Well Kest, I think that the
lovely lady should get some sleep. So I I'm letting
her be asleep. For
now...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Merlin
in the Institution and Mysti in the A&C Team Bahro
Agents Infiltration, Rescue, Espionage, and
Puzzle-Solving
Whilst trying to decide how she could
possibly get Elkae's little gift to her, she suddenly
remembered the coffee pot.
Looking around for
someone to send up to Elkae's room to check, she
realises that it's suddenly very quiet in the hood.
No-one around at all, well apart from Urudawg - who is
far too busy patrolling - and Bizzy who is, well
bizzy......
No, there is nothing for it but to go
up there herself. Taking out her umbrella she presses
the button on the handle and floats gently up to Elkae's
room above and enters. As she walks in she can smell the
aroma of burnt coffee
Quickly she
runs over to the pot and turns it off. Fortunately she
managed to get to it before it caught fire.
"Must
have been a lot of coffee in the pot if it's been on
that long and still not burnt completely dry" she
imagines.
Before she leaves she looks around the
room. It's neat and tidy, just as she would expect it to
be given that Elkae's a neat and tidy sort of
person.
Her chore done, she opens up her umbrella
once more and floats gently down to the ground
below.
Cordelia Personal
Assistant to Professor Thietris Squirrel, CEO,
President and Managing Director, Institution of
Advanced Exploration of Myst Worlds
Fashionable umbrellas for fashionable people, any time,
any place, any where!
Veronica can smell the chocolate from
where she is sitting, but she is too proud to admit that
she loves chocolate of any kind.
She turns her
head away as Yeesha goes into speech number
two.
"I don't care for it."
She swings her
leg back and forth, leaning over to look into the lake
far below. She wonders how Grizz is faring and why no
one at the Institute seemed overly concerned that he was
missing. Did they care about him at all?
Merlin was about to give up when he
decided to try something different.
"I'll draw an
exact copy of the design on the tablet!"
And he
set to
work.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Merlin
in the Institution and Mysti in the A&C Team Bahro
Agents Infiltration, Rescue, Espionage, and
Puzzle-Solving
Kestryll pulls out a box. He opens it
and carefully removes a ceramic mug. He tosses the box
back into the pack then carefully pours some of the
coffee into the mug. Then he holds the mug under
Veronica's nose.
Everybody loves chocolate.
Besides, it'll make you feel better.
Oh, and
don't lean over so far. If you fall I'll just make you
come back and finish listening to Yeesha.
__________________________ The
coffee is safe now. Biscotti anyone?
Just as he puts the finishing touches on
the drawing, the door opens.
"Now I just have to
wait for Ronda to awake."
And he starts
humming.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Merlin
in the Institution and Mysti in the A&C Team Bahro
Agents Infiltration, Rescue, Espionage, and
Puzzle-Solving
Veronica wished fervently that she had
not asked (ok demanded) Kestryll along on this journey.
She felt slightly at a disadvantage and she did not like
it one little bit. She was accustomed to two
things:
1) getting her way 2) being in
control
Neither of which was happening at the
moment.
The chocolate smell was too much to
resist, so she reluctantly took the mug.
Kestryll grabs her just as she jumps
and forces her to sit back on the
ledge.
Yeesha's messages are done. Mine is
not.
We've all started a journey. It's a journey
not so much to find D'ni or any new Ages. It's to find
ourselves. When I started my journey I was just some guy
trapped in a really dead end job. I didn't have much to
start with and had even less when I arrived at that
cleft in the desert.
I listened to Yeesha's
messages, found the cloths and markers and then the pub
in Kahlo. People started to arrive and I watched their
enthusiasm for finding these things that I had seen as
well. I saw the potential of the Pub and opened it.
Filling the shelves and welcoming the explorers and
researchers that came by looking for a place like that
to rest. A table to sit at and review their notes with a
drink at hand, or a bite to eat.
I'd run off on
my own explorations every so often of course. That's
when I found the recipes. Recipes in journals for
Teledahn Wine and Spore Bread. So I opened a place in
Teledahn to gather and make these things. But I was
still just one.
Then they came. The four Bahro
walked through that big door and offered to help me, for
a price of course. So, with what I was making at the Pub
I paid them to tend to the winery. I had them choose
names I could pronounce and the next day they had vests
bearing the names Benny, Barry, Betty and Kieth. Then
the next day there were over 40 of them. Each with one
of the four names. They still haven't explained why they
did that.
So, the wine became a hit after I
started selling it on the Surface. Then the Pub
basically closed down. It's still there and open of
course, but really it's just the Bahro that hang out
there now. So, I found something else.
Zandi
approached me one day about doing some delivery things.
So now I run a delivery service and then I heard that
Cordelia might need some help with catering the Egg room
in the Institution's Neighborhood. So I took that over.
Now I run around from one place to another. Linking here
and there. From the surface to the cavern and around the
Ages.
I now employ over 100. Human and Bahro.
Each one has their strengths and weaknesses and all
together they work together in a strange harmony. We
have our fun and get the job done. And I can now afford
the things I've always wanted. Like these shirts. But,
they are all just things. Nice things, but still just
things.
I've found my place. You'll find yours
and together, we'll find Grizz.
Kestryll puts
everything back into his pack and picks up the broken
umbrella. With a snap he folds it up properly and shoves
it into the pack. Then he leans forward and falls down
the hole. Leaving the poor Veronica to follow in her own
time.
__________________________ Who's got
the roach and why aren't they sharing?
For the very first time in her life,
Veronica is absolutely speechless. She looks over the
ledge and can barely see Kestryll as he panic links.
With a small smile, she jumps to.
George the giant squee links into the
Institution's 'hood in a fine state of
agitation.
"I knew it was a mistake getting
involved in that heek tournament! Shiloh and Ted are
will be back from their honeymoon tomorrow and I've not
done thing one to get Shiloh's medical station ready
like I promised!"
George scampers to the place he
and Shiloh picked out and looks up at the balcony.
"Okay, first thing is I've got to get a ladder up there.
Poor climbing-challened
humans."
*Boatingirl wanders our of the lab,
rubbing here eyes* shouldn't nap while studying! I hope
the proffessor is in his office.*knocks on wedgied door*
hello? Oh well, I'll just post this on the
imager