I hope your ice cream trucks play better music than ours. Ours wanders around the neighborhood playing the first few bars of 'Polly Wolly Doodle' until Uncle A and I put soundproofing spells up in defense of our sanity.
But the toasted-almond-crunch bars are pretty good.
[Given her role as an English teacher, you'd think that Njoki would make more offerings to Djehuty, but she's never really felt any particular connection to the god. However, this morning she remembers to light a few sticks of incense for him. Maybe that will help with the dispirtedness.]
[She's also offered up a beer for Set and a note: 'I think I'm going for a long walk in a terrible desert and could use all the help I can get. How do I go about this?']
[A beer and her history of offerings gets her a nice bronze amulet (more intact than the one pictured, naturally) wrapped in a note.
SURE THING. THIS SHOULD GET YOU THROUGH SANDSTORMS AND WILD BEAST ATTACKS. IF YOU WERE TO, SAY, SACRAFICE A PIG OR AN ANTELOPE (OR TWO) TO ME, IT WOULD WORK GREAT AGAINST DEHIDRATION AND HEATSTROKE. IN COMBINATION WITH COMMON SENSE.
Yes, Set has a tendency to write his notes in block capitals.]
Ah, you have confused me with this Otto you mentioned! Because I do not think I have ever heard of vampire melons. Do they feast upon other melons?
What will help cheer you up with godliness? I am still not used to speaking with gods (though I am pleased to say that reading the words of Djehuty does not give me even a headache!), much less having them be so directly active, as Hermes just was. I think my manners are good enough still that I am not interfering with matters not my own, though Gabriel is still very sore about it. I know that you enjoy books. I have a volume of Uberwaldian inverted epic limericks if you would like it? For some reason not even the Library at the Unseen University is interested in it! Ankh-Morpork has no appreciation.
((Forgive me. I made the limerick bit up for Njoki and find it too funny. ^__^))
Ah! So sorry--this was Otto Octavius, who gave Ruthven some vampire melon seeds. I am not sure myself how he came by them. My understand is that they roll around the ground, making a noise like brrrl, brrrl. Not...so very threatening.
I'm glad my words don't cause headache! Ruthven has adjusted to them quite well, though ankh symbols still make him ill. And a volume of inverted epic limericks would delight me no end! I cannot imagine why a library would reject such a thing.
What an odd thing for a vampire of any kind to do. Are they black? Or pale white?
Good! They are just not ready for such cultural refinement, I think. They also cannot handle a double entendre, I find. An entendre and a half is the most that the public seems able to get, and some of the limericks have triple entendres. I tried one of those out on a Watchman, the one who looks like a starving, mud-coated chimpanzee, and he had to go have a sit down and a beer afterwards.
No, they are simply melon-colored. Green, with a bit of red. I'm not sure they are even truly sanguivorous. The mechanism would be most difficult to explain!
I shall fortify myself with a beer before starting the limericks, then, and be safe.
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But the toasted-almond-crunch bars are pretty good.
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Toasted almond crunch sounds marvelous.
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Sometimes I like almond and caramel-y flavors better than chocolate.
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SURE THING. THIS SHOULD GET YOU THROUGH SANDSTORMS AND WILD BEAST ATTACKS. IF YOU WERE TO, SAY, SACRAFICE A PIG OR AN ANTELOPE (OR TWO) TO ME, IT WOULD WORK GREAT AGAINST DEHIDRATION AND HEATSTROKE. IN COMBINATION WITH COMMON SENSE.
Yes, Set has a tendency to write his notes in block capitals.]
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What will help cheer you up with godliness? I am still not used to speaking with gods (though I am pleased to say that reading the words of Djehuty does not give me even a headache!), much less having them be so directly active, as Hermes just was. I think my manners are good enough still that I am not interfering with matters not my own, though Gabriel is still very sore about it. I know that you enjoy books. I have a volume of Uberwaldian inverted epic limericks if you would like it? For some reason not even the Library at the Unseen University is interested in it! Ankh-Morpork has no appreciation.
((Forgive me. I made the limerick bit up for Njoki and find it too funny. ^__^))
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I'm glad my words don't cause headache! Ruthven has adjusted to them quite well, though ankh symbols still make him ill. And a volume of inverted epic limericks would delight me no end! I cannot imagine why a library would reject such a thing.
((*dies*))
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Good! They are just not ready for such cultural refinement, I think. They also cannot handle a double entendre, I find. An entendre and a half is the most that the public seems able to get, and some of the limericks have triple entendres. I tried one of those out on a Watchman, the one who looks like a starving, mud-coated chimpanzee, and he had to go have a sit down and a beer afterwards.
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I shall fortify myself with a beer before starting the limericks, then, and be safe.
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I love you. :D Realized I hadn't said that in a while.
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Did you know that we now own a Sensible Family Car? A Volvo of some variety, I believe!
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