Posted on 01/31/2008 3:36:33 PM PST by mattstat
I wouldn’t believe anything that cat told me! She makes Wednesday look innocent and honest!
Karsh Kentu couldn’t believe his eyes. Abilene had Rathe at her mercy. She was calmly sitting in a chair, reading, with her feet propped up on his back. Karsh Kentu rubbed his eyes with the heels of his hands.
Yup, he was definitely there. And yes, he was complaining about it. Karsh decided to see what he could do to help.
The first thing Rathe noticed was a set of boots coming to a stop in front of his face, turning, and getting closer. Then the figure kneeled and an upside down face came into view.
“Hello. I see that you’re in a bit of a bind.” Karsh Kentu was smiling. Abilene smiled back. He looked Rathe over cursorily and decided that he wasn’t in any real physical discomfort.
“What did you do or say that got you into this... way.” Karsh was looking at Abilene wiggle her toes. He wasn’t sure that ghosts were supposed to have toes. She sighed and looked even more relaxed. She waved, waved! Karsh waved back. Rathe was stubbornly silent, glaring.
“I see that you don’t wish to speak of that, so I guess I’ll ask if your sister knows you’re here?” The look he got was venomous. He turned and was about to ask Abilene the same questions.
“He tried to stop my fun, so I told him he was going to be quiet. He followed me around after that making these funny moans till I got this book from the library. I sat down and someone has taken my footstool..” she sounded so sweet as she told the whole story of using her voice to make Rathe do outrageously silly things. Karsh felt her trying to use her voice on him. He shook his head and smiled his slightly amused smile.
“You know your voice doesn’t work on me. Thanks for trying, though. Makes me feel honored that you’d want to try that. Let him go, he has some work to do. He’s wanted over near the main hall.” Abilene’s lower lip pouted outward as he spoke. She slowly put the book down and wrung her hands.
“You spoil my fun. But I’m afraid that he can’t go to the hall. You see, his sister is on her way here to..” Abilene’s words were cut off as a feminine form made a perfect flying tackle on Karsh Kentu from an unknown direction. Rathe quit making his urgent grunts and shook his head. He’d tried to warn Karsh.. but the poor man didn’t seem to be listening.
Two people bounced and rolled along the floor, taunting, pinching, shoving, and generally trying to do some small amount of harm all while making an unholy amount of racket that would wake the dead. And did.
“Do you two .. sorry, four. Mind? I was trying to study.” said a tall ghost from the corner. He went back to his book with a curse and a mutter while saying something about ‘old kings’ and ‘the insane running the show’....
Arselen and Karsh Kentu stopped throttling each other long enough to look at him and stick their tongues out at him. Then they went back to trying to apparently destroy one another in an as amusing way as possible. Arselen was spouting something about her ruined dress from a few days back. Karsh was muttering about being out of it for too long and being brought back to amuse the Queen. A voice broke through the din from another corner. A voice only one of the four had heard before.
“Children. Do I have to separate you four? I’m disappointed in you, Karsh Kentu. I didn’t wake you from your stone slumber to wrestle with women and be used as a target by ghosts.” the Eternal himself was leaning on a wall and inspecting a dusty tome with infinite interest. Two rolling bodies came to a halt directly in front of him and looked up. Well, a good scrap ruined.
“Karsh, what is he speaking about, ‘stone slumber’? What does he mean by ‘bring you back’?” Arselen looked curious and apprehensive at the same time. Karsh looked pained. He would have rather not had to explain his rather odd and sudden appearance right now. He merely glared up at the Eternal.
Karsh was thinking fast. He had to. He’d left the library for a few minutes to think, so he could try and make sense. During those few minutes, Abilene had spilled her ghostly guts about everything. He could see it in his head now...
“Ow! let go of me! you’re actually hurting my arm!” Abilene was surprised for once. He actually did have a grip of her arm, and that was the biggest shock of all. Her yelp brought him out of his head and back to the present situation.
“Just what did you tell her?” it’s not every day that one gets told that they’ve been talking to a person who history recorded as an evil man. Human reaction to such a thing is to forget everything you’ve learned but to trust what you’ve been told. And if what you were told was false....
“I told her that you.. you were the one who defeated the Archon all those years ago..” Abilene’s green eyes flashed slightly. She didn’t know what harm she might have done. She always had believed in him, even back when he was a boy, a thousand years ago. He relaxed a little. The Queen had pieced it together from that and what the Eternal had said. He turned, ran a hand through his hair, and muttered to himself.
“Just exactly what did you say, exactly?”
“I said that You had fallen in battle, that you had been laid on a bier down in the vaults, that you were who I spoke to in your long slumber.. and that He brought you back to.. “ she broke off. It wasn’t her place to say what Karsh was supposed to do. Those words would have to come from another. And her foresight told her that those words were coming within a few minutes. They both felt a storm brewing, but the sky out the window was clear.
Karsh Kentu, once King, then later undead.
As for the Sock Vortex..
*shrugs*
He doesn’t tell me everything.
I just type out what he does let slip.
I was like that too, that and I was always the smallest in the class.
She’s lost some weight.
We started her on new food, and she has actually gotten more energy and lost weight on it.
Weird.
(Cat amphetamines, as we joke about it.)
Defintely visually descriptive enough to inspire graphics. Hopefully I can get to the desktop next weekend and illustrate a piece or two for you. Excellent writing, Darks!
Wednesday lost weight for a while, but we can’t keep her from eating too much now that we have to feed Shannon, too. She’s not *too* big!
And good night!
Callisto?! Say it isn’t so! :-)
Not sure it would help. We already have custody of the offspring.
And a property division? Forget it! He has a Loch on it.
The pose with Karsh Kentu and Arselen looking up at the Eternal has a certain innocent charm to it. You'll need to get Darks to describe Karsh for you so you can capture him properly. I understand his appearance is ... distinctive.
Undead Thread branching out ...
Perhaps that is when the vet had to pay the herd a visit? They were quarantined for a week. The cattle got into a batch of bad kudzu filled with spider mites. If you know anything about cattle filled with hydrogen in one or more of their 7 stomachs, you'd appreciate that you don't want them jumping around too much and belching or scratching one another with cloven hooves. The vet had them sprayed from the air and then headed south really quickly. He may have been the one who wanted me deported to Ireland...again.
That’s just messed up. Got any photos of the offspring?
What we need is more vanities, not action!
THAT is what will save the Republic!
darn, posted your words and forgot I hadn’t pinged you! sorry!!!
Curiously, no. You'd think someone with artistic talent would present us with something, wouldn't you?
I just put words together.
But I understand that the movie, "The Water Horse" has some stunning visual effects.
Note: "Water Horse" not to be confused with scientific appellation, "Hippo Potamus".
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