#earthrunes

"It's a good idea to be sure" Siv says "Just feeling foolish for having missed it" She glances "Hey, there's a book with a ...did you get one for me?"

A little grey grin from the shadows. Just how she's managed to fit a teacup in that tiny space with her is likely to be too much for Siv to contemplate...

Siv definitely tries not to think of how many bones must be grinding against each other

"Thank you" She beams

And does go to see the book

it's a bit unmannerly to desert the tea to get something, but it IS a book

"Oh I love it" Siv says "I'll be the first to check it out"

"Delightful feeling, nu?"

"Being the first? Oh Zara, in this hold the jokes write themselves" She says straight faced but eyes sparkling.

"Ah...oh!" Pink!

Earl sips his tea ..just at the same time someoone might smile... mmmm

"Sorry, Zara, tea manners like this are probably why Gerd calls me a ruffian" She smiles though

"Likely, aye."

"Oh uhm.. she told me to thank you for the ... what the heck was it, some blend, starts with a B?"

"Ah! Bergamot!"

"That was it, Burgermought" Siv snaps her fingers "She wanted me to thank you for the Burgermaught"

Earl looks at Siv "She has the nerve to call you a Ruffian huh?" Not wincing at the brutalizing of the tea name

"I know I know, I forgive her," Siv says loftily "Despite her unfairness."

Siiiigh.

Truly, troll friends can be taxing.

But Siv is, despite her slips into ruffianhood, a good companion over all, and her distraction did help clear the library of a swarm.

And tea is quite pleasant.

Yes.

(End Scene in a once again orderly library)