Sime~Gen Roleplaying on IRC: Bender Cove Township Scenario
Episode #90: (12/3/97)
Linn hurries down a disreputable street in the porn district, which is mostly deserted at midmorning.
Linn doesn't look like she belongs in the neighborhood, although she appears to be used to it.
Nick puts down the book he's studying and heads for the kitchen.
Jon Drake is now known as Sorat.
Nick: I'm going to have some of last night's apple crisp. Do you want some, Snake?
Linn glances around the deserted street, and ducks into an alley between a whorehouse and a shiltpron parlor.
Linn sets mode: +o Sorat wisesnake looks up from her paperwork.
Wise Snake: Sure.
Wise Snake idly picks up Nick's book and looks at the spine.
Nick pulls open the fridge and starts sorting through its contents.
Sorat is now known as PiotrRava.
Alea hurries from the donation room toward the infirmary, shaking her head in dismay.
Piotr Rava is in the flophouse room, making breakfast.
Linn pulls out a key and unlocks a side door on the whorehouse, then disappears inside with her load of books. She locks the door behind her.
Jules Dist is now known as Briel.
Nick finds the cassarole dish with the apple crisp, and doles out a generous serving for himself, and a Sime-sized portion for Sanke.
Nick finds spoons--funny how they all seem to have ended up in their assigned drawer--and carries the bowls to the living room.
Nick: Here you are.
Nick sets the bowl on Snake's desk.
Wise Snake: Thanks [already back at paperwork]
Wise Snake pauses.
Wise Snake indicates the book.
Wise Snake: Since when are you interested in transcension mathematics?
Nick raises a questioning eyebrow.
Alea hurries back to the donation room with a channel in tow.
Nick: Well, it's supposed to provide a theoretical basis for transfer mechanics, so I thought it might help to learn a bit about it.
Wise Snake: Huh.
Wise Snake: Sounds mighty screwy to me.
Wise Snake makes a mental note to read the book later when Nick is asleep.
Nick: Well, when you can't zlin the fields directly, it helps to have some idea what should be going on.
Nick shrugs, eating a bite of apple crisp.
Wise Snake: I guess so.
Nick's eyes fall on the Zeor crest ring on Snake's finger.
Nick: What are you wearing that for?
Wise Snake squints at a piece of paper, trying to make out something she scribbled illegibly on a previous night.
Wise Snake: What?
Wise Snake follows Nick's attention to the ring.
Wise Snake: Oh.
Wise Snake: That.
Nick: Yes. I thought you'd decided to leave Zeor?
Nick feels a bit uneasy at the possibility that Snake may have reconsidered and decided to rejoin her former House.
Wise Snake: I thought I'd wear it for a day or two just for old time's sake. See what reaction people had to it.
Wise Snake pulls the ring off, carefully.
Linn is now known as Tormer.
Tormer tramps up the Sime Center's porch steps in the businesslike manner of a former beat walker.
Nick: And how have people responded?
Tormer pulls open the door and enters, looking around the lobby for someone to corner.
Alea comes out of the donation room, sighing with relief that everything is going to be okay and that that third didn't screw everything up.
Tormer spots Alea in the hall.
Wise Snake: Well... to tell you the truth, the majority of the people don't even know what it means. They like the red stone, though.
Alea sees Tormer and freezes.
Wise Snake: ===blue====
Nick: It is pretty.
Alea looks back behind her and then back at the donation rooms, wondering if she can duck into one.
Wise Snake: And expensive. I've zlinned a lot of coveteousness in the last few days.
Wise Snake: As for people who actually understand what it means, half of them didn't notice...
Nick: I'd think a House crest ring would be a rather difficult property to sell.
Wise Snake: Then there was Briel. [laughs] It only reinforced her general contempt.
Alea decides it'd be useless, wishes it was someone else, then decides she is just overreacting.
Tormer makes a beeline for Alea, reaching into his coat pocket for his badge.
Alea: Good day, Tormer...
Alea trails off at Tromers actions, stepping back slightly.
Alea: ==tromers--tormer==
Tormer's eyes narrow at the lack of an appropriate honorific.
Alea: Let me just find someone for you to speak to...I'll be right back...
Wise Snake: Well, it is a true there is an art to disposing of rare and unique artifacts.
Alea turns, intending to find someone else in an hour or two...
Tormer: I'll come with you.
Tormer has been given the runaround before, and knows it when he sees it.
Alea glances narrowly at Tormer.
Wise Snake considers the ring for a moment longer, then places it in the desk drawer.
Alea: That won't be necessary. WHy don't you just tell me why you're here?
Alea motions across the lobby to a spare office that is unoccupied.
Tormer tramps after Alea.
Alea goes into the empty office, save for a desk and two chairs.
Alea: Please, have a seat[snerringly]
Alea sets mode: +o Tarsh
Alea leans rudely against the desk and crosses her arms.
Tarsh is now known as CptButton.
Tormer takes a few steps closer to Alea and looks down on her, looming in a vaguely threatening manner.
Alea glares at him.
Alea: Why don't you just tell me why you're here?
Nick finishes his apple crisp.
Tormer's lip curls in contempt.
Alea smiles sweetly.
Alea goes behind the desk and seats herself, continuing to smile.
Tormer: I am here because an important art object is missing. There is currently a continent-wide search out for it, involving police in Nivet, Gulf, and New Washington Territories as well as Norwest.
Alea: Really? So, what brings you here?
Tormer: People tell channels all sorts of things that they don't tell their parents or spouses.
Alea: Well yes, I suppose they do.
Tormer: If any of this Sime Center's clients should let anything slip about the missing art object, I wish to be informed immediately.
Alea: Uh, Tormer...surely you realize that we won't reveal something a patient tells us in confidence
Nick: So, what is on the agenda today? The docks, the red light district, or Eastcove?
Tormer: I am sure you can clear it with your conscience to let me know what sorts of rumors are circulating, under the circumstances.
Alea shrugs.
Tormer gives a pointed look at Alea's Zeor crest ring.
Alea thinks she wouldn't tell this jerk anything.
Tormer: If you feel you can't reveal your sources, I will settle for the information itself.
Alea: As far as I know, we haven't heard anything about missing art objects.
Alea: Of ocurse...now that you mention it...there was an art object stolen....
Alea twists her face up in a frown.
Alea: It was two weeks ago...It was awful...the piece came up missing...everyone was searching for it...
Alea: I finally found it....someone had tried to get it over the fence and impaled it on a spike!
Tormer: This was more recent.
Alea relaxes.
Alea: Oh.
