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[charmprince]

Auntie's store was just right over-- Huh? [Hear that? That's the pipingest voice that ever piped.]

Cool!

I've never been here before! But I didn't ride a realmship or anythin'. An' this isn't Shrike! Maybe I'm near the Tombs. [GASSSSSSSSP.] Maybe I'll get t'meet a GHOST. Or King Sei! Or-- or--

This is so cool!But Auntie's gonna get mad. "'

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[thenobledie]

And what interest would a girl have to a ghost?

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[charmprince]

I can get things for them! An'... an'... I dunno, tell them stories or somethin'.

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[thenobledie]

[ here, shirley leans forward in her seat, one hand under her chin. ]

What stories would you tell?

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[charmprince]

Lotsa stories! Like the story of King Sei!

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[thenobledie]

I'm afraid I do not know of King Sei.

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[charmprince]

....Really? I thought everyone knew the story of King Sei!

He was a real hero. [This is the hushed awe reserved for gods, right here.]

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[thenobledie]

Then, you must tell me this story.

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[charmprince]

They call him th' Death Lord, 'cuz he was a really good king. When he died protectin' Shrike, even his soldiers and his knights wanted t'follow him. He still guards Shrike, y'know? He has a tomb an' treasure an' everythin'.

I wanna meet him so bad. Maybe he'll make me a knight. Lariat says girls can't be knights, but Lariat's dumb.

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[thenobledie]

[ wow. what a masterful story, asellus. still, shirley's smile becomes something a little more familiar, fonder. ]

Yes, Lariat is quite foolish.

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[charmprince]

That's what I said. But then Auntie told me that wasn't nice or p'lite or ladylike.

An' then she sent me to my room. [Sadface!]

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[thenobledie]

Next time, then, you must inform her ladylike means the lady does as she likes.

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[charmprince]

[A giggle.] I'll have to 'member that! I think it might make her mad. She's always mad, 'specially when I sass her.

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[thenobledie]

You are quite the troublemaker, aren't you?

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[charmprince]

I don't make trouble. It just... likes me. It's not my fault that sometimes things happen that I don't mean for them to happen.

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[thenobledie]

A trouble magnet, then.

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[charmprince]

Is a magnet that thing that makes metal stick to it? I think so. I guess I am a trouble magnet. But like Dr. Okinogi says, at least I'm not borin'.