Diamond Raven commented, when they were out the gate and on another road.  “And I don’t blame her.”

 

“It’s pretty cute, isn’t it?”  She looked down at it, and it looked up at her and mewled.  “I bet it’s terrified.  All this being moved around by people bigger than it-”

 

“Empathizing?” the Diamond Raven chuckled.  “Sounds like your life.  Or, come to think about it, mine.”  He touched the gold lasso around his neck lightly.  “I’m pretty tossed around, too.  And even in the same way.  Can I hold it?”

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Comments

[kelkyag]

<snerk>

[aldersprig]

Snerk?

[kelkyag]

Invoking urban dictionary is always dangerous, but their snerk is close enough.

[aldersprig]

Clarification:

Whyfor you snerk? What part made you snerk?

[kelkyag]

The conversation with the Tzar's hand? It seemed like the right reaction.

"The Tzar pressed seven silver trei into her hand.": Tzar -> Tzar's Hand.

[aldersprig]

Oh! Okay. :-D yeah, I liked Raven there.

And yes, yes. The Tzar has not paid her himself yet.....