Alea shrugs and smiles.
Alea: Well then, I'm afraid I can't help you...
Alea wonders if she should tell him to check with snake...but wouldn't turn Tormer on her worst enemy.
Tormer: I'm sorry to hear that. I have consulted with all of my informants and contacts, and if you and the other Sime Center employees will also do your part, I have hopes that the object can be located if it has been taken to Bender Cove.
Alea smiles thinly.
Alea: I'm sure we will all be MORE than WILLING to help you Tormer.
Alea ~~in a pigs eye~~
Tormer gives a feral smile.
Tormer: See that you are.
Tormer turns and stalks from the Sime Center.
Alea nods to the door, then stands and goest to it, pushing it open.
Alea: Bye.
Alea wilts in relief when he is gone.
Alea: Like we'd tell him anything.
Alea: I'd go to the tecton before I'd go to him.
Alea grumbles, goes to the lobby.
Alea: Perfect way to ruin an already bad day..Tormer.
Alea snatches up the only cloak--since her's is at the bottom of the lake--and slips it on.
Alea: To Clerk: if anyone asks, I'll be back soon...
Alea wraps the cloak about her, pulling up the extra so she won't trip over it, and heads out into the bitterly cold wind.
Alea hurries down the street, toward the bad part of town, searching for Snake.
Alea gets turned around three times before she finally stumbles onto Snake's house.
Alea signals.
Alea gathers the cloak again, trying to wrap it tighter around her in the frigid temperatures.
Wise Snake notes Nick is busy washing the dishes (what a suck-up!) and gets up to answer the door herself.
Wise Snake opens the door.
Wise Snake: Alea?
Alea: Snake.
Alea rubs at at her cold nose.
Alea: Do you have a minute?
Wise Snake: Uh, come in.
Wise Snake stands back to let Alea in.
Wise Snake points out the cloak closet.
Alea hurries inside, almost tripping over the extra length of cloak again.
Alea slips it off and hauls it up into the closet.
Alea: I would have gone without..but after the dip in the bay, I don't want to experience any cold again.
Wise Snake blanches.
Alea shoves the cloak in and then slams the door.
Wise Snake: You should never go out in winter without a cloak! You'll catch your death one of these days.
Alea chuckles.
Wise Snake thinks, crazy Gen.
Alea: Seems like I've had pretty good luck so far.
Wise Snake: It's the only thing that's kept you alive.
Wise Snake: Would you like tea?
Alea: Tea would be wonderful.
Wise Snake reasons that with Nick in a dishwashing mood, she can safely offer Alea tea without risking having to wash anything herself.
Wise Snake indicates the seating available in the living room, then enters the kitchen.
Alea bounces over to the living room, reveling in the warmth, and plops down in a seat closest to the fire.
Alea pulls the chair as close as she can get it then sighs in pleasure.
Wise Snake: We have company, Nick. Alea from the Center.
Wise Snake gets boiling water, then brings Linn's tea tray out to the living room.
Alea slips her shoes from her feet and inches them toward the fire.
Alea: ==them, her feet==
Alea looks over at Snake.
Alea: I was freezing.
Wise Snake sets the tea tray on a low table.
Wise Snake takes in the scene of Alea only inches from a roaring fire and tries not to look as worried as she suddenly feels.
Wise Snake tries not to feel Alea's tingling toes.
Alea sets mode: +o NickR
Alea: Would you like me to pour that, Snake.
Alea sets mode: +o NickR1
Nick1 is now known as LinnH.
Alea reaches for the pot of tea.
Wise Snake: No!
Alea pauses.
Alea: Oh.
Wise Snake augments to snatch the pot.
Wise Snake: I mean,
Wise Snake: Er,
Wise Snake: No, of course, you're the guest, why don't you warm up and I'll take care of this.
Nick finishes the dishes and dries his hand on the dishrag.
Alea shrugs, turns back to the fire and leans forward, holding her hands as close to the fire as she can get without singing them...
Wise Snake unclenches her tentacles from the tea pot handle, realizes Alea is making her even more nervous than she had realized.
Wise Snake pours carefully.
Nick returns to the living room.
Alea: You know, Snake..it's very cold out today. I didn't realize just how cold...of course, it's not as cold as our dip in the lake.
Alea: Now that was cold.
Wise Snake glances sideways at Nick, kind of wishing Alea hadn't brought that up.
Wise Snake: Indeed.
Nick sees how nervous Snake is about Alea, and comes to Snake's side, radiating posession.
Wise Snake: Have some tea? [offers a cup to Alea]
Alea takes the cup of tea.
Alea: Thank you.
Wise Snake: I do hope you've sworn off sledding.
Wise Snake pours more tea for herself and Nick.
Alea: YOu know...I'm not sure that you've ever served me tea, Snake...oh..yes! My...well....I'm thinking of getting Tarsh to teach me..but he's a Sime so what could go wrong?
Nick sets aside his jealousy long enough to assess the situation.
Alea takes a sip of her tea.
Wise Snake: I'm supposed to be practicing manners. [by way of slightly defensive explanation]
Wise Snake registers what Alea just said.
Wise Snake: Tarsh would never agree to that, would he? [alarmed]
Alea nods, gasps at how hot the tea is, then tries to sip it again.
Alea smiles.
Alea: SUre he would
Linn bustles in, cold and tired from an exhausting day's volunteer work.
Alea blushes.
Alea: But well...it can wait a day or two.
Wise Snake: What if you were hurt and he is driven to a killmode attack?
Alea: Or until I have some time...
Alea frowns.
Linn shakes the snow from her coat and hangs it carefully away in the closet.
Wise Snake looks up as Linn enters.
Alea: If I have a SIme there, then I won't be hurt.
Alea: Hello Linn.
Wise Snake fails to see the logic of Alea's statement.
Linn: Hello, Alea. What brings you here today?
Wise Snake [puzzled]
Alea: I was just getting to that.
Linn: I don't suppose there's another cup of tea going begging, is there?
Alea: Sure..YOu must be freezing.
Alea reaches for the tea pot.
Wise Snake hesitates, makes the correct translation.
Wise Snake: Yes.
Wise Snake pours tea for Linn.
Alea sits back and sips her tea.
Alea: As I was saying...Snake saved my life the other day when we both went into the lake.
Wise Snake had not told Linn about the lake.
Alea: So, when all of this stuff started up, I felt I should come warn her.
Linn accepts the cup from Snake absently.
Linn: The lake?
Alea: After all....
Linn looks at Snake.
Nick looks at Snake.
