#earthrunes

"Not silly at all."

"Well, maybe she can visit. Or we can see if you could go visit there..."

"Then why'd they take Ruby?" "Because Ruby got in their faces and yelled a lot. " "oh yeah"

"Ruby's pretty stubborn. She'll fit in."

Footsteps and Ludmilla comes back in with a nearly disenchanted Eshu boy

A laugh. "We should definitely arrange visits."

Who appears to be snoring. She explains "Once the bad glamour went out he went out like a light. the Steward has set up a cot near the bale."

A look to the entryway, then a frown. "Did it work?"

"Oh, poor thing. Well, I'm glad he'll get some rest."

"I hardly imagine trying to ground him for his own good would work, would it?"

"Probably not. But a guard on the Firnost trod - so we know when the kids are heading out? I worry an outright ban will cause defiance."

"Oh, I'm sure that would never happen..." An arch smile and clear irony.

"Actually furking might," Gyre sees the pros and cons.

Oneus sighs 'We're not supposed to admit it."

"Oh oh right"

"We're not trying to be tyrants. But..."

"Not tyrants," Coradel agrees. "But...kids, you've been badly used already. We want to keep you secure for just a little bit longer."

Enri smiles, and his little powder puff tail wags "she thinks we'd look terrible on milk cartons"

"You would. Absolutely awful."

Isis agrees, "It would not capture my..." //"idiom" Oneus says cheerily///"Yes, it would not capture my idiom" She says surely

A gentle smile. "Precisely."

The two pooka sibs hang close to Coradel. Clearly they think she's the bee's knees. Oneus and Gyre start putting things away as it's getting close to dinner

Sparrow picks up the gilded lioness mask - it has a paper-mache crown worked into the brow.

"Ohhhh, that's beautiful."

"She's really good.. for an elf" the nocker lad compliments

"For the queen of fools. The king shall be blue and silver."

She smiles. "I can hardly wait to see." A bit of a sigh, and she looks to the childlings. "You'll be kind to me, when I'm the fool?"

"Of course." She smiles. "But I do want that one to be a surprise..."

"What have you don for us lately?' Isis asks, but despite her words she hugs Coradel

"We'll protect you to the death" Enri says nervously.

"Well, maybe you can give the baroness some pointers..."

A bemused look at the twins. "Perhaps there will be candy in it for you after?"

"Oh, well, yes we'll keep you" Isis says at the mention of Candy

"Oh, thank you." Coradel sketches a wry curtsy. "Now, what tips do you have for acting the fool?"

"uhm, find Shalimiar?" Enri says "He's lost."

"I wouldn't know, I'm a Princess" Isis says nose a bit in the air.

She pouts, then looks back to Sparrow. "Nope, no help there."

"Alas, my baroness! I have guided you poorly!"

"Can you juggle?" Magnus says from the doorway

"Ah! There you are." She goes to offer him a hug. "She kicked you out of bed quickly?"

"Yes, less fun than I was hoping for" hug returned and he looks over at the kids and the construction, "Hey, sis, are you the one leading these poor waifs into the strange world of artistry?"

"She corrupting them, utterly." A smile as she leads him to look at the display.

"She is not, " Oneus says "She's helping me find which might be my passion."

"There's glitter!"

A flick of her wings actually produces a brief cloud of the sparkle stuff. Oh no.

Isis eyes go wild watching every flicerking drop

"There certainly is." A smile.

Then more seriously, "Magnus, you're able to look to things that have happened in the past, right?"

Magnus was perhaps about to make a joke about his sister being a my little pony then the baroness calls "Yes, if recent enough. Backwards Glance, very useful."

"Good. Because one of the childlings has been...harmed. And I am going to have words with the one who did it."