After spending half an hour taming the creatures, the party was once again on their way. <i>Maman, what kind of path have you set me on,</i> Bast thinks to herself as she guides the strange mount down their path. Eartha, Tomas, and Orzad are all riding together nearby. Though it feels nice to be beneath the open sky, she misses Beta and the security of her wagon.
"Goddard, how did you come to be in this world?" she asks.
"Good Luck getting Goddard to answer that I've been trying to find that answer since we meet" Orzad remarked to bast "I've just accepted that he's not going to be telling us why he's here."
ReplyDelete"How do we know we can trust the daemon thing that sent us here to keep his word with this "cube"? and not use it to assault our homes to the south."
"We don't," she tells him. "But how do you know I won't try to slit your friend here from nose to navel?" she asks. "You don't, but you're gambling that I won't. Our threat is the from this Priest. I have no fear of my friend," she adds, jingling the rubies in her pocket and silently hoping she meant it.
ReplyDelete"I suppose your right, he could of chosen a better method of trying to get us here besides sending some of those goat things, that we already fought once, and they started to attack us out right instead of trying to speak." Orzad said admitting some defeat. "Wonder what this Priest can do if our "friend" wont go after him outright with his ability to transport people over vast distance with in seconds." guess that just part of life that I've missed from being in the military trusting random people
ReplyDeleteGoddard wraps his arms around Bast's waist and holds onto her as she guides the mount. "She asked how I got here, not why I am here," Goddard snaps at Orzad, sticking his tongue out at him. "And I actually don't know how I got here. I remember everything going black and then I was...here...resting in a field on my back."
ReplyDeleteHer eyes sparkle with interest. "What happened before that? Are you a fugitive? Did you see the wrong dream? Will you ever get back?"
ReplyDeletePeppering him with questions, she almost drops the reins and turns to face him.
"Hey hey! Keep watching the...trees or whatever," Goddard says quickly, trying to shove her back into place and failing. "I'm not a fugitive," he says a bit defensively. "I'm here to apprehend a fugitive...sort of...and I hope I can go...well...I dunno," Goddard says thoughtfully. "I sort of like it here. I don't want to go back too soon."
ReplyDeleteShe grins mischievously. "Can you take me with you?" With a saucy toss of her dark hair, she lets him turn her back around, but leans into him to whisper. "Does the Longo Drom stretch so far?"
ReplyDelete"The who what now?" he asks confused. "And I don't think you want to see home. It's," Goddard pauses for a while as he thinks. "It's different. Completely different from here. Ok I guess maybe it's worth seeing but nothing more."
ReplyDelete"The Longo Drom," she repeats. "It means 'Long Road,' in the common words. When the earth beneath your shoes was still new, my people denied hospitality to a divine being. We were cursed to forever walk the Long Road for our folly. To never know a home outside our wagons. It has stretched over mountains and seas, but never in my knowing has any of the cursed children walked the path to a new world."
ReplyDelete"Bet you've seen a lot of interesting things and people during your travels, Bast, but that must off been hard on your people not having a permanent home." Orzad said softly. "Goddard why don't you describe your home to us?"
ReplyDelete"Oh that's interesting. We uh...we don't have roads," Goddard chuckles softly. "It's hard to describe. Maybe when we are back in the wagon, I can draw you a picture, Bast," he mumbles, almost into her hair.
ReplyDeleteBast shrugs. "I have never known any home warmer or more welcoming than the wagon we left behind. We enjoy the unfettered lifestyle, it is the gadje that think us thieves and whores."
ReplyDeleteLooking over her shoulder, she smiles. "It's so difficult to describe? I can hardly wait to see this picture."
Looking over to bast "We'll get your cart back quickly, I know how it can feel not to have a place friendly place to lay your head at night and I do not wish that on anyone else. I don't think you are a thieve and or whore." Orzad said
ReplyDeleteZo, zat's how it izzz. Bazt getz all zee attenzion while poor Eartha getz ignored. Zey will zee zeir miztake when zey need Eartha to zave zem. She crosses her arms and lets the beast follow Bast's mount. She stares off into the distance, smelling the rain as it draws closer and smiles to herself. None of zem haz any idea what iz coming, zey will learn.
ReplyDeleteBast straightens her back and looks over her shoulder, confused. "Kitty? What is this...feeling, I get from you? Your thoughts are clouded with something I'm not familiar with. What can cause such...intensity?"
ReplyDeleteOrzad noticed that Eartha is not her normal flirty self, "is there something wrong Eartha?"
ReplyDeleteEartha straightens up and looks about. "Nuzzing iz wrong, juzt zink we should zeek zome zhelter for zee night. I haz a bad feeling about zee weazzer."
ReplyDeleteBast nods and smirks. "You lie to the gadje. There is something bothering you. But I can be patient, my dear kitty."
ReplyDelete"Do you smell rain?" she asks out loud. "I'm afraid we'll have to ride right through it."
Weather what weather?" Orzad said while looking around then he saw some rain clouds, "oh that weather, It doesn't look that bad we need to carry on to the obelisk."
ReplyDeleteGoddard looks up at the blue sky and the clouds. It was purple...and...all the rocks around... He sighs and looks out over the trees. The trees weren't this close together...
ReplyDeleteBast hears his sigh and wiggles in his grip. "Is something wrong, Goddard?" she asks softly. "Does all this talk of home make you miss it?"
ReplyDelete"Oh," he says as if awoken from a dream. "I sort of miss it...but only because I was so used to it."
ReplyDeleteGoddard laughs a bit. "I guess I haven't gotten used to giant snakes eating me and riding huge lizards."
"Nothing has eaten you. Yet," she adds, looking over her shoulder at him and winking.
ReplyDeleteGoddard laughs again. "That doesn't make me feel better but..." He's quiet for a moment as he thinks. "What if we're dead and we just don't know it yet?" he mutters. "We could have very well been eaten..."
ReplyDelete"If this is death, I've died with my virtue intact and I'm sorely disappointed," she laughs.
ReplyDeleteAfter noticing the rain clouds approaching Orzad remembers that Eartha dislike the rain, "Eartha,would you be alright in the rain?"
ReplyDeleteOverhearing bast mention death Orzad looks over, "what is this death talk about?"