#rivervale_lodge

"Oh, interesting..." She uses a pen from her purse to pick it up.

The ring is very old style, the symbols are hard to make out... it is filled still with dark glamour...

It's energies are not tied to lust, but rather.. hatred, loathing, partricularly SELF Hatred. Lust would have a target desire the other. Self Hatred would have them think whatever bad thing was done to the target, they deserved it.

Nose-wrinkle.

The others, those are worth kenning...

"Ring's beyond saving is it?" A sigh

"Likely."

"Perhaps reweaving it... but that... well, that's certainly beyond me!"

The darts are the sort that will be emptied of enchantment once they strike home. They do not merely put you a sleep, they place you in a status, like Winter magics at it's highest level... but alas, depowered after

"Oh, intriguing things..."

Still one should be able to declare "Until True love's kiss" and thus besepll

"The darts look ordinary to me, but the kenning is like... ever just want to stare at the snow and do nothing for hours?" Siv says

"Aye. Tis winter - they will make the victim sleep as the dead."

"Frozen."

"Vali's done that.. says it's advanced. Huh. I'll tell him he's obsolete and watch him make a face" A grin

The Quill .. oh it is hard to figure

Willow Whisper might be required, the glamour appeals.. though. There's a touch of class to it.

"Mmm.."

"Cleft from swan's wing, to me your secrets sing..."

Good Morrow it says crisply but not rudely

"Aye. Prithee, what are your functions?"

Proudly To those wretches who knoweth little of proper useth of pen, I am but a summoner of shaken cobwebs within the skull. To those who writeth neatly, and art skilled at fiction in particular- I script a performance of imaginings within in a catch but a wink of the quarry. I has't hath sent dreams of Eros, and nightmares setteth to maketh a miser share his ill gotten gold. Woe betide the sloppy of hand and mind, for I shall not put out my best for such villains.

Siv arches a brow

"Ohhh...how wonderful. How came Tantalus to own thee?"

"Wait, my hand writing lessons are about to pay off?" Siv beams

"How insulting to you, poor thing..." She reassures the quill.

Zara looks up at Siv. "Oh.." Sad, longing.

"Well nice to have at least one treasure that's not evil or going to just..." A look at Zara "Oh.. ah.. mmm" A cough , delicate "Zara, is it possible this item is to your liking?"

A sigh.

A BROW "Zara. Some days I can barely read my own parents' silences. You shall , dare I say, have to be a touch clearer"

"It is a delightful treasure..."

"Well, your hand writing is lovely, but ..well, if it works for Fiction writers maybe Vali... unless..." A brow again, "You wouldn't happen to do a bit of fictioanl prose yourself?"

She turns a bit pink. "Well, fan fiction..."

"You know, if it weren't for the fact I had wronged you, and owed you and Zane for your help... I'd say I have a heck of a item to bargain with. Learn a few sluagh secrets, or at least get a peek at her bodice rippers by the moors?" Oh yes, the old siv is back eyes sparkling

BLUSH.

Come to think of it - the back corner of the Earth Runes library does have a discrete collection of romances. After all, FIona hold...

Siv has suspicions that not all of these are over Zara's protests.

But is too kind to pursue "As it stands... you are both better qualified, and I am in your debt. Please, take the pen as a token of my remorse for the horrible things I said, and the help you offered not just to me, but so many against Tantalus and his leavings"

"I... thank you, Siv."

"The ring... I would take it to Emmitt."

"It is beyond me to change its nature, but..."

"But he could ro would have other idea " A nod "I agree. Ah well.. three darts that put fairy tale slumber on a target... I can use that"

"Aye. It could save someone, you know - not just harm them."

Siv winces at something, then nods "Yes. "

Then a sigh

"Siv?"

"Sorry just.. a bit more blood on my own hands than ..." A breath "You would not think well of me if I told you and I would not lose a friendship"