#earthrunes

"i... i could investigate?" She looks at Emma "If it's safe?" She sounds hopeful

Clearly she likes the sound o wha Vince suggests

"Mmm... chocolate? Sounds french."

"Here, in this company, is a Safe Space. That is, where you shall ever be safe, and can always speak to us of anything that you wish, as you know, no one wouldst ever believe anything we are told. No secret is safer than with us. And should you ever feel unsafe to go out, why, you just whisper the word, and you may have your choice - young company, a courteous lady's escort, or a brave guardian - that last, being Emma, of course, Tickbane and Feverproof, Balmer of Scratch, Tamer of Thanes. Emma the Fierce."

A toothy grin!

Isis nods "It would please your queen for you to skulk, and spy, and sneak. I order you to enjoy your safe space.. and chocolatee"

"Or... " He leans in, whispering, though loud enough for all the pooka to hear.

"If you ever wish to go on your own, but are afeared? You ask this old tom puss, and I shall lend you a face of courage. You may borrow any you like, so long as you do not damage it, as with anything borrowed, like a library book, returned without damage and with respect." He twiddles his fingers with a smile, even as he covers his face... and when he draws his hands away, his face is not his own! Why... it's... it's... Rollo! The face of the boggan Thane!

Isephemia looks up "I ..don't wish to hurt Miss Emma's ffeelings... but... if you promise I can come back here if anything's wrong?" A look at both older pooka "Then I will obey Queen Isis, then you can join me after I .. i do itt?"

she trembles a bit, but tries to be brave and then laughs at rollo face "you have boggan face"

"How could I disagree with a queen's orders?"

He wipes over his face once more, returning it to normal.

"You see, you hold now a very dear secret. For I am a thief of Hearts, what would I do with faces?" A helpless gesture. "But should our dear new friend wish to prance under another guise, be it friend or foe, or even beast of the field, for you, dear Izzy, no ask be too great."

Izzy hugs Emma, then looks very pleased with Vincent, and makes a cupping motion with her hand like catching a firefly "Your secret b'longs to the sluagh now" and she puts her cupped hands against her heart "i'll keep it here for now. " She ttakes a deep breath, and walks to seek out the chocolate

Isis watches "And so she obeys me. Alas, I may have to send my subjects to danger, but it is a sacrifice I am willing to make" Then she looks at Enri "Enri, psst... do the dumb dog thing. Cotton head" but she sounds warm about it

A wuff, and a poodle once more, Enri counts to ten, then follows o make the newestt childling is safe

"Ah, to be so old and retired and free of worry and toil." He says to Emma, before reclining to color once more.

"Oui..." A sad sigh.

Poppy, still a girl, takes off her cap and puts it over her own heart "Old Hank was a good hunting dawg"

"Oh, so sorry." He offers Emma the crayon. "I have been churlishly hoarding the red."

Enri's growling can be heard down tthe hall outside the gardenn, fierce!

Vince sits up, curiously. Is Enri known to growl for funsies?

Emma's tattered ears lift, alarmed.

"Quoi?"

Nope! Poppy sometimes, but never him

Poppy in fact exchanges alarmed looks with Isis!

Isis declares "if my little brother dies I'll murder him!"

which is, if you speak sibling, kind of understadible

More growling

Emma shrugs and abandons her coloring to run towards the sound.

Vince rushes after as well (Isis still on his shoulders, unless she got down!)

they find a poodle growling at a VERY confused Sir Sergei, wih a hawk in his hand.

and, if they look to a tapesry, they might notice it is shivering, a tiny girl breathing quickly like a mouse under a cat's paw, terrrified by the sight of a Varich

"Oh, this calls for a distraction!"

"SWOON!"

"What Earth is wrongg wih this boy ? I.." Sir Sergei blinks "Did yo uacually SAY Swoon?"

Emma FLOPS onto the carpet. "Ack." And her tongue sticks out.

"I am DEAD. I have le died."

"Bark ggrr"

Vince places his own self firmly in front of the tapestry, and then starts.... PLAYACTING! DRAMATIC!

"OH, the lady! The lady hath perished!"

"By my very whiskers and toes!" Loud and distractingly!

"My soul! It shall be a SPIRIT, but a FRIENDLY GHOST as it leaves my lungs. AaooooOOOooooo!"

"Oh! The Pain! OH! The Heartache!

O - THE POSSUM!"

"is this some sort of pooka flash mob? I don't wish to be a part of it" Sir Sergei says cooly "So, do pardon me.." he moves on

"OOoooooOOOOoooOOO!!"

Isis is like "we don't refund ttickets, philostine"

"Toodle - OOOOooOOooo!" He waves his tail gaily after Sergei as he goes, and then... gasp, THUMBS his nose at the Sidhe Knight! BEHIND HIS VERY BACK!

"Oh, what a world, what a world..."

Izzy breaks into a run, but, she's running towards the kitchen

Enri pipes down, and hangs his head. He was a bad boy to growl like that

Vince pats his head reasurringly. "A bad boy, perhaps, but a FINE friend."