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 Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 7:38 pm
"I'm fine."
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She points to the lamp. "You will put that wherever the djinn tells you to. And if he asks to return here you will do as he says. Oh, and treat him with the respect and admiration he deserves."
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 7:46 pm
"I can't let you run around shooting people."
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".. That's it?" She blinks.
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:07 pm
"But it's Byron."
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"Yes."
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:12 pm
"Sparrow, please? No shooting?"
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"Okay."
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:19 pm
"...Okay, no shooting."
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"All right!" She opens up a little box and takes out a knife. "Hair and blood, please. In the lamp."
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:26 pm
"Or anything else that could get you locked up."
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"Five drops, right?" She takes the knife and cuts off a bit of hair. She drops it into the lamp.
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:28 pm
She siighs.
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"Very good! And you promise to all those things?"
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:37 pm
"Okay?"
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"Yes." She pricks her finger and counts out five drops of blood as they fall into the lamp. She then sticks her finger in her mouth.
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:44 pm
"...Okay."
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"Very good!" She cackles then points to the lamp. "Go ahead, pick it up. Bring it to your djinn."
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:49 pm
"Thank yoooou."
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"This will really work? You promise?" She picks up the lamp.
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:50 pm
"Hmph."
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"I don't know. I'll come to find out!"
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:54 pm
Pout.
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"You're going to come with me?"
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:55 pm
...
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"Right. You wanted the djinn." There's a great puff of smoke and the old woman is replaced with the man from before. He grins at her. "Hello."
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 9:00 pm
"Don't be angry with me."
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She waves away the smoke. "Do you often dress as old women?"
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 9:01 pm
"I'm not."
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"Only when people come looking for the witch. She did look like that, you know. I do a very exact impersonation."
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