Wise Snake makes "Shhh!! SHHHH!!" eyes at Alea.
Alea: You haven't told her?
Nick: What's this about the lake?
Wise Snake: Uccgh.
Alea eyes widen incerdiously.
Wise Snake: Please. I meant to tell you eventually.
Nick and Linn wait.
Alea: It was something else...we both ended up in the lake..and almost froze...went to a bar..
Alea: This pimp was there and saw us in our altogether...
Wise Snake: Nick, the day you and I were nearly run down by Alea on a sled...
Alea: I think he he had eyes for Snake...
Alea smiles at snake and takes a sip of her tea again.
Wise Snake stops, lips pressed together, and waits for Alea to finish.
Alea msiles at snake.
Wise Snake tentacles twitch.
Wise Snake: As I was saying.
Alea: Go on..tell them about the clothes we were dressed in..
Wise Snake's tentacles curl up in knots.
Wise Snake: AS I was saying.
Alea inches closer to the fire and waits for Snake to tell the story.
Wise Snake: I chased her down the hill and went into the bay after her.
Wise Snake: By the time I got her to warmth and safety, I was in hard need. She was high field, so, that's how it happened.
Wise Snake leaves out / deliberately glosses over the rest.
Nick glares at Snake.
Nick: I thought you were going to take Rafe again this month.
Wise Snake: [to nick] What?
Wise Snake: So did I. But I wasn't in any position to be choosy at the time.
Wise Snake realizes, of course, that this was not strictly speaking true.
Wise Snake: Well, that is, I didn't feel like being choosy at the time.
Wise Snake: Er,
Wise Snake glances at Alea apologetically.
Nick: And you didn't think I should be informed about this change in plans, as the Donor who's going to serve you next month?
Alea: She was in hard need...what'd y7ou want her to do...run naked across Bender Cove to get to rafe?
Alea: She didn't have clothes..wasn't srue when she would...
Alea: She didn't have any choice.
Nick: That may be, but that doesn't excuse her for not telling me about it.
Nick: She's certainly had plenty of opportunities.
Wise Snake: I've been meaning to tell you. It just slipped my mind.
Wise Snake squirms.
Wise Snake: You should be happy. Because of what happened, you'll get your chance two days earlier than you would have.
Nick is not completely mollified by this news.
Alea: I'm a Farris...Rafe is a Farris..what's the difference?
Alea looks at Snake and rolls her eyes.
Nick: Another piece of information you neglected to pass on.
Alea: You're suppose to be a Donor Nick..are you saying you didn't realize Snake had had transfer?
Nick: I knew she'd had transfer, of course, but I thought it was with Rafe, as we'd planned.
Wise Snake rubs her forehead.
Wise Snake: Nick, it just slipped my mind. I've told you hundreds of things in the last 48 hours... how do you expect me to come up with every little detail on the spur of the moment like that?
Linn is both genuinely interested and alarmed by all this talk about transfer arrangements.
Alea smiles at Snake's words.
Nick: Your transfer is not a _detaill_, Snake.
Alea: You should be thankful she didn't freeze to death and I was there to serve her instead of worried that one eensy weensy detail slipped her mind.
Alea tends to agree with Nick.
Wise Snake zlins the three Gens.
Wise Snake shivers and draws in on herself.
Alea smiles at Snake.
Wise Snake: It wasn't on purpose. [scowls]
Wise Snake: None of it was on purpose. Not taking an icebath in the lake, not the transfer, not forgetting to mention it.
Alea: You know, Snake...It sounds like you've been under a lot of pressure...maybe my coming to warn you was too late.
Alea lifts her cup to her lips, then jumps when a spark from the fireplace lands near her foot.
Linn: Here, let me put the screen up.
Linn places a large, freestanding fire screen in front of the fire place.
Alea: Thank you, Linn.
Wise Snake: Under a lot of pressure? [laughs, with an off edge to the laughter]
Wise Snake: Me?
Wise Snake: No! What makes you think that?
Alea studies Snake, then picks her chair up and moves next to her to support her.
Alea: At least you had a good trasnfer, even though it wasn't Rafe.
Nick had already stepped up his own support, leaving Snake trapped between the two powerful Donor nagers.
Linn hopes that with Alea farther away from the fire, Snake will calm down a bit.
Alea: Now, as I was saying..since you saved my life, I thought I should come and warn you that Tormer came pounding on the Center's door today.
Linn: Tormer who?
Alea's eyes widen.
Alea: Oh dear...You've never met the Gen from he...uh...the police ... er...him?
Wise Snake blinks, finding it difficult to think with the two Gens pouring it on like there's no tomorrow.
Alea reaches out and touches Snake's arm, increasing the support as she stares at Linn.
Linn: No. What's this about the police?
Alea: Well...
Alea glances at Snake, then Nick.
Alea: It seems something is missing and I just wanted to... talk...to Snake about it before Tormer came pounding his way over here.
Alea lifts the cup from her lap to take a sip, realizes it is empty and let's go of snake to pour herself another cup.
Wise Snake looks down at Alea's hand on her arm, enjoying the sensation.
Alea: Have you heard of any missing objects Snake?
Wise Snake sighs as the hand leaves.
Wise Snake shakes her head and blinks.
Wise Snake: What?
Alea ~~worry/concern~~
Alea: Art objects...stolen.
Wise Snake gathers her wits.
Alea pours herself another cup, and sets the tea down.
Wise Snake: No!
Alea: What?
Alea jerks, spilling the tea.
Wise Snake: Well, I had heard a rumor or two... nothing more.
Alea concerned at how jumpy Snake is, reaches back out, touching snake, focusing all of her attention on her.
Wise Snake grimaces at the spilled tea; congratulates herself for not snapping at Alea.
Alea projects soothing comfort.
Linn looks at the spot on the carpet and sighs.
Alea: You're much too jumpy ... even for a Farris[softly, gently]. Just relax.
Wise Snake: But that isn't to say.. uh.. [forgets what she was trying to say]
Alea: You know, Snake...perhaps you should take transfe rwith me again next month...
Wise Snake: Uh. .?!
Alea: It might help to have transfer from a Farris again.
Nick: ~~strong objections to this plan~~
Alea senses Nick's emotions and turns toward him, curious, keeping her nageric attention on Snake.
Wise Snake resurfaces, bolstered by the feel of Nick's nager cutting through Alea's seductive one.
Wise Snake: [breathing heavily] I... we have already made arrangements for next month. Anyway, Veraik would never allow it.
Alea edges off.
Alea: I'm a farris.
