#rivervale_lodge

"A train? On those tracks. Oh, no...I think I know the one. Where did you end up?"

Fidget, hoof to hoof. "Goblin Town."

"Oh, Baroness, it was amazing - everything shone, it was like... oh, like something from a steampunk movie, all glass and brass and lights..."

A sharp, angry hiss from under the stairs, movement.

"oh that sounds exciting" Siv says. then hears the hiss "if unwise"

"Well, we were there, so we had to look... we didn't get into any trouble or break any rules or, like, cause a diplomatic incident."

Frank glances at the understairs. "Can I bring you ... something?" The first said, the last whispered belatedly.

"Okay, maybe a minor incident..."

A blink. "What sort of incident would that be?"

"Incident?" Perking.

Unintelligible angry whispers.

"Well, I don't think... she can't really help it... not right now.. and he got his keychain back!"

Overpowered by his Need, and knowing the Sidhe can handle things, Frank scoots over to the stairs and lays an ear on them. "Say again....."

Olgar comes in, ugly and trollish as ever "Okay, I dont' know who the satyr and piskey are, but when I find out who they are I'm gonna shake them and explain why Rovers are the LAST people you avoid..."

"You don't get mad at pooka for lying, you know? Even if it does mean a headache..."

Olgar turns to see.. a satyr who fits a descrption, and two sidhe.. and hearing whispering.. and there's a boggan "Pardon, this is the Rivervale lodge right?"

"Hi Olgar!" Oh, cheek!

"Rover Olgar, welcome on your return. We have had some...changes here." The Baroness smiles graciously as she sits in her great chair along with Siv.

"I need say only one word, I think: Cookies." A bemused expression.

"Yes, but they're both back and that's what matters, right?" He murmurs to the stair tread.

"Dagmar? I ..." A blink "Chief?" A sigh "Cookies? Oh wow. And .." a sigh "My wife?"

"Well, yeah, she had stuff she wanted to do."

Another hiss. "Hhhhheee musssssst nottt ssseeee"

"I do believe, Rover, that she is currently in somewhat more sluagh-fied form."

"Oh, Miss Kerri, I'm sure you're lovely. Just, like, goth?"

"Sluagh? " he says "Well, that doesn't get me out of husband duties" The rover moves over "Baby? You stood by me with this face, you really think I'm going to give you shit for being a bit smaller and maybe more ah..victorian?"

"Fine, yes, he won't, and ... wait...." Short Frank bustles over to Olgar and looks up. "Go find your daughter. Now."

"Tell us more about Goblin Town, please" Siv says

Olgar looks DOWN at Frank "More like a molehill now aren't you?"

"They had mechanical guards with flaming heads! All clockwork!"

"Ffffffinnnnnd hhhhhhherrrrrr." the sluagh voice echoes.

A nod to the source of the whisper "Okay baby. I'm on it. You hang tight. This will wear off."

"And all manner of beasts, but artificial. Exquisite, though..."

"Dame Kerri, I am certain Sylvi is fine, there is no need to send out a search party. And..." she adds to the others "...there is no need to coax the Hearth from her haven, just now."

Frank huffs semi-dangerously.

Actually, it looks like he might start shin-kicking but hasn't yet.

"Sorry, CHief, but she's my daughter. I want to see what's going on. For example, why is Siv's car gone but Siv is here? I bet if I find my piskey daughter, I will guess why. So unless you need me here, I'm off"

The baroness covers her mouth, amused. "Oh, my."

"She... she took Siv's car?" Blink.

"I thought she was gonna go bone Colton, not take a joy ride!"

Siv's eyes flicker "I may hold her down for Hearth Kerri's skinning"

More emphatic hissing of indeterminate nature.

Frank shoves Olgar's legs towards the door.

Olgar looks down, "easy, Tattoo. I already said I was leaving Fantasy Island" and he walks out.

"Woof. Dra. Ma."

Frank shuts the door FIRMLY and turns back to the room, observing.

Brekke shakes her head, clearly amused by her subjects' antics. She sips her coffee and has another delicate spoonful of ice cream.

"Father, he was going" Siv says, then a grouse "Why WOULD she take my car? I guess it could just be Piskey things but.. mmph"