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Temporarily using this as Oddyssey II as Anywhere and Elsewhere both in use.

Zara has retreated from sight, perhaps it is no surprise then that she finds her sister who is ... dear G_d, why is her sister hanging from a chandelier? Her hands seem to have a good grip mind you

Indeed, her sister does rooftop climbing, makes her parents nervous

The Eshu is swinging with a huff now and then, trying to get her mad out, "I love her. She's my sister. I love her." A mantra to cool

Eyes narrow.

She knows Tziporah was offered a place here. But here - no, it can't be countenanced.

Then a sigh "Has me scared STIFF for her ... and then I try to do the right thing but apparently that makes me a skank, andn ow I Have to CONFESS to being a skank ... oh, and someone gives me recognition for ME and... nu? What am I supposed to do ? I like wandering sure but not just for its own sake. "

"I never called thou a skank!"

Oh, that's an indignant hiss.

She let's go, and then rolls to her feet smoothy, "Well, you called me a skank's name from THe torah" Hurumph

"What?"

Ah - there's the sluagh, tucked away in the architecture.

"There you are... Salome, remember?" A mmph "And don't tell me how much you really respect her"

"You spoke of doing the dance of seven veils."

"I did, but still... you made me feel like it was wrong" A brow lift "You said it... in a judgey tone"

She folds her arms. "I was trying to get you to talk to him, because you like him."

"Be brave and contrary and reckless. And instead thou hast chosen to wallow in shame over an act intended to aid another."

"It would be a SHANDA... and don't tell me you haven't avoided those. It's almost a catch phrase for you" She blushes

"I am a sluagh, Tzip."

"Think of the story."

"Besides, in romance, I have had my share of shandas. Ask Earl, sometime."

"Earl doesn't talk, he clams up and is very STINGY with your stories. All he does is say that you're the moonlight that guided him through the darkness, and the river current that both immersed and saved him" An eye roll

Grey lips quirk in a fond smile.

"Let us just say, some parts would read like a Talia Amur novel."

"Uh huh" A brow lift is tried but it comes out more speculative, then she sighs and sits down against a wall, and curls around her legs "It was so NICE, Zara. I ... I made him want me, and I felt POWERFUL... and then, he opened himself up and I .. I liked what I saw and heard. I dropped the bimbo act bit by bit and the next thing I knew we were talking for real... and suddenly I didn't feel so powerful, but.. more precious? It was ... not how I planned it"

"Sometimes that is the way of things. But... you should tell him the truth. That you are the one he talked to. If it were just a dance, feh, it would not have been the same."

"You desire him, aye?"

A BLUSH "He's a sidhe, he's gorgeous, and .. I think I got him fired"

"Good. If he's worth anything, he'll leave here."

A blink, then "Sis, you really don't like this place. Did..." She grows angry "Did they torture you? "

"In the tower, I spent days being constantly, repeatedly dictumed. I was cut from my magic, unable to act my own will. I was betrayed and reviled, my name made a villain - that I would violate the Escheat, that I would bring harm to fledges."

"YOu were dishonored and kept..." A nod "And to be HELD, against her will, IS a kind of torture for a sluagh, isn't it?" No more self pity here "And that's why you don't want me to be here"

"I would not have them touch thee." Fiercely. "They are fools and wouldst not see thy worth."

And... much less fierce, almost reluctant. "And I... it.. it would be difficult, to visit thou, here..."

Zara gets a hug "Then I won't stay here. I'll find a purpose at a better place"

Sticklike arms snake around the eshu, clinging hard.

"Pray, forgive. I would not... I would not command thee, I desire thy happiness... I just..."

"You're not COMMANDING anything, you're my sister and you were treated badly. I can hold a grudge at a place for a lot less than that. You say the word and I'll villify the Duke as an idiot among Dougals"

"I don't want that. I just.. oh, I wish to go home."

"Then, why don't we go home?" She asks "They can't hold us"

A huff. "August."

"He wouldst save that Balor."

"I cannot leave him alone here. Someone must needs make sure he stays hale and whole and returns to Coradel."

"Honestly, I think August is part Atticus Finch. " She says "And I don't understand him, but you'd be proud how he saved the day. Probably ARE. Maybe he's got this?"

"I respect and admire his principles, even when they make him a luftmensch."

She smiles "He IS a bit of a Luftmensch somedays, isn't he? But my point is, He may not need either of us babysitting him."

"Sister, never underestimate August's ability to land himself in the hospital."

"I know how he fell off a building roof" She nods "I tell the story... I make sound effects" She gives a sofft whistle and ker PLOP