[Re-Introduction: Sir Dinadan]

[rebecs_with_the_straps]

Dinadan awakens, which is already several positive steps ahead of where he thought he'd be this morning (viz. in the void from which there is no awakening, or in the hereafter that he has done nothing particularly to avoid). A giddy thrill of relief washes through him. He cautiously cracks one eye open, and then the other. For a moment, the sunlight's brightness overwhelms him--an aching reminder that he is, somehow, alive.

But as the sunlight becomes bearable, he realizes that he is somehow, impossibly, once again, in Sagramore's cabbages.


"Christ, do you really only have one joke?" he calls to the sky--but he's grinning all the same. A life condemned to cabbages is better than a death condemned to Hell or the void, and given those are the only two options, he'll gladly take the cabbages.

Friends and strangers may find a tall, blond knight minstrel wandering around in Sagramore's borrowed clothes, occasionally strumming his rebec, definitely not touching anything he shouldn't.

Comments

[biteybaby]

"No, it okay if big." Besides, she's pretty sure Violet and Klaus aren't coming but if they do they might want their own rooms. And she's not moving back into the mansion just because her daddies might not want to add on to the house! That would be too far to walk back and forth for breakfast and lunch and snacktime and dinner and bathtime and snuggles every day! Sure, she usually ends up at or near the mansion at least once a day, but that's just one time per day. Going back and forth all of the times she would need to be at home would be silly. Violet and Klaus and Apu and Far would just have to deal with making another room on the house. Anyway, Sunny can help build it, she has a toolkit.

[rebecs_with_the_straps]

Oh, no, his heart is breaking. He loves her more than the entire world. "Dost thou want me to live with thee so much as that?"

[biteybaby]

Sunny wants all of the people she likes to live with her, that way she knows they're all alright all of the time. "If you want," she tells him, a phrase which here means, "don't let the current state of the house deter you if that's the only excuse you've got".

[rebecs_with_the_straps]

"Well--I'll think on it. Thine Apu may grow tired of me faster than he thinks he will."

[biteybaby]

"Him not tired me yet," she says. She's been living with Apu for a very long time, too. Nearly a quarter of her life probably!

[rebecs_with_the_straps]

"Well," says Dinadan, with a small sigh. He can tell he's not winning this argument. "Where's my room, then?"

[biteybaby]

"Ummmmm I show you." She reaches up and takes his hand before leading him over to one of the side walls of the house. With her free hand she pats the wall and says, "Can build here. I go get marker, draw you here, Apu and Far know where build." Does she have any sort of concrete idea of what part of the house is inside this particular wall? No, she's not taking any of that into consideration right now.

[rebecs_with_the_straps]

"Wait, wait, I'll talk to them first. They might want to build something else there."

[biteybaby]

"Oh maybe." Auntie Phelia needs a room too. "Maybe you sleep upstairs in sword attic."

[rebecs_with_the_straps]

"In sword attic?"

[biteybaby]

"Uh huh. Sword attic where swords live. I not allowed. You grown up though so you can go."

[rebecs_with_the_straps]

"I see--hmm, I don't seem to have brought my sword. I wonder if they'll let me stay without one."

[biteybaby]

"Don't gotta have sword to live in house." She pauses, then adds, "But if want one, we go find for you."

[rebecs_with_the_straps]

"No, I rather hope I've seen the last of swords," says Dinadan. "Carrying a sword has never gone well for me. Not once."

[biteybaby]

"I have practice sword. Good to bite."

[rebecs_with_the_straps]

"Is it! Unfortunately, grown-up swords aren't good to bite at all," says Dinadan, making a face. "I'll never make that mistake again. Pphleh, all metal!"

[biteybaby]

"I know, I had sword fight with my teeth once. Before got here. Optometrist trying to kill me." She says this all very plain and matter-of-fact.