Faerinn (prime)/A Night in with the Pets

A Night in with the Pets

Originally posted on the official forums by DIEHLS on 01/06/2020 at 11:42 AM CST.

Faerinn was scribbling in his sketchbook when the kettle started calling to him. He glanced down at his work, the phrase "produced the same nauseating feeling as chronomage travel" and "elven ancestry!? needs outside verification", written and linked to circle labelled THE MESSENGER. Sketches of a slender figure backlit by crimson light and a dart from various angles surround the circle.

He poured himself a cup from the kettle, grabbed a handful of sugar cubes from the saucer, and returned to his divan with the black longcoat draped over it. In his sketchbook were other circles around the names GRETH and SELBI. He took his brush, loaded it with ink, and with brush in one hand and sugar cubes in the other he begans anew.

Plonk goes the sugar cube in its tea bath. A line goes between SELBI and THE MESSENGER.

Plonk! A note is added: "An obligation unfulfilled."

Plonk! A line between GRETH and THE MESSENGER.

Plonk! A series of question marks added between them.

Plonk! A line goes between SELBI and GRETH. A note "~~Common Debt~~? Enemy?

His dog Altahuan came galloping into the living room for that last sugar cube, claimed it, and got a pet on the mane.

A line from The MESSENGER goes to the top to WHO BENEFITS FROM US ALL FIGHTING.

Faerinn guzzled his too sweet tea and headed towards the bed. He removed Kitty from the covers who screamed like a human in protest. He sat cross legged in the middle with canvas over his lap and paints at the ready. He was poised for the additives to his tea to kick and for a hypnotic state to pull more details of THE MESSENGER from his memory.

A deep breath, followed by a countdown blanked his mind. The hands took the tools and went to work on the campus. Somewhere in the house an opossum slept in a chestnut horse's mane.