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Rousing IV: Validate, part i

    “Hi?  Who are you?” I asked the immaculately-dressed plain-dweller.


    out of place. Their green eyes met mine, and their frills spread out like an invitation.


    you, but not for me, scarcely for me. Why, look around you. Do you see any other with scales as blue or cloaks as regal as yours?  Even a traveler such as I has scarcely seen the skylands, or a royal sky-dweller.  And what a pity, when everything he’s heard makes the wonder of heaven itself flush warm with envy.”


    you some kind of poet?”


    Nothing. Keep your spirit any sharper and you might cut yourself.” He shook his head.  “Whatever.  I did have a purpose of sorts here.  Of course this smalltalk has been enjoyable enough so far.”


    Which skyland, then — Is that the proper question for you, your sharpness?”


    up.  Since gravity is no problem, we can do things surface-dwellers can’t.”


    life in it! You cannot smile and laugh and joke with a scroll.  There is no entre???—??err, interak???—??err, interactivity, yes that’s it.”  I laughed.  “What?  Do not laugh at me.  I had to find the right word.  The difference between the right word and the almost right word is —”


    everyone looks like a drake and it is so confusing.”


    I was a wiver?”


    is Dynfderi.”


    I see.”  The joke pulled a guffawing hiss from him and it bled back onto me.  A passerby in a cloak peered at us with a confused look, then smiled and tossed their head. I glanced back to the traveler, and smiled at him.


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    A long ring cut through the laughter.  The sixth ring.  I glanced back the library, but the traveler had already starting talking again, “Say, have you ever met a forest-dweller called Hinte?  Acts like she’s shedding every day of the cycle?”


    I see.”


    could become an alchemist.


    together.”  I muttered.


    the Ushra, slaying a quartet of monsters in the fires? Or the same with that sky-dweller who hasn’t been here six dances fighting humans with friendship and teamwork?”


    nothing to do with it?”


    did.  I guarded the first human corpses while Hinte fought the rest.  I scared off the wraiths!  I didn’t fight the humans, but I helped a lot otherwise!”


    practical.”


    was nice. And too silly to really do much harm.


    other theater.  Fair… Scrolling, I suppose?  Taste you later.”


    Taste me. Oh. My tail, already coiled around my leg, strangled my hindleg. That must have been a slip of his tongue.  He acted silly and slipped up a few other times in the conversation, too.  It was nothing.


    No.  “I’ll think about it,” I said slowly.  “I have plans today.”


    rash of violence lately.  Some say there’s a new drug on the loose???—??and all the miasma coming with that.  Best to stay safe, I say.”


    distinctive.”


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