Day 14 Early Morning in the woods
<<FROM Tree's POST>>
The Bard took a step back then looked to the Jr. Queenrider.
[Yeoooucch] Samson roared jumping back from Almantha's sharp teeth.
<Back off you big lumox! I was protecting *MY RIDER* just fine!> the copper queen hissed at the large male.
Samson snorted angrily sending a cloud of steam at the little queen. The two dragons squared off and began to argue.
Pandora rushed over to K'nord, "I'm so sorry!"
Disgusted with the two dragons Pandora turned, "*YOU TWO STOP IT RIGHT NOW!
BEHAVE YOURSELVES *" Pandora commanded loudly.
The dragons froze and two draconian heads snapped around in unison to stare wide-eyed at the soft-spoken woman, the angry edge to her voice all too familiar.
Almantha slunk away circling around behind her rider. Thinking that her rider wasn't watching she stuck her tongue out at Samson.
"*Almantha!!*" Pandora spoke and thought firmly.
Turning back to the man, "Again I am terribly sorry K'nord! Please forgive their bad manners. They do have tendency to get a bit over-protective and can be more than a little overbearing."
<<END Tree>>
K'nord's dragon Shiver was the next arrival. As he came in the air around the group noticibly got colder.
<Are you OK rider> said the blue dragon to K'nord.
"I am fine. Have you met the newest queen to Daere, Shiver?" said K'nord.
<No, I haven't> said Shiver frankly.
<Who is this little shrimp dragon?> said Almantha.
<I am Shiver my queen> said the blue so politely it took Almantha off guard for a second.
<Aren't you a little small to be a dragon?> said the queen.
<No, not really my queen. I can do most things except breath fire my queen.>
The politeness was really intriguing the childish queen.
<You can't breath fire, so what good are you then?> said Almantha snootily.
<I breath cold. Cold enough to freeze just about everything. Watch.> said the Blue. He then took a large inhale and then exhaled on a nearby tree. The entire tree glistened with ice crystals. The blue then took his tail and swiped the tree and the tree shattered into a million little pieces. Sampson went into a defensive position because he was startled by chunks of ice flying everywhere.
<HUMMPH! I would rather breath fire. You are a strange dragon.> said Almantha.
<It is your right to feel that way. You are a queen. If you believe I am strange, then I am strange. Your word is my bound duty, queen>
Almantha had to think hard on this one. She didn't know what to make of this new blue dragon and all of his politeness. He must be trying to set her up, she thought. Maybe Flerrion put him up to the whole thing. She would have to bite his tail to teach him some manners for all of this.
<Rider, the warrenlady wishes to see you in her quarters> said Shiver having got the message from Viktroy.
"I am sorry that I will have to leave you all now. Miss Pandora, if you ever wish lessons come visit me. You have a most beautiful voice."
With that, the bard disappeared to make his way back to the warren proper.
{{tag to Tree, what does Almantha make of Shiver and his politeness to her?}}
[ Day 14 morning after breakfast ]
[ Morning after the dinner party at Leigh and D'Altar ]
[[ Leigh's office ]]
<<FROM Barb's POST>>
A few moments later there was a knock at the door, and K'nord entered when she'd called out. She could see by the looks the four were giving him that they had indeed found the man handsome at first glance.
"M'Lady, Shiver informed me that you required my presence?" K'nord said formally as he entered the room.
"Yes Bard K'nord I do," she said equally as formal. "It has come to my attention that you will be in need of help getting your hall together and keeping it in good running order now that you have agreed to take over the running of the Bard's Teaching Hall here in Daere.. I've taken it upon myself to find you these four women to do whatever you find that needs doing so that you might better concentrate on the duties your position requires you to perform."
"And these lovely young women," the bard said looking them over with a pleasing glance as he smiled warmly at each one in turn. "Have they agreed to help me out?"
"That is for you to convince them" Leigh smiled sweetly.
<<END Barb>>
The bard looked over the four women closely. They were certainly beautiful. If he let his other head make the decision, they would be on their way up to the apartment right now.
"Well, I need someone to keep up the instruments and make sure they are regularly cleaned. There is also quite a bit of laundry to do. I change outfits quite frequently depending on the various performances I do in a given day. I am not a very neat person so there is the care of my apartment and I also need someone to stop by my Dad and make sure he is doing fine. With these four around I might actually get something done. Do you ladies do all of these things?"
The four shifted around nervously. They were very upset to be losing their master, D'Altar. But the warrenlady would surely kick them out of the warren if they didn't concede.
The first Jeannie spoke up. "We do all of those things and much more."
"My lady, " said the Bard turning to the Warrenlady. "I see no problem taking these young ladies into my services. I can find quite a bit for them to do. I thank you my lady for your generosity."
<<BEGIN Barb AGAIN>>
"So Ladies?" she said slowly, eyes narrowing as she regarded them. "Do we have a deal?"
<<END BARB>>
The young ladies shifted around again. A meek "Yes" escaped from all of their mouthes. A large grin quickly formed on Leigh's lips. She had finally gotten rid of the Jeannies.
NRPG: I know it is short, but I did tie up two seperate tags in this post. The Jeannies are now in my custody. I promise not to abuse them too much. Hopefully, they don't abuse K'nord too much. LOL. Peter, let me know if you want to joint post the Jeannies first arrival to the Bard's apartment.
K'nord and Shiver