#rivervale_lodge

"Me neither. But, like... good she does?"

"YUP. Glad she and Olgar took off a night...couple time is important for grumps. Else they get brittle" Said with authority

"Ew. Don't want that."

"...You think Tove'll change a lot when she becomes a grump?"

"For me, mum and dad were always grumps.. you know? So hard to say... but I've seen a few others. There... they have trouble touching the dream a bit more... but it also gives them perspective. It's got to happen, part of the wheel you know? "

"Yeah. Just don't want her to change too much."

"I don't think she will... not too much. She'll probably always make the food spicy"

"Well, she better." A smile. "She uses the spice rack I made all the time."

A smirk then giggle at something

"What? She does!"

"I"m .. I know... and you did great" True "But... heh... you know, every one knows, Tove King has a great Rack." She will move out of broom range

"OH!"

"SIV!"

"I .." Laughing "Sorry.. I couldn't help it... " probably true

"Like one Vali isn't enough!"

"Hey now..ouch" She says "No need to fight mean" but still a chuckle

"Okay okay.. first she loves the spice rack you made her. "

"And she is rather pretty"

"In a lot of ways, Tove is like a young Kerri" A nod.

"Sort of? But different."

"oh yeah. " A nod "Now.. hopefully Sylvi can go with me on the ship. I need to think of something to quest for."

"Hmm."

"Treasure?"

"Mmm always good for we privateers" Amused "Suggestion on type?"

"Something exotic. Like.. like... some forgotten god's obsidian idol!"

"A golden druid's crown! A carved emerald the size of your fist..."

"They have golden druids?"

"I like the emerald" A smile

"Maybe it has a secret code?"

"Or, like, a hidden release - twist it right and out pops some ancient message...."

"Okay... now you've got my interest" She admits "yeah.. go for something wonderful and..yeah"

"Cool. Lots of caves and islands with palm trees."

"I Only have FIVE Days, tops" so tempted

"And mom wants the Kestrel in the same shape I took it in... love her, but her middle name is kiljoy"

"Five days here, right?"

"Yeah but I don't get to control how time moves in the Dreaming so I have to be careful" THoughtful look though "Maybe not TOO careful"

"Right."

"mm and I think I have an idea of..yeah... why not?" a smile

"Yeah?"

"Sometime, we gotta go too."

"Go?" a smile

"On the boat!"

"And you can go ride on your pony" A nod

"Because if the Kestrel is a boat, Stormwake is a pony" Done with Counters

"Okay." Easy shrug.

"Darn it, you were supposed to just agree to call it a ship" Huff, plan foiled.

"Well, I'll let the Kestrel know, and you can tell Stormwake."

She laughs "Yeah, but the Kestrel won't kick if she's upset"

"Tough, hunh?"

"Now mind you... some ships, when wronged do have a tendency to ...flip just a little to starboard or port..sending those who did not treat them kindly to a horrid death of drowning... the lungs fill and as they sink below... never to rise again, some stories say those who drowned can hear laughter... not from any mouth, but from the very hull of the ship that killed them"