#odyssey

"Oh cool your tits, fellow muskteteers, I had a hint it would be hard for to speak American, like me. So I found this." She holds up a scroll to offer to them.

She peeks at the scroll. "My tits are cool as cucumbers. You know I won't give you guff about how you talk, I just get a little antsy when things are potentially mislabeled "...of death"

or so it says on the scroll

"See, plain as the mole on Jonas' left butt check" Rikki says

"I do not have a mole on my left buttcheck" Jonas blushes

"Jonas's butt cheeks are to be considered my personal province, lacking Siv's presence in present company." Piper comments. "And no, there's no mole."

"You have to put your flag on it now" Rikki observes at this claim

Zane snerks "Okay we move on"

Piper moves on... but ponders over the scroll. "Life, power, and death? I don't know if any of those are helpful."

Zane blinks "Give me that, please" asking for the scroll

Actually, before she does, Piper notices something.. the word life...is blocky and on some sort of waxy splotch

It actually says Dawn Brings Enlightenment

And Rikki looks horrofied

She shows it to Zane. "Worth checking out still..."

"Yeah, enlightenment means wisdom, why the.... oh" Realization and a lookm to RIkki "It's okay, Rikki. This deep in the dreaming you can't help yourself"

Rikki sighs "I really didn't give a crap and WANTED to kill you all"

Piper gives Rikki a pat on the back. "No harm done."

"If it makes you feel better, I'll let you take the first sip." Grin.

Jonas glares a bit at Rikki

Zane looks at JOnas "Dude. This long and deep in the dreaming, she'll want to lie anyway she can, actually NEED to... , and if anything by putting LIFE over what woudl be wisdom, she helped make sure Piper wouldn't drink death, right?"

"mm.. my apologies" Jonas admits

"I would have worried if it far ends were 'life' and 'death' that we'd have found a pool of youth. I don't need to be any younger... I already get carded and no one believes my ID."

Rikki snorts "Hey,I offered you a fake one that looks more real"

But the pooka cheers as it seems they understand

Piper looks thoughtfully over to Jonas. "Are wisdom and enlightenment really the same thing? I mean... You're the thesaurus. But Enlightenment is like, a realization, right? And Wisdom is knowing things better?"

"In truth, it's a hard call, we don't even know which dictionary the Dreaming is using or how up todate the language is"

A wry laugh. "I wasn't sure wisdom would help anyways so it's not like I should turn back on pedantry NOW..."

"We'll muddle it out" Jonas nods

"Of course, we have to figure out which pool is which" Zane sighs

"Does it matter as long as we drink in the morning?" Her nose wrinkles a bit. "Or is it a riddle? I might need a pool of hair dye if that's the case."

"mmmph, I like your hair" a huff from Jonas "its your choice, of course"

"She might be talking about dyeing her legs"

"My legs are pretty much ALSO blond. But my hips don't lie!"

"Shakira" Rikki toasts "When I'm old as she is, I too will have sexy tiger dancers by my side"

"Tiger dancers?" Jonas blinks confused

"Like in that Katy Perry video?"

"maaybe..." Rikki says. Deciding then and there her love of the Kids movie Zootopia will never be mentioned

"You HAD your entire troupe of dancing men... and you chose us instead." A grin.

"If I had known you could train them to slap each others asses, I would have made you my royal consort and stayed" Rikki grins

The dreaming thickens a bit.. they're losing more of their mortal selves.

Piper moves easier, lightened.

Zane seems much the same, as if the worries of if he's good or bad at being a wizard are not so binding

"It's so lovely here..." A touch wistful.

"It's got cooties" Rikki says pointing towards the green

indeed, lovely almost Elyisum like fields dot the landscape

even as they seem to be heading towards the mountains

Jonas has grow BIGGER, his hair growing white, almost frost tipped

Piper dances as much as walks, a song bubbling at her lips as easily as laughter.