#odyssey

"What?!?!" he sounds, he is outraged, and that shows. He glares around the area, for whomever might dare such suspicions.

"August..."

Tziporah says "Go.. go sis, don't delay..."

"Distraction, aye?"

She trusts the little sister to make it back to August or Tziporah, but right now she has to find a path to escape.

"Let's go." he says to Zara; the other ladies may come if they wish, of course. He offers his arm to escort her.

She looks, the doors open... and a lord says "Zara... I bind you in the name of justice! Be STILL!"

Zara feels the dictum hit her like a truck, even as August offers his arm.

August turns, his protective outrage plain on his face.

Zara hisses against her gums, whipcord and sinew tensed - but unmoving.

Ruzgarla looks shocked, "Wait, she's a criminal? OH gods above, I fell for her ruse" And she backs away as if betrayed

And Zara freezes entirely

THe sidhe who cast it looks at August "Stand aside, we want the witch of the carriages. NO more, no less" And two other thanes move to take Zara into custody

Oh, she's FURIOUS.

She AND August are furious.

Despite August's sidhe fury, the troll (NOT Thane Teegan) takes Zara from him, and almost picks her up for delivery to who knows what Dungeon

Tziporah scowls "She's done nothing wrong"

The spell has her locked, as surely as any manacle. (Or, for a sluagh more securely than any manacle. Slippery little slugs.)

"STOP." August orders the troll with the force of Art and his rank, preferably before he gets his hands on Zara.

(Charisma plus Fae roll for AUgust, or Soveriegn Art level (The max) plus Fae)

This is so undignified. A shanda.

OOC Gonna have to spitball.

OOC: Sure

/roll 4

/roll 4

(Pardon, that's incorrect, should only be 3 so re roll)

/roll 3

The thane stops! "My lord i can't..."

The Sidhe frowns "And now, Liam, you too are guilty of a crime. Like her ,you shall be held in custody until the trial in two weeks, when you are to..."

Zara has a baleful look on her face, ink-black eyes burning behind a tangled veil of bone-colored hair.

"My apologies for interrupting. I am Baron August Truthbranch, yes, House Liam and Bannerhouse Lord. Whom do I have the honor of addressing?" He asks with cold edge-sharp evenness.

Before August can protest his friend's innocence... or even get an answer; he falls through the floor, literally! It slams before he can grab Zara or anyone else, and he finds himself in what must be a basement in the dark! the light vanishes, and with it.. signs of Zara or the two eshu that were with him.

And young voices speak up, one with authority "Baron Truthbranch, I presume? Next time one sends a note by air mail, kindly read it. As it is, you have just been... crusaded to safety. " A pause "You're welcome."

A whisper "We got to get him out of here, this basement will be crawling with thanes"

"He's right" Another childling's foice says

"Follow us" SOmeone takes his hand "We'll lead you through the dark"

"Who are you, and what have you done? Send me back to Zara immediately!!" he demands (without Art)

He roots his feet on the spot (wherever and whatever that may be) and refuses to move.

(Above) Zara has A DIFFERENT Thane pick her up, and carry her to... "No, not the dungeon. Her kind thrives in those. To the tower .. you know which one. It will hold her fast and sustain the magic"

(BASEMENT) "My lord, do not make ME dictum you" Says an ired young voice of a girl "For I Do surely outrank you"

1122 and the remaining sisters know what to do - dropping off and skittering away, to hide and watch and wait.

Well, 1122 might not be the best at waiting...

"It would not be the first time I've been subject to Sovereign and probably not the last, but I will not go willingly except back to my friend." August states clearly, firmly, and at full volume.

"He's gonna get us in trouble" /"He's kind o a jerk" /"he's looking after a friend."

A light flickers on, and before him, a Dougal girl bearing..ducal garb "Now you know, you are in the hands of the Crusaders crazed" The childlings around him nod "We will not settle for 'lilfe's not fair'... and if you return now, you will be overwhelmed, bopepd on the head, and put in a SEPARATE cell far from her.. and not by us. Now, will you at least follow us where we can explain what is going on?"

The sluagh boy blinks in the new light. A boggan girl gives a weak wave with her fingers. Her brother, a nocker glares a bit at August. A black cat pooka lad's ears are going crazy at the yells.

He struggles with himself, briefly; even childlings can see it. Then he nods. "I will go with you."