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 Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:19 pm
A lot could happen in seven days. From what Emma had told him in the confines of the estate, the Lieutenant had seen some significant change in her life in the past week.
The book snapped shut and Hrothbert emerged from the booth, running his fingers through his hair as he eyed the Lieutenant and bowed.
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:28 pm
Spent my days with a woman unkind,
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine.
Made up my mind to make a new start,
Going to california with an aching in my heart.
The Lieutenant... or Centurion, or whatever she was now, stood up and bowed politely as well. She would've offered her hand, but both of her gauntlets were rather marred by dirt.
"If I'm right... Lord Bainbridge?"Someone told me theres a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.
Took my chances on a big jet plane,
Never let them tell you that theyre all the same.
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:31 pm
"Quite correct, Centurion." he said with a smile, not quite sure if she was comfortable with the new title yet. "I don't believe we've officially met."
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:34 pm
Spent my days with a woman unkind,
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine.
Made up my mind to make a new start,
Going to california with an aching in my heart.
To hear herself called that... it was strange. Like remembering to speak English instead of Greek or Satyrspeak. "I don't believe so either."
"I've heard a few things, however."
Someone told me theres a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.
Took my chances on a big jet plane,
Never let them tell you that theyre all the same.
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:37 pm
"Really? Such as?"
Silver eyebrows shot up into his hairline, only serving to further enhance the Oxford-professor look that he so often gave off. He barely looked the part of the ancient, formerly-damned sorcerer, with his three-piece suit (complete with burgundy vest and tie) and faint aura of scholarly interest at all times.
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:46 pm
Spent my days with a woman unkind,
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine.
Made up my mind to make a new start,
Going to california with an aching in my heart.
"There's a strict code of confidentiality, I believe, between two women talking about such things." The Faun sat back down to drink her - now not scalding hot - tea. "Or something of the sort."
"Well, she did mention something about the ability to freeze the entire world over."Someone told me theres a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.
Took my chances on a big jet plane,
Never let them tell you that theyre all the same.
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:49 pm
"She overestimates me."
That was, of course, a massive, obvious lie, but he never liked to plainly state his abilities. Any mage who had walked in would have sensed only a mortal man.
He had very, very good wards.
"And I've heard a great deal about you, I must say. Emma is rather fond of you."
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:00 pm
Spent my days with a woman unkind,
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine.
Made up my mind to make a new start,
Going to california with an aching in my heart.
"Oh?" Kaok was rather fond of the Enchantress herself.
People who didn't hate or fear you were a rare gift in her career - people who had saved her life were fewer in number.Someone told me theres a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.
Took my chances on a big jet plane,
Never let them tell you that theyre all the same.
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:07 pm
He nodded.
Had the sorcerer known Kaok's thoughts, he would have agreed wholeheartedly.
He had spent more than a thousand years being both hated and feared; Emma's feelings were a welcome relief.
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:18 pm
Spent my days with a woman unkind,
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine.
Made up my mind to make a new start,
Going to california with an aching in my heart.
"England." The Faun said suddenly. Then to clarify - "What's it like?"
"I've always meant to ask Emma, but I keep on forgetting."Someone told me theres a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.
Took my chances on a big jet plane,
Never let them tell you that theyre all the same.
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:26 pm
"Cold and rainy, most of the time. But we go back a long time-" He smiled again, this time with a wistful look in his eyes. "-longer than I've been around. I almost feel young in comparison to my country."
That was one trait the couple shared; a fierce pride in their nation.
Rule Britannia indeed.
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:33 pm
Spent my days with a woman unkind,
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine.
Made up my mind to make a new start,
Going to california with an aching in my heart.
"According to what my people say, the place I come from has been around since the dawn of time." The Faun mused.
Of course, they also say that clouds birthed the Gods, and that rowdy drunken behavior is morally admirable.Someone told me theres a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.
Took my chances on a big jet plane,
Never let them tell you that theyre all the same.
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:37 pm
"We all have our creation stories." The Norse creation myth was rather unpleasant, born of a people who endured ice, snow, blood and death on a regular basis.
"Emma mentioned to me that you have made a recent change in status."
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:42 pm
Spent my days with a woman unkind,
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine.
Made up my mind to make a new start,
Going to california with an aching in my heart.
"Some people don't." She shrugged. At present she didn't. It was more agnosticism in her case, however.
"Would that be courting an Emperor, or becoming a Roman citizen? I suppose it could be both."Someone told me theres a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.
Took my chances on a big jet plane,
Never let them tell you that theyre all the same.
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:46 pm
"Both, then. Though I believe the courting to be somewhat of a greater alteration. Courting a ruler, no less. You choose well."
If he had worn glasses, he would have been peering over them.
Alas, no such luck.
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