Alea: Veraik only has so much control over a Farris.
Alea smiles.
Alea reaches for her tea and takes another sip.
Nick puts a protective--or maybe posessive--arm around Snake's shoulders.
Alea absently pats her coiled hair at hte metnion of veraik, knowing how much he hates her to wear it up.
Alea: Anyway...has Tormer made it over here yet?
Alea glances sideways at Snake.
Wise Snake: I... [fudges] he doesn't come here.
Alea: Oh, well..that's strange...I thought you paid him off every month.
Alea shrugs.
Wise Snake darts a pitiful look in Nick and Linn's directions.
Wise Snake: Well, I do.
Alea: Oh well...I know Tormer is a complete embicille...
Alea: Oh, good...I mean..it's ont good you pay the toad off...but good that he obviously knows YOu aren't the one who stole whatever it was that was stolen.
Alea ~~did you~~
Alea studies Snake.
Wise Snake [deadpan] I don't even know what it is. How could I have been responsible?
Alea remembers Snakes infatuation with her own art.
Alea: Well....good.
Alea finishes her tea and sets the cup down.
Wise Snake: But thank you for the warning.
Alea: Well then, if um, you should happen to hear anything, Tormer wants to know...he...inisted we pass along any information.
Wise Snake reaches out and moves the cup away from the very edge of the table.
Wise Snake: Ah.
Alea shakes her head and stands, going over to in front of the fire.
Wise Snake: Then of course you will be the first to know if I find out anything.
Alea: Like the Center would tell that toad anything...[muttered very low]
Wise Snake watches Alea's movements cautiously.
Alea turns to face snake, her skirt brushing the screen as she does.
Alea: Well then, looks like I should be heading back to the Center. The owner of that cloak is liable to be shocked to find his cloak is gone.
Alea smiles, thinking he won't be that upset
Alea: Nick, you take care of Snake...make sure to keep that attention on her. She doesn't like it if you don't concentrate.
Nick, eager to see Alea leave, picks up the cloak and holds it for her.
Alea accepts the cloak, thinking of what else she has that belongs to Tarsh.
Alea: Thank you Nick.
Alea: Now, Snake..let me get this straight...go right out the door and then left...
Wise Snake sniffs, sure she smells something burning that isn't wood.
Wise Snake: ~~alarm~~
Alea wraps the volumous cloak around her, shaking it...
Alea stops and sniffs, feeling somthing warm on her legs.
Alea: What....
Alea drops the cloak and turns to look at the back of her dress.
Alea: Smoke?
Alea's eyes widen in alarm.
Wise Snake jumps up.
Alea: Fire!
Alea: OH my heavens!
Linn calmly picks up the teapot and douses the smouldering skirt.
Alea starts jerking at her skirt.
Alea sucks in a sharp breath.
Alea: Oh..ugh...
Wise Snake leaps backward to avoid hot splashed water.
Alea: Ouch.
Wise Snake abhors hot water on her skin.
Alea holds the skirt away from her legs.
Wise Snake: Nick.
Alea: Oh dear..what a mess..and look at your carpet!
Alea: Oh No!
Linn: Just stand a little bit farther from the fireplce, and let that dry.
Wise Snake gestures for Nick to follow, and retreats to the rear of the house.
Alea proecedes to undo and slip out of her skirt and hold it out to the fire so it'll dry.
Nick follows Snake into their room.
Wise Snake: Nick, what is with you today? Your concentration is nil.
Wise Snake: I'm freaking out here, and you're letting that crazy Donor get her nager all over me.
Alea shakes her skirt.
Alea: I'm so sorry Linn...I can't believe I dried out that quick, to the point that my skirt actually caught fire.
Alea: Oh...is tarsh's cloak okay?
Linn: Perhaps you should sit a little farther from the fireplace next time.
Linn inspects the cloak.
Linn: Well, it should be fine, once the smoke's been cleaned off.
Alea: I'm so glad...wouldn't want to ruin tarsh's cloak.
Alea sets mode: +o wisesnake
Alea slips the skirt back on and reaches for the cloak.
Alea eyes suddenly widen and she looks down.
Alea: My shoes.
Alea hurries back over to the fireplace and retrieves her shoes from where she had slipped them off.
Alea: I certainly don't want to leave without my shoes.
Alea slides her feet into them.
Alea: YOu know, the right one is still too tight from where I stubbed my toe after I hung the new artwork yesterday.
Nick: Snake, I'm doing the best I can. I can't protect you completely from a Donor more powerful than I am.
Wise Snake: She's not even in the room right now.
Alea: Yeah...you know, don't tell anyone, but I think I might have broken my toe. But with the way veraik has been acting..in and out of my office without a word...I don't want him to examin it...why, he might cut it off for all I trust him right now.
Linn looks down at the swollen toe.
Alea shoves her foot into the shoe, wincing as she does.
Alea: I'm sure it'll heal in a few days.
Linn: It does look pretty purple. Why don't you have Snake take a look at it?
Alea: Oh, I think Snake is more than ready for me to leave.
Alea: You just keep an eye out and if she gets into any troulbe that that bully, Tormer, come get us at the Center.
Alea thinks how her ankles are going to freeze all the way back to the Center.
Alea: I normally wear boots this time of year...but didn't think I could get them on.
Alea shrugs.
Alea: Oh well...
Nick sighs, and falls into a full support, as if they were working on an entran-averting functional.
Nick: Is that better?
Wise Snake moves closer to Nick.
Wise Snake: Yes... yes.
Alea wraps the cloak tightly about her.
Alea moves toward the door.
Alea: Tell Snake bye.
Alea hurries out the door.
Nick wonders if this is how the fireplace felt when Alea was basking in front of it.
Alea: Now let's see...that was left...left and right...to get back to the center.
Alea pauses...looks to the right...considers...decides that she'll find her way eventually and sets off.
Wise Snake takes Nick's hands and leans against his chest, head down.
Linn closes the door behind Alea, and goes off to find a bowl of soapy water and a scrub brush with which to clean the carpet.
Alea wanders down the street until she sees something that looks familiar and turns down that street.
Nick, as usual, finds his anger at Snake's snakiness fading as their nagers link.
Alea looks around and frowns, realizing this is not hte correct street.
Alea thinks all of these streeets down here look the same.
Wise Snake: I know, Nick, I should have told you.
Nick: [sigh] You should have.
Wise Snake: I can't always... it doesn't always feel right, to tell about something right away.
Nick: We'd better get ready, if we're going to get to that church before the service is over.
Wise Snake: Some things, I have to think about them first.
