#odyssey

She whispers to the Boys, "If we get her out of the chain, can we make one of the other guys look like her for a bit? Just long enough to make our get away?"

Zane smirks "Have fuddle, will travel. Jonas, chain is chimerical. You got it?"//"Easily..." Jonas nods

Piper hops over and calls to the Spearmen, "Hey, guys, why not try this out? I guarantee that your Queen will love it..." And she attempts to distract them by teaching the men how to Macarena.

At one time, the Macarena dream owned the world!

And now? Piper calls on it's power again. The spearmen mimic her moves with various degrees of success

"No, no, put your hands on your BOOTY!" She corrects, giving one of the men an encouraging slap on the tush.

He nods, and slaps his buttocks with the dedication of the zealous

It occurs to her that these fellows won't KNOW the correct moves, and with a growing grin of glee, "Now, you smack his tush...."

Maybe SHE'LL just stay here for a bit...

People of the world, join in, on the love train.. smack smack smack smack up the line

"Oh, you've got it now...." Peeping back at the others. "Now, try the twist and squat..."

And she sees ... a raccoon, free.. but now too busy laughing to leave... at least until Jonas picks her up and motions it's time to o

go*

"And now everyone spin three times and cover your eyes!"

She hoofs it after him!

And Zane races off , his cantrip workingg. When they uncover their eyes they'll see one of their own as Rikki

"I feel a bit stupider for having taken part in this rescue" Jonas observes

"Oh quit your belly aching, that was HILARIOUS" Zane says

Piper is cackling now. "Okay, WORTH it."

The raccoon still laughs /chitters even carried. They get safely to the trod

Piper takes the raccoon from Jonas once they are safe, and gives Rikki a SHAKING! "You dumbass!" And then a hug. "I'm sure glad we found you. Though, there are WORSE prisons, to be sure."

SQUEEK,, thenn a whop on the nnose with those little bandit fingges, and suddely she's holding a girl "ME? You twerp! you didn't tell me you werre migrating! NNot a call, you left me stuck with TROLLS"

"Standing right here" Jonas says dryly

"Horrrible boring sticks in the mud trolls" RRikki goes on "You took half the funn with you. I had to get it back"

"I'm sorry." She says, contritely. Then she whispers to Rikki, "You've GOT to dish on what it was like there, before we get back and forget all about it..."

Rikki nods "I'll ggive you the truth, the whole truth, and nnothing but the truth"

"Well, I wennt looking for you, and those guys, well, they had great make up rigght? they see me, declare me Empress, and offer me all they have... "

"All at once, or one at a time, or..."

Rikki huffs "Madame. I am a GOOD girl... the only reason I was even remotely interested in the number 3 was because of your wicked wicked influence"

She links arms with Rikki. "Well, you're with us now. That is, if you want. You COULD try to make your way back on your own, but I'd advise you come along, if you're willing to see my quest to the end?

Rikki then begins o spin a tale, so bawdy, that Jonas goes lavender, comparisions to both fruits and sausages are made... in ggrreat abundance. Words like 'seismic reading' and 'ground like beef' 'shaken AND stirred' and so on... it could ALL be bullshit. But yes, she got caught by some nuts who saw her as their queen. Appaently she also is the reason they could go on the trod, ONLY to retrieve PIper and now that they had, they'd be trapped off it again

"Quest huh? Well, I already missed my perm.. sure"

A grin, and she starts back on the path, then stops. "Hey, those spearmen said that their queen knew which of the pools we were looking for was the right one. Any truth in that?"

"We better hope so, don't we?" the pooka smiles egnimatically

A worried look.

"Oh geez" Zane says