The Aftermath

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 86767

As the dizzy spell passed, an inexplicable (well…..entirely explicable) anger surged through Astra’s every pulsing vein, artery, capillary, and what have you. She might have punched Bob right then and there, just on general principles and pure impulse, if it hadn’t been for the watchful mob of monkeys amassed behind him. Instead she held her fists and her tongue, and instead wiped away the taint of the lout’s kiss from her lips in silence.

Robert, meanwhile, seemed less than satisfied with their little round of tonsil hockey. He peered at the princess with a somewhat appalled look upon him. “You call that a kiss!?” he exclaimed.

The anger that had so consumed Astra moments prior was replaced now with a different set of emotions - vaguely definable - an awkward fusion of embarrassment, shock, and pure, unadulterated horror. “What?” she sputtered, short of breath, drowning amid a torrent of shock and denial.

Robert rolled his eyes in an unnerving fashion and reiterated his point. “I’ve come by better kisses from drunken wayside tavern wenches - when they’re passed out and drooling!”

It was Astra’s turn to be rendered speechless, and so speechless she was in fact actually rendered.

Bob went on, “Sloppy and awkward, that’s what I’d call that. Sloppy and awkward.”

“Well EXCUSE me, you dirty, murdering, philandering, WHORESON!” a now not-so-speechless Astra immediately retaliated. “Excuse me if I don’t go around whoring myself out like some cheap Dunchovian harlot! So maybe I don’t have the most experience? Excuse me if I spend my time rescuing great-aunts and uncles and second cousins from the clutches of archmages or defending my country from hordes of raiders or…”

“Whoreson?” came Robert’s subdued reply. “Really? That hurts, Astra.”

Astra merely glowered. “You weren’t the best I’ve had either, just so you know,” she replied.

Robert smiled that smile of his. “I highly doubt that.”

Meanwhile...

  1. Aboard the Hespan slaving ship - the seacaptain Fogeno paced the deck of his ship. He was a swarthy man, if ever there was one.
  2. Fred was in the midst of hiding the bottle.
  3. And what of Alexis and the hotties?
  4. None of that 'meanwhile' nonsense, let's continue with Bob & Astra (sittin' in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G...)

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