#rivervale_lodge

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"Hup. Hup" Tiffany leads Lucjan & Lauge on a patrol. She chants "I don't know but I been tollll..."

The boys echo her , "I don't know but I been told!"

"There's a code when you are trolls!" Tiffany says

"There's a code because we are trolls!" The boys chant in unison

"Protect the Dreaming, says this Code!" She leads them on as they march in the woods.

"Protect the Dreaming says this Code!" They stomp to the cadence.

"Hurt our Dreaming we'll go beast mode!" She says!

"Hurt our dreaming we'll go beast mode!" The boys grin wolfishly.

"Second rule is our troll nation" She says "Respect those of higher station!"

"Respect those of higher station!"

"Now that respect must always be earned. I hope that part you also learned?"

"That part we have also learned!" They chant

"We Never ever abuse our strength!" She declares.

"We never ever abuse our strength" They puff up

"I'll come up with a rhyme for that at length" She decides

"You' come with with a rhyme for that at length!" They try hard not to giggle a bit.

"It means you seek out those of equal might!" She explains/chants

"Seek out those of equal might" They agree.

"Makes for a more honorable and glorious fight" The pooka barks.

"Makes for a more honorable and glorious fight!" They nod

"Should you prove the battle ender?" She reminds.

"Should we prove the battle ender!"

"Accept an Honorable Surrender!" Tiff declares

"Accept an Honorable Surrender!" They go.

"The Code of Dagda that was it!" She says

"The Code of Dagda that was it!" They say enthusiastically.

"Hope you remember it you little..." A breath "Darlings."

Snicekrs" Hope we remember we little ..darlilngs!"

"Hep Hep.. a left right left..."

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Later, at the new house...

"Okay. I think this is officially my dream house," Sally Mae says enviously as she sorts things, then glances over to the nocker girl tinkering with some legos. "Ooo what you building , Margalita, honey? A princess castle? Or maybe a clock? Looks like a clock face." A smile.

Margalita keeps latching things together "Well, a clock is part of it..."

"Oh?" Sally Mae beams "What else does it do?"

"Well, if I got the right supplies like I think I do, it should blow up..." Margalita says

Sally Mae stops "What?"

"Blow up... see, I found this book on dismantling a bomb and some odd stuff in Tiffany's gear... and I thought FURK.. I bet I could reverse that... " The girl grins "And so far, it's coming along nicely"

Sally Mae's eyes widen "I beg your pardon?"

"I think I made a bomb! It's my first try ever so I think.." The childling holds up the clock faced lego creation which does smell of some odd scents and chemicals inside.

Then it starts to tick...tick tick...

"Oops." Margalita says

"PIPER, are you here?" Sally mae calls out!

"Relax, it's not set to go off for 6 hours..." She blinks "Oh Gurk.. the minute hand and the hour hand are messed up..how'd I get that crossed?"

"Yeah, Sally?" Piper pops around the corner, she has a towel over her shoulders and Foam on her hip. "We were just having bath time... again... what do you think of one of those little wading pools out back?"

"I think it's a great idea, but right now i need you to get Foam and Ikenna out of here... Margalita has made a bomb. And it might just work...so we're evacuating this lovely House. If you see Tiffany returning with the boys, could you call for her? I think she knows how to stop bombs"

"COURSE it'll work" The nocker says crossing her arms

"Oh, Sh...oots and ladders, why don't we evacuate the bomb instead?"

"Blast radius is probably pretty puny" Margalita says admitedly, "anything in beyond five meters should live unless the shrapnel hits just so... and the further out..."

"Because to get rid of it, someone has to carry it... and I don't trust it to..." Sally Mae says "Oh forgod's sake, Margilta, don't pick it back up again"