Mini-Challenge: Quandary

[ladylight]

... bloody hell but I am loving this ... *plays in pile of words and throws them up in the air like money* Where were you in 2007, you bastards?!

It'll be Sailley or Rannon who come crawling back next, mark my words. Hahaha. Immovan's already showing them up anyway ;D

(**PS: half-day warning for any watchers of soulfiresnippet to defriend for whole-year-

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[shanra]

"Right. I'll check with my superiors. Would you like a firearm, too?"
"A Laskey rifle, if you've got any spare."

*snicker, snicker* Thalian, you owe me.

"No, no, you're right. I'm getting distracted. I've got so much to tell you. What did I get up to?"

He is... uncannily scary when he's in such a pleasant mood... Are you sure he's not contracted a fever? *likes it muchly, though*

"Ah, nice. Saulan Hascott was telling me about his holiday there the other day. You can thank me for those, you know - they weren't always beaches."

Aah... Thalian... I knew I forgot someone when I listed favourite antagonists...

Arathalian was even considerate enough to repeat several points, speaking slowly and clearly for an accurate transcription.

Aww. You're such a sweet thing, Arathalian. *fairly certain she wouldn't trust him one bit*

Nataul had been through plenty of unpleasant Queries, but he had never wanted so desperately to hit the fae with a chair. Or something harder.Oh, yes. Very nasty Thalian. What do you mean 'no plot'? This is

[ladylight]

He is... uncannily scary when he's in such a pleasant mood... Are you sure he's not contracted a fever?
-- Oh, no, he has pleasant moods quite frequently ... when something unpleasant is happening/has happened/will happen to Holders >_> *cough*

Heh, yes, I actually think Nataul out-and-out won in the end, which is why I decided to post this, wordybabble and all ... Arathalian gets his own way far too often as is, which is probably one of the reasons Holders have so much trouble dealing with him. It's fun to see him lose ;P

*huggles* Thankees for reading, hon, you are too kind ;) It's fairly old ground by now, the whole Arathalian-needling-at-researchers thing, but I'm just going to bleat 'it's been ages!' for an excuse and hide blushing under my trusty tinfoil sombrero ...

[hyarmi_records]

I don't know if it's the inner sadist, or what, but I do so love the whole Iron Hold concept. And this was delicous, especially with all the reversals toward the end

[hyarmi_records]

Forgot to mention I loved the petulant book-throwing!

[ladylight]

Mature statesman, that one ;P

[ladylight]

Ah, but at least you're not the sadist writing the stuff ;)

But with a fae, it's (more) ironclad. Even if I was getting flashbacks to Roman History.
-- *cackles a bit at the use of 'ironclad'* Heh, you mean Caesar and the pirates?

I suppose Arathalion knows that.
-- I'm not sure that he would in this case, but if he had known, it's -exactly- the kind of high-minded, mature little thing he'd do, yes ;P

Is there a reason you're repeating '-eyed' here?
-- I wanted to emphasise the fact that Arathalian was staring intently and not very pleasantly without saying 'staring intently and not very pleasantly', mostly just because there's a 'stare' in the next sentence.

Thanks for dropping by and having a read of me spam, me dear, 'tis much appreciated! ;D

[saltnester]

[indicates] There is such thing as winding a man up too tightly.

[ladylight]

*big grin* Haha, yeah, that's exactly it ... Arathalian's far too pleased with his own cleverness here, and too used to everyone just putting their head down meekly and taking it, and too stuck in his own Holder stereotype to allow for the existence of people as well as cynical gaolers ...

[annarti]

Thaaaaaliaaaaan =DD Ah~ my favourite fae is back <3 I just love his cynicism, and how when he's at his most polite and helpful, is actually when he's at his most dangerous. Everything he says just screams "ULTERIOR MOTIVE". Evil old bastard <3

[ladylight]

I swear it's almost physically impossible for him to do/say a nice thing to a Holder XD Though they'd be ever so confused if he actually did, so maybe he's just being considerate *cough*

*glomp* Thankees for reading, me Nartipuff <3 Death to the fleh!

[indan]

Hurray, the draught truly turned into a flood!

"nor by any other means existing now nor yet to exist in future."

I suspect the second "nor" should be an "or".

Very entertaining piece. It's true it's very talky and doesn't have much plot, but the talking is fun to read and it does contribute to the bigger story, both in character development and background information.

[ladylight]

I'm drown-ing ... only thing saving me at the moment is lack of a comfortable space to type ..!

You suspect correctly! Well, unless I throw another comma in there, but I don't think I want to pepper the clause THAT much ;P Thankees for that! And thankees very muchly for stopping by (er, two weeks ago *cough*)!