Nick: I know.
Wise Snake pulls away from Nick.
Wise Snake: Let's go, then.
Nick follows Snake back to the living room.
Alea wanders around, seeing what are beginning to become familiar faces in the bad part of town and sighs.
Alea wonders how long this time it's going to take her to find home.
Alea slips into a nearby bar to warm up and get a drink while figuring out which way to go.
Wise Snake is now known as whispers.
Whispers: ... alea...
Alea looks up at the bartender in query.
Alea: I know you?
Alea realizes the bartender has turned his back and goes back to holding the warmed portsan he so kindly offered her when she came in.
Whispers tease the edges of Alea's consciousness.
Alea glances around, wondering of one of the Simes is in need and that's what is bothering her.
Alea forces her field neutral.
Whispers is now known as wisesnake.
Wise Snake wanted you, and you know it [the voices whisper]
Alea glances around.
Alea sips her nasty drink, trying to warm up.
Alea: Nah...but she had me ... no choice in the matter.
Whispers wanted you again, alea....
Whispers today.. now...
Alea: A difference between want and need...
Alea looks at the drink and wonders if drink always makes you hear voices.
Alea glances around to see if anyone is watching her.
Whispers is now known as frozen.
Frozen wisps of air tease Alea's ankles, the back of her neck.
Alea looks back outside, deicdes to take her chances out there rather than continue with the ichy feeling between her shoulder blades that one of these Smes is going to accost her.
Alea tosses some money on the bar, hauls the cloak about her..and heads toward the door of the bar.
Frozen is now known as whitewolf.
Alea hurries out the door and dwon the street, wondering if she'll run into that man who knows directions so well...and leant them some clothes.
Alea looks around at the whorehouses, trying to remember...looking for a familiar face who can direct her home.
Whitewolf follows Alea.
Alea: I must be crazy to even think I can trust these people.
Alea glances behind her and sees the animal.
Whitewolf runs through the shadows in Alea's wake; near-silent footfalls.
Whitewolf's eyes are icy blue.
Alea pauses staring.
Alea: Nice doggie.
Alea: But you aren't a doggie, are you?
Alea backs carefully away until she gets her back to a building where she can keep a good eye on the huge animal.
Whitewolf waits, tongue lolling, some distance away.
Alea: Shoo..go on home now.
Alea makes shooing motions.
Alea: Should have stayed at Snakes, no matter how crazy we were driving her with our duo-fields.
Whitewolf's ears flatten slightly; one of its forefeet takes a step backward, but the animal otherwise remains where it was.
Alea smiles as she remembers Nick's outrage.
Alea: You know, Kadi kitten wouldn't appreciate you, dear one. I can't take you home with me.
Alea backs along the wall.
Whitewolf stares at Alea.
Alea: Veraik certainly wouldn't appreciate it....you know....maybe you might can come with me....
Whitewolf watches.
Alea continues to inch along until she feels a door behind her.
Alea: But then again...it'd be for the best if you left.
Alea without looking, turns the door handle and slips inside.
Whitewolf's ears prick up in surprise.
Alea slmas the door and leans her forehead against it..peeking out the curtain to see what the wolf does.
Whitewolf cranes it neck to see where she went.
Whitewolf trots to the door and sniffs around the cracks.
Alea backs away from the door, watching it like the wolf just might come through the door.
Alea trips over the extra bit of cloak and falls.
Alea: Shen!
Whitewolf: [doorknob turns]
Alea covers her mouth...realizing she doesn't even know where she is and looks around to see.
Alea eyes fasten on the doorknob.
Whitewolf: [door opens slowly]
Whitewolf is now known as Fawviah.
Alea pushes backward along the floor, certain the wolf opened the door and is following her.
Alea opens her mouth to scream.
Fawviah: [a fat old woman wearing a heavy woolen poncho and a colorful scarf enters the building]
Fawviah has a cloth-covered basket on one arm.
Alea sighs in relief...and tries to look around her to see if the wolf is still there.
Alea: Uh...
Fawviah smiles at Alea.
Alea tries to scramble to her feet.
Alea: Excuse me.
Alea sets mode: +o JonDrake
Fawviah: Why hello, dearie. [cackle]
Alea: I'm sorry, I just well..stumbled in here.
Alea looks around.
Alea sees all kinds of nick knacks and crazy items sitting around and frowns.
Fawviah: It's a cold day to be walking out alone. Come in and sit down. You must be exhausted.
Alea: Oh no...no..really..I just have to leave...uh...did you see a wolf, by chance?
Alea edgest oward the door, thinking there are really some strange people in this part of town.
Fawviah winks.
Fawviah: No wolves outside here.
Fawviah: === outside here --> outside of this house ===
Alea sighs in relief.
Alea: I was just on my way to the Sime Center...but you know...I think I'll go back and vist wisesnake.
Fawviah's eyes light up.
Alea thinks everyone probably knows Snake and it's a good thing to use her name.
Alea: Yeah, she's my...cousin.
Fawviah: Ah, you do have a touch for danger, you do.
Alea: Close relation.
Alea: Danger?
Fawviah: Such a pretty little thing, to have such dangerous tastes.
Alea wonders if maybe she shouldn't have mentioned snake's name now...
Jon Drake changes topic to "Bender Cove: Sime~Gen Roleplaying: The Adventures of Little Blue Riding Hood."
Fawviah sets down her basket.
Fawviah: Come in, girl, come in and get warmed up. I promise I won't bite.
Alea thinks she's heard that promise before but goes into the room.
Fawviah navigates through the piles of jars, antiques and strange furniture to a hearth where a large pot of stew is boiling.
Alea thinks the house reminds her of old tales...
Alea: Have you lived here long?
Fawviah reaches several jars down from a shelf and begins to sort strange herbs into the stew, a few from each jar.
Jon Drake is now known as Pywackett.
Alea studies Fawviah.
Fawviah: Oh, yes, precious. A very long time.
Fawviah is a fat old woman with gray whiskers and cloudy blue eyes.
Pywackett jumps from his place on the bookshelf to come investigate the stranger.
Alea looks down at Fawviah arms.
Pywackett doesn't like strangers, his tail twitches in irritation.
Alea sees the smooth arms of a Gen and relaxes.
Alea moves to sit down, not seeing Pywackett.
Alea drops into the chair, right on top of the cat.
Pywackett is sitting on the chair.
Pywackett: MEOWR!!!!
Alea jumps up.
Alea: Oh dear!
Pywackett squirms and jumps away.
Fawviah leaps wildly, spinning around to face the noise.
