#elsewhere

A LONG PAUSE.

"Yeah. I get it."

"I just don't want to."

"If you won't lift the lamp to direct the light, do you really get to curse the darkness?" A brow

"Ugh. How come it's my job? I don't want anything to do with her. Clearly she's a survivor, she'll do fine."

"Because Uncle Ben dies when you talk like that. Have the youth no culture?"

"And because, she won't do FINE.. she will be victorious, but with red light saber instead of blue.. ye gods I owe Oswald a kick"

"She has a mentor."

"She has a bookend disguised as a mentor you mean, besides not everyone has nepotism as an ally"

"Well -I- can't mentor her."

"A guide rail isn't a speed bump but both provide direction of sort"

"All I have to do is let her off the hook for stealing a body and be polite. That's already a lot."

"She wouldn't listen to me anyway."

"As the lady at my last church used to say 'how con-VEEEENient'" the pooka shakes his head "Well, you can lead a lion to knowledge but you can't make him think. I've said my piece of pie and ate it too, but lad, one day you might look back and wish you'd stopped the burgular"

"I'm not allowed to wish that." Grimly.

And a sigh. "I feel bad, kinda. I think the Baroness is mad."

"You think that was the burgular? Ah" A sigh "Well, we pooka are always understood. " A glance at Adam "the Baroness isn't angry until a snake lays dead on the floor, but her ire might be on simmer yes"

"I don't want her to be mad at me."

"Then study the quest for knowledge of the knights of the round table and act there by. The riddle stumped them, until they turned to an old woman and surprised us all . What do women want?"

"How should I know!?!"

"So what, I have to read King Arthur books? That doesn't sound -too- bad...."

He taps his nose and quiets

his own nose that is

"I guess....."

And Shallimar backflips like a gymnast

and leaves the lad

Blink.

Slightly deflated and struggling not a little, Adam heads towards his room.

Alas, no Nab... but at least he can be alone here and suss shit out

(End scene)