| "My Malachi keeping track of the small things," Sigin sighs. "Making
sure that crops are being harvested….and using a bit of magic here and
there to make it easier for the farmers. Going out on wing to personally
assure local would be Caliphs that starting up old bad habits with Ethiopia
would be an EXTREMELY bad idea…..backed up with a few troops armed with
the latest of your and your sister's brainchildren….."
"Yes, I guess that would do just that…wouldn't it," Alicia chuckles
to herself. Envisioning a way to convert the present industrial foundation
to put out those little "toys" (she now wondered just WHY she hadn't seen
how much potential they had had before now) had taken a few weeks of careful
consideration. At the time, she had felt ashamed at devoting so much time
to what had seemed such an idle hobby….
Her ears twitch in annoyance, and then changes the subject.
"Who came up with the idea of these new pens?" Alicia asks. "Was it
my sister? They are better by far than the quill ink pens I'm used to,
and the INK! I'm still not used to having ink that dries within seconds
of applying it to a page!"
"Actually….it was a gift from the Alliance," Sigin says….glancing over
to the side at somebody out of view of the mirror. "You remember how Probe
and Inquirer were a bit ticked off at some guests that they'd rescued?
That strange ship called the Voyager? How Dr. Vincent magically
donated some of his darker memories - from what he'd gleamed from his ghostly
brother's magical thought reading caps - to that one demifox Solomon?"(re:
5873, 5874, 5875).
"How could I forget?" Alicia says, rolling her eyes. "Inquirer was beside
herself!"
"Well, he complained that it would be perfect except for the fact that
the blood samples he had taken of Solomon would be difficult to preserve
as mundane ink - it kept clotting - and….." the dragon mage shrugs. "Well,
they gave him a special fountain pen that held blood inside it instead
of the usual substance….."
Well, it sure was better than just killing him…. Alicia thinks
to herself.
"I DO trust he won't do anything quiet as stupid again," Alicia
sighs. Not reading something on Terra was more than stupid, it could cost
you your VERY much (rumors even said your soul could be in danger…).
"Actually, he's turning out to be quiet the apprentice," Sigin says.
"And after a crash course in the basics, as my Love now likes to
say….I think our young demi-fox will be fine."
"Good," the shefox nods. "On another note, how is that Alliance Camp
of the Boot coming along…..Camp Underhill?"
"By all accounts, good!" Sigin says. "They say that the strange effects
of that stretch of land out in the deep desert….caused by some Atlantian
battle long ago…..is perfect. It speeds up time within to where only a
week passes outside while the recruits experience something like six months
within! And with six months of the training the Alliance gives…I hear….."
Nothing needed to be said about THAT.
"What about those three Manimal enclaves?" Sigin, Consort of Ethiopia
and Harbor master of All of Ethiopia's remaining ships.
"When we were finally able - with the boats we could man - got to those
island enclaves we'd contacted by Caradeen's and Manbear Synizn's magical
efforts…." Alicia sighs. Between the excitement of trying to save the world
from destruction and all, Alicia had hoped that this side event would have
gone….better. She knew that the people that Fred had assigned to handle
the task had done the best job they could do, but…..
With the apparent deaths of the other Enclave's dragon keepers, the
Forsaken on those island enclaves had run amok, making the others Manimals
lives…..hard. By the time the sailing ships sent out by an aghast Fred
had reached them….. Well, let's just say that there wasn't a crowding problem
as there had been on Katie's Smile. (re:1307). The survivors had
been in such a disorganized mess that there was no talk about NOT accepting
Fred as their new Packleader. At least now those unfortunates had a better
life…..
"And what do you think about the Orcs?" Alicia sighs. Life wasn't always
like a silly bard's tale…
"Right now….what Queen Astra told us leads me to believe that our old
green friends are little more than a nuisance….surprisingly!" the Consort
says in a befuddled voice. "Rifles and pistol bullets seem to not agree
with them….."
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 "I just hope
that nobody will be stupid enough to try to ally with them like they did
a few hundred years ago!" Alicia sighs.
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