Alea looks from the cat to fawviah.
Fawviah seemingly faster than should be possible.
Pywackett turns and gives the stranger a nasty look.
Alea: I'm so sorry.
Pywackett moves beside "Mommy."
Alea moves back to the chair, eyeing Fawviah strangely.
Fawviah for a moment looked like more than what she first appeared to be.
Alea: I've enver seen a Gen who could augment before.
Alea gets a creepy feeling that inches up her spine.
Fawviah then relaxes, and is simply an old woman once again.
Fawviah: Poor pussy.
Pywackett jumps into Fawviah's lap.
Fawviah strokes Pywackett.
Fawviah: Pooor, poor pussy.
Pywackett: Mowr? [Look what she did!]
Pywackett begins purring.
Alea watches the interaction
Fawviah looks up and smiles toothily at Alea.
Alea smiles back, albeit nervously.
Fawviah: There will be dinner soon.
Pywackett: Selyn-like cat energy pours forth with each purr...
Pywackett's purr gets louder.
Alea: Oh, really, I don't want to put you out...I should really be going...you weren't expecting company.
Pywackett looks to the stranger to say "Look who is the important one here!"
Fawviah: Run back to Snake, will you, girl?
Alea wishes she'd sat down a little harder and smashed the arrogant cat...
Alea gapes.
Fawviah: Can you find the way?
Alea: That's Snake's cat?
Fawviah: Silly girl.
Fawviah: I'm talking about you.
Alea: Me?
Alea eyes widen in shock.
Fawviah's hands continue to stroke and knead the cat's back.
Pywackett tilts his head at the stranger.
Alea: Uh, well...yeah, I can probably find the way...
Pywackett arches his neck, instructing Fawviah where to scratch.
Pywackett purrs even louder...
Alea: Go out the door and left...until you get to a street with a tea house on the corner...then it was right.
Fawviah smiles mysteriously.
Alea thinks that might be right but isnt' sure.
Fawviah reaches out and takes a bottle off the shelf, holds it out to Alea.
Pywackett jumps out of Fawviah's lap.
Alea accepts the bottle.
Alea: Thank you.
Alea looks at it.
Fawviah: This contains within it the seeds of your dreams.
Pywackett moves toward the Stranger.
Fawviah: Drink it, and your dreams will flower within you,
Fawviah: .
Pywackett sniffs at her shoes.
Alea thinks of the good dreams she's had lately about things and shrugs. What will it hurt to humor the woman.
Pywackett begins a hacking cough.
Alea: I um...well, I'm farris and would hate to die right here on your rug from an allergic reaction.
Alea is beginning to think this is a healer from out-Territory.
Pywackett works to bring up that irritant from deep within his throat.
Fawviah reaches for another jar, this one labelled "hairballs"
Pywackett looks up at "mommy."
Alea opens hte bottle and sniffs the contents, wincing in dismay at the smell.
Pywackett debates whether to continue. To make his opinion known...
Alea: Is this safe?
Fawviah: Is pursuing forbidden dreams ever safe, my dear?
Pywackett decides to go for it and Hack! produces a nice, warm, wet hairball right on the stranger's shoe.
Fawviah: The impossible is made possible by entering into danger.
Pywackett runs away quickly.
Fawviah bends and deftly plucks up the hairball.
Alea shrugs, thinking she might as well try it.
Alea downs the liquid.
Fawviah pops the hairball into the jar with the others, and replaces the jar on the shelf.
Pywackett runs to the back of the place and hides on the top of the shelf.
Alea chokes as the bitter tasting liquid goes down.
Alea: Oh..my he-veans...
Alea watches the nasty little cat run away...and is relieved she won't be elaving any more gifts around.
Fawviah stirs her pot, crooning the words to a little song.
Alea: That..taht is...awful!
Alea: Oh ugh..
Fawviah: Lit-le-girls-who-talk-to-stran-gers-get-what-they-de-serve [little song]
Alea leans back in the chair feeling suddenly woozy.
Fawviah pops a few more herbs and spices into the pot....
Alea blinks and loosk over at fawviah.
Fawviah: [the mayor's toenail clippings... ronaplin from a Farris... eye of Stoat]
Pywackett jumps down from the shelf again.
Alea sinks down in the chair, feeling her body begin to tingle.
Pywackett walks from table top to table top, not disturbing any of the objects.
Alea: Excuse me...I think....allergic...[shakes her head]
Pywackett moves toward the front door.
Pywackett considers calling for the door to be opened.
Alea Farri feels strange.
Fawviah sets mode: +o AleaFarri
Pywackett nudges the hem of the cloak with his cheek.
You are now known as Alea.
Alea: I...I..
Alea rubs at her arms.
Pywackett begins to bat at it with his paw.
Pywackett lifts both front paws against the fabric.
Pywackett looks back to the stranger and mommy to see if anyone is watching.
Fawviah has eyes on the back of her head.
Pywackett sulks a bit.
Alea: I...Snake...I have to go.
Alea pushes herself up from the chair, before doubling over with cramps.
Pywackett mutters silent obscenities as only one of his noble species can.
Pywackett gets back up and pulls at the fabric, claws extended.
Pywackett revels in the satisfying feeling as the threads pull at his claws.
Fawviah: Go, child, and do not stumble upon the fabric of your inner desires...
Pywackett begins to bliss out, intent on his activity...
Alea stumbles to the cloak, kicking hte cat on her way.
Pywackett: MEOWR!
Alea jerks at the cloak, crying out as the rough fabric scrapes her arms.
Pywackett hisses and spits!
Alea: Oh shen...
Alea accidently kicks the cat again on her way to the door.
Pywackett jumps to a high level so as not to be underfoot. Too late!
Pywackett cries out in mortal pain!
Pywackett: MEOWWRRRORRR...
Alea hurries out the door, stumbling back toward Snake's house.
Pywackett jumps to the window and glares out at the stranger until she is out of site.
Whitewolf follows in Alea's shadow.
Pywackett: ==sight.===
Fawviah is now known as wisesnake.
Whitewolf senses Alea is unwell, pants in hunger.
Alea staggers, the world shifting and changing before her as she goes up to a familiar door.
Whitewolf closes in on Alea's heels.
Alea slaps her hand agains the door, crying out when the motion hurts her hands and arms.
Alea: Snake!
Alea: Please...help...sick.
Alea slides down to the steps, curling up on herself, panting...
Wise Snake pauses halfway out the back door, then calls to Nick and hurries back toward the front of the house.
Wise Snake opens the door.
