#rivervale_lodge

"Lil bit!" Still cheerful "Hi!" He waves to the new girl.

His tail bristles

Eden looks at Tikki, weaving a bit

Brekke notes the sudden tension...and realizes just a moment too late. She clears her throat. "Tikki...this is Eden. She is a friend of the Lodge." A firm tone.

A careful caution in her tone as she says, "Eden...this is Tikki."

"There's a snake in your garden, a dangerous.. and ...... paralzyzing..." he says

Dagmar rises, protective instincts alerted!

She looks about ready to get out of her chair and get between them if necessary.

Adam falls off his end of the couch.

And then Tikki BLUSHES

SIGH.

She picks up Adam with one hand and re-deposits him on the couch.

"I don't..." Sylvi looks puzzled, but then a moment later she gets it, her eyes going wide. "Oh. Um....Eden, you want to come back upstairs?"

Eden tilts her head, "Tikki? No wonder your hair is on fire"

"What?" He asks, bewildered.

"Ha ah.. yes well, we're uhm.. mortal enemies" He says

An eyebrow from Brekke as the two seem to be...well, at least not about to kill each other.

"I know," Eden nods, and blushes "Totally forbidden..." Then she looks to Sylvi "is something running?"

Sylvi, stuck on the stairs behind Eden, looks over to Dagmar and gives her a rueful grin and a half-shrug.

"Um, what? No. No, I don't think so."

She stares at him again, intent, and weaving a bit. "Did Frank send you? Frank Fortune?"

"Budha Rockefellar says we make our own Fortune" Tikki replies

Her eyebrow is creeping up, the second one following a beat behind.

Adam scratches his head, rumpling his curls, and looks around, trying to come up to speed.

Eden takes some steps down slowly

A look at Sylvi, then a kind of "point" at the two of them with her eyes.

Brekke, bemused and surrounded by wilders, drinks her coffee and relaxes as death does not seem to be imminent.

A little "maybe" look/shrug from Sylvi to Dagmar, and she gives Eden space to come down the rest of the stairs without hovering right behind her.

"Dagmar?" a loud hiss that wanted to be a whisper.

"Chieftain, thanks for letting me envenom everyone here.... the other night I mean... Sylvi was abusive and Dagmar was mean and I feel terrible about how your Husband ignored me" Eden says

"Adam?"

"Wass going on??"

"It has been a pleasure to have you here, Eden. We should speak about further arrangements," Brekke suggests, but she is hesitant to interrupt whatever is going on.

"You're shitfaced." Blunt but almost reassuring in tone.

Tikki leans over and whispers to Sylvi "She's my ultitmate showdown of utlimate destiny. How many others do I have to face in the arena to talk to her?"

Sylvi having made it down the stairs and into the room is a bit surprised to be whispered at by the new guy. She stage whispers back, "Um...well...at the moment, I think you've got the all-clear. Good timing."

"Am not!" He protests. "I haven't puked once!"

And Sylvi gets out of the way and goes to Dagmar. "What's with them?" she nods to Adam and face-down-passed-out Zane.

Sniff. "Tequila, I think."

"Yet. Adam, go drink some water."

Zane mumbles in his sleep "No penis drawing on face.."

"I'd over to detox you," Sylvi says to Adam. "But you look like you're enjoying yourself too much."

"Water....." he makes a face.

Eden moves to the Chieftain, "I think I'm going to be come an an emaciated minor key"

"Yes, water. Or you'll be sick when you wake up."

Tikki hears the 'no penis' comment and sighs "Not helping with my 12 step program"

Brekke blinks at Eden. "A...what?"

"WHen your sex teen or older you can declare your independence day and beat the aliens" the snake girl asks but she smirks at Tikki's temtpation

Adam looks over at the word 'sex.'

"Hey.... who's she?" he asks the two ladies nearest.