Chirreb 10: Cooperative Primes!
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"One of the Rassies from the farmhouse came out? Are you sure? Which one?" I asked Windchime as we headed back to the edge of the orchard where we'd left Chain Lightning and the other prisoners.
Windchime shrugged her wings. "I don't know. All Rassimel look the same to me. Not the little one with the broken arm."
As we got closer, we heard a Rassimel voice saying, "Just a ninth of an hour? Please? I won't cripple him, promise."
"Keep that crazy bitch away from me! Whatever you want, I'll do it, I swear!" said a Cani.
When we got in sight, Chain Lightning was standing between the husky, bound Cani prisoner and a slip of an adolescent Rassimel girl. The Cani looked terrified and angry, while the Rassimel was giving Chain Lightning a pleading look. The mewellicaps had all bobbed to the other side of the tree to get as far away from the Rassimel as possible. "Pax, Prime. That'll be up to the others to decide," the ulgrane said.
The girl shot her victim a glare. "I never should've loosened your gag."
The Cani spotted us and sobbed. "Anything you want, please, seven and twelve, just don't let her touch me again!"
"What do you do to him?" Purrzhon had a note of admiration in his voice. The Cani looked unharmed.
"Nothing I didn't learn from him and his ilk!" The girl was still glaring at the bandit. He whimpered and tried to squirm out of her sight behind Chain Lightning.
"Hi -- Moika is it?" I asked. She was the older daughter who hadn't said anything while we were talking with her elders.
She nodded and sidled over to us with a less fierce expression on her face. "I snuck out. I wanted to thank you for rescuing my brother. And me. And all of us. And apologize for my folks being horrible." She stuck her tongue out at the thought of her parents.
"You're welcome and that's all right it's not your fault."
Mirhandrax shot me a questioning look. "'Horrible'?"
"They're kind of mad about me breaking their son's arm," I explained.
"They're kind of ungrateful wretches!" Moika burst out. "If you hadn't gotten his arm broken they would have chopped off his head and that's not gonna heal in a splint!"
Purrzhon started questioning the prisoner while we talked. The Sleeth told the Cani that for every lie Purrzhon smelled or hesitation before answering, Moika would get a ninth of an hour alone with the prisoner. The prisoner was being very very helpful now.
There were sixteen more bandits back at the snag: three Khtsoyis, four Cani, and nine mewellicaps. One of the Cani was a healer, and one was a fire mage. The other Primes were good warriors -- some better than the ones we fought, who'd been pretty tough. The mewellicaps were average for their race so probably not a big threat given how easily we'd handled the five here. In addition to the bandits, there were nine kids of all three races living there, and four noncombatant spouses, and five slaves. The floorplan was similar to what Summer Sky had told us except that the bandits had divided a huge open chamber into three floors to get more space.
Purrzhon and Mirhandrax got tons more information out of him -- names, spells, weapon and art specialties, combat tactics, blah blah blah. I tuned it out after a while and wished I'd brought my scroll with me so I could write up my day or at least read about what my extradimensional friends were doing. After forever and ever they finally finished and then there was even more arguing about what to do with them now.
"One of the Rassies from the farmhouse came out? Are you sure? Which one?" I asked Windchime as we headed back to the edge of the orchard where we'd left Chain Lightning and the other prisoners.
Windchime shrugged her wings. "I don't know. All Rassimel look the same to me. Not the little one with the broken arm."
As we got closer, we heard a Rassimel voice saying, "Just a ninth of an hour? Please? I won't cripple him, promise."
"Keep that crazy bitch away from me! Whatever you want, I'll do it, I swear!" said a Cani.
When we got in sight, Chain Lightning was standing between the husky, bound Cani prisoner and a slip of an adolescent Rassimel girl. The Cani looked terrified and angry, while the Rassimel was giving Chain Lightning a pleading look. The mewellicaps had all bobbed to the other side of the tree to get as far away from the Rassimel as possible. "Pax, Prime. That'll be up to the others to decide," the ulgrane said.
The girl shot her victim a glare. "I never should've loosened your gag."
The Cani spotted us and sobbed. "Anything you want, please, seven and twelve, just don't let her touch me again!"
"What do you do to him?" Purrzhon had a note of admiration in his voice. The Cani looked unharmed.
"Nothing I didn't learn from him and his ilk!" The girl was still glaring at the bandit. He whimpered and tried to squirm out of her sight behind Chain Lightning.
"Hi -- Moika is it?" I asked. She was the older daughter who hadn't said anything while we were talking with her elders.
She nodded and sidled over to us with a less fierce expression on her face. "I snuck out. I wanted to thank you for rescuing my brother. And me. And all of us. And apologize for my folks being horrible." She stuck her tongue out at the thought of her parents.
"You're welcome and that's all right it's not your fault."
Mirhandrax shot me a questioning look. "'Horrible'?"
"They're kind of mad about me breaking their son's arm," I explained.
"They're kind of ungrateful wretches!" Moika burst out. "If you hadn't gotten his arm broken they would have chopped off his head and that's not gonna heal in a splint!"
Purrzhon started questioning the prisoner while we talked. The Sleeth told the Cani that for every lie Purrzhon smelled or hesitation before answering, Moika would get a ninth of an hour alone with the prisoner. The prisoner was being very very helpful now.
There were sixteen more bandits back at the snag: three Khtsoyis, four Cani, and nine mewellicaps. One of the Cani was a healer, and one was a fire mage. The other Primes were good warriors -- some better than the ones we fought, who'd been pretty tough. The mewellicaps were average for their race so probably not a big threat given how easily we'd handled the five here. In addition to the bandits, there were nine kids of all three races living there, and four noncombatant spouses, and five slaves. The floorplan was similar to what Summer Sky had told us except that the bandits had divided a huge open chamber into three floors to get more space.
Purrzhon and Mirhandrax got tons more information out of him -- names, spells, weapon and art specialties, combat tactics, blah blah blah. I tuned it out after a while and wished I'd brought my scroll with me so I could write up my day or at least read about what my extradimensional friends were doing. After forever and ever they finally finished and then there was even more arguing about what to do with them now.
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Date: 2011-04-28 07:42 pm (UTC)As for what to do with them, I'd say 'throw them off the branch' but you might want to wait until you've taken care of the 'caps first. Also, you can't do that to the 'caps.
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Date: 2011-04-28 09:52 pm (UTC)We did end up throwing them off the branch but it was complicated because they could fly and Trust didn't want to help execute anyone.
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Date: 2011-04-29 12:00 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-04-29 12:02 am (UTC)Did you know that it is tradition where I live to have a more objective manner of grading than I've read about is common in some parts of the tree? For example, if you get eight out of 10 problems right on a test, you get an 80% score, and you have to get a certain amount of problems right in tests and homework and such to pass the class!
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