Wise Snake: Alea? ~~~ zlins in alarm ~~~
Alea looks up...panting...seeing snake...differently.
Alea: Sssssiiick, ssssnake.
Wise Snake: Nick, start the fire again. And grab some blankets.
Wise Snake: I know, Alea, I know. Let's get you inside, here.
Wise Snake crouches down and picks up Alea gently.
Alea careful..my arms...they hurt all the way up...and my chest...neck...
Alea: Oooh.
Alea rubs at her arms then winces, shuddering.
Alea: What...?
Wise Snake carries Alea inside and lays her gently on the couch.
Alea looks down at her arms...and sees...
Wise Snake closes the door and hurries back to Alea.
Alea: Snake?
Alea looks incredulous.
Alea holds out her arms...even as the first contraction hits.
Alea sets mode: +o NickR
Alea: It's too laaate...I'll die...I"m Gen!
Nick hurries back in with the blankets and then goes to restart the fire.
Wise Snake: Shh, shh... Alea...
Alea grabs at Snakes' arms.
Alea: I can't go through changeover...
Wise Snake gasps.
Wise Snake: Alea! What are you -
Wise Snake: Let go.
Alea groans and holds on for dear life.
Wise Snake: Shen...
Alea: Ssssnaaaake....
Alea ~~another contraction~~
Alea ~~panting~~
Alea: I'm going to die...Oh shen..I'm dying!
Wise Snake desperately tries to zlin what is wrong with Alea... a poisoning?
Wise Snake cringes from Alea's pain, tries to block it out for both herself and Alea.
Alea feels the small bubbles expanding on her arms and releases Snake as another contraction hits.
Alea: Oh..sheeeen...
Wise Snake jerks her arms back away from Alea's loosened grip.
Alea throws out her arms...throwing her hands wide and feels tentacles break out.
Wise Snake: Shidoni - what -
Alea looks over at snake...seeing the shifting selyn field.
Alea: I'm zlinning Snake.
Wise Snake: What?!
Alea ~~need churning/deep dark void~~
Wise Snake zlins Alea in utter disbelief.
Alea lunges for the golden field of promise.
Wise Snake zlins a Gen feeling Sime feelings.
Alea grabs Nick.
Wise Snake: Hey!!
Nick: ~~astonishment~~~
Alea wraps her tentacles around Nick's arms and goes for fifth contact point.
Alea ~~yes! A Farris Channel! Finally~~
Nick staggers back as Alea grabs his arms and tries to kiss him.
Nick looks wildly at Snake for direction.
Alea keeps the fifth contact piont, drawing selyn.
Wise Snake is less worried about Nick than she is about Alea's sanity.
Wise Snake grabs Alea and drags her off of Nick.
Alea feels a small trickle that goes faster and faster feeling the selyn pouring into her system, filling the empty spots...stiffens.
Alea ~~shen~~
Alea ~~dark black need~~
Alea turns on the person holding her and tries to establish transfer position.
Alea moves forward, trying to find a fifth contact point even as she wraps tentacles around Snake's arms.
Wise Snake gasps again as Alea's crazy fingers dig in.
Wise Snake wonders what Alea thinks she is doing.
Alea grabs fifth contact point and begins to draw again, demanding the selyn she needs.
Alea feels a burst of pleasure as she is filled.
Alea feels the pulse as reaches completion and tumbles over into the area of using selyn again...with each heartbeat...slowly seh releases snake and sits back.
Wise Snake endures the uncomfortable hold until she is released.
Wise Snake stares at Alea, heart pounding, and rubs her arms.
Alea blinks...taking in her surroundsing...seeing like a Gen again...
Alea: Wasn't it real...
Wise Snake wary, ready to get away if Alea tries any more stunts.
Alea looks down at her amrs and smiles..holding them up, watching the tentacles wave around.
Alea: Aren't they beautiful?
Wise Snake stares at Alea's arms, which look much as they always have.
Alea: I knew I was suppose to be a Farris Channel, Snake..not a Donor.
Alea: And I didn't die...though...
Alea looks around from snake to Nick...confused.
Wise Snake: Alea...?
Alea notices for the first time how very...interesting Nick is.
Alea distracted, looks back at Snake...
Alea: Yes?
Alea tries to zlin and fails.
Nick is very confused; concentrates upon supporting Snake.
Alea: How odd..so this is what you mean about being unable to zlin after having transfer.
Wise Snake: Alea! You are very ill.
Alea looks at her tentacles again then chuckles when she retracts them.
Alea: Look..how cool...bloop...extended...wow!
Alea: No..no I"m not Snake.
Alea: I was...but I'm okay now.
Alea smiles brightly.
Wise Snake zlins Alea again.
Alea: I have to go show everyone.
Wise Snake: What ever did you take? I don't recognize..
Wise Snake: No!
Wise Snake: No, you don't.
Alea jumps up and starts toward the door.
Alea: You know...I can't believe the energy I have after that transfer.
Wise Snake catches Alea and forces her back down to the couch.
Alea: Maybe..hey...
Wise Snake: Ah, why don't you just sit right here.
Alea: I was just going to go talk to...Tarsh.
Alea smiles silly.
Wise Snake: Um, I think Tarsh has enough problems right now.
Alea glances back at Nick and winks.
Alea: Problems?
Alea cocks her head.
Alea: But you don't understand...he'll be safe from me now. As a channel, I can help him...we'll be okay.
Alea holds her arms back up, fascinated with the feel...gets distracted by how odd everything looks in the room.
Wise Snake: Nick, tell Linn to go the Sime Center and bring back a channel... and at least two or three other people as well.
Wise Snake: And tell her to hurry!
Alea: YOu know, though I can't zlin right now...things are still very different.
Nick hurries to comply.
Alea frowns as she watches Nick leave.
Wise Snake: Different? I'll bet they are, [muttered under breath]
Alea: You know...there is something else that is a little more urgent with a Sime than a Donor..though a Donor definitely feels it too....
Alea grins naughtily.
Wise Snake: ~alarm~
Alea: I bet you know what I'm talking about...as one channel to another.
Wise Snake: Wh-- !
Wise Snake: Uh...
Alea: You sure I can't go talk to Tarsh, just for a little bit?
Alea smiles at Snake, then looks longingly at the door.
Wise Snake: Someone from the Sime Center will come for you.
Alea smiles
Alea: Great.
Alea looks over at the fire.
Alea: Wow....will you look at that...
Wise Snake: Did you... um...take any special medicine or anything after you left here?
Wise Snake is tense, ready to leap in any direction if required.
Alea distracted turns to snake...trying to zlin the nauances of her field.
Alea: Well, no..nothing...but I did meet this woman.
Wise Snake sweats.
Alea: You see, this white wolf was chasing me when i left the Sime bar...
Wise Snake: A wolf??
Wise Snake thinks Alea has finally gone off the deep end.
Alea: Oh..I did drink some portsan there...but it was nothing like the...why yes...a huge white beast.
Alea: Anway...I was trying to get away from it and stumbled into a house...I was afraid it was a whorehouse until this old woman cmae in.
Alea: You know..she knew you. I htought it'd be safe to tell her you and I were related..just in case she tried anything...
Alea: She didn't. Indeed, she offered me a drink...
Alea rubs at her head.
Wise Snake: A drink?? What kind of drink?
Alea: Things are sorta fuzzy.
Wise Snake zlins Alea from a safe distance.
Alea: A promise drink..dream drink...something...but I thought it was making me sick so I came back here...
Wise Snake: Maybe you should lie down for a while.
Alea: But...you know...I never would have believed it...but it made me go through changeover!
Alea looks up at Snake.
Wise Snake: Dream drink? ~worried~ changeover??
Alea: Do you know how long I've wanted to be a channel? How devastated I was when I supposedly established!
Wise Snake: _supposedly_ established??
Alea jumps up and begins to pace around the room restlessly, watching as she moves her teantacles back and forth in front of her face.
Wise Snake prevents Alea from getting to near any doors or fireplaces.
Alea: Well...it ends up I did establish..but....have you ever heard of a case where they later on changed over?
Alea holds out her arms, waving tentacles at Snake for emphasis.
Alea: You know..I've seen Tarsh do this thing with his tentacles...
Alea hurries over to the table and gathers up a cup and saucer and a spoon.
Alea: He juggles them like this...
Wise Snake: Alea, you're hallucinating. YOu don't have any -
Alea tosses them up in the air and tries to catch them with her tentacles.
Alea ~~CRASH~~
Alea: Oh dear~
Alea looks apologetcially at Snake.
Alea: I guess it takes time to learn how to do that.
Alea zlins snake.
Alea: Why do you zlin like you're worried?
Alea: At least..I'm almost certain that's what I'm zlinning...wow...I'm still having trouble zlinning. How ood.
Wise Snake: Alea, I am completely freaking out is what I am. Please just sit down and wait quietly until the Sime Center people arrive to take you home.
Alea: How long after transfer before you can zlin regularly.
Alea: I was on my way to visit Tarsh when you stopped me from leaving. If you're so upset snake, why don't you just let me go. I have to go apologize to him anyway. That old witch with the cat let the cat claw at his cloak.
Alea sighs.
Alea: I don't suppose you'd let me zlin some outfunctions and stuff while we wait?
Alea allows her eyes to go unfocused so she can zlin.
Alea rubs at her stomach, wincing slightly.
Wise Snake zlins Alea, concerned.
Alea: Is it normal for your stomach to hurt after changing over?
Wise Snake: The bathroom is right over there if you have to...
Alea: You know, Nick is a very handsome man...
Alea: Have you and he...
Alea makes a motion with her tentacles.
Wise Snake: No!
Alea: Oh..
Alea: Well...
Alea nods.
Wise Snake notices Nick has been gone an abnormally long time...wonders if he ran screaming.
Briel signals at the door.
Alea zlins.
Wise Snake rushes to the door with relief.
Alea: Oh! Briel is here. I'd reconize that nager anywhere.
Wise Snake: Briel! Am I glad to see you.
Alea: Briel! Look at me!
Briel: Hello Snak...what in the world...
Briel zlins Alea.
Wise Snake: YOu wouldn't believe what Alea -
Alea waves her arms wildly in the air.
Alea: What do you think?
Briel studies Alea.
Briel: Dance lessons?
Briel looking curiously at Snake.
Wise Snake: She got ahold of some kind of hallucinogens or something and thinks she's a newly changed over Sime.
Briel snorts.
Briel: Yeah, right.
Briel zlins Snake closely.
Wise Snake: Zlin her...
Wise Snake offended.
Wise Snake: Hey - mind your own business!
Alea zlins them and smiles.
Briel frowns.
Briel: You don't zlin like....
Briel turns and zlins Alea.
Alea ~~zlinning/sime=ness~~
Briel: Uh...
Briel looks back at snake Strangely.
Wise Snake: Could you take her home and take care of her or something? [pleadingly]
Briel: Has she been ill? Did you induce vomiting? What has she ingested.
Briel: I um...yeah...
Wise Snake: I have no idea! She stumbled in at my doorstep like this.
Briel: Has she been...violent?
Alea: Oh, please...
Alea props her hands on her hips.
Wise Snake: When I tried to help her she grabbed my arms, and I don't mind saying it hurt like shen.
Alea giggles.
Wise Snake: Then she .... I guess... tried to make a transfer off me, I think.
Wise Snake: Only she was trying to pull out instead of push in... didn't do a good job of it fortunately.
Alea: If you hadn't interrupted my first ransfer with Nick I wouldn't have had to grab you...you know how it is when need totally takes over.
Wise Snake: I haven't seen NIck since THAT happened... I'll be lucky if I ever see him again!
Briel looks between snake and Alea.
Briel looks alarmed.
Briel: Did she hurt Nick?
Wise Snake: I don't know... he left before I could check him out.
Alea: Nick's well able to take care of himself...He'll be a shenned good Donor...I could have qualified him if Snake hadn't...[shudders]
Wise Snake is keeping Briel between herself and Alea.
Briel sighs.
Briel: I'll just take her back to the Center...can you try to find out if anyone has seen her around, knows what she might have gotten into...
Wise Snake: I'll see what I can learn.
Alea frowns at Briel's words.
Wise Snake: ~~very relieved that Briel is going to take responsiblity for the crazy Donor ~~
Alea walks over to Snake and takes her hand, trying to twine tentacles.
Wise Snake backs away, disallowing the contact.
Alea: I want to thank you again, Snake...saving my life twice in one week..
Alea frowns at snake's movements.
Alea: Who would have dreamed...giving me transfer.
Alea shakes her head.
Wise Snake: Alea, I... I hope you feel much better very soon.
Alea: Of course...And thank you, hajene, for your help in the end.
Briel hooks an arm around Alea and leads her out the door.
Alea: Tell Nick Thanks...maybe next month.
Alea leaves with Briel, talking about giving transfer to renSImes...and seeing Tarsh.
Wise Snake sinks down on the couch, trembling.